1. Introduction to Jazz: Past, Present Present and Future
Questions
How many have listened to jazz before? How many have purchased 10 or more jazz recordings? How many here have have been to 5 or more jazz concerts in their lives? How many people here are not sure whether they like jazz music? How many people here have played a musical instrument? How many people here like many other styles of music other than jazz? How many people are here because they want an easy A?
Past
Louis Armstrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTpNC1Qi J5w&feature=related
esent( t(so sort rt Presen
of)
Michael Brecker http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3uIvSfjk4 0
Future
Esperanza Spalding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFfDq0qb t2U
A.
Overview
Class Outline
Website
Syllabus/Grading Policies
My Bio
Syllabus
Jazz History I
3credits
Instructors: George Colligan
[email protected]
TA: Marc Hutchinson
Hoffman Hall 109
January 10, 2012 to March 20, 2012
[email protected]
Course Format:
Lectures, Audio/Video Presentations, Performanc erformances.R es.Requir equired ed Mat Materials erials::
A computer or internet access-
a notebook or some other way to take notes-
Course Objectives:To Objectives:To learn about Jazz from from its pre pre -20th century origins into ragtime, the blues, dixieland, swing, and the beginnings of bebop.To learn listening and appreciation skills.
Course Conten Contentt
Lectures and performances performances will be the bulk of the class. There will be PowerPoint presentations and many classes will feature the "Top 10" musicians of an era. There is a website which will contain each classes powerpoint presentation presentation as well well as listening listening examples and other relevant content.
Course requirements requirements
Grades Grades will be based on the Midterm(30 %), the Final(30%) , and 6 Surprise Tests(30%) given in class. You will also be required to attend att end 5 live performances and bring in proof of attendance(10%).
Disability
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Outside performances.
Here is a partial listing of jazz venues in Portland JIMMY MAK'S 221 NW 10th Ave. (between Davis and Everett)
Wilfs
Restaurant 800 NW 6th Avenue at Union Station
Camillia Camillia Lounge Lounge
510 NW 11th Ave
Ivories Jazz Lounge
1435 NW Flanders
The Blue Monk
3341 Southeast Belmont Street
Touche Restaurant Restaurant
1425 NW Glisan St.
Portland
Clydes (Sunday night Jam Session)
5474 NE Sandy Blvd
Brasserie Monmatre
626 SW Park Ave
Tommy Os Pacific Rim Bistro
4101 Southea Southeast st 192nd 192nd Avenu Avenue e Vancouver ancouver,, WA WA Portland
Jazz Festival is in February
2 concerts in LH 75 this term
http://www.jsojazzscene.org/calendar.htm
Class Outline
1. January 10: Introduction To Jazz
2. Jan 12: Origins Of Jazz
3.Jan:17th:Ragtime/Early Jazz
4.Jan 19th: Tin Pan Alley
5.Jan 24th: Duke Ellington/Stride Piano
6. Jan 26th: Swing/Big Bands
7.Jan 31st: Bebop
8.Feb 2:West Coast/Cool Jazz
9.Feb 7:The Great Jazz Singers/R S ingers/Review eview for Midterm
10. Feb 9: MIDTERM
Outline page 2
11.Feb 14th: Hard Bop 12.Feb 16th:Avant Garde/Charles Garde/Charles Mingus Ming us 13. Feb 21:GUEST INTERVIE W AND PERFORMANCE WITH PROFESSOR DARRELL GRANT 14. Feb 23: GUEST LECTURER PROFESSOR CH ARLEY GREY 15. Feb 28th: Miles and Trane 16. March 1st: Bill Evans/Pianists 17.March 6th: Fusion/Mainstream Fusion/Mainstream 18.March 8th: Latin/Brazilian/Flamenco Latin/Brazilian/Flamenco 19. March 13th: 80's/90's 20. March 15th: Present Day/Review For Final 21. March 20th: FIN AL EXAM
Website
http://psujazzhistory.blogspot.com/
http://jazztruth.blogspot.com/
A little about your professor
Born in Summit New Jersey in 1969
Started trumpet in 4th grade
Given jazz recordings by neighbor, teacher
Signed out records from the library
Studied Studied trumpet trumpet and and music music ed at Peabody Conservatory
Switched Switched to jazz piano (self taught)
Started playing playing piano professionally professionally in 1988
Colligan bio 2
Freelanced
in Baltimore, Washington DC until
1995
Moved to New York City in 1995
Toured, performed, performed, and recorded with :
Cassandra Wilson, Ravi Coltrane, Jack DeJohnette, Benny Golson, Lee Konitz, Christian McBride, Nicholas Payton, Stefon Harris, Buster Williams,etc Williams,etc
Colligan Bio 3
Recorded CDs as a leader from 1995 to today
Taught at Juilliard School of music for 2 years
Taught at University of Manitoba for 2 years
Star Starte ted d jaz jazzt ztru ruth th blog blog in 2010 2010
Moved to Portland in August
What
is Jazz?
1. Definition/Salient Characteristics: Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century merican an pop popular ular music music.. Its West African pedigree is Americ evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, call-response, and the swung note.
Salient Characteristics
Blue Notes
Improvisation
Polyrhythms
Syncopation
Call And Response
Swing
The salient characteristics we have just discussed are obviously debatable. There is much jazz without call and response, overt swing, and even blue notes might not be obvious. This makes the idea of whether or not something is jazz harder to pinpoint. Hopefully, the more you listen, the more you will be able to make an educated determination. Ultimately, labels arent important in terms of whether or not you get anything from music.
The Word Jazz Jazz
The word "jazz" (in early years also spelled "jass") began as a West Coast slang term and was first used to refer to music in Chicago at about 1915. 1915. Some say it appeared in reference to baseball, and some say its slang for energy. Others say it is a euphemism for sexual acts. Some say the word has African origins, others dispute such a notion.
Subgenres
From
its beginnings beginnings in the early 20th century jazz has spawned a variety of subgenres: New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, free jazz and a variety of Latin jazz fusions, such as Afro-Cuban, from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz fusion from the 1970s, acid jazz from the 1980s (which combines funk and hip-hop elements), and nu jazz in the 1990s. As the music has spread around the world it has drawn on local, national, and regional musical cultures, its aesthetics being adap adapted ted to its varied environments and giving rise to many distinctive styles.
Play
Leonard Bernsteins Bernsteins What What is Jazz Jazz
Is This Jazz?(Yes)
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a. Oscar Peterson Caravan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZdKsJfZyws b.T b.Tom Harrell Sail Sail Away Away http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27V8ylNNKSo&feat ure=related C. Wynton Wynton Marsalis Autumn Autumn Leaves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xi-emWNe Pw
Is THIS jazz?(Proba obably not) ot)
a. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE 1hI b. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGyPuey1Jw c. htt ://w ://www ww outu outube be.c .com om/w /wa atch?v ch?v=U =UGS GS8r 8re8 e8cI cI
Is This Jazz?(maybemaybe not)
a. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NDujMyVyA b. http://www http://ww w.youtube.com/watch?v=svT youtube.com/watch?v=svTuSRi uSRiFP oc&feature=related c. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9nG2KyE p2A
Nicholas Payton and BAM
Prodigious trumpeter from New Orleans
Plays all instruments
Recent recording recording and blogposts have stirred controversy controversy
Somehow, Somehow, jazztruth became part of the controversy controversy
Nicholas Payton-Paraphenalia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OSOPpy q6aA&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=A VGxdCwVVULXfbf5ifR3D-qiv7RK-8YCby
From Paytons
blog
Jazz died in 1959. There maybe cool individuals who say they play Jazz, but aint s--t cool about Jazz as a whole. Jazz died when cool stopped stopped being hip. Jazz was a limited idea to begin with. Jazz is a label that was forced upon the musicians. The musicians shouldve never accepted that idea.
More from Paytons blog
Jazz separated itself from American popular music. Big mistake. The music never recovered. Ornette tried to save Jazz from itself by taking the music back to its New Orleanian roots, but his efforts e fforts were too esoteric. Jazz died in 1959, that that s why Ornette tried to Free Jazz Jazz in 1960. Jazz is only cool if you dont actually play it for a living. Jazz musicians have accepted the idea that it it s OK to be poor.
Excerpt Excerpt from from The The Death Of Jazz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3L1tzzln3 nw
More from Nick
Jazz died in 1959. The number one Jazz record is Miles Davis Kind Of Blue. Dave Brubecks Brubecks Time Out was released in 1959. 1959 was the coolest year in Jazz. Jazz is haunted by its own hungry ghosts. Let it die. You can be martyrs for an idea that died over a half hal f a century if y y all want. Jazz has proven itself to be limited, and therefore, t herefore, not cool.
Excerpt from Paytons B---hes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpDehfTSuo8
Excerpts from jazztruth:
Again, I think Payton is on the money here; it's just the labeling that's at issue, not the music. I suppose some white folks, folks, maybe some black folks, have trouble calling their music Black American Music. I don't have a problem with that. I do think that it might actually make make things more confusing, since the t he vast majority of people in the world don't have a clear idea of what jazz is anyway, anyway, and if we were to all of a sudden replace "jazz" with "Black American Music", then someone watching an all white jazz band in the middle of Ohio, or even the middle of Denmark, might be scratching their heads.
Obviously, Obviously, there's always someone who gets sensitive sensitiv e when RACE enters enters the conversation. I also wonder whether Payton is suggesting the acronym BAM(as in , "I play BAM music"?) as an alternative. I think th ink that's as good as calling music "jazz" or "bebop" or whatever. whatever. Words can't really describe music accurately anyway. anyway. Again, I have no problem as a musician, and especially as a teacher of history(I am not a jazz historian, h istorian, by the way), recognizing that the African-American African-American experience was crucial to the development of jazz. As long as a s I, a white person(see my website for photos), am still allowed to play, play, I don't care what it's called. (I think though, just to have perspective, if Toby Keith started calling his music "White American Music", then t hen we might have a little problem......)
More from Nick
Dont get me wrong, there are some brilliant, genius White cats that have played this music, but it it s ultimately a Black art form. What What s wrong with renaming the music in a way that puts that argument to bed once and for all? Do you think Im Im the only person that ever wanted to do this? Hell no. Miles, Max, Mingus, J-Mac, Dr. Dr. Donaldson Byrd and so many others have wanted to do this for a while. They gave up because they got tired of the backlash from Blacks and Whites alike alike that it caused. Well Well you know what? As Roy Haynes says, The time for hesitation is over.
Is Jazz Dead?(or Has It Moved Moved To To A New Address) Address) by Stuart Nicholson
(American musicians now) are considered clever. clever. The question is, do they really concern us? Do we need somebody to tell the same story over and over again? Are these musicians mere custodians in a historical museum of music? The USA has slithered into musical provinciality. provinciality. It produces great instrumentalists but no new approaches. approaches. One obvious result of this openness is that some European academies believe that their jazz students should also pursue pur sue parallel studies in Classical music as an aid to skills building
Jazz misconceptions
Play Paul F.
Tomkins Jazz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY_KVVFg mPM Play
Spinal Tap Tap Discusses Discuss es Jazz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wscZhvj_l H4 Youtube: Ken Burns Jazz Intro (8:07)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITbu FIG4Xvc
Basic music terminology
Rhythm/harmony/melody notes-eighth notes, quarter notes, sixteenth notes
Time signature-4/4, ¾,5/4 ,2/4
Key signature-C major, A minor
Form-AABA,blues, rhythm
changes,AABBAABBCCDD
Dynamics
Jazz terminology terminology
Blues
Groove
Changes
Tune
Cats
Axe Axe
Bread
More Jazz Terminology
Chops Dig Paying Dues Drag Gig Hip Horn Jam Session
More Jazz Slang
Junk, junkies, strung out Licks Pad Scat Solid Swing Bad Shed Record/Sides
Typical Jazz Instruments-Drums Instruments-Drums
Acoustic Bass
Electric Bass
Guitar
Piano
Saxophones
Brass-Trumpet
Brass-Trombone
Jazz Vocals
Less Common Jazz Instruments
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet Violin Banjo Congas/bongos Flute/Alto Flute Harmonica Cello Harp
Hammond B-3 Organ Organ
Performance
The Park Avenue Trio
George Colligan-Piano
Jon Lakey Bass
Cordero Kingsley Drums
