Discussion Section Reading Assignments

The following are readings you should do for your weekly discussion sections, which meet on various times on Tuesday through Friday.

Each of the "Writing Assignments" will be a comparison/contrast between two jazz recordings, to be chosen by the class in consultation with the T.A. in advance. Other writing assignments may be added throughout the semester by your TA.

Date	Assignment NOTE: prepare and submit three questions on each chapter before your discussion section! Please also be prepared to discuss the articles listed below (under "Resources" on the web site).
Week of 16 January	No discussion sections this week
Week of 23 January	Read: Chapter 1: "Jazz Instruments and Musical Concepts" discussion of timbre, instruments
Week of 30 January	Read: Chapter 2; "Jazz Form and Improvisation" discussion of form begin writing "musical phrases" (vocabulary for describing music in prose)
Week of 6 February	Read: Chapter 3, "The Roots of Jazz" Article (on web site, under "resources"): Albert Murray, "Blues Music as Such" (from Stomping the Blues). developing musical "arguments"
Week of 13 February	Read: Chapter 4, "New Orleans" Chapter 5, "Jazz in the 1920s: New York" Articles (on web site): Frederick Turner, "A History of Hot" (from Remembering Song), Luc Sante, "I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say" (from The Rose and the Briar) work on writing assignment review for Midterm I (February 23)
Week of 20 February	Read: Chapter 6, "Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists" Chapter 7, "Swing Bands" work on writing assignment
Week of 27 February	Read: Chapter 8, "Duke Ellington and Count Basie" Article (on web site): Richard Boyer, "The Hot Bach,"in The Duke Ellington Reader FIRST WRITING ASSIGNMENT Due this week in your discussion section (turned in to your TA or to their mailbox). Length: 3-5 pages.
Week of 12 March	NO DISCUSSION SECTION THIS WEEK for lecture only: Read Chapter 9, "Swing Era Soloists" Chapter 10, "Rhythm in Transition"
Week of 19 March	Read: Chapter 11, "Bebop" Chapter 12, "The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop" Articles (on web site): Ralph Ellison, "The Golden Age, Times Past," from Shadow and Act DeVeaux, "Conversation with Howard McGhee," from The Black Perspective in Music
Week of 25 March	Read: Chapter 13, "Jazz Composition in the 1950s" Article (on web site): Lapham, "Monk: High Priest of Jazz" review for Midterm II (4 April)
Week of 2 April	Read: Chapter 14: "The Modality of Miles Davis and John Coltrane"
Week of 9 April	Read: Chapter 15, "The Jazz Avant-Garde" Articles (on web site): Crouch: "Play the Right Thing" Santoro: "Miles Davis: the Enabler" work on second writing assignment
Week of 16 April	Read: Chapter 16: "Fusion I (to 1960) R & B, Singers, and Latin Jazz" Chapter 17: "Fusion II: Jazz, Rock, and Beyond" Article (on web site): Haden, "Thirty Years of Free Jazz" work on second writing assignment
Week of 23 April	Chapter 18: "Historicism: Jazz on Jazz" Chapter 19: "Jazz Today" SECOND WRITING ASSIGNMENT. Due this week in your discussion section Length: 3-5 pages.