Jazz Studies MOC

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I really like (currently in as of Winter 2025) this class! I hope you'll be able to learn a bit about the big names of jazz here, or lookup a quick name that you find.

Lecture Notes

If it helps, follow the timeline of jazz as it came to be within the slave movement of the south into the majority of the 1900s. These lecture notes follow the logical progression of how jazz progressed into what it is known as today.

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1 Jazz Timeline, Early Jazz Concepts
2 Listening to Jazz
3 Antecedents (Starts of Jazz)
4 Leaving Ragtime, Early Jazz
5 The Start of Swing
6 Into the Swing Era
7 The Big Band Era
8 Benny Goodman
9 Count Basie (Swing)
10 Into the Bop, the 40s
11 More on Bop and Boogie, Progressive 40s
12 Ending the Progressive 40s

Concepts, Names, People, Places

Feel free to browse the various terms that come up in the class, and what they mean in greater context:

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Count Basie and His Orchestra
Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five
Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Woodie Herman Big Band
Alan Lomax
Benny Goodman
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Scott Joplin
Charlie Christian
Art Blakey
Buddy Rich
Jo Jones
Kenny Clarke
Max Roach
Gene Krupa
Dee Dee Chandler
Ben Webster
Charlie Parker
Coleman Hawkins
Freddie Trumbauer
Lester Young
Sonny Stitt
Sonny Rollins
Stan Getz
Art Tatum
Bud Powell
Earl Hines
James P. Johnson
Fats Waller
Thelonius Monk
Jelly Roll Morton
Lionel Hampton & Milt Jackson
Bix Beiderbecke
Bubbler Miley
Louis Armstrong
Cootie Williams
Dizzy Gillespie
Buddy Bolden
Miles Davis
Wynton Marsalis
Mintons
Storyville
The Cotton Club
Congo Square
Big 4
Bebop (Bop)
Big Band
Boogie Woogie
Call And Response
Chord Subsitution
Creoles (and of Color)
Contour Diagrams (Music)
Collective Improvisation
Hot vs. Cool
Jazz Form
Jazz (Definition)
Jazz Timeline
Minstrels
Patin Juba
Scat Soloing
Polyrhythm
Ragtime
Soloist
Square Rhythm
The Blues
Stride (Piano)
Timbre
Trading 4's
Trumpet Style
Bag's Groove (Live Norway)
A Night in Tunisia
Blues Walk
Four Brothers
Blue Monk
Body and Soul
Corner Pocket
Hot House
Jumpin' at the Woodside
Koko
Lester Leaps In
Lazy Frog
Manteca
One O'Clock Jump
Line for Lyons
Parker's Mood
Now's The Time
Round Midnight
Salt Peanuts
Straight, No Chaser
Swing to Bop
Tiger Rag
Sittin' In
Shaw Nuff
Whirly Bird
Taxi War Dance

Final Paper

Any notes I take on my final paper examining a unique area of jazz can be found here:

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Paper Topic
MT Problems and Study Guide