Listening Guides
 

 Assigment 1: Four Standards

 Assignment 2: New Orleans
 Assignment 3: Big Bands
 Assignment 4: Small Ensembles
 Armstrong and Beiderbecke Virtual Cutting Contest
 Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins Virtual Cutting Contest
 Hearing The Changes: I Got Rhythm
 Hearing the Changes: 12-bar Blues
 Assigment 5: Parker, Gilliespie, Monk
 Gillespie, Navarro, and Davis Virtual Cutting Contest
 Assginment 6: Davis, Silver, Tristano

Listen: Four Standards

Blues Changes.

b. Sidney Bechet and his Blue Note Jazz Men, Blue Horizon (SCCJR I/11).
c. Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra, Ko-ko, (SCCJR III/4).

Listening Assignment 2

3. Jelly Roll Morton, Black Botton Stomp (SCCJ CD 1.6).

4. Jelly Roll Morton, Dead Man Blues (SCCJ CD 1.7).
5. Jelly Roll Morton, Grandpa's Spells (SCCJ CD 1.8).
8. Sidney Bechet, Blue Horizon (SCCJ CD 1.11).
12. Louis Armstrong, Struttin with some Barbeque (SCCJ CD 1.15).
13. Louis Armstrong, Hotter than that (SCCJ CD 1.16).
14. Louis Armstrong, West End Blues (SCCJ CD 1.17).
16. Louis Armstrong, Sweethearts on Parade (SCCJ CD 1.19).
18. Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra, Riverboat Shuffle (SCCJ CD 1.22).
19. Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra, Singin' the Blues (SCCJ CD 1.21).

Armstrong and Beiderbecke Virtual Cutting Contest

Listening Assignment 3

1. Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, The Stampede (SCCJR; CD 2.1).

2. Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, Wrappin' it Up (SCCJR; CD2.2).
3. Benny Moten's Kansas City Orchestra, Moten Swing (SCCJR; CD 2.4).
4. Count Basie and His Orchestra, Doggin' Around (SCCJR; CD 2.20.

Count Basie and His Orchestra, Doggin' Around (SCCJR; CD 2.20)

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction piano and first riff chorus for sections
B Tenor Sax solo--Herschel Evans
C Trumpet solo--Harry Edison (half chorus only)
D Baritone Sax solo (half chorus only)
E Piano solo--Bill Basie
F Tenor Sax solo--Lester Young

5. Count Basie and His Orchestra, Taxi War Dance (SCCJR; CD 2.21).
6 and 7. Duke Ellington Orchestra, East St. Louis Toodle-Oo and New East St. Louis
Toodle-Oo (SCCJR; CD 3.1-2.
8. Duke Ellington Orchestra, Dimunuendo in Blue and Crescendo in Blue (SCCJR; CD
3.3).
9. Duke Ellington Orchestra, Ko-Ko (SCCJR; CD 3.4).
11. Duke Ellington Orchestra, Cottontail (SCCJR; CD 3.6)
12. Duke Ellington Orchestra, In a Mellotone (SCCJR; CD 3.7).

Listening Assignment 4

2. Meade "Lux" Lewis, Honky Tonk Train Blues (SCCJR 2.1)

3. Benny Goodman Sextet, I Found a New Baby, (SCCJ; CD 2.23).
4. Benny Goodman Sextet, with Charlie Christian, Blues Sequence (SCCJ; CD 2.24?).
5. Benny Goodman Trio, Body and Soul (SCCJ; CD 2.7).
6. Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra, Body and Soul (SCCJ; CD 2.8).
7. Coleman Hawkins Quartet, The Man I Love (SCCJ; CD 2.9).
8. Count Basie and His Kansas City Seven, Lester Leaps In (SCCJ; CD 2.22).

Excerpt Comments
A Ensemble Head
B Tenor Sax Solo--Lester Young
C Tenor Sax Solo--Lester Young
D Piano and Tenor Sax Trade Breaks
E Ensemble Chorus

9. Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra, He's Funny That Way (SCCJ; CD 2.10).
10. Billie Holiday, These Foolish Things, (SCCJR CD 2.11).
11. Ella Fitzgerald, You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To (SCCJR CD 2.12)
Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins Virtual Cutting Contest

Listening Assigment 5: Parker, Gilliespie, Monk

1a*. Bunny Berigan and His Orchestra, I Can't Get Started (excerpt; RCA VPM 6043).
1b. Dizzy Gillespie, I Can't Get Started (SCCJR CD 3.10).

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction
B First chorus--Gillespie solo
C Second chorus--Gillespie solo
D Coda

2a. Don Byas and Slam Stewart, I Got Rhythm (SCCJR; CD 3.9).
2b. Dizzy Gillespie, Shaw `Nuff (SCCJR CD 3.11).

[Based on I Got Rhythm changes]

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction--polyrhythm
B Head
C Parker solo
D Gillespie solo
E Al Haig (piano) solo
F Reprise of Head
G Coda

2c*. Dizzy Gillespie and His Big Band, Our Delight (Prestige P-24030).

2d. Charlie Parker, Crazeology (Two Takes: SCCJR CD 3.17-18)

[based on I Got Rhythm changes]

Take 1

Excerpt Comments
A Head
B Parker solo

Take 2

Excerpt Comments
A Head
B Parker solo
C J.J. Johnson (trombone) solo
D Miles Davis solo
E Duke Jordan (piano) solo--half chorus
F Tommy Potter (bass) solo--half chorus
G Roach solo
H Reprise of head

3a*. Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra, Cherokee (excerpt; RCA VPM 6043).

3b. Charlie Parker, Ko-Ko (SCCJR CD 3.12).

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction--Parker and Gillespie trade breaks
B Parker solo (first chorus)
C Parker solo (second chorus)
D Max Roach--solo
E Reprise of Introduction

4. Charlie Parker, Klactoveedesteene (SCCJR CD 3.16).

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction--Roach solo
B Head
C Parker solo
D Miles Davis solo
E Duke Jordan (piano) solo--half chorus
F Tommy Potter (bass) solo--half chorus
G Roach solo, then reprise of head

5. Charlie Parker, Parker's Mood (SCCJR CD 3.18).

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction
B Parker solo--first chorus
C Parker solo-second chorus
D John Lewis (piano) solo
E Parker solo--fourth chorus
F Coda

6. Bud Powell, Night in Tunisia (SCCJR CD 3.21).

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction--polyrhythmic drumming: Max Roach
B Head
C Bud Powell solo

7. Thelonious Monk, Criss Cross (SCCJR CD 4.8).

8. Dexter Gordon, Bikini (SCCJR CD 3.22).
9. Tadd Dameron's Sextet, Lady Bird (SCCJR CD 3.23).

Excerpt Comments
A Introduction--Ken Clarke drumming
B Head
C Fats Navarro solo
D Allen Eager (tenor sax) solo
E Tadd Dameron (piano) solo
F Wardell Gray (tenor sax) solo
G Reprise of head

10. Miles Davis, Boplicity (SCCJR CD 4.1).

11. Lennie Tristano, Subconscious Lee (SCCJR CD 4.2).
12. Horace Silver Quintet, Moon Rays, (SCCJR CD ).
13. Thelonious Monk, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (SCCJ IX/7--NOT on the CD set).
14. Thelonious Monk, Misterioso (SCCJR CD 4.6).
15. Thelonious Monk, Evidence (SCCJR CD 4.7).
16. Thelonious Monk, Bag's Groove, (SCCJR CD 4.9).
17. Thelonious Monk, I Should Care, (SCCJR CD 4.10).
18*. Betty Carter, Thou Swell, (WMS).
19*. Betty Carter, Why Can't We Be Friends?, (WMS).

 Gillespie, Navarro, and Davis Virtual Cutting Contest

 
Excerpt Comments
A Gillespie--solo from "Shaw Nuff"
B Davis--solo from "Klactovedeesteene"
C Navarro--solo from "Lady Bird"