Modern Sounds: The Artistry of Contemporary Jazz with Rhapsody

Modern Sounds: The Artistry of Contemporary Jazz is a storybook approach on the journey, the musicians, and the music that has been created in the pursuit of artistic achievement over the half century. Modern Sounds picks up where most jazz textbooks leave off. This is a complete documentation of contemporary jazz. Suitable for a semester course at the college level, either for music majors or non-majors. A four-month access to an online music library. With this exclusive access, students and instructors can follow accompanying textbook playlists and have the ability to create their own playlists from over six million titles. A primer on how to define jazz has been included for students new to jazz. Lists of key terms, names, places and music at the beginning of each chapter There are also performance review sheets included that can be filled out and handed as assignments for students who attend local jazz performances. As one of Kendall Hunt's best-selling authors, Thomas A. Larson, has written two additional textbooks: History of Rock and Roll History and Tradition of Jazz

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: You Say You Want a Revolution? From Dance hall to Concert Hall A Quick Look Back on the Early Years of Jazz New Orleans Chicago New York, Kansas City and the Swing Era The Emergence of Bebop Minton?s and the Harlem Jam Session Scene The Bebop Esprit de Corps Defining Bebop Bebop Repertoire The Architects Charlie Parker: Tormented Genius Dizzy Gillespie: The Schoolmaster Thelonious Monk: The High Priest Other Bebop Pioneers Bebop: Initial Reaction and Lasting Impact Chapter 2: Let?s Cool One Beyond Bebop Jazz Matures Jazz in Film and Festival Miles Davis and the Birth of the Cool The Birth of the Cool Miles: The Early Years The Euro Connection: Kenton, Russell and Schuller West Coast Jazz The Scene Black and White Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker: Pianoless on the Pacific Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond: 2+2+2+3=Swing Art Pepper: Tormented Storyteller Other Cool Jazz Artists Lennie Tristan Sightless Visionary The MJQ: Fugues and Formality Chapter 3: The Soul of Jazz Sounds of the Inner City The Other Side of Cool A New Mainstream Blue Note: The Sound of Hard Bop Important Hard Bop Artists Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Jazz Academy Horace Silver: Hard Bop Tunesmith The Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet Miles Davis/Sonny Rollins/John Coltrane The First Quintet The Bridge Workin?, Steamin?, Cookin?, and Relaxin? Spiritual Awakening Kind of Blue Charles Mingus: Voice of the Apocalypse Shouts, Cries, and Moans The Jazz Workshop The Underdog Freedom Now! Jazz and The Movement Anti-Festival Chapter 4: The New Thing The Shape of Jazz to Come 1959: The Beginning of Beyond Ornette Coleman: Patron Saint of Freedom Paid Not to Play Fury at the Five Spot The Crude Stables Cecil Taylor: The Seer Imaginary Concerts John Coltrane: Avant-Garde Avatar The Coltrane Quartet A Love Supreme The Final Chapter Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch Making Music with the Birds Sun Ra: Intergalactic Traveller Saturn Calling Archie Shepp and Albert Ayler The 1960s Free Jazz Collectives The October Revolution The AACM and the New York Loft Scene Chapter 5: The Other Side of the Sixties and Seventies Meanwhile, Behind the Bluster of the New Thing? Stan Getz: Bossa Nova Man A Nice Bunch of Guys The New Flair Soul Jazz: Hard Bop Meets the Soul Jimmy Smith Cannonball and Nat Adderley Wes Montgomery Bill Evans: The Art of the Trio Jazz Zen Master Triumph and Tragedy Miles Davis: The Second Quintet Miles in Transition E.S.P. Sonny Rollins and Dexter Gordon: Tenor Titans Detour Ahead Homecoming Keith Jarrett: Spontaneous Invention CTI and ECM: Redefining Jazz Marketing Chapter 6: Sleeping with the Enemy Jazz in the Sixties: Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place Jazz Exodus Strange Bedfellows Miles Davis: To the Rescue Bitches Brew The Diaspora Important 1970s jazz/Rock Fusionists Tony Williams Lifetime: The New Organ Trio The Mahavishnu Orchestra: Jazz Goes International Weather Report: heavy Weathermen Chick Corea and Return to Forever: Jazz/Rock Artiste Herbie Hancock: Mwandishi Turns to Head Hunting Fusion Evolves: Can We Still Call This Jazz? Chapter 7: Neocons, Fusionists and the New Left Morning in America Wynton Marsalis: Jazz Messiah or Prophet of Death? The Marsalis Invasion Neocon Controversy M-C-M The Neo-Conservative Movement The Young Lions Fusion Evolves in the 1980s Miles Returns Pat Methany Michael Brecker Other 1980s Fusionists The New Left: Avant-Garde Jazz in the 1980s Steve Coleman and M-Base The World Saxophone Quartet Chapter 8: Going Downtown Jazz in the Nineties: A Brave New World Canonic Breakdown Death of a Legend No Man?s Land Uptown/Downtown The Knitting Factory John Zorn Bill Frisell Dave Douglas Other Downtown Artists Other Important Jazz Artists from the Nineties Medeski, Martin and Wood: Jam Session Warriors Don Byron: Attacking Stereotypes with a Clarinet Maria Schneider: Continuing the Big Band Tradition Saxophone Superiority: Lovano, Garrett, and Potter Chapter Nine: Nu Jazz At the Millennium: The Death of Jazz Ken Burns to the Rescue So, Is Jazz Really Dead This Time? City of Glass Important Jazz Musicians at the Turn of the Century The Pianists: Mehldau, Iverson, Iyer, and Moran The Guitarists: Monder, Rosenwinkel, and Stryker Women in Jazz: Jensen, Carter, and Carrington The Norah Effect Is it Jazz, or Is it Pop? Beyond Norah: Karrin and Kurt Jazz + Technology A New Guy in the Band Turntablists, DJs, and Laptops Globalization: Outsourcing Jazz The World Is Flat Scandinavian Jazz: Dangerous Art Future Jazz What Lies Ahead Appendix: Understanding and Defining Jazz Glossary Index