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Introduction to jazz and course orientation

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“Narrative of progress”
music played in class:

•Early Jazz / New Orleans (1920’s) listen

•Swing and big band (1930s)

•Bebop (1940s)

•Cool Jazz (late 1940s-1950s)

•Hard bop/modal jazz/Latin jazz and Brazilian (late 1950s-1960s)

•Avant garde/fusion (late 1960s-70s)

•1980s to present