Jazz with a Beat: Small Group Swing, 1940-1960

by Tad Richards

Jazz with a Beat is the first book on the often overlooked but vitally important genre of small group swing jazz. Coming into being in the early 1940s, small group swing answered the need in the Black community for a form of jazz that was more accessible (and more danceable) than the new bebop. An adaptation of the big band Black swing (Erskine Hawkins, Jimmie Lunceford, Chick Webb) of the 1930s to small combos, and with a more vigorous beat...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 143849601X
• ISBN13: 9781438496016
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New Yo
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"