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Jazz Styles: History and Analysis

by Mark C. Gridley · 1978

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'Teaching students how to listen and what to listen for in jazz... a highly effective textbook for students who have had little or no exposure to jazz... a broad, penetrating view of jazz history... luminously clear.' - Down Beat

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long · 442 pages

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