This week's lyrics are here!
They are short since so much of the music this week is instrumental.
If there's anything more then I'll bring it to class.
See y'all in class!
czwartek, 30 marca 2017
niedziela, 26 marca 2017
Listening List for Class on March 24, 2017
FIRST:IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!!
Remember I'm going to be ending the first elective (the American People) between 14.45-14.50 and then start the second (This one - The African American Musical Tradition) at 15.00 or as soon thereafter as possible.
Anyhoo.... Here's this weeks's list!
Remember I'm going to be ending the first elective (the American People) between 14.45-14.50 and then start the second (This one - The African American Musical Tradition) at 15.00 or as soon thereafter as possible.
Anyhoo.... Here's this weeks's list!
There's a couple of old (but important) recordings but most
are from the late 1930's onward when technology became much better.
I'm undecided on the exact class contents so there might be
some later additions, but this will get you started.
The lyrics aren't ready yet (though there's a lot more
instrumentals than usual) and might not be until Thursday or so... keep
checking back!
Early Jazz / New Orleans
King Oliver
Canal Street Blues (1923)
Jazz Funeral
for Juanita Brooks (2009)
History of Scat Singing
Gene Greene
King of the Bungalows (1911) starting
Cliff Edward
Homesick (1922)
Louis Armstrong
Heebie Jeebies (1926)
Duke Ellington /
Adelaide Hall
Creole Love Call (1927)
Ella Fitzgerald
How High the Moon (1960)
Evolution from Pop to Jazz singing
song: More than you know
(1929)
(In class we'll just listen to a short section)
Helen Morgan (1929)
Torch Singer
Ruth Etting (1929) Pop
Singer
Mildred Bailey (1936)
Pop-jazz singer
Billie Holiday (1939)
Jazz singer
Big Bands and into Bebop
Count Basie and his
Orchestra
Lousiana (1940)
Duke Ellington
Satin Doll (1952)
Lionel Hampton
Flying Home (1942)
Dizzy Gillespie
Quintet
Salt Peanuts (1942)
Charlie Parker
Confirmation (1946)
Cab Calloway and the
Nicholas Brothers
Jumpin' Jive (1943)
Whitey's Lindy Hoppers
(must watch instead of just listen!)
from Hellzapoppin (1941)
niedziela, 19 marca 2017
Listening list and song lyrics for March 24, 2017
First, to reassure you, we're not going to be listening to many creaky old records for the 1920s anymore. There will be a few here and there but that's mostly over.
For this week here are the lyrics (if there are additional ones for class I'll bring them).
Here's the listening list:
For this week here are the lyrics (if there are additional ones for class I'll bring them).
Here's the listening list:
Country Blues
Cross Road Blues
(left over from last week)
Robert Johnson (1936)
Good
mornin' blues
Lead Belly (193?)
Key to the Highway
Big Bill Broonzy (1941)
Trouble in Mind (1924
song)
Lightning Hopkins (1967)
Jazz and Blues
Fine and
mellow
Billie Holiday (1939)
Blues in
the Night
Blues in the Night (1941)
New blow
top blues
Dinah Washington (1951)
Rhythm and Blues
Hound Dog
Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton (1952)
Shake Rattle and Roll
Big Joe Turner (1954)
It Hurts Me Too
Elmore James (1957)
Watermelon Man
Gloria Lyinne (1965)
Classic Blues
Amtrak Blues
Alberta Hunter (1978)
See y'all in class!
czwartek, 16 marca 2017
Lyrics for March 17, 2017
Here are the lyrics for tomorrow.
I'll have some printed too, but probably even smaller and harder to read.
See y'all in class!
I'll have some printed too, but probably even smaller and harder to read.
See y'all in class!
niedziela, 12 marca 2017
Listening list for March 17, 2017
Okay, this week's list is kind of long. There's no way we'll get through it all but it looks like Blues will be a two class affair. There will probably be a supplement for this next week.
Some of the sound quality for Classic Blues and Country Blues is not great, but the performances are too important to omit.
Some of the sound quality for Classic Blues and Country Blues is not great, but the performances are too important to omit.
Blues Structure
8 bar blues (Key to the Highway)
12 basr blues (random)
16 bar blues (Watermelon man)
A more formal explanation
(don't worry if you don't understand)
another one (again,
don't worry if you don't understand)
Classic Blues
Crazy blues
Mamie Smith (1920
Send me to the 'lectric chair
Bessie
Smith (1927)
Dirty Butter
Minnie Wallace (1929)
Country Blues
Black snake
moan
Blind Lemon Jefferson
(1926)
Devil got my woman
Skip James (1931)
Cross Road Blues
Robert Johnson (1936)
Shave 'em dry blues
Ma Rainey (1923)
Hokum/Dirty
Blues
Tight like that
Clara Smith (1929)
Shave 'em dry
Lucille Bogan (Bessie Jackson) (1935)
Jazz
and Blues
Fine and mellow
Billie Holiday (1939)
New blow top
blues
Dinah Washington (1951)
Rhythm and Blues
Hound Dog
Willie Mae "Big
Mama" Thornton (1952)
Shake Rattle and Roll
Big Joe Turner (1954)
It Hurts Me
Too
Elmore James (1957)
poniedziałek, 6 marca 2017
Listening List for March 10, 2017
Here is the list of things to listen to/watch before class.
With any luck I'll post the lyrics for those that we'll be going over in class.
Try to listen to some of each one (sometimes sound and/or older performing styles might make listening to some more difficult)
With any luck I'll post the lyrics for those that we'll be going over in class.
Try to listen to some of each one (sometimes sound and/or older performing styles might make listening to some more difficult)
Work Songs
Hoe Emma Hoe
first version
second
version
Spirituals
Swing Low
Sweet Chariot (Fisk Jubilee Singers) -1909
Nobody Knows
the Trouble I've Seen (Paul Robeson)
Deep River
(Marion Anderson)
Sometimes I
Feel Like a Motherless Child (Odetta)
Oh Freedom
(Princely Players)
Coon songs
The Whistling
Coon
Nigger Loves
his Possum
If the Man in
the Moon was a Coon
Minstrels and Blackface
General info:
Sand Dance
Comedy
Black and White
Minstrel Show
Ragtime
Dueling
Pianos
Maple Leaf
Rag
The
Entertainer
(piano)
1973 version
(from the Sting)
Solace
Bethena
A Real Slow
Drag
(audio)
(performance)
Check back here Thursday night (by 20.00) for lyrics.
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