30 November

Start of class: "He Ain't Got Rhythm" by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson (1937)

Start of class: "Limehouse Blues" by Django Reinhardt (1935)

Start/end of class: "Countdown" by Jonathan Kreisberg from Trioing (2002)

Avant garde/Free Jazz 1: "Lonely Woman" by Ornette Coleman from The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

Avant garde/Free Jazz 2: "Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman from Free Jazz (1960)

Avant garde 1: "Bulbs" by Cecil Taylor from Mixed (1961)

Avant garde 2: "Ghosts" by Albert Ayler from Lörrach, Paris, 1966 (1966)

Avant garde 3: "Nonaah" by the Roscoe Mitchell and the Art Ensemble of Chicago from Nonaah (1976)

28 November

Start of class: "Caravan" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Notes From the Underground (1992)

John Coltrane 1: "Giant Steps" from Giant Steps (1960)

John Coltrane 2: "My Favorite Things" from My Favorite Things (1961)

John Coltrane 3: "Acknowledgement" from A Love Supreme (1965)

End of class: "Gingerbread Boy" by Miles Davis from Miles Smiles (1967)

21 November

Start of class: "Dee Blues" by the Chocolate Dandies (1930)

Start of class: "Singin' the Blues" by Frankie Trumbauer with Bix Beiderbecke (1927)

Miles Davis: "So What" from Kind of Blue (1959)

Miles Davis: "E.S.P." from E.S.P. (1965)

Miles Davis: "Footprints" from Miles Smiles (1967)

Miles Davis: "Bitches Brew" from Bitches Brew (1970)

Miles Davis: "Tutu" from Tutu (1986)

End of class: "Serenade for a Wealth Widow" by Fats Waller (1935)

18 November

Start of class: "Swing Parade" by Sidney Bechet (1941)

Start of class: "Stanton Hits the Bottle" by Stanton Moore from All Kooked Out (1998)

Start of class: "That's How I Feel Today" by Fats Waller (1927)

Jazz Composers - Gil Evans: "King Porter Stomp" from New Bottle, Old Wine (1958)

Jazz Composers - George Russell: "Concerto for Billy the Kid" (1956)

Miles Davis: "Walkin'" from Walkin' (1954)

Miles Davis: "So What" from Kind of Blue (1959)

End of class: "Copenhagen" by the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra with Louis Armstrong (1925)

16 November

Start of class: "Angel Nemali" by Stanton Moore from All Kooked Out (1998)

Hard Bop soloists 3: "Twisted Blues" by Wes Montgomery from Goin' Out of My Head (1965)

Jazz Composers - Thelonious Monk: "Blue Monk" by the Thelonious Monk Quartet from Monk in Oslo (1966)

Jazz Composers - Thelonious Monk: "Rhythm-a-ning" by Thelonious Monk from Criss-Cross (1962)

Jazz Composers - Charles Mingus: "Boogie Stop Shuffle" by Charles Mingus from Mingus Ah Um (1959)

End of class: "God Fire" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Radiolarians 1 (2008)

14 November

Start of class: "Chank" by John Scofield from A Go Go (1998)

Hard Bop example: "Moanin'" by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers from Moanin' (1958)

Hard Bop example: "The Preacher" by Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers from Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1955)

Hard Bop soloists 1: "A Night in Tunisia" by Clifford Brown from The Beginning and the End (1973 release, from 1955 session)

Hard Bop soloists 2: "Autumn Nocturne" by Sonny Rollins from Silver City (1978)

End of class: "Appel Direct" by Django Reinhardt (1939)

11 November

Start of class: "We'd Rather Jump Than Swing" by Cooper's Savoy Sultans (ca. 1940)

Start of class: "Percussion Shuffle" by Charlie Hunter from Songs from the Analog Playground (2001)

Example of Modern Jazz Quartet: "All the Things You Are" (1952)

Theme for Third Stream example: "Criss Cross" by Thelonious Monk from Criss Cross (1962)

Example of Third Stream: "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk" from Jazz Abstractions (1960)

Example of Hard Bop: "Moanin'" by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958)

End of class: "Nebulizer" by Nils Petter Molvaer from NP3 (2002)

9 November

Start of class: "Holiday for a Despot" by Jeff Parker from Like-Coping (2003)

Start of class: "Sefrial" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Zaebos: The Book of Angels, Vol. 2 (2008)

Example of Central Avenue Scene: "Long Tall Dexter" by Dexter Gordon (1946)

Example of the Birth of the Cool: "Moon Dreams" by Miles Davis Nonet (1950)

Example of modernist big band sound: "Artistry in Rhythm" by the Stan Kenton Band (1953)

Example of West Coast jazz: "Jeru" by the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker Quartet (1952)

End of class: "Carolina Stomp" by the Fletcher Henderson Band with Louis Armstrong (1924)

8 November

Start of class: "Wild Man Blues" by Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers (1940)

Start of class: "Criss Cross" by Thelonious Monk from Criss-Cross (1962)

Example of bebop improvisation in ballad context: "Embraceable You" by Charlie Parker and his Re-Boppers (1948)

Example of bebop: "Groovin' High" by Dizzy Gillespie and his Sextet (1945)

Example of bebop: "Tempus Fugue-It" by Bud Powell (1949)

End of class: "Boogaloo Boogie" by Stanton Moore from All Kooked Out (1998)

4 November

Start of class: "Rhythm-A-Ning" by Thelonious Monk (1962)

Start of class: "Koryojang" by John Zorn from Taboo & Exile (Music and Romance, Vol. 2) (1999)

Bebop example: "Ko-ko" by Charlie Parker (1945)

Bebop blues example: "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1953)

End of class: "Japanese Sandman" by Django Reinhardt (1937)

End of class: "Wild Man Blues" by Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers (1940)

2 November

Start of class: "Paradoxe 1" by Le Jazz groupe de Paris & André Hodeir from Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joke André Hodeir (1956)

Start of class: "Milano" by Le Jazz groupe de Paris & André Hodeir from Le Jazz Groupe de Paris joke André Hodeir (1956)

French jazz composer, critic, and analyst André Hodeir passed away yesterday at the age of 90. He was indispensable to the traditions of jazz criticism and analysis both in the US and abroad. His music is little known in the US, but contributes to our understanding of the art of jazz composition and arranging.

Example of jazz abroad: "Á l'ouest!" by Le Sacre du tympan from Le Sacre du tympan (2002)

Transition in the jazz rhythm section: "Christopher Columbus" by Fats Waller (1936)

Transition in the jazz rhythm section: "Over the Rainbow" by Art Tatum (1939)

Transition in the jazz rhythm section: "Topsy (Swing to Bop)" by Charlie Christian (1941)

End of class: "Saving All My Love For You" by La Campagnie des musiques à ouïr from La Campagnie des musiques à ouïr (1999)

31 October

Start of class: "High Society/Blues for Jimmy/Marmalade/Savoy Blues" by Kid Ory (ca. 1950)

Example of Quintette of the Hot Club of France: "Minor Swing" (1949)

Example of Quintette of the Hot Club of France: "Echoes of France (La Marseillaise)" (1946)

Example of American jazz abroad: ""I'm Coming, Virginia" by Benny Carter and his Orchestra (1938)

Example of European Improvised Music: "Number 7" by Fred Van Hove, Peter Brötzmann, and Hans Bennink from FMP130 (1973)

Example of Japanese-American jazz fusion: "River" by Tatsu Aoki from The Miyumi Project (2000)