Author Description

Modern Sounds: The Artistry of Contemporary Jazz is a storybook approach on the journey, the musicians, and the music that has been created in the pursuit of artistic achievement over the half century. Modern Sounds picks up where most jazz textbooks leave off. This is a complete documentation of contemporary jazz. Suitable for a semester course at the college level, either for music majors or non-majors. A four-month access to an online music library. With this exclusive access, students and instructors can follow accompanying textbook playlists and have the ability to create their own playlists from over six million titles. A primer on how to define jazz has been included for students new to jazz. Lists of key terms, names, places and music at the beginning of each chapter There are also performance review sheets included that can be filled out and handed as assignments for students who attend local jazz performances. As one of Kendall Hunt's best-selling authors, Thomas A. Larson, has written two additional textbooks: History of Rock and Roll History and Tradition of Jazz