SADDLEBACK COLLEGE
FINE ARTS DIVISION
HISTORY OF JAZZ
MUS 27 AUDIO LESSONS

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COURSE OUTLINE

Lesson No.
Topic
1
Introduction: Elements of Music
2
Listening skills regarding jazz improvisation, routines, instrument identification
3
The Origins of Jazz / New Orleans Jazz, Stride Pianists
4
Louis Armstrong / Bix Beiderbecke
5
Swing Era
6
Duke Ellington
7
Bop
8
West Coast & "Cool" with Guest Ron Stout
9
50s Hard Bop
10
Miles Davis
11
John Coltrane
12
Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra and others
13
Latin Jazz
14
New Age, the Creative Now
15
Review of Jazz Styles