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