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Title: Elements Of Jazz: From Cakewalk To Fusion
Author: The Teaching Company
Read By: Bill Messenger
Genre: Lecture
Publisher: The Teaching Company
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Elements of Jazz: From Cakewalks to Fusion
(8 lectures, 45 minutes/lecture)
Course No. 728
Taught by Bill Messenger
Peabody Conseveratory of Music
M.A., Johns Hopkins University
The uniquely American music and art form known as "jazz" is one of America's
great contributions to world culture.
Now you can learn the basics of jazz and its history in a course as
free-flowing and original as jazz itself.
Taught by Professor Bill Messenger of the Peabody Conservatory, the
lectures in this course are a must for music lovers. They will have
you reaching deep into your own music collection and even going straight
out to a music store to add to it.
Professor Messenger has spent his life in music as student, teacher,
and professional musician.
He has both studied and lectured at the famed Peabody Conservatory and
written an acclaimed book on music activities aimed at older adults.

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And as a pianist, he has:

played in ragtime ensembles, swing bands, Dixieland bands, and modern
jazz groups
been a successful studio musician in the early days of rock & roll
accompanied performers as renowned as Lou Rawls and Mama Cass Elliot
been the opening act for Bill Haley and the Comets.
Lectures, Piano, and Guest Performers
So it is no wonder that the course he has created is so thorough and
enjoyable.
It's an overview of jazz, its elements, and the times that spawned it.
And Professor Messenger frequently turns to his piano to illustrate
his musical points, often with the help of guest performance artists
and lots of original music.
These lectures follow the story of jazz in its many shapes, including:
ragtime
the blues
the swing music of the big band era
boogie-woogie
big band blues
the rise of modern jazz forms including bebop, cool, modal, free, and
fusion jazz.
Cakewalks, Vaudeville, and Swing
Beginning with the music and dance of the antebellum plantation, Professor
Messenger reveals how the "cakewalks" of slave culture gave birth to
a dance craze at the 19th century's end which was ignorant of its own
humble roots.
He considers how minstrel shows, deriving from Southern beliefs that
held black culture to be decidedly inferior, eventually spawned a musical
industry that African-American musicians would dominate for decades
to come.
You learn that jazz, though a difficult genre to define, was central
to the music they created.
Roots In Ragtime
Professor Messenger explains how jazz was bornor conceivedin the ragtime
piano tunes of turn-of-the-century America.
Together with the Dixieland funeral music of New Orleans, this new,
"syncopated" music popularized a sound that took America's vaudeville
establishments by storm.
Professor Messenger notes that ragtime's most popular composer, Scott
Joplin, at first resisted the new craze.
But after becoming intrigued by the new "ragged" sound at the Chicago
World's Fair of 1893, he subsequently came to write the most memorable
rags ever, including "Maple Leaf Rag" and "The Entertainer."
Drawing on the blues, an emotional but harmonically simple music, jazz
was ensconced as a popular genre in the American psyche by the 1920s.
The Surprising Origin of "St. Louis Blues"
One of the interesting sidelights about the blues covered in the course
concerns W. C. Handy, often referred to as the "father of the blues."
As Professor Messenger reveals, though, Handy didn't like the blues
very much and wasn't convinced the public would buy it.
It was only after he saw a band of blues players literally showered
with money after a performance that he began writing the music in earnest.
Like Joplin, Handy was at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and heard
a song he later arranged into what became the famous "St. Louis Blues."
As Professor Messenger points out, nothing about the song was original;
it was a melting pot of many influences.
The blues remains, in his words, the "emotional germ of jazz." It is
the place jazz always returns to when it veers too far into the abstract
or academic.
An Innovation that Changed Jazz Forever
One of the most important things to happen during that period was the
invention of the microphone in 1924.

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It was an innovation that forever changed the course of jazz.

Before the microphone, singers had needed big voices to project themselves
across large music halls, and the booming styles of performers like
Bessie Smith and Al Jolson met those requirements admirably.
After the microphone, though, things were very different.
The new invention did more than simply allow for the use of quieter
instruments, like the guitar and string bass.
New Opportunities for Quieter Voices
It also brought smaller-voiced singers like Bing Crosby, Mel Torme,
and Frank Sinatra into the limelight.
During succeeding decades, the music grew heavily arranged for commercial
success. And by the time the "swing era" of America's big bands was
taking hold, jazz had reached new popular heights.
You learn how swing used the syncopation and improvisation of early
jazz in the context of careful arrangements, combining planning and
spontaneity in a unique way.
Though not to be confused with the sound of competing society bands,
swing music gave talents like Benny Goodman a chance to improvise within
the framework of top 40 hits.
More Than Swing
The development of jazz hardly stopped with swing, however. You learn:how boogie-woogie, a precursor of rock and roll that was primed with
a heavy-handed but highly rhythmic style, found widespread success in
the 1940s before being popularized to death
how big band blues, where the simplicity of the blues standard was overlaid
on the pop song, fused the worlds of folk and high art
how bebopan austere, anxious music whose success was blazed by the
genius of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parkerrebutted the commercial
spread of swing
how modern jazz spans everything from the cool jazz of the 1950s to
the fusion jazz of the 1990s, with several stops in between.
Music for Today
In recent decades many forms of modern jazzincluding cool, modal, free,
and fusionhave had their devoted following. All serve to prove that
jazz is a generic music that comprises many varieties.
True to its name, jazz has defied definition, category, and stagnation.
"Should I buy Audio or Video?"
The video version of this course contains a few diagrams, live performances
by various musicians, and quite a bit of piano performance by Professor
Messenger. The diagrams are reproduced in the accompanying course guide
booklet, so this course also works quite well in audio.
Course Lecture Titles
Plantation Beginnings
The Rise and Fall of Ragtime
The Jazz Age
Blues
The Swing Era
Boogie, Big Band Blues, and Bop
Modern Jazz
The ABC's of Jazz Improvisation

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Danke!
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Thanks. I listen to a lot of jazz, but never took a course or attended a lecture.

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Excellent! Looking forward to this one. Cheers.

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THANKS a lot for this. i love jazz . hoping this will open up some new perspectives about the music. THANKS.

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Thank You for a post with a lot of GREAT information. Granted the quality isn't the best, but this info is priceless. To all the whiners out there, TOUGH!
This rip has been floating around the net for at least a year (least that's the first time I listened to it) and so far I haven't seen a better one.
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I don't really like jazz; I 'm hoping some context may help me get turned on.

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Thanks! Jazz is a big part of my life ...

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