LISTENING FOR THIS WEEK

Hello All
Here are a lot of relatively short pieces to listen to for next week. Please listen to them in order - they are chronological, beginning before jazz and continuing into present day. When listening, consider improvisation vs. composition - i.e. what do you think is written, and what do you think is made up on the spot.

You don't have to listen to them all at once, but do try and just LISTEN. Don't wash the dishes, don't check your email.

LOVE SUPREME (Coltrane) is in four movements. If you like, you can just listen to the first movement. BLACK, BROWN, BEIGE (Ellington) is constructed as (sort of) a symphony. Feel free to listen to as much as you care to, at least the first movement.

I'll post these on the blog too. And we will listen to a couple of these in class again on Monday.

Thanks!
Lisa


Louis Gottschalk: http://www.last.fm/music/Louis+Moreau+Gottschalk/_/Le+bananier%2C+Chanson+negre%2C+Op.+5?autostart

Scott Joplin: http://www.last.fm/music/Scott+Joplin/_/Elite+Syncopations?autostart

Louis Armstron, Heebie Jeebies:
http://www.last.fm/music/Louis+Armstrong/_/Heebie+Jeebies

Duke Ellington: Black Brown Beige (Please listen to at least first movement)
http://www.last.fm/music/Duke+Ellington/Black%252C%2BBrown%252C%2B%2526%2BBeige?autostart

Charlie Parker - Donna Lee
http://www.last.fm/music/Charlie+Parker/_/Donna+Lee?autostart

John Coltrane: Love Supreme (Please try and listen to at least the first movement)
http://www.last.fm/music/John+Coltrane/A+Love+Supreme?autostart

Eric Dolphy: Out TO Lunch
http://www.last.fm/music/Eric+Dolphy/_/Out+to+Lunch?autostart

Cecil Taylor: Cell Walk for Celeste (11 minutes long -- try and hold out through the whole thing; it is demanding)
http://www.last.fm/music/Cecil+Taylor/_/Cell+Walk+For+Celeste+(Take+1)?autostart

Peter Brotzman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbQG2oSpo8&feature=related

Derek Bailey/Tony Oxley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f20VQjKH9xk&feature=related

John Zorn: COBRA
http://www.last.fm/music/John+Zorn/Cobra%3A+John+Zorn%27s+Game+Pieces%2C+Volume+2

John ZorN conducting COBRA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otrr-LhkX-s&feature=related