Now in paperback! Showcases professional work in the arena of jazz theory. Among the contributors are scholars of jazz theory as well as musicians, including four of the founding members of the jazz section of the Society for Music Theory. The articles offer a close analysis of a wide variety of jazz styles and span the years from the 1920s to the 1960s. Feature articles include analyses of the music of Johnny Dodds, Charlie Parker, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, an overview of jazz theory that examines its history and purpose, a discussion of linear intervallic patterns in the jazz repertory, and a review of scientific analyses of jazz microrhythms. Of great interest to jazz theorists, performers, educators and critics.
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Martin's approach here as editor is an intelligent one; the articles tend to embrace several levels of theory at once, and the serious listener, player, or student should find this volume worthwhile. * Cadence Magazine *
Chapter 1 MAIN ARTICLES
Chapter 2 Jazz TheoryAn Overview
Chapter 3
Blurring the Barline: Metric Displacement in the Piano Solos of Herbie
Hancock
Chapter 4 Blues for You, Johnny: Johnny Dodds and His "Wild Man
Blues" Recordings of 1927 and 1928
Chapter 5 Linear Intervallic Patterns in
Jazz Repertory
Chapter 7 Microrhythms in Jazz: A Review of Papers
Chapter 8
The Art of Charlie Parker's Rhetoric
Chapter 9 John Coltrane's Meditations
SuiteA Study in Symmetry
Chapter 10 Outrageous Clusters: Dissonant Semitonal
Cells in the Music of Thelonious Monk
Chapter 11 PEDAGOGICAL SECTION
Chapter
12 How Weird Can Things Get? (Maps for Pantonal Improvisation)
Chapter 13
Hearing chords
Chapter 14 Transcribing a Solo Using a Tape Constructed from a
Compact Disc Player with A/B Repeat Function
Chapter 15 BOOK REVIEW
Chapter
16 Barry Kernfeld's What To Listen For in Jazz (Yale)
Chapter 17 CO REVIEW
Chapter 18 Bill Kirchner's Big Band Renaissance (Smithsonian)
Henry Martin directs music theory and composition for the Mannes-New School Jazz Program, and is the Associate Editor for the Annual Review of Jazz Studies. Martin is the author of Charlie Parker and Thematic Improvisation (Scarecrow 1996). In addition, his award-winning composition, Preludes and Fugues, was recently released by GM Recordings and features pianist David Buechner.
