JAZZ

• Reading:
  • Jazz The First 100 Years
    • pages 2 through page 65
      
• Listening:
  • Listening Guides CD 1 - #1 through 9
    
• Topics:
  • The Roots of Jazz
  • Early Jazz

   

• Web sites to check:
  
  • Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation
    
• Class presentations for this section:
  
  • Roots of Jazz
  • Gumbo, Ragtime, Blues
  • The Move to Stride
    
• Films for extra credit:
  
  • Ken Burns JAZZ
    • Episode one "Gumbo"
    • Episode two "The Gift"

• Reading:
  • Jazz The First 100 Years
    • pages 66 through page 117
• Listening:
  • Listening Guides CD 1 - #10 through 15
• Topics:
  
  • Jelly Roll Morton
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Chicago
  • Tin Pam Alley
  • Harlem
  • Paul Whiteman
  • Big Bands
  • Europe
    
• Web sites to check:
  
  • New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation
    
• Class presentations for this section:
  
  • Dixieland
  • Jazz moves to Chicago
  • Jelly Roll
    
• Films for extra credit:
  
  • Ken Burns JAZZ
    • Episode three "Our Language"
    • Episode four "The True Welcome
      

• Reading:
  • Jazz The First 100 Years
    • pages 118 through 189
• Listening:
  • Listening Guides CD 1 #16 through 23
• Topics:
  
  • Big Bands and Territory Bands
  • Basie
  • Goodman
  • Ellington
  • Swing-era Bands
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• Web sites to check: :
  
  • The Harlem Renaissance
    
• Class Presentations for this section:
  
  • The Swing Era
    
• Films for extra credit:
  
  • Ken Burns JAZZ
    • Episode five "Swing: Pure Pleasure"
    • Episode six "Swing: The Velocity of Celebration"
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• Mid-Term Practice Test
   
  

• Reading:
  
  • Jazz The First 100 Years
    • pages 190 through 265

     

• Listening:
  
  • Listening Guides CD 1 #24 through CD2 #4
    
• Topics:
  
  • The Bebop Era
  • Cool
  • Piano
  • Miles Davis
    
• Class Presentations for this section:
  
  • Bebop notes
  • Cool Notes
  • Hard Bop Notes
  • Mainstream Bop Today Notes
  • The Late 40's and 50's Notes
  • Charles Mingus Notes
    
• Web sites to check:
  
  • Miles Davis
    
• Films for extra credit:
  
  • Ken Burns JAZZ
    
    • Episode seven "Dedicated to Chaos"
    • Episode 8 "Risk"
  

• Reading:
  • Jazz The First 100 Years
    • pages 266 through 323
• Listening:
  • Listening Guides CD2 #5 through CD2 #8
• Topics:
  
  • The Sixties Avant-Garde
  • Mainstream Jazz in the 1960s
    
• Class Presentations for this section:
  
  • Hines, Tatum, Garner
  • Duke Ellington
  • Contemporary Trends

  
  

• Web Sites to check:
  
  • A Great Day in Harlem
  • Bobby McFerrin
  • Stanley Jordan
  • Wynton Marsalis
    
• Films for extra credit
  
  • Ken Burns JAZZ
    • Episode nine "The Adventure"
    • Episode ten "A Masterpiece by Midnight"
  

• Reading:
  • Jazz The First 100 Years
    • pages 324 through 391

     

• Listening:
  • Listening Guides CD 2 #9 through 16
    
• Topics:
  
  • Jazz-Rock, Jazz-Funk Fusion
  • Jazz Since the 1980s
    
• Class Presentations for this section
  
  • Jazz Rock Fusion
  • The Avant-Garde
    
• Web Sites to check:
  
  • Robert Moog
  • CTI Records