History of Jazz Music Listening Program

History of Jazz Music

Week	Era	Composer	Dates	Country	Title of piece
17	African Roots	unknown	1600’s	Africa	Drums imitating Voice
18		unknown		Africa	Work Rhythm
19		unknown		Africa	Akosua Tuntum 2
20	West African Work Songs	unknown	1700’s	USA	I’ve Been Working on the Railroad
21	Slave spirituals	unknown	1800’s	New Orleans	Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve seen
22		unknown			Swing Low Sweet Chariot
23	Ragtime	Scott Joplin	1900’s	New Orleans	Maple Leaf Rag
24		Jelly Roll Morton			Original Jelly-Roll Blues
25	Blues	Ma Rainey		New Orleans	Walking Blues
26		W.C. Handy	1920’s		Fuzzy Wuzzy Rag
27	Dixieland	Besse Smith			St. Louis Blues
28		Cab Calloway			Minnie The Moocher
29		Duke Ellington			Soul Call
30	Swing	Benny Goodman	1930’s		Stompin’ at the Savoy
31		Lionel Hampton			Hey Ba Ba Re Bop
32	Bebop	Charlie Parker	1940’s		Kim
33		Dizzy Gilespie			Oop-Bop Sh’Bam
34	Cool Jazz	Miles Davis		New York	So What
35		Stan Getz		Los Angeles	Gone With The Wind
36	Hard Bop	Art Blakey	1950’s		Blue Monk
37		Cannon Ball Adderly			Mercy Mercy
38	Free Jazz	Ornette Coleman	1960’s		Chronology
39	Funky Post Bop	Randy & Michael Brecker	2003		Some Skunk Funk