The Jazz Ensemble Companion
The Jazz Ensemble Companion

Author: Michele Caniato

Publisher: R & L Education

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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Revisit favorite arrangements, discover new ones, and inspire your jazz ensemble with sound and adventurous music to play. This new book recommends and analyzes sixty-seven quality jazz arrangements recommended by eighteen of the foremost jazz experts in the field today, including directors and professors from high schools and colleges across the country, including the Houston High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Bloomington High School, Fiorello La Guardia Performing Arts High School, Juilliard School, Berklee College of Music, and Harvard University. Listed alphabetically, each analysis includes information on instrumentation, ranges, playability, and requirements for rendering the score. This book includes eight indexes of musical features to help instructors select repertoire and teaching topics, five indexes for quick navigation and reference, three appendices on survey data results, a glossary, a bibliography, a list of jazz ensemble music publishers, and a general index.

Jazz Composer's Companion
Jazz Composer's Companion

Author: Gil Goldstein

Publisher:

Published: 2015-12

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9783954810215

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Completely revised and enlarged third edition! Jazz Composer's Companion is divided into three main sections: Melody, Rhythm, and Harmony. Dozens musical examples as well as compositions by Bill Evans (pianist), Jaco Pastorious, Jim Hall, Ralph Towner, Steve Swallow, Pat Metheny, Michael Gibbs, and others are included in order to illustrate specific compositional techniques. An extensive chapter on the compositional process features interviews with jazz composers including Bill Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell, Horace Silver, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Lyle Mays, Anthony Davis, Herbie Hancock, Richie Beirach, Ralph Towner, and more.

The Oxford Companion to Jazz
The Oxford Companion to Jazz

Author: Bill Kirchner

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-07-14

Total Pages: 865

ISBN-13: 0195183592

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"Essays cover major historical trends and figures, discuss jazz in different countries, review the role of most instruments and consider the place of jazz in other arts, like dance, literature and film." N.Y. Times Book Rev. "This work is an effective single-volume device, leading current listeners to the music while including enough newer scholarship to retain the interest of connoisseurs." Libr J.

Jazz Composition and Arranging in the Digital Age
Jazz Composition and Arranging in the Digital Age

Author: Richard Sussman

Publisher: OUP USA

Published: 2012-02-23

Total Pages: 532

ISBN-13: 0195381009

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This is a comprehensive instructional text and reference guidebook on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. It is written from the perspective of doing the work using music notation software, and contains many practical and valuable tips to that end for the modern jazz composer/arranger.

The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington
The Cambridge Companion to Duke Ellington

Author: Edward Green

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 0521881196

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This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to provide an in-depth overview of Ellington's career.

Experiencing Big Band Jazz
Experiencing Big Band Jazz

Author: Jeff Sultanof

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 1442242434

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The era of popular music from about 1917 onward saw an explosion of creative songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed, brass, and rhythm instruments. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this original sound set the stage for the prominence of arrangers, whose role in big band orchestrations became as important as jazz musicians and composers themselves. The Big Band evolved as a unique phenomenon in American music history. With both studio and live vintage recordings readily available, an investigation of how to listen and experience Big Band music is overdue. In Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener’s Companion, composer/arranger, music historian, and music editor Jeff Sultanof takes a fresh look at Big Band music, examining why the Big Band era started when it did; how pop music changed to meet the needs of Big Bands and the reverse; the role played by well-known band leaders and the bands they led, the jazz soloists who became legendary, and the stories of several ensembles previously unexamined. Lists of must-hear recordings and videos drawn from studio as well as live sources are also included to make the book an invaluable resource for music lovers of every age.

The Cambridge Companion to Jazz
The Cambridge Companion to Jazz

Author: Mervyn Cooke

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-01-09

Total Pages: 734

ISBN-13: 1139826166

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The vibrant world of jazz may be viewed from many perspectives, from social and cultural history to music analysis, from economics to ethnography. It is challenging and exciting territory. This volume of nineteen specially commissioned essays provides informed and accessible guidance to the challenge, offering the reader a range of expert views on the character, history and uses of jazz. The book starts by considering what kind of identity jazz has acquired and how, and goes on to discuss the crucial practices that define jazz and to examine some specific moments of historical change and some important issues for jazz study. Finally, it looks at a set of perspectives that illustrate different 'takes' on jazz - ways in which jazz has been valued and represented.

The Routledge Companion of Jazz and Gender
The Routledge Companion of Jazz and Gender

Author: James Reddan

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780367630324

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Part IV. Policy and Advocacy. Victims No More : How Women and Non-Binary Musicians are Collaborating for Gender Justice in Jazz / Beatriz Nunes and Leonor Arnaut ; Women in Jazz : A Failed Brand / Rebecca Zola ; Accessing Jazz's Gendered Places and Spaces / Sarah Caissie Provost ; Breaking Down Barriers : Female Jazz Musicians in Spain / Rebeca Muñoz-Garcia ; The Pale Image of the Jazz Female Instrumentalists in Southeastern Europe / Jasna Jovićević ; Addressing Gender Imbalance through Mentorship and Advocacy / Ellen Rowe ; Sheroes - The Role of All-Women Groups / Monika Herzig.

Jazz
Jazz

Author: Ian Carr

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 582

ISBN-13:

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A dictionary arrangement of over 1,600 entries on terms and performers.

The Ella Fitzgerald Companion
The Ella Fitzgerald Companion

Author: Norman David

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2004-03-30

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13:

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Examines the career and influences of Ella Fitzgerald, as well as those of top accompanists, bandleaders, and musical directors with whom she collaborated.