Tomita Early Jazz

A Concise Introduction, from Its Beginnings through 1929
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9639-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY Press Jazz Styles

A concise history of early jazz, from its major innovators to its unrecognized heroes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tomita, Fumi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Ragtime and Traveling Shows

2. The Blues

3. New Orleans and Early White Bands

4. King Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton

5. The New York Scene: The Small Groups

6. Stride Piano

7. The New York Dance Band Sound: From James Reese Europe to Duke Ellington

8. Louis Armstrong

9. The Chicagoans and Bix Beiderbecke

10. Other Pioneering Soloists

11. Territory and Other Bands

12. Vocal Jazz

13. Jazz around the World

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fumi Tomita is Associate Professor of Jazz Pedagogy and Performance at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the author of The Jazz Rhythm Section: A Manual for Band Directors.