Listen to Jazz!

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.

• Series ForwardPrefaceAcknowledgments1. Background2. Must-Hear MusicLouis ArmstrongLil Hardin Armstrong and Valaida SnowSidney BechetBen 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 WildSide”Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Snarky Puppy, and NérijaBillie Holiday and Julie LondonArt Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin’ and Hailu Mergia and the Walias Band: TcheBelewCannonball Adderley: Somethin’ ElseHoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish: “Stardust” and Ann Ronell: “Willow Weep for Me”Terri Lyne Carrington: The Mosaic Project and Esperanza Spalding: Radio Music SocietyBenny Carter, Lionel Hampton, and Dorothy AshbyJohn 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 LikenessMiles Davis and Chief Xian aTunde AdjuahDizzy Gillespie and Charlie ParkerEric Dolphy: Out to Lunch! and Andrew Hill: Point of DepartureDuke EllingtonElla Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, and Astrud GilbertoGinger Baker: Why?Robert Glasper: Black Radio, Black Radio 2, Miles Ahead, and Black Radio IIIStéphane Grappelli, Django Reinhardt, and L. SubramaniamVince Guaraldi: “Cast Your Fate to the Wind,” Ben Tucker and Bob Dorough: “Comin’ HomeBaby,” 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 HanColeman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Kamasi WashingtonAl Hirt and Kenny BallFred Katz and Chico HamiltonStan Kenton, Esquivel, and Tito PuenteKing Crimson: “21st Century Schizoid Man,” Weather Report: “Unknown Soldier,” andSteely Dan: “Josie”Fela KutiLambert, Hendricks & Ross and Jack SheldonMarian McPartland and George ShearingBobby McFerrin, Leon Parker, and Aziza MustafazadehMiles Davis Quintet: Cookin’ with the Miles Davis QuintetCharles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um and Tijuana MoodsWes Montgomery, George Benson, Emily Remler, and Lionel LouekeGerry Mulligan: Night LightsNewport Jazz Festival and Related Studio RecordingsKen Nordine, Jayne Cortez, and John SinclairEdgar Sampson: “Stompin’ at the Savoy” and Louis Prima: “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)”Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil and Wayne Shorter Quartet: EmanonStan Getz and João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto and Charlie Byrd: Brazilian ByrdSun Ra and Ornette ColemanThe Swingle Singers, Pizzicato Five, and Take 6Art Tatum, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk, and Abdullah IbrahimToshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band: Long Yellow Road, and Jon Jang: The Pledge of Black Asian AllegianceSarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, and Cécile McLorin SalvantTom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones3. Impact on Popular Culture4. LegacyBibliographyIndex

Any library collection serving longtime jazz enthusiasts will be enriched by this title, and it will do nicely to generate keen interest among jazz neophytes.