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Within two weeks i had written the first 15 chapters of this book, andįorgotten that the original focus was meant to be only the last 50 yearsīy the way, i made a point of writing a history that could be read by people 'summary' ended up being a lot more extensive than a mere summary should be. I was already working on a history of blues music, the beginning of that To write a short summary of the first 50 years of jazz music.

That didn't know how jazz became what it was in the mid 1950s. That was the original goal, the gap that my book was supposed to fill.īut i quickly realized that i couldn't write a history of jazz for an audience Giants regardless of musical affiliation. Most of what was doneīefore the 1960s pales in comparison with the giants of the 1960s, who are Such as Charlie Mingus, Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. Half of the century, for example with composers (repeat: composers) Greatest contributions of jazz to the history of humankind came in the second I also happen to believe that, by far, the Wondering what kept jazz historians from doing the same: write a history of Since i have written a history of rock music of the last 50 years, i can't help Thus i felt the need for a history of jazz music from The masterpieces of jazz music have been produced between the 1960s and today, In the age of the LP and in the age of the CD than in the ages of the 78 RPM and in the age of the 45 RPM. 'until' the 1960s, if nothing else because a lot more recordings have been made The paradox, of course, is that a lot more has happened 'since' the 1960s than Stopped listening to new musicians in the 1950s, or jazz historiansĪre affected by some kind of psychological trauma when they enter the 1960s. Jazz before the Sixties, and then to quickly summarize (with countless Recently (see the bibliography), tend to devote 80-90% of the pages to Most books on the history of jazz music, even the ones published very

Lord, Tom: 'The Jazz Discography' (Lord Music Reference, 2007).

Roberts, John-Storm: 'Black Music of Two Worlds' (1972).

Polillo, Arrigo: 'Jazz' (Mondadori, 1975).

Hodeir, Andre: 'Hommes et Problemes du Jazz' (Flammarion, 1954).

Clarke, Donald: 'Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music' (Penguin, 1989).Hardy, Phil & Laing Dave: 'Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music' (Faber, 1990).Gridley, Mark: 'Jazz Styles' (Prentice Hall, 1991).Southern, Eileen: 'The Music of Black Americans' (Norton, 1971).Shipton, Alyn: 'New History of Jazz' (2001).Gioia, Ted: 'The History of Jazz' (Oxford Univ Press, 1997).Appendix: History of Rhythm'n'Blues music.Post-jazz Creativity in New York Post-jazz Soloists and Hyper-fusion Post-jazz Big Bands The Great Chicago Jazz Rebirth The Return of the Jazz Improviser 20th Century Post-creativity Freer jazz The Digital Improviser Turntables M-Base Acid Jazz New-age jazz Post-fusion

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White jazz between free jazz and fusion.Creative music: white post-modernism in New York.

Creative music: jazz post-modernism in New York.

(You can also listen to playlists for each chapter - thank you, Luke) The photographs are NOT included in the printed book Only a low-resolution version was used for this website. All rights reserved.Īll photographs are property of the labels or musicians who kindly provided them. See also the The History of Rock Music and

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