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Course Information and ReferencesThis page is designed for students in the APHS Jazz Ensemble course to use as a reference. Since we will examine a wide variety of styles and artists, you should refer to this page often, as a starting point for further research.
Required listeningA jazz musician MUST listen - a lot. Part of this course is a weekly listening, where you are expected to listen to a specific work and complete a form with details about what you hear. Listening are chosen from the following Quarter 1 (Jazz Combo"heads") A Foggy Day (George Gershwin) All Blues (Miles Davis) All The Things You Are Autumn Leaves (Joseph Kosma) Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham) Blues in the Closet (Oscar Pettiford) C Jam Blues (Duke Ellington) Cantaloupe Island (Herbie Hancock) Come Rain or Come Shine (Harold Arlen) Doxy (Sonny Rollins) Equinox (John Coltrane) Freddie the Freeloader (Miles Davis) The Girl From Ipanema (Antonio Jobim) Groove Merchant ( Jerome Richardson) Here’s That Rainy Day (Jimmy Van Heusen) I Could Write A Book (Rodgers and Hart) Imagination (Jimmy Van Heusen) Killer Joe (Benny Golson) Mr. PC (John Coltrane) My Favorite Things (Rodgers and Hammerstein) My Funny Valentine (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) Old Devil Moon (Burton Lane) Polka Dots and Moonbeams (Jimmy Van Heusen) Revelation (Kenny Barron) September Song (Kurt Weill) Song For My Father (Horace Silver) So What (Miles Davis) Summertime (George Gershwin) Take Five (Dave Brubeck) Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock)
Quarter 2 (Big Band) A Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller) American Patrol (Glenn Miller) At The Woodchopper's Ball (Woody Herman) Begin the Beguine (Artie Shaw) Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy (The Andrews Sisters) Chattanooga Choo Choo (Glenn Miller) Cherokee (Charlie Barnet) Front Burner (Count Basie) Harlem Nocturne (Ray Noble) I’ll Never Smile Again (Tommy Dorsey) It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing) (Duke Ellington) In The Mood (Glenn Miller) Jumpin' At The Woodside (Count Basie) Mack the Knife (Louis Armstrong) The Man I Love (Billie Holiday) Minnie The Moocher (Cab Calloway) Night and Day (Billie Holiday) One O'Clock Jump (Count Basie) Opus One (Tommy Dorsey) Pennsylvania 6-5000 (Glenn Miller) Perdido (Duke Ellington) Satin Doll (Duke Ellington) Sentimental Journey (Les Brown) Sing, Sing, Sing (Benny Goodman) Stardust (Artie Shaw) Stompin' At The Savoy (Benny Goodman) A String Of Pearls (Glenn Miller) Take the "A" Train (Duke Ellington)
Quarter 3 (Dixieland / Early Swing) Alexander's Ragtime Band Ballin’ The Jack Basin Street Blues Bill Bailey Black Bottom Stomp Bourbon Street Parade Clarinet Marmalade Copenhagen Down By The Riverside East St. Louis Toodle-oo Indiana Ja-Da Jazz Me Blues Johnson Rag Limehouse Blues Livery Stable Blues Mood Indigo Muskrat Ramble Royal Garden Blues South Rampart Street Parade St. James Infirmary St. Louis Blues That's A-Plenty The Sheik of Araby Tiger Rag Wabash Blues West End Blues When The Saints Go Marching In
Quarter 4 (Post 1960's Jazz - please choose a jazz recording by or including one of these artists each week) Chick Corea Christian McBride Gordon Goodwin Herbie Hancock Joey Alexander Joshua Redman Jaco Pastorious Miles Davis Pat Metheney Snarky Puppy Wynton Marsalis Yellowjackets
Background
To grow as an improviser, the best method is to transcribe solos played by the great artists. Here are some helpful weblinks: Anton Schwartz: How to Transcribe Wilktone - Advice for Beginning to Transcribe Effective Jazz Solo Transcribing David Liebman - The Complete Transcription Process The Jazz Resource - First Steps
APHS Transcription Exercise worksheet (please print, complete, and turn in as Mr. B requests)
To grow as a musician, we need to study the artists from the present and the past. Players to know (not listed in any particular order):
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