Conrad Grebel University College University of Waterloo

Music 240 - Section # 1: Introduction to Jazz Winter 2018

Class Time: Wednesdays 6:00 – 8:50 pm

Location: Room # 1208

Instructor: Professor Bonnie (Patricia) Brett

Office Hours: Tuesday 4:00 – 5:30 PM

Office Location: Room # 1113

Phone: 519-885-0220 x 24248

Email: pbrett@uwaterloo.ca

Course Description: An introductory survey of jazz history,

repertoire, form and culture.

Topics explored include the roots and development of the main periods and styles of jazz, the

lives of important jazz performers and composers, and significant concurrent historical events.

No Prerequisite: Bring your curiosity about jazz and “big ears.”

Course Objectives/Expectations/Requirements: Repertoire recognition and learning what to listen for in jazz are the primary objectives of this

course.

1. Regular attendance is a must.

2. Listening to musical examples listed at the end of this syllabus.

3. In class listening, form and terminology quizzes.

4. Written assignment: Listening Guide

Required Reading & Listening Materials: 1) Jazz (2

nd edition) 2015 Scott DeVeaux; Gary Giddins

W.W. Norton and Company ISBN 978-0-393-93706-0

* Students who do not wish to invest in the hard copy of this text can gain access to the EBook

at a lower price at this website, or here.

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2) Required Listening * See Tentative Course Discography (pp. 7 - 13)

Web Page: This course will make use of a WATERLOO LEARN website. This site will provide

general information for the course, study guides and grades for term tests. Important

announcements such as the cancellation of class due to illness will also be posted there, so please try

to check the site before each class, just in case.

Resources: WW Norton StudySpace Student Website

- offers sound-files, chapter outlines, a glossary of terms and podcast tutorials from the

authors of JAZZ

Required listening sound files will be available online at U of Waterloo’s LEARN website.

Oxford Music Online is an “e-resource” that can be accessed from the University Library Home Page (On Line Reference Shelf) You will need to sign in using your library card.

Oxford Music Online includes the Grove Dictionary of Jazz and is an excellent all-round resource for music research.

Occasionally extra music or reading may be posted on LEARN

Evaluations:

Assignment / Quiz Weighting Dates

Listening, Form & Terminology Quizzes

45% (3 X 15%) See Course Schedule

Written Assignment:

Listening Guide

15% Due:

Attendance 10%

Final Exam 30% TBA

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Tentative Lecture Schedule:

LECTURES Material Covered Readings Listening Assignments / Quizzes

1 Jan. 9 Introduction:

Instruments of Jazz

Roots of Jazz

JAZZ

Chapters 1-3

Listening

Module #1

2 Jan. 16

Last day to add

course

Louis Armstrong

Pre Swing Era Soloists

JAZZ

Chapters 4-6

Module #1

“I Got Rhythm”

3 Jan. 23

No Penalty

Drop Date

The Swing Era

JAZZ

Chapter 7

Module #1

4 Jan. 30

Duke Ellington

Count Basie

JAZZ Chapters 8 - 9

Module #2

Jan 23 Final day to drop

course without academic

penalty.

Quiz #1

5 Feb. 6 Transition:

Swing to Bebop

JAZZ Chapter 10

Module #2

6 Feb. 13 Modern Jazz:

Bebop, Cool Jazz

and Hard Bop

JAZZ Chapters 11

Module #3

Feb. 19 NO LECTURE STUDY DAYS READING WEEK STUDY DAYS

7 Feb. 27 Modern Jazz:

Bebop, Cool Jazz

and Hard Bop

JAZZ Chapters 12-13

Module #3

8 Mar. 6 Miles Davis and

John Coltrane

Modal Jazz

JAZZ Chapter 14

Module #3

Quiz #2

9 Mar. 13 Vocalists JAZZ Chapter 16 +

Assigned Reading

Module #6 Listening Guide Due

10 Mar. 20 The Avant Garde JAZZ Chapter 15 Module #4

11 Mar. 27 Fusion Jazz JAZZ Chapter 17

12 Apr. 3 Jazz Today JAZZ Chapter 18 Quiz #3

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Quizzes, Assignment & Exam:

Quizzes: Listening and Terminology (Keywords)

Three quizzes (every 3 weeks) will test students on the following:

1. Tune identification 2. Jazz terminology (Keywords) 3. The form and historical period of various mystery tunes

In the listening portion of each quiz students need to know: 1) the title of the musical example, 2) the name of the performer/composer, genre/style and year the recording was made (the era or time period) of the recording, 4) the basic musical form of the example.

In the terminology/keywords portion of each quiz students will provide short definitions for a number of keywords and jazz concepts. These definitions should include cited examples of songs from music listened to in class.

The mystery tunes will be unidentified songs that students will be required to listen to and identify a) the form of the song and b) the style/era.

Each quiz will be a closed-book quiz. No electronic devices (computers/iPhones, etc.) may be accessed during the quiz. If such items are found, the student will receive no credit for the quiz.

NOTE: This material is not easy to “cram” …The night before a quiz is NOT a great time to begin. Do yourself a favour and make listening a daily part of your study routine.

Written Assignment: Create a Listening Guide

Using the listening guides in your textbook as templates, make a listening guide of

your own for the assigned song: TBA

List all performers and instruments.

Provide a brief (one or two paragraphs) biography of the principal performer. (Bandleader and/or Composer?)

Provide a paragraph or two explaining your reasons for choosing this particular musical example. (Reasons can include historical or musical significance, the song’s relative popularity, or simply that you just love it or just hate it – explain your reasons.)

Provide a list of “What to listen for:”

Make your own time line / flow chart of the song’s form and progression.

Final Exam:

A longer version of the listening and terminology quizzes.

This test will be on all content and music covered throughout the term.

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IMPORTANT:

The bibliography/works cited page is in addition to the four pages of your written assignments.

Cite musical examples from your list of recordings to illustrate each point.

ALL references to your textbook, Oxford Music Online and recordings must be cited in your Bibliography / Works cited page.

All Internet sources must be cited.

Rule of thumb: IF IT ISN’T YOURS – CITE IT! This applies to quotes, articles, ideas from books, recordings, photographs (YES PHOTOGRAPHS) and anything else you didn’t create, shoot or think up yourself.

*** Consult the Chicago Manual of Style for proper formatting of Works Cited page, footnotes and discographical citations etc.

Grading Scale:

Assigned Letter

Grades

Percentage Range Average

Calculation Values

A+ 90-100 95

A 85-89 89

A- 80-84 83

B+ 77-79 78

B 73-76 75

B- 70-72 72

C+ 67-69 68

C 63-66 65

C- 60-62 62

D+ 57-59 58

D 53-56 55

D- 50-52 52

F+ 42-49 46

F 35-41 38

F- 0-34 32

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MUSIC 240

Tentative Course Discography

Module #1

The Norton Jazz Recordings Listening Guides

Pre – Jazz, Blues & Early Jazz

Listening Guide

Title Performer(s) Page #

1. “The Buzzard Lope” Georgia Sea Island Singers 45

2. “Reckless Blues” Bessie Smith 49

3. “Down Home Rag” Wilbur Sweatman 57

4. “Dixie Jass Band One-Step” Original Dixieland Jazz Band 69

5. “Dead Man Blues” Jelly Roll Morton 72

6. “Snake Rag” King Oliver 77

7. “Cake Walking Babies From Home” The Red Onion Jazz Babies 80

8. “Changes” Paul Whiteman Orchestra 89

9. “Copenhagen” Fletcher Henderson 93

10. “You’ve Got To Be Modernistic” James P. Johnson 99

11. “Black and Tan Fantasy” Duke Ellington & His Orchestra 103

12. “Hotter Than That” Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five 112

13. “West End Blues” Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five 114

14. “Weather Bird” Louis Armstrong / Earl Hines 116

15. “Singin’” The Blues Bix Beiderbecke / Frank Trumbauer 120

16.“Blue Lou” Fletcher Henderson 139

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Module #2

The Norton Jazz Recordings Listening Guides

Boogie Woogie, Swing

Listening Guide

Title Performer(s) Page #

1. “Dinah” Benny Goodman 143

2. “Star Dust” Artie Shaw 148

3. “Annie Laurie” Jimmie Lunceford 150

4. “It’s All Right Baby” Big Joe Turner / Pete Johnson 159

5. “Walkin’ and Swingin’” Andy Kirk / Mary Lou Williams 162

6. “One O’Clock Jump Count Basie 168

7. “Mood Indigo” Duke Ellington 173

8. “Conga Brava” Duke Ellington 176

9. “Blood Count” Billy Strayhorn/ Duke Ellington 180

10. “Body and Soul Coleman Hawkins 187

11. “Oh! Lady Be Good” Count Basie / Lester Young 192

12. “I’m Coming Virginia” Benny Carter / Django Reinhardt 196

13. ”You’re Driving Me Crazy” Valaida Snow 199

14. “A Sailboat in the Moonlight” Billie Holiday 203

15. “Blue Skies” Ella Fitzgerald 206

16. “Christopher Columbus” Fats Waller 212

17. “Over The Rainbow” Art Tatum 215

18. “Swing To Bop” (Topsy) Charlie Christian 218

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Module #3

The Norton Jazz Recordings Listening Guides

Modern Jazz: Bebop, Hard Bop, Mainstream & Modal Jazz

Listening Guide

Title Performer(s) Page #

1. “Ko-Ko” (false start) Charlie Parker 239

2 “Ko-Ko” (master take) Charlie Parker 239

3. “Embraceable You” Charlie Parker 242

4. “Now’s The Time” Charlie Parker 243

5. “Tempus Fugue-It” Bud Powell 249

6. “Long Tall Dexter” Dexter Gordon 253

7. “Venus de Milo” Miles Davis 263

8. “Vendome” Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) 268

9. “Song For My Father” Horace Silver 273

10. “A Night In Tunisia Clifford Brown 277

11. “I’m An Old Cowhand” Sonny Rollins 280

12. “Thelonious” Thelonious Monk 291

13. “Rhythm-a-ning” Thelonious Monk 293

14. “Boogie Stop Shuffle” Charles Mingus 297

15. “King Porter Stomp” Gil Evans 300

16. “Concerto For Billy The Kid” George Russell 304

17. “So What” Miles Davis 316

18. “Witchcraft” Bill Evans 318

19. “Giant Steps” John Coltrane 321

20. “Acknowledgement” John Coltrane 326

21. “E.S.P.” Miles Davis 330

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Module #4

The Norton Jazz Recordings Listening Guides

Avant Garde, Bossa Nova & Fusion

Listening Guide

Title Performer(s) Page #

1. “Lonely Woman” Ornette Coleman 347

2. “Bulbs” Cecil Taylor 352

3. “Ghosts” Albert Ayler 356

4. “Spirit Possession” Anthony Braxton / Max Roach 361

5. “Hattie Wall” World Saxophone Quartet 364

6. ”O.G.D.” Wes Montgomery / Jimmy Smith 375

7. “All Of Me” Sarah Vaughan 380

8. “Manteca” Dizzy Gillespie 384

9. “Só Danço Samba” Stan Getz / João Gilberto 387

10. “Una Dia Bonito” Eddie Palmieri 390

11. “Teen Town” Weather Report 407

12. “Cantaloupe Island” Herbie Hancock 410

13. “Chank” John Scofield / Medeski, 417 Martin and Wood

14. “Why Do We Try” Robert Glasper 421

15. “The Pearls” Wynton Marsalis 434

16. “Maiden Voyage” SF JAZZ Collective 438

17. “My Favorite Things” Betty Carter 443

18. “Timeline” Michael Brecker 445

19. “You’ve Got To Be Modernistic Jason Moran 448

20. “Lude” Vijay Iyer 460

21. “Short And Sweet” Esperanza Spalding 463

22. “John Henry” Cécile McLorin Salvant 466

23. “Calypso Minor” Abdullah Ibrahim 470

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Module #5

Additional Listening – Instrumental Jazz

1. Moten Stomp Benny Moten 1927

2. Moten Swing Benny Moten 1932

3. Jumpin’ At The Woodside” Count Basie 1938

4. “Take The A Train” Billy Strayhorn / D. Ellington 1941

5. “C Jam Blues” Duke Ellington (w/ Ray Nance) 1942

6. “Pitter Patter Panther” Ellington & Jimmy Blanton 1940

7. “Flying Home” Benny Goodman 1941

8. “Flying Home” Lionel Hampton 1942

9. “Ornithology Charlie Parker 1946

10. “St. Thomas Sonny Rollns 1956

11. “Four” Miles Davis 1956

12. “The Promise ” John Coltrane 1963

13. “Hot House” Dizzy Gillespie 1945

14. “What Is This Thing Called Love?” Bill Evans Trio 1959

15. “Soul Station” Hank Mobley 1960

16. “Senor Blues” Horace Silver 1957

17. “The In Crowd” Ramsey Lewis 1965

18. “Poinciana” Ahmad Jamal 1958

19. “Space Is The Place Sun Ra Arkkestra 1984

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Module #6

Additional Listening – Vocal Jazz

1. “Run Old Jeremiah” Ring Shout 1934

2. “Old Alabama” Lomax Prison Recordings 1947

3. “Backwater Blues” Bessie Smith / James P. Johnson 1927

4. “Sent For You Yesterday” Jimmy Rushing / Count Basie 1938

5. “He Ain’t Got Rhythm Jimmy Rushing / Benny Goodman 1936

6. “Swing It Brother Swing” Billie Holiday w/ Count Basie 1937

7. “He Ain’t Got Rhythm” Billie Holiday 1937

8. “All Of Me” Billie Holiday 1941

9. “Take The A Train” Betty Roché w/ Ellington 1952

10. “A Tisket A Tasket” Ella Fitzgerald 1938

11. “All Of Me” Ella Fitzgerald 1961

12. “Duke’s Place” (C Jam Blues) Ella Fitzgerald w/ Duke Ellington 1966

13. “Flying Home” Ella Fitzgerald 1945

14. “How High The Moon” Ella Fitzgerald 1947

15. “How High The Moon” Sarah Vaughan 1957

16. “How High The Moon” Ella Fitzgerald Live In Berlin 1960

17. “What Is This Thing Called Love?” Sarah Vaughan 1963

18. “Someday Sweetheart” Bing Crosby c. 1933 -1935

19. “The Song Is You” Bing Crosby 1956

20. You’re Driving Me Crazy” Betty Carter 1958

21. “The Surrey With The Fringe On Top” Betty Carter 1970

22. “Get It Straight” Carmen McRae 1988

23. “I Only Have Eyes For You” Carmen McRae 1959

24. “Sweet Georgia Brown” Anita O’Day 1956

25. “Old Devil Moon” Anita O’Day 1957