1959: the Greatest Year in Jazz Instructor: Jeff Denson OLLI

1959: the Greatest Year in Jazz Instructor: Jeff Denson OLLI

1959: The Greatest Year in Jazz Instructor: Jeff Denson OLLI Summer 2018 This four week course will examine six of the most significant jazz alBums recorded in the pivotal year of 1959, arguaBly some of the top jazz recordings of all time: Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue,” Dave BruBeck’s “Time Out,” Charles Mingus’ “Ah Um,” Bill Evans’ “Portrait in Jazz,” John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” and Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come.” These six master recordings display a wide variety in musical styles and esthetic experimentation and forecast the ever-expanding definition of what jazz is to this day. From the modal, melody-focused style of Miles Davis' “Kind of Blue;” to the vast harmonic exploration and dazzling displays of virtuosity found in John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps;” to the gospel and Blues soaked “Ah Um” By one of jazz’s greatest bassists and composers, Charles Mingus; to the odd meters and Eastern European influences of Dave BruBeck’s “Time Out;” to the new heights of trio interaction and improvised counterpoint of Bill Evans’ “Portrait in Jazz;” to the questioning of what “freedom” in music means in the explorations of Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come,” the world of music would never Be the same! This course will include a great deal of listening and explanation of musical devices, concepts and approaches by the instructor as well as live performances By the instructor and other expert visiting jazz musicians. Week 1 Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue," John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps,” and Bill Evans’ “Portrait in Jazz" - Birds of a Feather Yet Worlds Apart Week 2 Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue," John Coltrane “Giant Steps,” and Bill Evans “Portrait in Jazz” continued - Plus live performance and demonstration/discussion Week 3 Charles Mingus’ “Ah Um,” Dave BruBeck “Time Out," and Ornette Coleman “The Shape of Jazz to Come” - Home, Abroad and Beyond Week 4 Charles Mingus’ “Ah Um,” Dave BruBeck’s “Time Out," and Ornette Coleman’s “The Shape of Jazz to Come” - Plus live performance and demonstration/discussion .

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