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)