Jazz - Oxford Topics In Music

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (January 23, 1986)
48 pages

This book unfolds the world of jazz from its roots to the present day. It starts with the slave trade from Africa to America and moves on through the Blues. New Orleans, Ragtime, Swing and Be-bop to the still-evolving modern jazz today.

Instruments, performers and composers are discussed as an integral part of the developement and the projects encourage aural and pracrtical involvement of the pupils.