Jazz your baby! Jazz me, sister!
The music called jazz is varied and the definition is problematic.
Nonetheless, you will develop an appreciation for early jazz as played in New Orleans and Chicago, for swing jazz as born in New York, and for bebop and cool jazz, also birthed in NYC.
Graphic report on jazz personalities (15 pts) -
- 5 images/slides, 3 bits of historic material upon each.
- Musical sample.
- documentation.
- 3 review questions at end: multiple choice, ranging in difficulty from easy to challenging, but not "picky."
Jazz musicians with the highest status in this American art form -
1. Jellyroll Morton
2. Joe King Oliver
3. Louis Armstrong
4. Fletcher Henderson
5. Charlie Parker
6. Edward Duke Ellington
7. William Count Basie
8. Benny Goodman
9. Glenn Miller
10. Lionel Hampton
11. Charlie Christian
12. Charlie Bird Parker
13. Dizzy Gillespie
14. Thelonius Monk
15. Miles Davis
16. John Coltrane
17. Charles Mingus
18. Billie Holiday
19. Ella Fitzgerald
20. Nat King Cole
21. Herbie Hancock
22. Wynton Marsalis
23. George Gershwin, classical / jazz
24. Leonard Bernstein, classical / jazz
Your report topic will be assigned by class roll number.
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