Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion

ISBN-13: 9781442242425 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 234 str.

Jeff Sultanof

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The era of popular music from about 1918 through the early 1950s saw a veritable explosion of sophisticated songwriting that converged with a new sound from reed and brass players. Jazz was born, and the musical sophistication that accompanied this "newfangled" sound set the stage for the prominence of a relatively new class of musician: the arranger, whose role in big band orchestrations became as important as the composers whose music served as the foundation for Big Band jazz. The Big Band evolved as a unique phenomenon in American music history, and ever since with vintage recordings, both studio and live, readily available, and even the recent publication of original texts from the era, a look at how to listen to Big Band music is overdue. In Experiencing Big Band Jazz: A Listener's Companion, musician, music historian and score editor and publisher, Jeff Sultanof takes a fresh look at Big Band music, examining why the big band era started when it did, how pop music changed to meet the needs of big bands and the reverse, the role played by well-known band leaders and the bands they led, including the non-jazz ensembles often ignored by big band scholars, lists of must-hear recordings drawn from studio as well as live sources, all in context, as well as selected reading.