Jazz Ebook
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Chapter 1: Musical elements and instruments
Chapter 2: Jazz Form and improvisation
Chapter 3: The Roots of Jazz
Chapter 4: New Orleans
Chapter 5: New York in the 1920s
Chapter 6: Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Chapter 7: Swing Bands
Chapter 8: Duke Ellington and Count Basie
Chapter 9: Swing Era Soloists
Chapter 10: Rhythm in Transition
Chapter 11: Bebop
Chapter 12: The 1950s: cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Chapter 13: Jazz composition in the 1950s
Chapter 14: The Modality of Miles Davis and John coltrane
Chapter 15: The Avant-Garde
Chapter 16: Fusion I (to 1960): R and B, Singers, and Latin Jazz
Chapter 17: Fusion II: Jazz, rock, and Beyond
Chapter 18: Historicist Jazz
Chapter 19: the Modern Scene