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Course Description: The Jazz Tradition
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Course Description: The Jazz Tradition

The Jazz Tradition

32-1631

This course utilizes lectures and demonstrations to explore jazz in all its forms, including its musical and social antecedents. Covered are ragtime, New Orleans jazz, swing, bebop, cool jazz, and avant-garde jazz, with special emphasis on Bird, Gillespie, Coltrane, Ellington, and Jelly Roll Morton.

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