HISTORY OF JAZZ II MUZ2339H

Term 2 2014
Week 1:
(period one) Bill Evans and the modern keyboard school. The Evans trio concept.
(period two) (Continued) Bill Evans and the modern keyboard school.
Week 2:
(period one) McCoy Tyner and the Coltrane Quartet.
(period two) Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea early work.
Week 3:
(period one) Chick Corea continued, Keith Jarrett
(period two) Miles Davis in the late 60s. Wayne Shorter.
Week 4:
(period one) Early fusion concepts: The Crusaders.
(period two) The fusion drummers: Billy Cobham, Steve Gadd.
Week 5:
(period one) The CTI artists: Freddie Hubbard, Hubert Laws.
(period two) Joseph Zawinul and Weather Report.
Week 6:
(period one) Jaco Pastorius and the evolution of Electric Bass.
(period two) Bassists in the modern era: Stanley Clarke, John Patittucci.
Week 7: -Listening test on term 2 examples. Essay assignment due as noted on VULA
Reading: Gridley Jazz Styles; Chapters 15 (Evans, Hancock, Corea, Jarrett), 17
(Coltrane) 18 (Shorter, Carter, Williams), Chapter 19 Twenty Years of Jazz Rock, and
American Popular Music: The Mid-1960s to the Mid-1980s. Chapter 8: Late-Century
Tradition and Innovation pages 195-219 from Jazz the First Century edited by John
Edward Hasse. Coltrane on Coltrane, DeVito C.
Listening material can be found ON VULA