8/29 - Intro, Syllabus; Ch. 1 (The Nature of Jazz)

9/3 - Chapters 1 and 2
9/5 - NO CLASS
9/6 - Required concert: Lynn Raley, piano

9/10 - Chapter 3 (Listening to Jazz)
9/12 - Chapter 3, cont.; begin Chapter 4

9/17 - Chapter 4, cont.
9/19 - Chapter 4, cont., Stanley Cowell
9/21 - Required 12:30 Millsaps Forum -Stanley Cowell (ACRH/7:30/$5)
9/21 - Required concert: Stanley Cowell, pianist
9/22 - Jazz Workshop 9:30-11:30 w/ Stanley Cowell

9/24 - The Blues; Early Jazz
9/26 - Chapter 5 (Jazz Takes Root)

10/1 - Chapter 5, cont. (the pianists: rag vs. stride)
10/3 - More New Orleans jazz: Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong
10/5 - Makeup classical concert: Alon Goldstein, piano(ACRH/7:30/$5)

10/8 - TEST, Chapters 1-5
10/10 - Chapter 6 (The Jazz Age)

10/15 - Chapter 7 (The Swing Era)
10/17 - Chapter 8 (Midwest Swing and a Few More)

10/24 - Chapters 7 & 8 Benny Goodman, et al

10/29 - Chapters 7 & 8, cont.: "Duke" Ellington
10/31 - SWING: Benny Moten, William "Count" Basie, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald

11/5 - more Ellington, Basie, Ella Fitzgerald
11/7 - TEST, Chapters 6, 7, & 8

turn in topic proposal by Friday 11/9

11/12 - Chapter 9 (The Bebop Revolution)
11/14 - Chapter 9, cont.

11/19 - Chapter 9, cont.
11/21 - Ch. 9 (Bebop), cont.

11/26 - Chapter 10 (Cool Jazz: 50's and early 60's)
11/28 - highlights from Chapters 11 and 12 (Tradition Meets the Avant-Garde and Miles Davis Redefines Postmodern Jazz)

written version of research paper due 11/29

12/3 - ORAL PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
12/5 - ORAL PRESENTATION OF PAPERS
12/7 - ORAL PRESENTATION OF PAPERS

FINAL EXAM: Will include some comprehensive listening of earlier material, with the goal of being able to identify by ear the artists we have studied.