1 Quiz 4% Blues Form Poem 4% Maple Leaf Rag Comparison 4% 2 One page written responses 4% each (about 250 words)

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1 Music 32B Elements of Jazz Prof. Bob Nieske Tuesday and Friday 12:30-1:50 Slosberg Room 215 Textbook: Jazz Styles Ninth or Tenth Edition by Mark Gridley [text only, cd s not necessary] [available used on Amazon at this link] Only/dp/B0042NISQO/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid= &sr=1-3&keywords=jazz+styles+ninth+edition On ITunes U: Jazz Insights by Dr. Gordon Vernick Recommended Reading: Jazz Changes, Martin Williams Oxford Univ. Press 1992 Jazz Talking, Max Jones Da Capo Press 1987 Musings, Gunther Schuller, Oxford Univ Press 1986 Early Jazz, Gunther Schuller, Oxford Univ. Press 1968 The Making of Kind of Blue, Eric Nisenson St. Martins Griffen 2000 Studio Recordings of Miles Davis Quintet , Keith Waters Oxford Univ Press 2011 Jazz from its origins to the present, Lewis Porter Prentice Hall 1993 Jazz the first 100 years, Henry Martin and Keith Waters Schirmer 2002 Success in this 4 credit hour course is based on the expectation that students will spend a minimum of 9 hours of study time per week in preparation for class (LISTENING, readings, homework, discussion sections, preparation for exams etc.) This course assumes no previous music training. You will be asked to learn to count along with recordings and become familiar with common musical forms. Most of the text will be covered but the majority of the out of class work will be listening. All of the text is required along with other assigned readings. At the end of the course you should be able to have a SENSE of what Jazz music is. Not necessarily be able to define it but to know it when you here it and understand some of it. The assignments listed here for each class are due at the NEXT class meeting. GRADING PERCENTAGES 3 Main Exams 55% 7 Listening Guides 25% 1 Quiz 4% Blues Form Poem 4% Maple Leaf Rag Comparison 4% 2 One page written responses 4% each (about 250 words)

2 1-Friday 1/15 [What is / is it Jazz?] Elements of Jazz: Improvisation, Swing, Syncopation, Call and Response, Riff, Chorus, Instrumentation, Personal Sound Read: Gridley - Chapters 1+2, and Appendix: (elements up to the blues) Listen: Bernstein, jazz insights what is jazz 2- Tuesday 1/19 [Listening techniques] Practice following listening guide with song for my father Make listening guide to Let the Good Times Roll, Louis Jordan Listen: How jazz works 1 and 2: Jazz Insights: ITunes U Dr. Gordon Vernick Watch history of Drums video 1 st 15 minutes Read: Gridley chapter 3 3-Friday 1/22 [Basic Instrumental Roles] [Live Demonstration] Read: blues form gridley: Tuesday 1/26 [Blues Form] Make listening guide Miles Freddie the freeloader first 6 minutes (due next class) Write poem based on 12 bar Blues chord tension progression. This means there will be 12 lines in the poem. One for each bar of the Blues (due next Tuesday) 5- Friday 1/29 [Blues through the decades] Read Gridley review aaba and blues in appendix Tuesday 2/2 [AABA song form] Read Gridley- Chapter 4 origins, Schuller Early Jazz Origins handout Arthur Morris Jones Africa Collection: [first track Ghana, poly rhythm clapping Agbadza drumming] Look at for your enjoyment and interest: Not Required pdf download:

3 7- Friday 2/5 [Origins of Jazz] Ghana postal workers One Day Angelic Gospel singers with Dixie Hummingbirds ++ Read: Gridley- Chapter 5 Listen to WOLVERINE BLUES with Gridley guide YOUʼVE GOT TO BE MODERNISTIC with Gridley guide DIXIE JAZZ BAND ONE STEP with Gridley guide 8- Tuesday 2/9 [Early Jazz] Billy Novick Guest lecture Gridley- review chapter 5 Listen to both versions of MAPLE LEAF RAG, write the differences and similarities you hear in the performances. Doesn t have to be long. Write what you hear but listen many times to each. 9-Friday 2/12 FIRST EXAM 10- Tuesday 2/23 [Armstrong, Hines, Biderbeck] Listen with Gridley guide: Seven come eleven, Goodman Read: Gridley Chapter 6 Make listening guide to Moten swing ++ Listen with Gridley guide: Seven come eleven, Goodman ++ Read: Bix by McPartland 11- Friday 2/26 [Swing/the big band]and Ellington Read Talking Jazz, Bigard for Ellington Gridley chapter Tuesday 3/1 [more Ellington] Read- Gridley-Chapter 8 and Coleman Hawkins Make listening guide to When Lights are low Friday 3/4 [Basie, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins] Read: Schuller What makes Jazz Jazz?

4 14- Tuesday 3/8 Videos and Questions Read: Gridley-Chapter Friday 3/11 [Be Bop: Monk, Powell, Parker, Gillespie] make Listening guide to Misterioso Tuesday 3/15 More bop 17- Friday 3/18 [EXAM] Read: Nat Hentoff 1959 and others Watch: 1959 the year that changed jazz: Write one page on the video (about 250 words) 18- Tuesday 3/22 [Jimmy Giuffre] Read George Russell obit and articles and making of kind of blue excerpts 19- Tuesday 3/29 [George Russell] Russell s Modal influence on Kind of Blue READ: Gridley- Chapter 12 and Modes, The studio recordings of the Miles Davis quintet Keith Waters Ch. 1 Listen to Flamenco sketches with Gridley listening guide Make listening guide to Footprints first 3 minutes 20- Friday 4/1 [Miles and Kind of blue and 2 nd quintet] Read: Gridley- chapter 13, and (Rollins), Porter Psalm, Schuller-Musings, Excerpts from Rollins article Make Listening Guide to St Thomas 21- Tuesday 4/5 [Coltrane, Rollins] Read: Gridley (Bill Evans trio) Listen Jazz insights Bill Evans Scott Lafaro Listen to solar with Gridley listening guide

5 22- Friday 4/8 [Bill Evans, Ahmad Jamal, Lennie Tristano] Differing approaches to small group piano Read: New Grove Dictionary of American Music:-Ornette Coleman Gridley-Chapter 14 Williams-Ornette Coleman-The Musician and the Music Watch: Ornette film Write about 250 words about Ornette s process and or feelings on music and or life. What do you think? What did you get about him from this? 23- Tuesday 4/12 [Ornette,Mingus] Watch Sun Ra: Write a half page or so on what you got out of it. Crazy, enlightened???? 24- Friday 4/15 [Free Jazz, Sun Ra] 25- Tuesday 4/19 EXAM