Concise Guide to Jazz

Dr. Mark C. Gridley is the author of Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, America's most widely used introduction to jazz. It emerged from the History and Styles of Jazz course that he had developed at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Jazz Styles has been required for jazz history classes in more than 400 colleges and universities. The book has been translated into 5 foreign languages, and its influence and reference value led to Gridley's listing in Who's Who in America. A Cleveland-based jazz flutist-saxophonist-bandleader, Gridley has also conducted field research in Africa and the Caribbean. For his studies of jazz popularity, Gridley earned the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Educational Press Association of America. His articles on jazz styles and teaching jazz appreciation appear in the Grove Dictionaries of Music, Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Black Perspective in Music, Black Music Research Journal, The Musical Quarterly, The Instrumentalist, Current Musicology, College Music Symposium, Popular Music and Society, and Jazz Educator's Journal. His research on perception and preferences in music and art has been published in several scientific journals.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What is Jazz?
Chapter 2: How to Listen to Jazz
Chapter 3: The Origins of Jazz
Chapter 4: Early Jazz
Chapter 5: Swing
Chapter 6: Bebop
Chapter 7: Cool Jazz
Chapter 8: Hard Bop
Chapter 9: Avant-Garde of the 1960s and 1970s
Chapter 10: Fusion
Chapter 11: 1985 to the Present