1. Table of Contents

2. CD Listing

1. Table of Contents

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

1. INTRODUCTION

PART I BASICS OF JAZZ

2. WHAT IS JAZZ?

3. APPRECIATING JAZZ IMRPOVISATION

PART II PREMODERN JAZZ

4. ORIGINS OF JAZZ

5. EARLY JAZZ: COMBO JAZZ PRIOR TO THE MIDDLE 1930s

6. SWING: THE EARLY 1930s TO THE LATE 1940s

7. DUKE ELLINGTON

8 THE COUNT BASIE BANDS

PART III MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1950s

9. BOP: THE EARLY 1940s TO THE EARLY 1950s

10. COOL JAZZ

11. HARD BOP

12. MILES DAVIS, HIS GROUPS & SIDEMEN

13. JOHN COLTRANE

PART IV MODERN JAZZ: THE EARLY 1960s TO THE PRESENT

14. 1960s AND 1970s AVANTE-GARDE AND "FREE" JAZZ

15. BILL EVANS, HERBIE HANCOCK, CHICK COREA, AND KEITH JARRETT

16. JAZZ-ROCK FUSION

17. 1980 TO THE PRESENT

18. OTHER VOICES

APPENDICES

APPENDIX B: ELEMENTS OF MUSIC

APPENDIX C: STRATEGIES FOR BUYING RECORDED MUSIC

APPENDIX D: A SMALL BASIC COLLECTION OF JAZZ VIDEOS

APPENDIX E: GLOSSARY

APPENDIX F: SUPPLEMENTARY READING

APPENDIX G: SOURCES FOR SOLO TRANSSCRIPTIONS

APPENDIX H: FOR MUSICIANS

INDEX

2. CD Listing

Track Listing
Please refer to the text page number, shown in bold, to view the Listening Guide for each selection.

CD 1

African Retentions Sequence
1. Street Cries of Charleston (Trad.) [0:30]. African American male street vendor; p. 51.
Courtesy of The Concord Music Group
2. Porgy and Bess: Fisherman, Strawberry, Devil Crab (Gershwin) [0:49]. Miles Davis instrumentally imitating the cry of an African American male street vendor, accompanied by the Gil Evans Orchestra; p. 51.
Originally released 1959. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
3. Hunter’s Dance excerpt (Trad.) [0:36]. West African field recording; p. 52.
Courtesy of Essential Media Group
4. One Day excerpt (Trad.) [0:30]. The Angelic Gospel Singers and The Dixie Hummingbirds; p. 53.
Originally released 1952. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
5. One O’Clock Jump excerpt (Basie) [0:33]. Count Basie; p. 53.
Originally released 1942. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
6. Birdland excerpt (J. Zawinul) [0:25]. Weather Report with Joseph Zawinul, Wayne Shorter, and Jaco Pastorius; p. 53.
(P) 1977 Sony Music Entertainment

Historic Recordings
7. Dixie Jazz Band One-Step (D. LaRocca-Joe Jordan) [2:35]. The Original Dixieland Jazz Band; p. 62.
Originally released 1917. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
8. Wolverine Blues (Morton) [3:19]. Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds, and Baby Dodds; p. 66.
Originally released 1927. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
9. Singing the Blues (J.R. Robinson-C. Conrad-S. Lewis-J. Young) [2:58]. Frankie Trumbauer and his Orchestra featuring Bix Beiderbecke; p. 84.
Originally released 1927. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
10. West End Blues (J. Oliver-C. Williams) [3:14]. Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five featuring Earl Hines; p. 76.
Originally released 1928. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
11. Hotter Than That (L. Armstrong) [2:58]. Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five; p. 80.
Originally released 1928. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
12. Handful of Keys (Fats Waller) [2:43]. Fats Waller; p. 71.
Originally released 1929. All rights reserved by Sony Music Entertainment
13. You’ve Got t