Early Jazz

This highly original volume, written by the renowned composer, conductor, and musical scholar Gunther Schuller, begins with promises to be a definitive three-volume history of jazz. Tracing jazz from its beginning as a distinct musical style at the turn of the century to its first great flowering in the 1930s, Schuller covers the music of the great jazz soloists of the twenties and the big bands and arranges, placing their music in the context of the other musical cultures of the twentieth century. In doing so, he invites all jazz enthusiasts, especially students of jazz performance and music in general, to embark on a journey through the exciting beginnings of a musical revolution.