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JAZZ History Overview gives high school or college students a broad survey of the development of jazz from its African origins up to the present day. It can be understood by both musicians and non-musicians. The book is designed to be non-intimidating and 'user-friendly'. As experienced jazz educators, both authors have developed a successful method for communicating the essence of jazz history while helping students to learn about music. Jazz History Overview is clear and easy to navigate. FEATURES
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<li>The simplicity of design and clarity. Each chapter addresses specific artists, genres, and/or styles with significant contributions clearly outlined. </li>
<li>Ease of identifying the salient features of the most innovative musicians and genres. </li>
<li>The playlist available separately includes recordings that bring to light the sounds of the most important innovators in jazz. </li>
<li>Great sounds by some of the best jazz musicians including: </li>
</ul>Leroy Miller, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, Scott Joplin, Art Tatum, New Orleans Band led by George Lewis, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong &amp; His Hot Five &amp; Hot Seven, Frankie Trumbauer &amp; His Orchestra; Bix Beiderbecke-cornet, Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra, Duke Ellington and His Orchestra, Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra, Benny Goodman Sextet, Count Basie's Kansas City Seven featuring Lester Young, Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald with the Tommy Flanagan Quartet, Lambert &amp; Hendricks &amp; Ross with the Ike Isaacs Trio, Charlie Parker &amp; Dizzy Gilliespie, Count Basie and His Orchestra, Gerry Mulligan Quartet featuring Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Stan Getz &amp; Joao Gilberto, Miles Davis with the Gil Evans Orchestra, The Jazzlet, Art Bakley &amp; the Jazz Messengers, Horace Silver, Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, Bill Evans Trio, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis Sextet with John Coltrane's Tenor Sax Solo, Ornette Coleman Quartet, Weather Report, Return to Forever, Pat Metheny Group, Michael Brecker, Jane Ira Bloom, Wynton Marsalis.American Music Teacher Magazine April/May 2003 pg. 95 "Authors Gordon Vernick and Geoffrey Haydon provide an interesting and highly organized overview of Jazz History. Jazz is many things at once and different things for different people. In Jazz History Overview.

Jazz History Overview

Arts & Photography

Gordon Vernick

Geoffrey Haydon

Music

Kendall/Hunt Publishing

Pak Jazz History Overview

Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company

This first-year text is designed for the college instrumental and vocal major who needs to satisfy the normal keyboard requirement. The text is widely used in group piano classes and piano labs. It contains practical materials for a life-long career in music. Keyboard Musicianship Book One emphasizes skills in sight reading, harmonization of folk and popular tunes, simple score reading, playing simple accompaniments, understanding keyboard harmony, and realizing chord symbols in lead sheets. Playing solos and ensemble music with the proper technique rounds out piano study. This widely adopted text covers a full year of study in its eight chapters and appendices. Students generally complete four chapters per semester. Activities and Technique sections along with suggestions for evaluations are included at the end of each chapter. Another important feature in this text is the inclusion of songs by important American composers such as George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, and others. Students learn solo arrangements of these masters as well as accompaniments to their tunes. Make sure you give yourself the opportunity to evaluate this book. You owe it to your students as well as yourself to understand why so many adoptions and honors have come its way.

Keyboard Musicianship: Piano for Adults Book 1

James Lyke

Ronald Chioldi

Tony Caramia

Humor & Entertainment

Stipes Publishing Co.

Keyboard Musicianship, Piano for Adults, Book Two provides comprehensive and diverse materials for the second-year, group-piano class, college curriculum. The materials in this book integrate repertoire and technical studies with practical piano skills such as sight-reading, score reading, and accompanying. In addition, it follows closely with the third and fourth semester college music theory course sequence by incorporating activities such as harmonization of folk and popular melodies, performance of traditional and jazz chord progressions, harmonic musical analysis, and improvisation. The text s eight chapters and appendices provide a wealth of diverse material. Chapters one through four are normally covered in the first semester class, with chapters five through eight covered in the second semester class. Appendices A-C provide a glossary of musical terms, fingerings for all scales and arpeggios, and supplemental holiday music and patriotic songs. In addition, each chapter contains a new, special feature that introduces students to detailed, sequential instruction in improvisation. Each exercise provides rhythmic and harmonic structures over which students are encouraged to improvise. Make sure you give yourself the opportunity to evaluate this book. You owe it to your students as well as yourself to understand why so many adoptions and honors have come its way.

Keyboard Musicianship: Piano for Adults Book Two

Quintet of the Year

Geoffrey Haydon offers an illuminating glimp se into the lives of five of the 20th century"s greatest jaz z musicians. He tells the story of their incredible concert on the 15th of May 1953 in Toronto that spawned the classic album, Quintet of the Year. '

Biographies & Memoirs

Aurum Press Ltd

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