Jazz: Music Made in America: How to Listen, Understand, and Appreciate Jazz Music

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The purpose of the book is to introduce music enthusiasts to Jazz, a genre that tends to be ignored because of enigmatic perceptions. A brief historical perspective is provided to illustrate its genesis in America. For the past 119 years, Jazz has been enjoyed by music lovers world-wide. Over 400 popular, obscure, and esoteric Rag, Blues, Swing, Bebop, Hard Bop, Smooth, and Free-Fusion Jazz recordings and video snippets are included to introduce and stimulate renewed listenership among prospective neophytes and seasoned Jazz enthusiasts. This feature is particularly appealing to Jazz aficionados since the art of listening to Jazz is to focus attention on every musician performing on the recording to ascertain each one’s specific contributions to the composition. Often, listeners wonder, “Who’s the bass player?” or “Who’s playing trumpet?” Every attempt has been made to explore the answers to those questions. In time, individual musicians will be identified by their unique musical solo playing style. To ensure that this eBook is user-friendly, access to information relative to the name of every recording by Jazzmen listed will be hyperlinked in red text (e.g., Bob James). The red hyperlinks will also take you to historical YouTube video footage of Jazzmen performing live or in Hollywood films during the Swing Era (e.g., Benny Goodman). Read more