Includes index. One CD-ROM in pocket attached to inside back cover.
Contents:
Early jazz era (1850-1910). Pre-jazz ; Early jazz ; Jelly Roll Morton ; Ragtime ; Scott Joplin -- Hot jazz era (1910-1944). Dixieland ; New Orleans Dixieland (1900-1917) ; The Original dixieland Band, Kid Ory ; Chicago Dixieland (the Roaring Twenties) ; Bix Beiderbecke, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Clarence Williams, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday ; Boogie woogie ; Earl Hines ; Swing ; Count Basic, Benny Goodman, the Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Paul Whiteman, Jack Teagarden, Ella Fitzgerald ; Progressive swing ; Stan Kenton, Woody Herman -- Cool jazz era (1944-1970). Bebop ; Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk ; Cool jazz ; Miles Davis, Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan ; Afro-Latin jazz ; Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz ; Hard bop ; Art Blakey, Cannonball Adderley, Dave Brubeck ; World fusion ; Keith Jarrett, Don Cherry ; Free jazz ; Sun Ran, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane -- Jazzin' in the UK. The early years ; Django Reinhardt, Jack Hylton, George Shearing ; The 1940s ; Humphrey Lyttelton ; Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club ; Trad jazz ; Acker Bilk, Ken Colyer, Johnny Dankworth ; Today -- Modern jazz era (1970-2004). Jazz rock fusion ; Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, Pat Metheny ; Neobop ; Wynton Marsalis, Wayne Shorter ; Retro swing. CD. Body and soul (Sarah Vaughan). Autumn leaves (Miles Davis) -- Watermelon man (Quincy Jones) -- God bless the child (Billie Holiday) -- Folk forms (Charlie Mingus) -- Oh boy I'm in the groove (Louis Jordan) -- It's only a paper moon (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Blue train (John Coltrane) -- Bojangles (Duke Ellington) -- One o'clock jump (Count Basie) -- Jeepers creepers (Louis Armstrong) -- Undecided (Ella Fitzgerald) -- Bird of paradise (Charlie Parker) -- Evidence (Thelonius Monk) -- Honeysuckle Rose (Nat King Cole) -- 'Round midnight (Miles Davis) -- If I give you my love (Ray Charles) -- Body and soul (Sarah Vaughan).
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