Jazz is the great American art form; its very essence is predicated on freedom and creativity. In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. © 2005 - 2020 AudioBookStore.com - All Rights Reserved. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists.
His new book is an effort to correct that, and to teach casual listeners how 'careful listening can demystify virtually all of the intricacies and marvels of jazz.' From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds t Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this WorldCat.org search. Does this book contain inappropriate content? After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Its sound unequivocally calls forth narratives of past struggles and future dreams. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books.
The E-mail Address(es) field is required. Any book titled "How to..." could be written in under 10 pages, so to make this book close to full-length (224 pages generously spaced), Gioia necessarily expands that topic into a jazz overview and history. How does a casual listener learn to understand and appreciate the nuances, An acclaimed music scholar presents an accessible introduction to the art of listening to jazz. Please try your request again later. The elite 150.\"@, Jazz is the great American art form; its very essence is predicated on freedom and creativity. To get the free app, enter your mobile phone number. How to Listen to Jazz - Kindle edition by Gioia, Ted. Through him, jazz might even find new devotees." How could I make amends? Do you believe that this item violates a copyright? His new book is an effort to correct that, and to teach casual listeners how 'careful listening can demystify virtually all of the intricacies and marvels of jazz.' Create lists, bibliographies and reviews: Your request to send this item has been completed. Your Web browser is not enabled for JavaScript.
Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Please try again. Weekly Standard "How to Listen to Jazz is a packed and useful introduction to the medium with suggestions and aids for the listener who wants to gain entrance to a rich and complicated body of work. Buffalo News "A perfect way...to begin an understanding of a music that is, in truth, very, very easy to love." He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. I could have approached this book with a little trepidation. He concludes with a guide to 150 elite musicians who are setting the tone for 21st century jazz. Don't have an account? Read more... You may have already requested this item. He shares listening strategies that will help readers understand and appreciate jazz for the rest of their lives, and provides a history of the major movements in jazz right up to the present day. Washington Post "How to Listen to Jazz fills an important and obvious gap by offering a sensible and jargon-free introduction to what Gioia calls 'the most joyous sound invented during the entire course of twentieth-century music.' WorldCat is the world's largest library catalog, helping you find library materials online. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. He writes like a scientist who knows chemistry inside and out, yet still marvels at the unfettered power of a reaction... How to Listen to Jazz is the rare textbook that educates while fostering genuine excitement."
Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. Suppose, after all these years, I hadn’t been listening to jazz properly? Wall Street Journal "[How to Listen to Jazz is a] satisfying new book... A radiantly accomplished writer, a busy blogger and a pianist who has recorded several albums, Mr. Gioia conveys his passion for the music with vivid description and shrewd judgements, concentrating principally on the recordings made by jazz musicians rather than on details of their personal lives... One of the best features of the book is a set of 'music maps,' as Mr. Gioia calls them, that serve as a guide to individual recordings."
Peter Ganim, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an American actor who has appeared on stage, on television, and in film. In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. An accessible primer to appreciating jazz music. Be the first to write a review about this audiobook! Top subscription boxes – right to your door, includes free international wireless delivery via, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Covering everything from the music\'s structure and history to the basic building blocks of improvisation, Gioia shows exactly what to listen for in a jazz performance. Covering everything from the music's structure and history to the basic building blocks of improvisation, Gioia shows exactly what to listen for in a jazz performance.
The name field is required. Ted Gioia is a music historian and the author of eleven books, including How to Listen to Jazz. You may view or remove these audiobooks on the shopping cart page. Reviewed in the United States on August 19, 2016, (My apologies if this review is long-winded! Yet jazz can be as inscrutable as it is mesmerizing, especially to outsiders who don't know what to make of improvisation or unexpected shifts in melody or tempo.
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