Chapter: Mainstream Jazz

The styles of jazz described in this chapter form the basis of most jazz performed today.

A Jazz Improvisation Almanac
Unit: Jazz Styles

Sections:

Bebop - Virtuoso soloing in a swing context
Cool Jazz - West coast, third stream, and Brazilian influences
Hard Bop - Bebop with a gospel influence
Post Bop - Modalism and other developments

This is a preview of the educational program A Jazz Improvisation Almanac which is under development for the Outside Shore Music Online School. Feel free to browse this preview and learn what you can from it. For a more completed product, though, check out the original freely browsable jazz textbook, A Jazz Improvisation Primer.

The styles of jazz discussed in this chapter have become the common practice of jazz. They have been around for forty to fifty years or more, and they still form the basis for much of the jazz performed today. Most of the conventions of jazz music theory as discussed in this program were established by musicians playing in these styles. Another general term for these style is "straightahead jazz".

Sections:

Bebop - Virtuoso soloing in a swing context
Cool Jazz - West coast, third stream, and Brazilian influences
Hard Bop - Bebop with a gospel influence
Post Bop - Modalism and other developments

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