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Musical orientation : elements and instruments. Ghana field recording, Akuapim performance -- Jazz form and improvisation -- The roots of jazz. Georgia Sea Island Singers, "The buzzard lope" -- Mississippi Fred McDowell, "Soon one morning" -- Bessie Smith, "Reckless blues" -- John Philip Sousa, "The stars and stripes forever" -- Wilbur Sweatman, "Down home rag" -- New Orleans. Original Dixieland jazz band, "Dixie jass [sic] band one-step" -- Jelly Roll Morton, "Dead man blues -- Jelly Roll Morton, "Doctor jazz" -- King Oliver, "Snake rag" -- Red Onion Jazz Babies / Sidney Bechet, "Cake walking babies (from home)" -- New York in the 1920s. Paul Whiteman, "Changes" -- Fletcher Henderson, "Copenhagen" -- James P. Johnson, "You've got to be modernistic" -- Duke Ellington, "Black and tan fantasy" -- Louis Armstrong and the first great soloists. Louis Armstrong, "Hotter than that" -- Louis Armstrong / Earl Hines, "Weather bird" -- Bix Beiderbecke / Frank Trumbauer, "Singin' the blues" -- Mound City Blue Blowers / Coleman Hawkins, "One hour" -- Swing bands. Fletcher Henderson, "Blue Lou" -- Benny Goodman, "Dinah" -- Artie Shaw, "Star dust" -- Jimmie Lunceford, "'Tain't what you do (it's the way that you do it)" -- Count Basie and Duke Ellington. Pete Johnson / Big Joe Turner, "It's all right, baby" -- Andy Kirk / Mary Lou Williams, "Walkin' and swingin'" -- Count Basie, "One o'clock jump" -- Duke Ellington, "Mood indigo" -- Duke Ellington, "Conga brava" -- Duke Ellington, "Blood count" -- A world of soloists. Coleman Hawkins, "Body and soul" -- Count Basie / Lester Young, "Oh! Lady be good" -- Benny Carter / Django Reinhardt, "I'm coming, Virginia" -- Billie Holiday, "A sailboat in the moonlight" -- Ella Fitzgerald, "Blue skies."
Rhythm in transition. Fats Waller, "Christopher Columbus" -- Art Tatum, "Over the rainbow" -- Charlie Christian, "Swing to bop" ("Topsy") -- Modern jazz : bebop. Charlie Parker, "Ko Ko" -- Charlie Parker, "Embraceable you" -- Charlie Parker, "Now's the time" -- Bud Powell, "Tempus fugue-it" -- Dexter Gordon, "Long tall Dexter" -- The 1950s : cool jazz and hard bop. Miles Davis, "Moon dreams" -- Modern Jazz Quartet, "All the things you are" -- Horace Silver, "The preacher" -- Clifford Brown, "A night in Tunisia" -- Sonny Rollins, "Autumn nocturne" -- Wes Montgomery, "Twisted blues" -- Jazz composition in the 1950s. Thelonious Monk, "Thelonious" -- Thelonious Monk, "Rhythm-a-ning" -- Charles Mingus, "Boogie stop shuffle" -- Gil Evans, "King porter stomp" -- George Russell, "Concerto for Billy the Kid" -- Modality : Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Miles Davis, "So what" -- John Coltrane, "Giant steps" -- John Coltrane, "Acknowledgement" -- Miles Davis, "E.S.P." -- The avant-garde. Ornette Coleman, "Lonely woman" -- Cecil Taylor, "Bulbs" -- Cecil Taylor, Willisau concert, "Part 3" -- Albert Ayler, "Ghosts" -- David Murray, "El matador" -- Fusion I : R & B, singers, and Latin jazz. Jimmy Smith, "The organ grinder's swing" -- Frank Sinatra, "The birth of the blues" -- Sarah Vaughan, "Baby, won't you please come home?" -- Dizzy Gillespie, "Manteca" -- Mongo Santamaria, "Watermelon man" -- Stan Getz / Charlie Byrd, "Samba dees days" -- Fusion II : jazz, rock, and beyond. Weather Report, "Teen town" -- Keith Jarrett, "Long as you know you're living yours" -- John Scofield / Medeski, Martin and Wood, "Chank" -- Miles Davis, "Tutu" -- Historicism : jazz on jazz. Anthony Braxton, "Piece three" -- Wynton Marsalis, "Processional" -- Ronald Shannon Jackson, "Now's the time" -- Jazz today. Jason Moran, "You've got to be modernistic" -- Jason Moran, "Planet rock" -- Selected musicians on primary jazz instruments -- Collecting jazz recordings -- Jazz on film.
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