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Jazz History Overview.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
(book and three CDs), by Gordon Vernick and Geoffrey Haydon. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company (4050 Westmark Dr., Dubuque, IA 52004-1840), 2002. 217 pp., $83.95.
Authors Gordon Vernick and Geoffrey Haydon provide an interesting and highly organized overview of jazz history. Jazz is many things at once and different things for different people. In Jazz History Overview, the complex issues encountered in the development of this unique art form are strategically simplified to guide students, musicians and jazz aficionados through a fascinating chronological and aural journey.
Vernick and Haydon carefully avoid the idiomatic definition of jazz and instead guide the reader through an aesthetic appreciation of the African and European elements contributing to this fusion of music traditions. The authors integrate chapters on chronological development ("The Swing Era," "BeBop," "Cool ...
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