30 September

Start of class: "Improvisation No. 2" by Django Reinhardt (1938)

Start of class: "Flight of the Batman" by Sun Ra and the Blues Project from Batman and Robin (1966)

Start of class: "Begin the Beguine" by Django Reinardt (1940)

Start of class: "Whispering" by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1920)

Fletcher Henderson example: "Copenhagen" by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra (1924)

Duke Ellington's jungle music: "Black and Tan Fantasy" by the Duke Ellington Orchestra (1927)

End of class: "Giant Steps" by the Jean-Michel Pilc Trio from Welcome Home (2002)

28 September

Start of class: "Time On My Hands" by Django Reinhardt (1939)

Start of class: "It's All Right, Baby" by Pete Johnson and Big Joe Turner (1938)

Jelly Roll Morton: "Dead Man Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (1926)

Symphonic jazz: "Changes" by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1927)

Symphonic jazz: "Rhapsody in Blue" composed by George Gershwin, originally performed by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1924). This recording performed by Leonard Bernstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1982)

Stride piano: "You've Got to Be Modernistic" by James P. Johnson (1930)

End of class: "Lonely Fire" by the Orchestre National de Jazz de France directed by Laurent Cugny from Yesternow (1994)

26 September

Start of class: "C'est moi, Anibal! Je suis revenue!" by Laurent Cugny from La Tectonique des nuages (2010)

Start of class: "Jeru" by the Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker Quartet (1953)

Example of New Orleans style: "Dixie Jass Band One-Step" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)

Example of New Orleans style: "Snake Rag" by King Oliver (1923)

Soloists in New Orleans style: "Cake Walking Babies (From Home)" by the Red Onion Jazz Babies (1925)

Jelly Roll Morton: "Doctor Jazz" by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (1926)

End of class: "Hallelujah" by Le Jazz Club Mystery Hot Band (1945)

23 September

Start of class: "Les Bonimenteurs du cauchemar" by Le Sacre du tympan from "Le Retour!" (2005)

Example of minstrelsy: "The Fine Old Color'd Gentleman" from The Early Minstrel Show (1985)

Example of minstrelsy: "De Ole Jawbone" from The Early Minstrel Show (1985)

Example of ragtime: "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin from Classical Treasures: Maple Leaf Rag (2003)

Comparing ragtime to jazz: "Maple Leaf Rag" as performed by Jelly Roll Morton (1938)

Example of concert band: "Stars and Stripes Forever" recorded by John Philip Sousa (1913)

Example of orchestrated ragtime: "Down Home Rag" by Wilbur Sweatman (1916)

Example of syncopated dance music: "Castle House Rag" by James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra (1914)

End of class: "Shine It" by Medeski Martin and Wood from End of the World Party (Just In Case) (2004)

21 September

Start of class: "Groovin' High" by the Dizzy Gillespie Sextet featuring Charlie Parker (1946)

Start of class: "Lifeblood" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Shack Man (1996)

Example of African-American spiritual: "The Buzzard Lope" as sung by the Georgia Sea Island Singers (1965)

Example of country blues: "Dust My Broom" by Robert Johnson (1936)

Example of city/classic blues and acoustic recording: "Reckless Blues" by Bessie Smith (1925)

Example of electric recording: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (1928)

End of class: "Flight 19" by Andrew Hill from Point of Departure (1964)

19 September

Start of class: "Start-Stop" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Combustication (1998)

Example of solo breaks and stop-time: "Doctor Jazz" by Jelly Roll Morton (1926)

Listening exercise/end of class: "Camp Out" by the John Scofield Quartet from What We Do (1993)

14 September

Start of class: "Tea For Two" by Django Reinhardt (1937)

Start/end of class: "Early Morning Waltz" by the Benjamin Moussay Trio from Swimming Pool (2006)

Example of blues form: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (1928)

Example of blues form: "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1945)

Example of AABA form: "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" by (1937)

Example of AABA form: "So What" by Miles Davis from Kind of Blue (1959)

Example of riff arrangement: "Taxi War Dance" by Count Basie (1939)

12 September

Start of class: "In Case the World Changes Its Mind" by Medeski Scofield Martin and Wood from Out Louder (2006)

Start of class: "Axis of Ignorance" by Nils Petter Molvaer from NP3 (2002)

Example of blues form: "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1945)

Example of blues form: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five (1928)

9 September

Start of class: "Gamaka" by Pharoah Sanders from With a Heartbeat (2003)

Start of class: "Strode Rode" by Sonny Rollins from Saxophone Colossus (1956)

Example of "I Got Rhythm": "I Got Rhythm" sung by Ethel Merman from Merman Sings Merman (1972)

Example of Rhythm Changes: "I Got Rhythm" performed by Django Reinhardt and the Quintet of the Hot Club of France from Djangology (1949)

Example of contrafact: "Anthropology" performed by the Mehldau and Rossy Trio from When I Fall in Love (2004)

7 September

Start of class: "Six and Eight" by John Scofield from Works for Me (2001)

Example one: "Blue 7" by Sonny Rollins from Saxophone Colossus (1956)

Example two: "Tiger Rag" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)

Example three: "King Porter Stomp" by the Benny Goodman Orchestra (1935)

Example four: "Ghosts" by Albert Ayler from Love Cry (1967)

Example five and end of class: "Live from Bla" by Bugge Wesseltoft from New Conception of Jazz (2001)