Jazz for Beginners - Ron David
KORTE INHOUD
Jazz has had an enormous impact on 20th century music, not only in America, but all over the world. Jazz for Beginners traces the development of this unique American art form, exploring all the elements that combined to create Jazz, from African polyrhythms to French marching bands and left-over Civil War instruments. Jazz for Beginners traverses each of the major eras of Jazz's development, from the brassy optimism of Dixieland, through the fierce dignity of Bebop, and onto the Fusion of Jazz-Rock and Jazz HipHop. This book also features biographies of Jazz's greatest musicians, from Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday to Miles Davis and John Coltrane. This amazingly thorough guide to Jazz is als full of blood, guts, and humor as the music it describes...
