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)
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- Mississippi Fred McDowell; "Soon ONe Mornin'"
- Traditional Jazz (Hot Jazz)
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- Louis Armstrong; "West End Blues"
- Swing
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- Duke Ellington; "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Don't Have That Swing"
- Coleman Hawkins; "Body And Soul"
- Bebop
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- 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
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- Doodlin'; Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
- Joy Spring; Clifford Brown - performed by Bob and Tim
- Giant Steps; John Coltrane
- Modal Jazz
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- So What; Miles Davis
- Avant Gaurd/Free Jazz
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- Acknowledgment; John Coltrane
- Jazz Fusion
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- Birdland; Weather Report
- Some of today's artists and their "amalgamated" music
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- 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.
