May 2011 Archives

I'll be facilitating a "Survey of Jazz Styles" class at the Third Street Center, Carbondale, CO., June 16th, 2011, from 6:30-8:30. For information on attending, click here. The following, is a tentative outline for the class.

A necessarily succinct survey of jazz styles, with guest, Bob Levey.

We'll listen to and put a little context to the following styles of jazz:

  • Blues (call and response)
    • Mississippi Fred McDowell; "Soon ONe Mornin'"
  • Traditional Jazz (Hot Jazz)
    • Louis Armstrong; "West End Blues"
  • Swing
    • Duke Ellington; "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Don't Have That Swing"
    • Coleman Hawkins; "Body And Soul"
  • Bebop
    • Bob Levey; Stories about Stan Levey, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, etc.
    • Bebop; Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Levey, Stan Getz, etc
    • Charlie Parker; Just Friends
  • Hard Bop
    • Doodlin'; Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
    • Joy Spring; Clifford Brown - performed by Bob and Tim
    • Giant Steps; John Coltrane
  • Modal Jazz
    • So What; Miles Davis
  • Avant Gaurd/Free Jazz
    • Acknowledgment; John Coltrane
  • Jazz Fusion
    • Birdland; Weather Report
  • Some of today's artists and their "amalgamated" music
    • Joe Lovano
    • Tim Hagans
    • Kenny Werner

My notes on Jazz Styles - click here.
My Diigo Jazz Appreciation list of links - click here.
My Diigo Webslide show - click here.
My Jazz Appreciation Bibliography - click here.


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