The week of Dec 1 - 5 will bring the class down a historic road from big band swing to small combo bebop and cool jazz. The essential names will include Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and John Coltrane.
From the contemporary players we will focus on trumpet player-composer Wynton Marsalis and drummer-composer Brian Blade.
The Thurs quiz will include questions on jazz and recent vocab.
The week's brief essay, due Friday on GoogleDocs, will be a review of a jazz album or epochal jazz tune such as the Miles Davis group's "So what," found on the album Kind of Blue.
Alternatively, you may choose to write a brief comparison of the bios of performers mentioned above.
Discussion this week might also include
- and what about the women in jazz?
- and what was the evolution of jazz and dance?
- why study jazz? how does jazz qualify as the keys to the kingdom?
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