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Giant Steps - Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz 1945-65 - cover

Giant Steps - Bebop and the Creators of Modern Jazz 1945-65

Kenny Mathieson

Publisher: Canongate Books

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Summary

A music journalist offers a lively history of modern jazz through its formative and most vital decades—from Charlie Parker to John Coltrane. 
 
In Giant Steps, Kenny Mathieson examines the most important figures in the creation of modern jazz, detailing the emergence and evolution of bebop through the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis. Using this as its starting point, Mathieson then delves into the developments of jazz composition, modal jazz and free jazz.  
 
The music of the great masters is examined in detail and will provide both a fine introduction for the large audience newly attracted to the music but unsure of their direction through it, as well as an entertaining and informative read for those with a more substantial background.
Available since: 03/01/2012.
Print length: 339 pages.

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