Thursday, November 29, 2012
28 November
Start of class: "Réveil" by Le Sacre du tympan from Le Sacre du tympan (2002)
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)
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)
End of class: "How High the Moon" by Le Jazz Club Mystery Hot Band featuring Django Reinhardt (1945)
"Doggin' Around" by Count Basie and his Orchestra (1938)
Monday, November 26, 2012
26 November
Start of class: "Doin' the Frog" by Duke Ellington and his Cotton Club Orchestra (ca. 1930)
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)
John Coltrane: "Giant Steps" from Giant Steps (1960)
End of class: "Autumn in New York" by Biréli Lagrène from Blue Eyes (1998)
Friday, November 16, 2012
16 November
Start of class: "April in Paris" by Charlie Parker (1949)
"Draggin' My Heart Around" by Cooper's Savoy Sultans (ca. 1940)
Miles Davis example 1: "Walkin'" from Walkin' (1954)
Miles Davis example 2: "So What" from Kind of Blue (1959)
End of class: "New Amsterdam" by ScoLoHoFo from Oh! (2003)
Thursday, November 15, 2012
14 November
Start of class: "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins from Saxophone Colossus (1956)
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)
Jazz Composers - Gil Evans: "King Porter Stomp" by from New Bottle, Old Wine (1958)
Jazz Composers - George Russell: "Concerto for Billy the Kid" by the George Russell Sextet from the Complete Bluebird Recordings (1956)
End of class: "Three Views of a Secret" by Jaco Pastorius from The Birthday Concert (1981)
"Please Be Kind" by Django Reinhardt (1938)
Monday, November 12, 2012
12 November
Start of class: "One, Two, Button Your Shoe" by Billie Holiday (1936)
"Jelly Belly" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Shack Man (1996)
Hard Bop soloists 2: "Autumn Nocturne" by Sonny Rollins from Silver City (1978)
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 video Monk in Oslo (1966)
Jazz Composers - Thelonious Monk: "Rhythm-a-ning" by Thelonious Monk from Criss-Cross (1962)
Friday, November 9, 2012
9 November
Start of class: "Porgy" by Coleman Hawkins (1944)
"Autumn Leaves" by Wynton Marsalis from Standard Time, Vol. I (1986)
Theme for Third Stream example: "Criss Cross" by Thelonious Monk from Criss Cross (1962)
Third Stream example: "Variants on a Theme by Thelonious Monk" from Jazz Abstractions (1960)
Hard Bop example: "Moanin'" by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (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)
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
7 November
Start of class: "Tchi Tchi" by La Campagnie Des Musiques À Ouïr from La Campagnie Des Musiques À Ouïr (1999)
West Coast Jazz example: "Jeru" by the Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker Quartet (1952)
Birth of the Cool example: "Moon Dreams" by Miles Davis Nonet (1950)
Modern Jazz Quartet example: "All the Things You Are" (1952)
End of class: "Requiem" by Charles Lloyd from Voice in the Night (1998)
Monday, November 5, 2012
5 November
Start of class: "C'est l'illyrie Madame!" by Le Sacre du tympan from Le Sacre du tympan (2002)
"Country Crescent" by Jean-Philippe Scali (2006)
"Nightmoves" by Kurt Elling from Nightmoves (2007)
Bebop blues example: "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1953)
Bebop example: "Groovin' High" by Dizzy Gillespie and his Sextet (1945)
Bebop 2 example: "Tempus Fugue-It" by Bud Powell (1949)
Central Avenue Scene example: "Long Tall Dexter" by Dexter Gordon (1946)
End of class: "Teapot (Take 2)" by Sonny Stitt from Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson (1949)
"Coal Black Shine" by Sidney Bechet and his New Orleans Feetwarmers (1941)
Friday, November 2, 2012
2 November
Start of class: "Un Poco Loco" by Bud Powell (1951)
"Joshua" by Miles Davis from Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
Bebop example: "Ko-ko" by Charlie Parker (1945)
Bebop in ballad example: "Embraceable You" by Charlie Parker (1948)
End of class: "Bonne Apnée" by La Campagnie Des Musiques À Ouïr from La Campagnie Des Musiques À Ouïr (1999)
31 October
Start of class: "Farewell Blues" by Benny Carter (1938)
"Sleeping" by Claudia Solal + Benjamin Moussay from Porridge Days (2005)
"Les amants d'un jour" by Sylvain Luc from Trio Sud (2002)
Quintette of the Hot Club of France example: "Echoes of France (La Marseillaise)" (1946)
American Jazz Abroad example: ""I'm Coming, Virginia" by Benny Carter and his Orchestra (1938)
European Improvised Music example: "Number 7" by Fred Van Hove, Peter Brötzmann, and Hans Bennink from FMP130 (1973)
Big Band Jazz abroad example: "Á l'ouest!" by Le Sacre du tympan from Le Sacre du tympan (2002)
Japanese-American Jazz Fusion example and end of class: "River" by Tatsu Aoki from The Miyumi Project (2000)
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