Start of class: "Relaxing with Lee" by Charlie Parker (1950)
Start of class: "Why Couldn't It Be Poor Little Me?" by Louis Armstrong with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra (1925)
Start of class: "Jolly Wog" by Duke Ellington's Jungle Band (1929)
Example of Billie Holiday: "Strange Fruit" (1939)
Example of Ella Fitzgerald: "Blue Skies" (1958)
Example of vocalese: "One O'Clock Jump" by Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross from Sing a Song of Basie (1955)
Example of Bobby McFerrin: "Blackbird" from The Voice (1984)
Example of contemporary jazz singing: "The New Body and Soul" by Kurt Elling from Nightmoves (2007)
End of class: "Coal Black Shine" by Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers (1941)
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