All About Jazz. Rolling Out - 20 greatest jazz albums of all time. Sat., Apr. 6, 2013 12:45 PM EDT Jazz is often called the one truly American artform.
Unfortunately, for a generation reared on pop music; R&B, rock, dance pop and hip-hop may be a lot more ubiquitous. Nevertheless, jazz remains the genre of refined style, the genre of unfiltered expression, the genre of defiant artistry; and names like Miles Davis, Max Roach, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane and Charlie Parker continue to resonate generations after their music was recorded and released because fans often turn to jazz when looking for an alternative to more commercially-driven musical spheres. But many have no idea where to start. Jazz, even more than other, more commercially-oriented genres, has a wide range of variations. RateYourMusic - Best Jazz Albums. 100 Greatest Jazz Albums. Paul Scaruffi - A History of Jazz Music. Bibliography (in order of relevance): Gioia, Ted: "The History of Jazz" (Oxford Univ Press, 1997) Shipton, Alyn: "New History of Jazz" (2001) Southern, Eileen: "The Music of Black Americans" (Norton, 1971) Gridley, Mark: "Jazz Styles" (Prentice Hall, 1991) Hardy, Phil & Laing Dave: "Faber Companion to 20th Century Popular Music" (Faber, 1990) Clarke, Donald: "Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music" (Penguin, 1989) Hodeir, Andre: "Hommes et Problemes du Jazz" (Flammarion, 1954) Polillo, Arrigo: "Jazz" (Mondadori, 1975) Roberts, John-Storm: "Black Music of Two Worlds" (1972) Lord, Tom: "The Jazz Discography" (Lord Music Reference, 2007) Discography: Jazzdisco Biographies:
Paul Scaruffi - 100 Greatest Jazz Albums. The Jazz Resource - Best Jazz Albums. Jazz music is a wonderful artform that is a true window into the human spirit.
The best jazz albums can be listened to time and time again and with each listen it's possible to hear something new in the music. Much consideration has gone into these lists and they are a great place for jazz fans to discover some of the finest masterpieces from the jazz era. If you are learning to play jazz, then listening is essential to progress. Though it's a cliche, but jazz really is a language and immersing yourself in the language is the best way to improve. Jazz 100. Time Out - A history of jazz in Paris. Found in the vaulted stone cellars of the ancient city centre, Parisian jazz clubs are mythical places that have hosted many of the 20th century's biggest names in music.
From jazz's origins as part of a cultural, musical and political revolution in America, today the music is celebrated worldwide from the streets to the most exclusive clubs. In Paris, the movement began with the scandalous singer Joséphine Baker, who did interesting things with bananas and the Charleston, and brought jazz to the cabaret bars of Pigalle during Paris's Années Folles during the 1920s and 30s. Duke Ellington rencontre Django Reinhardt. Jazz History Database. NPR. Jazz History Online. Ken Burns - Jazz. Jazz In America. New Yorker - 100 Essential Jazz Albums. While finishing “Bird-Watcher,” a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector.
First, I asked Schaap to assemble the list, but, after a couple of false starts, he balked. Such attempts, he said, have been going on for a long time, but “who remembers the lists and do they really succeed in driving people to the source?” Jazz History Time Line. Pre-1850 Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century black music innovations, certain characteristics found in jazz do have their roots in much earlier musical traditions.
Call and response, improvisation, the appropriation and reinvention of elements from Western art music: black music in the twentieth-century has never held a monopoly on these musical practices. For instance, the era American historians call "antebellum" (roughly 1815-1861) holds much of interest to researchers looking for the deep roots of jazz.
There was one condition that had to be met for a black tradition unique to North America to develop. A history of jazz.