Jazz: Origins and Influences

Jazz
Origins and Influences on Modern Popular Music

What is Music? Here is one answer from Albert Einstein:

1. Class Notes on Jazz (by the Instructor)

2. Concepts: Textual Erasure; Appropriation (see Course Glossary)

3. What is Jazz? (National Museum of American History)

4. Lincoln Center: Jazz Academy

(a) Origins of Jazz-- No. 1 (Africa, Europe and the "New World"),
(b) Origins of Jazz-- No. 2 (The Birth of New Orleans),
(c) Origins of Jazz-- No. 3 (Congo Square),
(d) Origins of Jazz-- No. 4 (Who Was Buddy Bolden?),
(e) Origins of Jazz-- No. 5 (What is New Orleans Jazz?),
(f) Origins of Jazz-- No. 6 (The Dawn of the Solo),
(g) Origins of Jazz-- No. 7 (The Spread of Jazz),
(h) Origins of Jazz-- No. 8 (Jelly Roll Morton)

5. History (Continued)

(a) How banning the African drum gave birth to American music | Chris Johnson
(b) What is the blues?
(c) American Music: Jazz and Blues and the Origins of Rock n' Roll
(d) Top 10 Influential Jazz Musicians

6. From Rock N' Roll to Rock (Examples)

(a) Splintering Heart--Marillion
(b) You're Gone--Marillion
(c) This Strange Engine--Marillion's Steve Rothery (Read also Spectrum article by Brian Evans)
(d) One Slip--Pink Floyd
(e) Closer to the Heart--Rush

7. Form (Music Theory by Dave Conservatoire)

8. Examples of Scat Singing

(a) Conversation in Scat - Ella Fitzgerald (0-2:00)
(b) Bobby McFerrin & Chick Corea (3:30-5:30)
(c) Shankar Mahadevan - 5 Peace Band (Indo-Jazz-Rock Fusion / 2:00-4:30)

9. Examples of Improvisation

(a) Rahman / Thee Thee--performance with India's Mohini Dey (Berklee College of Music--Boston)
(b) Mohini Dey and Gergo Borlai
(c) Young drummer in a mall in Japan
(d) Extreme improvisation: music of Vangelis--example: Rosetta Mission Album
(e) Vangelis in concert with African American sopranos Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle (celebrating Mars Odyssey 2001)

10. Blue Grass and the Banjo

(a) History of the banjo by Jim Hartel
(b) Blue Grass Instrumental
(c) Sleepy Man Banjo Boys

11. Globalization of Jazz (and U.S. Rock)--Examples

(a) Music that would not exist without black people. (0:00-3:07)
(b) Louis Armstrong--The jazz ambassador (Blueberry Hill)
(c) Chick Corea (piano) and Gary Burton (xylophone) (0:00--3:00)
(d) Lee Ritenour (guitar) & Dave Grusin in Java, Indonesia (0:00--4:00)
(e) African High Life I (0:00-2:52)
(f) African High Life II (14:06-18:40)
(g) African High Life III (0:0--2:51) Wazimbo & Orchestra
(h) Jazz in Japan I (0:00-3:55)
(i) Jazz in Japan II (0:00-3:00)
(j) Afro-Jewish Jazz I (0:00-2:40)
(k) Jewish Jazz II (1:00-4:00)
(l) Indo-Jazz-Rock Fusion (2:32-4:32) Jiya Jale-Dil Se
(m) Afro-Celtic Music I (0:00-4:00)
(n) Afro-Celtic Music II (0:00-3:00)
(o) Afro-Latin Jazz (1:07:26--1:16:11--Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite)

12. Indo-Jazz-Rock Fusion (a one person phenomenon)

13. Other Relevant Aspects of Music in General
(a) Orchestration sheet music (0:00--2:00) arranging and arrangements
(b) Film music (scroll down when the page comes up)
(c) Western classical music (indirect influence on Jazz and Rock)