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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz
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The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Schoenberg, Loren

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This concise history of jazz lists the noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus, plus classic songs and compositions, the most influential recordings of all time, and a complete guide to jazz terminology and lingo.

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  • Title The NPR Curious Listener's Guide to Jazz
  • Author Schoenberg, Loren
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 304
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 2002-08-06
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP102427380
  • ISBN 9780399527944 / 039952794X
  • Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.12 x 5.14 x 0.77 in (20.62 x 13.06 x 1.96 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Jazz - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002025787
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.68

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Summary

  • A concise history of jazz
  • The noteworthy composers and musicians, from Jelly Roll Morton and Thelonious Monk to Miles Davis and Charles Mingus
  • Major performers from Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald to Nat King Cole and Duke Ellington
  • Classic songs and compositions
  • The most influential recordings of all time
  • A complete guide to jazz terminology and lingo
  • Valuable resources for the Curious Listener

From the publisher

Loren Schoenberg has been a featured tenor saxophone soloist with the big bands of Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Health, and Buck Clayton. A faculty member at the Essentially Ellington Band Director's Academy in Snowmass, Colorado, he was recently named the program director of Jazz Aspen Snowmass Jazz Colony summer program. He was advisor to Ken Burns's Jazz Project.

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What is Jazz?

Media reviews

Citations

  • Library Journal, 07/01/2002, Page 85

About the author

Loren Schoenberg has been a featured tenor saxophone soloist with the big bands of Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Health, and Buck Clayton. A faculty member at the Essentially Ellington Band Director's Academy in Snowmass, Colorado, he was recently named the program director of Jazz Aspen Snowmass Jazz Colony summer program. He was advisor to Ken Burns's Jazz Project.

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