History of Jazz Timeline: Roots of Jazz
African and European Fusion African music featured complex cross-rhythms, slurs, melissma, falsetto, vibrato and simple melodies.
Call and response form was employed. The leader would throw out a line and a chorus responded.
Griots were African historians who kept complex records in their heads and related them via song. The Blues form may have derived ...
History of Jazz Timeline: Bibliography
“Another View of Coleman," Downbeat 27:11 (26 May 1960):21.
Arnaud, Gerald and Chesnel, Jacques. Masters of Jazz. Edinburgh: W & R Chambers Ltd 1991.
Barlow, William. Looking Up at Down: The Emergence of the Blues Culture. Philadelphia: Temple University Press 1989.
Bergerot, Frank and Merlin, Arnaud. The Story of Jazz Bop and Beyond. Harry N. Abrams, ...
