Jazz Journey

<p><em style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>Jazz Journey: A Guide for Listening</em><span style=color: rgb(51 51 51);> explores jazz music from its 19th Century forerunners through today. The text takes readers on an historical audio and video tour of select jazz performances of the last hundred years.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>All of the major styles of jazz-including the predecessors of jazz Ragtime and Blues-are covered including New Orleans style Chicago style Stride piano Swing Bebop Cool Hard Bop modal Free jazz freer jazz and Fusion.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>Major performers include Louis Armstrong Bix Beiderbecke Fats Waller Benny Goodman Count Basie Duke Ellington Charlie Parker Dizzy Gillespie Gerry Mulligan Dave Brubeck Miles Davis Horace Silver John Coltrane Bill Evans Ornette Coleman Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett among others.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>For easy access to the music described in the text the revised first edition features an online active learning component with links to audio and video recordings as well as listening guides.</span></p><p><em style=color: rgb(51 51 51);>Jazz Journey</em><span style=color: rgb(51 51 51);> is an ideal reading and listening experience for jazz appreciation courses for non-majors. It can also be used in jazz history classes for music and jazz studies majors.</span></p>