Early Jazz : Its Roots and Musical Development, Hardcover by Schuller, Gunthe...

by Gunther Schuller

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Early Jazz : Its Roots and Musical Development, Hardcover by Schuller, Gunther, ISBN 0195000978, ISBN-13 9780195000979, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Early Jazz is one of the seminal books on American jazz, ranging from the beginnings of jazz as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s. Schuller explores the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties--Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, Bessie Smith, Louis Armstrong, and others--and the big bands and arrangers--Fletcher Henderson, Bennie Moten, and especially Duke Ellington--placing their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the twentieth century and offering analyses of many great jazz recordings. Early Jazz provides a musical tour of the early American jazz world. A classic study, it is both a splendid introduction for students and an insightful guide for scholars, musicians, and jazz aficionados.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Year: 1968
• ISBN: 9780195000979
• Condition: Fine

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