Jazz and Blues Crossroads and Evolution Dr. Jeremy Brown Table of Contents Rhapsody Playlists of Musical Selections Introduction Part I Jazz and Blues Basics Chapter 1 Musical Elements of the Blues Blues Melody 12-Bar Blues Blues Lyrics Call and Response in the Blues Instrumentation Analyze a Blues Performance Chapter 2 Musical Elements of Jazz Five Characteristics of Jazz Instrumentation Texture Form Arrangement Analyze a Jazz Performance Musical Elements in Jazz and Blues Chapter 3 Roots of Jazz and Blues Music in Europe Music in Africa Slave Songs in the New World Religious Musical Activity Reconstruction Minstrelsy Ragtime Part II Early Blues (From the Beginning to the 1930s) Chapter 4 Birth of the Blues and Classic Vaudeville Blues Understanding Blues Aesthetic First Appearances of the Blues W. C. Handy Classic Vaudeville Blues Singers Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, and Bessie Smith Chapter 5 Country Blues The Shift from Classic to Country Blues
Texas Blues Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter) Mississippi Delta Blues Charley Patton, Son House, Skip James, Robert Johnson Part III Early Jazz (From the Beginning to the 1930s) Chapter 6 New Orleans and Early Jazz New Orleans History Racial Make-up of New Orleans Musical History of New Orleans Birthplaces of Jazz Storyville and the Battlefield Instrumentation and Arranging in Early Jazz Cornet Kings Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Joe King Oliver Other Important New Orleans Musicians Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet To Chicago Chapter 7 Migration and Proliferation: Jazz in Chicago The Great Migration The Roaring 20s! Louis Armstrong White Chicago Jazz Boogie-Woogie Piano Demise of the Chicago Jazz Scene Chapter 8 Migration and Proliferation: Jazz in New York City Tin Pan Alley Forerunners to the New York Jazz Orchestra Composition and Arranging The Harlem Renaissance Dance in Harlem Paul Whiteman and Symphonic Jazz Fletcher Henderson Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington Part 1 Stride Piano What s Next From New York? Chapter 9 Migration and Proliferation: Jazz in Kansas City & the Territories An Unlikely Boom Town The Pendergasts Corruption Breeds Music Yet Again Early Kansas City Musical Tradition The Territory Bands Walter Page s Blue Devils
Bennie Moten Mary Lou Williams with Andy Kirk s Twelve Clouds of Joy Blues Singers in Kansas City Jazz Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson Transition to the Swing Era Part IV Pop Jazz: The Swing Era (1930s Mid 1940s) Chapter 10 The Big Bands An Infrastructure for Swing as Popular Entertainment Benny Goodman Count Basie Duke Ellington Part 2 Glenn Miller Other Important Swing Bands Conclusion Chapter 11 Soloists and Singers Small Groups and Soloists of the Swing Era The Rise of the Tenor Saxophone Coleman Hawkins Lester Young Chu Berry Ben Webster Jazz in Europe: Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli Singers of the Swing Era Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday Frank Sinatra Sarah Vaughan The Decline of the Swing Era Part V Modernism and Technology (Mid 1940s 1950s) Chapter 12 Modern Jazz the Language of Bebop Evolution through Innovation Origins of Bebop Bop s Engineers at Minton s Playhouse Bebop Vernacular: What Did Bebop Sound Like? Engineers of Bebop Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke Other Important Bebop Musicians The Impact of Bebop Chapter 13 Electric Blues of the 1940s and 50s
Radio and Electric Blues Rice Miller and Robert Lockwood Electric Blues Pioneers Lightnin Hopkins Blues in Chicago Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin Wolf Bridge to Rock and Roll The Harmonica Chapter 14 Building on Bebop: Cool Jazz The Parker Problem Trad Jazz Miles Davis at the Forefront Modern Jazz Quartet West Coast Jazz Gerry Mulligan Los Angeles Progressive Big Bands Stan Getz and Bossa Nova Chapter 15 Building on Bebop: Hard Bop Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Miles Davis s First Great Quintet Horace Silver Quintet Sonny Rollins Soul Jazz Wes Montgomery Part VI The Sixties (1959 1969) Chapter 16 The Blues are Back The Shifting Audience of the Blues The 1960s Folk Revival Cross-Integration of the Blues Memphis and Beale Street B.B. King Chicago s West Side Sound Albert King, Buddy Guy The Paul Butterfield Blues Band The British Invasion and Psychedelic Rock Jimi Hendrix Psychedelia Infiltrates the Blues Chapter 17 1959: A Watershed Year for Jazz Miles Davis Kind of Blue John Coltrane Giant Steps Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz Cannonball Adderly The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
Dave Brubeck Time Out Charles Mingus Ah Um Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come Chapter 18 Jazz on the Forward Fringe The Avant-Garde Jazz Ornette Coleman Cecil Taylor Eric Dolphy The Chicago Free Jazz Scene Post Bop John Coltrane s Journey into the Avant-Garde Miles Davis s Second Great Quintet Part VII Post-Modern Shake-ups (1970s 1990s) Chapter 19 Rock, Funk, Psychedelic Music, and the Jazz Reaction Fusion Miles Again Bitches Brew Miles s Sidemen Tony Williams s Lifetime John McLaughlin: Mahavishnu Orchestra Weather Rport Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul, and Jaco Pastorius Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters Chick Corea Return to Forever and the Elektric Band Other Developments in the 1970s Chapter 20 The 1980s Blues Revival and Contemporary Blues 1970s Downturn Alligator Records Johnny Winter Taj Mahal and Eclectic Blues 1980s Revival Diversification and Virtuosity Albert Collins, Jimmie Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray The New Downhome North Mississippi Hill Country Blues Otha Turner, Junior Kimbrough, North Mississippi Allstars, The Black Keys Chapter 21 Conflicting Values: Jazz in the Late 20 th Century Commercialism and the Onset of Smooth Jazz Something Borrowed, Something Blue: Neotraditionalism and the Young Lions Wynton Marsalis Kenny Garrett The New Fusion: Eclecticism and Electric Jazz
Pat Metheny Michael Brecker Globalization and Glocalization Latin Jazz Part VIII The Future of Jazz and Blues Chapter 22 Blues Today The Marriage Between Rock and Blues Southern Rock and Blues Keb Mo Gary Clark Jr. Chapter 23 Jazz Today The International Perspective The Ascent of Women in Jazz The Institutionalization of Jazz New Life? Appendix A Introduction to the Foundational Elements of Music The Staff Frequency Pitch: Melody and Harmony Melody The Keyboard, Register/Octave, Accidentals Harmony Major and Minor Key, Scale, Chords, Chord Progression Rhythm Pulse, Tempo, Subdivision, Music Notation, Rests, Meter, Measure Appendix B How to Write a Concert Report Appendix C How to Complete a Playlist Project Appendix D Glossary References Index