Barry MUS 321 - History of Jazz

Syllabus

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Below is the list for study for the first listening exam. Students are responsible for information listed below, and only that information.

Learn to recognize the entire selection as during the exam the song may be started from any point. Just relax your ears and try to absorb the music in general at first. Then listen more closely each subsequent time while looking at the historical information. This way, you will absorb the information gradually, but firmly. Start now and listen everyday. Enjoy. - Dr. Brewer

1) Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin- 1916

2) Livery Stable Blues

Origial Dixieland Jazz Band 1917 - First Jazz recording ever made.

3) Yellowdog Blues (written by W.C. Handy)

Bessie Smith, singer -1925

4) Singin' The Blues

Frankie Trumbauer, saxophone; Bix Beiderbeck, cornet -1927

5) Shine

Django Rheinhardt, guitar -1936

6) Jumpin' At The Woodside

Count Basie, piano -1938

7) In A Mellotone (Mellow Tone)

Duke Ellington, pianinst/ composer- 1939

8) Body And Soul

Coleman Hawkins, tenor saxophone - 1939

9) Just Friends

Charlie Parker with strings, 1949

10) Bouncin With Bud

Bud Powell, piano - 1949

11) My Melancholy Baby

Charlie Parker, alto saxophone; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; - 1950