* indicates repertory new to this edition.
Part 1. Musical Orientation
1. Musical Elements and Instruments
2. Jazz Form and Improvisation
Bessie Smith, “Reckless Blues”
Louis Armstrong, “West End Blues”
Charlie Parker, “Now’s the Time”
Billie Holiday, “A Sailboat in the Moonlight”
Miles Davis, “So What”
Free Bridge Quintet, “Midriff” and “The Pot Boiler”
Part 2. Early Jazz (1900-1930)
3. The Roots of Jazz
Georgia Sea Island Singers, “The Buzzard Lope”
Bessie Smith, “Reckless Blues”
Wilbur Sweatman, “Down Home Rag”
4. New Orleans
Original Dixieland Jazz Band, “Dixie Jass Band One-Step”
Jelly Roll Morton, “Dead Man Blues”
King Oliver, “Snake Rag”
Red Onion Jazz Babies / Sidney Bechet, “Cake Walking Babies (from Home)”
5. New York in the 1920s
Paul Whiteman, “Changes”
Fletcher Henderson, “Copenhagen”
James P. Johnson, “You’ve Got to Be Modernistic”
Duke Ellington, “Black and Tan Fantasy”
6. Louis Armstrong and the First Great Soloists
Louis Armstrong, “Hotter Than That”
Armstrong, “West End Blues”
Armstrong / Earl Hines, “Weather Bird”
Bix Beiderbecke / Frank Trumbauer, “Singin’ the Blues”
Part 3. The Swing Era
7. Swing Bands
Fletcher Henderson, “Blue Lou”
Benny Goodman, “Dinah”
Artie Shaw, “Star Dust”
*Jimmie Lunceford, “Annie Laurie”
8. Count Basie and Duke Ellington
Pete Johnson / Big Joe Turner, “It’s All Right, Baby”
Andy Kirk / Mary Lou Williams, “Walkin’ and Swingin’”
Count Basie, “One O’Clock Jump”
Duke Ellington, “Mood Indigo”
Ellington, “Conga Brava”
Ellington, “Blood Count”
9. A World of Soloists
Coleman Hawkins, “Body and Soul”
Count Basie / Lester Young, “Oh! Lady Be Good”
Benny Carter / Django Reinhardt, “I’m Coming, Virginia”
*Valiada Snow, “You’re Driving Me Crazy”
Billie Holiday, “A Sailboat in the Moonlight”
Ella Fitzgerald, “Blue Skies”
10. Rhythm in Transition
Fats Waller, “Christopher Columbus”
Art Tatum, “Over the Rainbow”
Charlie Christian, “Swing to Bop” (“Topsy”)
Part 4. Modern Jazz
11. Bebop
Charlie Parker, “Ko Ko”
Parker, “Embraceable You”
Parker, “Now’s the Time”
Bud Powell, “Tempus Fugue-It”
Dexter Gordon, “Long Tall Dexter”
12. The 1950s: Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
*Miles Davis, “Venus de Milo”
*Modern Jazz Quartet, “Vendome”
*Horace Silver, “Song for My Father”
Clifford Brown, “A Night in Tunisia”
*Sonny Rollins, “I’m an Old Cowhand”
13. Jazz Composition in the 1950s
Thelonious Monk, “Thelonious”
Monk, “Rhythm-a-ning”
Charles Mingus, “Boogie Stop Shuffle”
Gil Evans, “King Porter Stomp”
George Russell, “Concerto for Billy the Kid”
14. Modality: Miles Davis and John Coltrane
Miles Davis, “So What”
*Bill Evans, “Witchcraft”
John Coltrane, “Giant Steps”
Coltrane, “Acknowledgement”
Davis, “E.S.P.”
Part 5. The Avant-Garde, Fusion, Historicism, and Now
15. The Avant-Garde
Ornette Coleman, “Lonely Woman”
Cecil Taylor, “Bulbs”
Albert Ayler, “Ghosts”
*World Saxophone Quartet, “Hattie Wall”
*Anthony Braxton / Max Roach, “Spirit Possession”
16. Fusion I: R&B, Singers, and Latin Jazz
*Wes Montgomery / Jimmy Smith, “O.G.D.”
*Sarah Vaughan, “All of Me”
Dizzy Gillespie, “Manteca”
*Stan Getz / João Gilberto, “So danço samba”
*Eddie Palmieri, “Un dia bonito”
17. Fusion II: Jazz, Rock, and Beyond
Weather Report, “Teen Town”
*Herbie Hancock, “Cantaloupe Island”
John Scofield / Medeski, Martin and Wood, “Chank”
*Robert Glasper, “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
18. Historicism: Jazz on Jazz
*Wynton Marsalis, “The Pearls”
*SFJAZZ Collective, “Maiden Voyage”
*Betty Carter, “My Favorite Things”
*Michael Brecker, “Time Line”
Jason Moran, “You’ve Got to Be Modernistic”
19. Jazz Today
*Vijay Iyer, “Lude”
*Esperanza Spalding, “Short and Sweet”
*Cecile McLorin Salvant, “John Henry”
*Abdullah Ibrahim, “Calypso Minor”