MUS 4850 - Jazz Styles

2 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
Examines important events in musical figures in the evolution of jazz by analysis of playing styles, compositions and innovations that influenced the direction of jazz in the twentieth century. African roots of jazz and music of Armstrong, Morton, Ellington, Parker/Gillespie, Coltrane, and Miles Davis.