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