Jazz History (MUSC 1206)

• Ragtime (c.1896-1916, Scott Joplin and others)
• Early Jazz (c.1917-1929, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Bessie Smith)
• Pioneering Jazz Soloists (Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden)
• The Development of the Big Band (1926-34, Fletcher Henderson, Bill Challis, Don Redman)
• The Swing Era (c.1935-49, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young)
• The Roots of Modern Jazz (1940-45), Charlie Christian, Coleman Hawkins)
• Be-Bop, "Cool Jazz", "Hard Bop": (1945-57, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Lennie Tristano, Clifford Brown, Sonny Rollins)
• Rhythm and Blues (1938-55, Joe Turner, Louis Jordan, Ray Charles, The Staple Singers)
• Modal Jazz and Free Jazz (1959-70, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton)
• Fusion/"Jazz-Rock" (1963-77, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin)
• Recent Developments (1980 to the present, Woody Shaw, Oregon, Marilyn Crispell, Kenny Werner, Jane Ira Bloom, Maria Schneider)
• The influence of jazz on North American popular and other musics
• The social context of jazz
• Musical research

This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.