Jazz

Two exceptional authors-a respected critic and a leading scholar-uniquely integrate directed listening with rich, contextual history. Students learn what jazz is, where it came from, how it works, who created it, and why-within the broader context of American life and culture. The rich media package provides students with the directed listening and study framework they need to succeed in the class. Jazz features the best recordings package on the market, interactive listening guides, video podcasts and listening quizzes, and the tools instructors need to create dynamic, illustrated lectures.

Hallmark Features of Jazz:

 

• JAZZ encourages direct engagement with the music itself.

   

• Two concise elements chapters Stronger provide a simple, accessible, and jazz-specific explanation for how music works.

   

• Brief audio and video demos created specifically for this text-together with short sound clips drawn from the 4-CD set of recordings-vividly illustrate all essential concepts.

   

• 75 landmark recordings showcase jazz from the turn of the century to the present.

   

• In-text Listening Guides for all 75 selections in the repertoire provide minute-by-minute maps of what's happening in the music and how it works.

   

• iLGs offer students a dynamic and guided listening experience.

   

• JAZZ emphasizes the creative process. It teaches students to understand the process of playing as "insiders" would.

   

• JAZZ tells a vivid story. Giddins and DeVeaux write as unabashed fans, encouraging the students to ride along with the musicians themselves as they tell their own stories.

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