Letter to the Editor from Gridley, Mark

01 October 2011 correlations by presenting extra-musical factors at the same time as they present the music. Thank you. Sincerely, Mark C. Gridley

Misconceptions in Linking Free Jazz with the Civil Rights Movement

01 October 2007 in 1964. (Contains a piece about lynching.) Tristano, Lennie Crosscurrent. Capitol 52771. Recorded in 1949. Endnotes 1Mark C. Gridley, Jazz Styles (Prentice-Hall, 1978), 336. 2Knopf, 2000. 3Prentice-Hall, 2005, p. 225. 4Greenwood, 2004. 5Norton, 1997,...

On Miles and the Modes

01 October 1998 his description nonetheless echoes the widespread claims in jazz of "playing in the modes." It also corresponds with Mark C. Gridley's discussion of So What in his 1978 primer, Jazz Styles.19 Gridley's graphic representation of that work's pitch basis...

[i]The Birth of the Cool of Miles Davis and his Associates[/i] by Frank Tirro - [i]CMS Sourcebooks in American Music No. 5[/i]

17 June 2016 the music by explicating its essential parts, and he has clearly placed the sounds in historical perspective. authors: Mark C. Gridley author_ids: 175 authors: Mark C. Gridley author_ids: 175

[i]Where the Dark and Light Folks Meet: Race and the Mythology, Politics and Business of Jazz[/i], by Randall Sandke

01 October 2012 in the Blues (New York: Stein & Day, 1969). Shipton, Allyn. A New History of Jazz (London: Continuum, 2001). authors: Mark C. Gridley author_ids: 175 authors: Mark C. Gridley author_ids: 175

Explaining Improvisation to Non-Musicians by Categorizing the Jazz Musician’s Creative Alternatives

15 November 2021 examples the next time you seek to explain improvisation. Student bafflement will be reduced accordingly. authors: Mark C. Gridley author_ids: 175 authors: Mark C. Gridley author_ids: 175

Accentuate the Negative? On Teaching Biographical Details in Jazz History

31 August 2013 Abstract Jazz history professors and book authors may be prejudicing their students’ impressions of jazz by including negative biographical information about the major musicians. This author scrutinizes biographical presentations that are unnecessarily...