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This is a history of jazz from its beginnings at the turn of the century through the early 1930’s. Schuller discusses in detail the basic elements that distinguish jazz from other forms of music and traces their origins and development. He also evaluates the early soloists, the big bands, and the arrangers.
Those interested in jazz standards will not find many of them discussed in this book but will gain insight into the characteristics of jazz that were in place for evaluating later music. The index includes song titles, and in addition there is a glossary and a selected discography which tracks the music chapter by chapter.
Gunther Schuller, the educator, has held numerous prestigious positions. Schuller, the musician, has written over 160 compositions covering every genre of music. He is the author of The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 (The History of Jazz, Vol. 2) and The Compleat Conductor, and his writings have been collected in Musings: The Musical Worlds of Gunther Schuller. He is Editor-in-Chief of the forthcoming Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Editions and winner of many awards, among them the 1994 Pulitzer Prize.
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The JazzStandards.com bookstore provides you with
a catalog of 200 books associated with the jazz standards.
Organized by category, each entry has an editorial comment to aid
you in your research and guide you in your recreational reading.
The books used to research and develop JazzStandards.com are
listed at the right and the listing may be considered the site bibliography.
The primary focus of these books is not always the jazz standards
per se, so each entry is annotated indicating the book's relevance
to the subject. If there is a book you feel we have overlooked,
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