This is "educated" inquiry into the origins of jazz from its status
as "quasi folk music-more sociological manifestation than music" to
the potent individuality and influence we know today. The author
concerns himself primarily with African influences from the
tremendously complex contrapuntal and polyrhythmic musical
development of that continent to the influence of European
formality adapted into the Afro-American community. There is
careful technical analysis of harmonies, rhythm, technique and Mr.
Schuller applies the same intelligent observation to his studies of
such innovators as Louis Armstrong, Jolly Roll Morton, Earl Hines,
Bix Beiderbecke, James P. Johnson, Bessie Smith, Fletcher
Henderson, Coleman Hawkins and Duke Ellington. Too technical for
the sideman, this will appeal to the informed buff and/or
interested musicologist. 150 musical examples. (Kirkus Reviews)
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.
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