Jazz and Its History (Masters of Music)

By Giuseppe Vigna

Book Overview

Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Bennie Goodman, Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, and scores more jazz composers and performers stride through this colorful volume, as it summarizes America's greatest contribution to the world's music. This volume takes jazz to the present day, showing the synthesis of jazz and electronic music and citing today's best instrumentalists.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764151320
• ISBN13: 9780764151323
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: B E S Pub Co
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.8" x 0.3" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

An excellent introduction to Jazz and its History.

One of the best descriptions is from "The How to Read This Book": “Every facing page is a chapter on the environments, the protagonists, the instruments, or the great moments of the history of Jazz.” There are sections on the type of jazz and others on the major contributors. There is a full section on Louis Armstrong and even a small paragraph on Jimi Hendrix. There is a chronology, discography, and a thorough index. After this introduction, you will want to look up “Jazz: An Illustrated History” by G. Ward and Ken Burns