Listen to jazz and write a short paragraph describing any three jazz songs.

You will be required to listen to jazz and write a short paragraph describing any three jazz songs.

For example, a paragraph at the beginning of the course might read something like this:

1) Song Title: Breakfast Feud
Artist: Benny Goodman Sextet

The song starts out full and lively. It sounds like there are several horns, bass, drums and guitar, no vocals. The song alternates between the horns playing together and the guitar taking a solo. The song fades out at the end. There was a brief drum solo right before the ending. The guitarist was very good. I believe the announcer said it was Charlie Christian from Oklahoma City.

As your vocabulary for analysis increases from reading the book and doing all the things required, i.e. daily listening summaries, performance reports and quizzes, your daily listening summaries should become more descriptive. A daily listening summary toward the second half of the course might read like this:

2) Song Title: So What
Artist: Miles Davis

The song starts out with a bass intro and then the bass in fact plays the melody, which is uncommon. The piano chords don’t change or at least they stay on one chord for a very long time. The solos, (Trumpet and Saxophone) had an easy vocal feel and rarely sounded frantic like Bebop. The solos also lasted a long time and the rhythm was very simple and never competed with the solos. It was had a very cool feel but I believe the lack of chord movement might put it in the Modal style.

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