Andy Jones |
Billie Holliday Billie Holiday |
Jazz Links
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First Day of Class Introduction to Jazz George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" Review "Jazzbo" by Claudia Pierpont Receive first reading assignments
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Day Two Gary Giddens on Louis Armstrong "The Camels' Back" by F. Scott Fitzgerald Armstrong poems in Jazz Poetry Anthology Listen to Armstrong Disk |
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Day Three Gary Giddens on Duke Ellington Read assigned poems in Jazz Poetry Anthology Listen to Ellington disk |
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Day Four Gary Giddens on Ella Fitzgerald Read Jazz Poetry of Langston Hughes Read assigned poems in Jazz Poetry Anthology Listen to Ella Fitzgerald disk
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Day Five Read Gary Giddens on Miles Davis The Beats: Read works by Jack Kerouac, Kenneth Patchen and Lawrence Ferlinghetti Read assigned poems in Jazz Poetry Anthology Listen to Beat Generation Jazz Disk |
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Read Gary Giddens on Charlie Parker Read "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin Collaborative Report and Presentation Due Listen to the Parker/Coltrane Disk Prepare for Oral Exam
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Charlie Parker
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John Coltrane |
Day Seven Read essays and poems on Jazz by LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka Read Gary Giddens on John Coltrane Read assigned poems in Jazz Poetry Anthology Oral exam this week
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Catch Up Class Submit Final Essay and Discovered Recordings Tell Jazz stories |
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