Monday, September 30, 2013
30 September
Start of class: "Love for Sale" by Jacky Terrasson from Alive (1998)
Symphonic/Sweet jazz example: "Changes" by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra (1927)
Symphonic/Sweet jazz example: "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 example: "You've Got to Be Modernistic" by James P. Johnson (1930)
Early New York big band example: "Copenhagen" by Fletcher Henderson (1924)
End of class: "I Saw Stars" by Django Reinhardt (1934)
Sunday, September 29, 2013
27 September
Start of class: "Bird of Paradise" by Charlie Parker (1947)
"Unsquare Dance" by Dave Brubeck from Time Further Out (1961)
"She Rote" by Charlie Parker (1949)
"Old Folks" by Charlie Parker (1953)
"My Little Suede Shoes" by Charlie Parker (1951)
Jazz in NYC example: "Changes" by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra (1927)
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
25 September
Start of class: "Some Day My Prince Will Come" by Dave Brubeck from Dave Digs Disney (1957)
"Chi Chi" by Charlie Parker (1953)
Experiment in Modern Music concert repertory: "Livery Stable Blues" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)
"Rhapsody in Blues" as performed by Leonard Bernstein and the Los Angeles Philharmonic (1982)
End of class: "Kim" by Charlie Parker (1952)
Monday, September 23, 2013
23 September
Start of class: "Merry Go Round" by Charlie Parker (1948)
"Some Day My Prince Will Come" by Dave Brubeck Dave Digs Disney (1957)
King Oliver example: "Snake Rag" (1923)
Sidney Bechet example: "Cake Walking Babies (From Home)" by the Red Onion Jazz Babies (1925)
Jelly Roll Morton example: "Doctor Jazz" by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (1926)
Jelly Roll Morton example 2: "Dead Man Blues" by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers (1926)
End of class: "Relaxin' at Camarillo" by Charlie Parker (1947)
20 September
Start of class: "I Can't Get Started" by Charlie Parker (1946)
"Bird's Nest" by Charlier Parker (1947)
Ragtime example: "Maple Leaf Rag" by Scott Joplin from Classical Treasures: Maple Leaf Rag (2003)
Ragtime into jazz example: "Maple Leaf Rag" as performed by Jelly Roll Morton (1938)
Brass/concert band example: "Stars and Stripes Forever" recorded by John Philip Sousa (1913)
Syncopated Dance Music example: "Castle House Rag" by James Reese Europe's Society Orchestra (1914)
Syncopated Dance Music example: "Castle House Rag" performed by the New England Ragtime Ensemble from The Art of the Rag (1989)
New Orleans style example: "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (1917)
End of class: "Bird Feathers" by Charlie Parker (1947)
Friday, September 20, 2013
18 September
Start of class: "Get Together With the Lord" by Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy (1945)
"How High the Moon (Live at Carnegie Hall)" by Ella Fitzgerald and Charlie Parker (1949)
Work Song and African-American Spiritual example: "The Buzzard Lope" as sung by the Georgia Sea Island Singers (1959)
Work Song example: "Hard Times in Ol' Virginia" as sung by the Georgia Sea Island Singers (1959)
Country Blues example: "I Believe I'll Dust My Broom" by Robert Johnson (1936)
City/Classic Blues example: "Reckless Blues" by Bessie Smith (1925)
End of class: "Star Eyes" by the Charlie Parker Quintet (1951)
Monday, September 16, 2013
16 September
Start of class: "Tiny's Tempo" by Charlie Parker (1944)
Start and end of class: "Soothe Me" by Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy (1936)
Friday, September 13, 2013
13 September
Jazz description exercise: "Shorter Form" by ScoLoHoFo from Oh! (2003)
End of class: "Soothe Me" by Andy Kirk & His Clouds of Joy (1936)
Thursday, September 12, 2013
11 September
Start of class: "Embraceable You" performed by Charlie Parker (1949)
Blues form in bebop/post-bop contexts: "Now's the Time" by Charlie Parker (1945)
AABA form example: "A Sailboat in the Moonlight" by Billie Holiday (1937)
AABA form example: "So What" by Miles Davis from Kind of Blue (1959)
Riff arrangement example: "Taxi War Dance" by Count Basie and his Orchestra (1939)
Solo break example: "Dr. Jazz" by Jelly Roll Morton (1926)
Improviser's vocabulary example: "Giant Steps" by John Coltrane from Giant Steps (1960)
Jazz description exercise: "Sonny Side" by Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson from Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell/J.J. Johnson (1949)
End of class: "Crazy With the Blues" by Peetie Wheatstraw (1936)
9 September
Start of class: "Dance Cadaverous (Alternate Take)" by Wayne Shorter from Speak No Evil (1965)
Standards example: "I Got Rhythm" sung by Ethel Merman from Merman Sings Merman (1972)
Standards example: "I Got Rhythm" performed by Django Reinhardt (1938)
Contrafact and polyrhythm example: "Anthropology" performed by Mehldau and Rossy Trio from When I Fall In Love (1993)
Big band ensemble and instrumentation example: "One O'Clock Jump" by Count Basie and his Orchestra (1938)
Combo instrumentation example: "Blue 7" by Sonny Rollins from Saxophone Colossus (1956)
Square rhythm example: "Little Walk" by the John Scofield Quartet from What We Do (1993)
Syncopation example: "Green Tea" by John Scofield from A Go Go (1998)
Blues form example: "West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong (1928)
End of class: "Hungaria" by Django Reinhardt (1939)
Saturday, September 7, 2013
6 September
Start of class: "Tempus Fugue-It" by Bud Powell (1949)
"Sweet Sue - Just You" by Spike Hughes and his Negro Orchestra (1933)
"Shorter Form" by ScoLoHoFo from Oh! (2003)
Jazz example 2: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" by Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson and his Orchestra (1936)
Jazz example 3: "A Foggy Day" by Biréli Lagrène from Blue Eyes (1998)
Jazz example 4: "Chubb Sub" by Medeski Martin and Wood from Shack-Man (1996)
Jazz example 5 and end of class: "Discipline" by Sun Ra from Space Is the Place (1973)
Thursday, September 5, 2013
4 September
Start of class: "Carelessly" by Billie Holiday (1936)
Jazz example 1: "One O'Clock Jump" by Harry James and his Orchestra
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