Mus 300
History of Jazz
Spring 2002
Listening Guide

This list is given to you for your convenience. It allows you to mark songs that we play in class and note ones that need repeated listening for exams or quizzes. These CDs are held in reserve in the Little Fine Arts Library Listening Center. Other supplemental CDs will be ready soon for minstrelsy, European assimilation, and other styles as needed.
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CD #1
AFRICAN ROOTS AND AFRICAN AMERICAN FLOWERS

  1. Sara Muru Gwa Banu (flutes and drums from Ghana)
  2. "Atine" Kete drumming (drum ensemble from Ghana)
  3. Buganda Akadinda (marimba like instrument)
  4. Postal workers at the University of Ghana
  5. Louisiana field holler/work song from Senegal
  6. Atsiagbekor (Ewe dance and drums)
  7. New York street drums
  8. Wedding Song (from Mali, on Niger River)
  9. Go Down Hannah (Parchmon Prison Farm, Mississippi)
  10. Brush Cutting Song (from Liberia)
  11. Berta Berta (Parchmon Prison Farm, Mississippi)
  12. Jim and John (Ed Young [fife] Lonnie Young [drum])
  13. Bo Diddley (Do Diddley, aka Ellis McDaniels, 1955)
  14. Emmaline (Alec Askew on pan pipes or "quills")
  15. Watermelon Han (Herbie Hancock on ‘Headhunters")
  16. Halaam playing (two Wolof Griots in Senegal ? Banjo Like)
  17. Kentucky Banjo (recorded near Hazard)
  18. Buttermilk (Prather Brothers String Band)
  19. Song of the Wives of Fon (Bafut people in Cameron)
  20. Alabama Children’s Song
  21. Talkin’ ‘bout a Good Time (Ring Shout, GA Sea Islands)
  22. Lining Out/hymn (Rev. Crenshaw, Memphis, TN)
  23. Pygmi Drums (Cameron)
  24. After the Ball Is Over (Fife and Drums from Panola County, Mississippi)
  25. Mouth Bow (Liberia)
  26. Didley Bow (Compton Jones, Panola County, MS)

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CD # 2

Transition into New Orleans Jazz

  1. Georgia Camp Meeting -- Sousa Band, 1912
  2. Maple Leaf Rag -- Scott Joplin piano roll, 1916
  3. Maple Leaf Rag Jelly Roll Morton, 1938
  4. Maple Leaf Rag -- Charlie Love in style of Buddy Bolden
  5. Maple Leaf Rag -- "Blind" Gary Davis, ragtime style guitar
  6. Interview with Charlie Love about Buddy Bolden
  7. Tiger Rag -- Interview and performance with Jelly Roll Morton
  8. Caravan -- Dirty Dozens Brass Band
  9. Two Wa Bac A Way -- Mardi Gras Indians, 1956
  10. Two Way Pocky Way -- Golden Eagles, 1988
  11. Street Cries -- New Orleans (coal, freestone peaches, blackberries, bananas)
  12. Shoe Shine
THE MAJESTY OF THE BLUES
  1. The New Orleans Function
  2. The Death of Jazz
  3. Premature Autopsies (sermon)
  4. Oh, But On The Third Day (Happy Feet Blues)

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    (Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), Marcus Roberts (piano), Todd
    Williams (tenor and soprano sax), Reginald Deal (bass), Wes
    Anderson (alto sax), Herlin Riley (drums) Sermon written by
    Stanley Crouch and narrated by Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Jr. 1 989).


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CD #3

MISTER JELLY LORD—JELLY ROLL MORTON

  1. Maple Leaf Rag -- Scott Joplin piano roll
  2. Maple Leaf Rag -- Jelly Roll Morton, 1938
  3. Grandpa’s Spells -- Red Hot Peppers, 1926
  4. Black Bottom Stomp -- Red Hot Peppers, 1926
  5. Grandpa's Spells -- Red Hot Peppers, 1926
  6. Jungle Blues -- Wynton Marsalis
  7. Jungle Blues -- Dirty Dozens Brass Band
  8. Jungle Blues -- Red Hot Peppers, 1927
  9. Jungle Blues -- Marcus Roberts, 1991
  10. Dead Man Blues -- red Hot Peppers, 1926
  11. King Porter Stomp -- Morton solo
  12. King Porter Stomp -- Morton and King Oliver, 1924
  13. King Porter Stomp -- Benny Goodman, 1935
  14. Mamanita -- Morton solo, 1924
  15. Mamanita -- Wynton Marsalis
  16. Jelly's Jam /Georgia Swing -- Dirty Dozens Brass Band

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CD #4
THE BLUES

  1. Damn Right I’ve Got the Blues (Buddy Guy, 1991)
  2. Mama Lucy (Leroy Gary, Levee Camp Tune)
  3. Hellhound On My Trail (Robert Johnson, 1937)
  4. Empty Bed Blues (Bessie Smith, 1928)
  5. St. Louis Blues (Bessie Smith, Armstrong [trumpet], Longshaw [organ],
  6. written by W.C. Handy, 1925
  7. I’m Not Rough (Louis Armstrong and Hot Five, 1926)
  8. How Blue Can You Get (B.B. King, 1964)
  9. All Your Loving (Buddy Guy, 1981)
  10. Majesty of the Blues (Wynton Marsalis, 1988)



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CD # 5
LOUIS "SATCHMO" ARMSTRONG

  1. Struttin’ with Some Barbecue (Hot Five, 1926)
  2. Skid Dat De Dat (Hot Five, 1926)
  3. Heebie Jeebies (Hot Five, 1926)
  4. Cornet Chop Suey (Hot Five, 1926)
  5. Cornet Chop Suey (Armstrong & All Stars, 1959)
  6. Hotter Than That (Hot Seven, 1927)
  7. West End Blues (Hot Five w/ Earl Hines, 1928)
  8. Weatherbird Rag (King Oliver w/ Armstrong, 1923)
  9. Weatherbird (Armstrong w/ Earl Hines, 1928)
  10. Muggles (Armstrong w/ Earl Hines, 1928)
  11. Tight Like This (Armstrong w/ Don Redmand, 1928)
  12. Basin Street Blues (trumpet ending only)
  13. Laughin’ Louis (Armstrong, 1933)
  14. Can’t We Be Friends (Armstrong w/ Ella Fitzgerald)
  15. Hello Dolly (Armstrong, 1964, last #1 hit)
  16. Wonderful World (Armstrong)

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CD #6

IT DON’T MEAN A THING IF IT AIN’T GOT THAT SWING
EDWARD KENNEDY "DUKE" ELLINGTON

  1. Mood Indigo (Ellington Band, 1930)
  2. Cottontail (Ellington Band, 1940)
  3. Harlem Air Shaft (Ellington Band, 1940)
  4. Daybreak Express (Ellington Band, 1933)
  5. Take the A Train (Ellington Band)
  6. East St. Louis Todle-O (1927)
  7. Creole Love Call (Ellington Band w/Adelaide HaIl, 1927)
  8. The Mooche (Ellington Band, 1928)
  9. Caravan (Ellington w/ Tizol, 1937)
  10. It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) (Ellington Band, 1932)
  11. Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue (Ellington, 1937)
  12. Diminuendo and Blue (live at Newport Festival, 1956)
  13. Satin Doll (Ellington Live in London, 1969)

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CD#7

CHARLIE PARKER

  1. The Beat (Jack Kerouac)
  2. Swing Swing Swing [excerpt] (Benny Goodman, 1937)
  3. Klacktoveedsedsteen [excerpt] (Charlie Parker, 1947)
  4. Lester Leaps In (Basie Band, 1939)
  5. Lester Leaps In (Charlie Parker from "Bird")
  6. Klacktoveedsedsteen (Parker, 1947)
  7. Night in Tunisia ("famous alto break" takes, 1946)
  8. Night in Tunisia (alternative take #3)
  9. Night in Tunisia (alternative Take #5
  10. Night in Tunisia (at Massey Hall, may 15, 1953 w/Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charlie Mingus, and Charlie Parker)
  11. Parker’s Mood (Parker, 1948)
  12. Parker's Mood (King Pleasure, 1953)
  13. Confirmation (Parker, 1953)
Kind of Blue
  1. So What
  2. Freddie the Freeloader
  3. Blue in Green
  4. All Blues
  5. Flamenco Sketches
  6. Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)
  7. (Cannonball Adderly, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb, and Miles Davis, 1959)

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CD #8
BEYOND BOP

MILES DAVIS
  1. Concerto de Aranjuez (Miles w/Bill Evans, 1960)
  2. Miles Runs the Vodoo Down (Davis from "Bitches Brew," 1969)
  3. Tutu (Miles Davis from "Tutu")
THE TRANE
  1. My Favorite Things (John Coltrane, 1960)
  2. Giant Steps (John Coltrane, 1959)
  3. Alabama (John Coltrane, 1963)


THELONIUS MONK
 

  1. Straight No Chaser (Thelonius Monk)
  2. Round Midnight (Thelonius Monk, 1947)


THE EDGE

  1. Free Jazz (Ornette Coleman, 1960)
  2. Enter Evening (Cecil Taylor, 1966)


And Back
 

  1. Canteloupe Island (Herbie Hancock)
  2. Flip Fantasia (Us 3, 1993)



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