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Author:   Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith (Westfield State University, USA, and Springfield College, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781440875519

ISBN 10:   1440875510
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   10 July 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary & secondary/elementary & high school ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Secondary
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Series Forward Preface Acknowledgments 1. Background 2. Must-Hear Music Louis Armstrong Lil Hardin Armstrong and Valaida Snow Sidney Bechet Ben Bernie, Maceo Pinkard, and Kenneth Casey: “Sweet Georgia Brown” and Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht, and Marc Blitzstein: “Mack the Knife” Elmer Bernstein and Mack David: “Walk on the Wild Side” and Lou Reed: “Walk on the Wild Side” Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Snarky Puppy, and Nérija Billie Holiday and Julie London Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin’ and Hailu Mergia and the Walias Band: Tche Belew Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish: “Stardust” and Ann Ronell: “Willow Weep for Me” Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project and Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music Society Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, and Dorothy Ashby John Coltrane: “Giant Steps” and Alice Coltrane: “Translinear Light” John Coltrane: My Favorite Things and Dexter Gordon: Go! The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out and Quasimode: Oneself Likeness Miles Davis and Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch! and Andrew Hill: Point of Departure Duke Ellington Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, and Astrud Gilberto Ginger Baker: Why? Robert Glasper: Black Radio, Black Radio 2, Miles Ahead, and Black Radio III Stéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, and L. Subramaniam Vince Guaraldi: “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” Ben Tucker and Bob Dorough: “Comin’ Home Baby,” and The Pacific Express: “Wind Song” Earle Hagen and Dick Rogers: “Harlem Nocturne” and Dizzy Gillespie: “A Night in Tunisia” Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Hiromi Uehara, and Connie Han Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Kamasi Washington Al Hirt and Kenny Ball Fred Katz and Chico Hamilton Stan Kenton, Esquivel, and Tito Puente King Crimson: “21st Century Schizoid Man,” Weather Report: “Unknown Soldier,” and Steely Dan: “Josie” Fela Kuti Lambert, Hendricks & Ross and Jack Sheldon Marian McPartland and George Shearing Bobby McFerrin, Leon Parker, and Aziza Mustafazadeh Miles Davis Quintet: Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um and Tijuana Moods Wes Montgomery, George Benson, Emily Remler, and Lionel Loueke Gerry Mulligan: Night Lights Newport Jazz Festival and Related Studio Recordings Ken Nordine, Jayne Cortez, and John Sinclair Edgar Sampson: “Stompin’ at the Savoy” and Louis Prima: “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil and Wayne Shorter Quartet: Emanon Stan Getz and João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto and Charlie Byrd: Brazilian Byrd Sun Ra and Ornette Coleman The Swingle Singers, Pizzicato Five, and Take 6 Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, and Abdullah Ibrahim Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band: Long Yellow Road, and Jon Jang: The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, and Cécile McLorin Salvant Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones 3. Impact on Popular Culture 4. Legacy Bibliography Index

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Melissa Ursula Dawn Goldsmith is a musicologist, an Adjunct Faculty member in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts of Springfield College in Massachusetts, USA, as well as a Visiting Associate Professor/Lecturer in the Music Department and College of Graduate and Continuing Education at Westfield State University, also in Massachusetts, USA. She is the author of Listen to Classic Rock! (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-author with Anthony J. Fonseca of Listen to Hip Hop! (Bloomsbury, 2021), both in the Exploring Musical Genres series.

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