Course Description
Summary
This seminar will involve listening, discussing, and responding to the great music creators who contributed to the 1960’s free jazz movement. Many of these icons have lectured, performed, and walked the grounds of ¿ÐýÃŹÙÍø College. Students will examine the history, structures, and techniques developed during this creative period, including personal anecdotes about the music innovators Archie Shepp, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, and many other musicians in this genre that I have performed and recorded with during my musical career. Responding to readings, listenings/viewings, and end of course paper is expected.
Readings include: Black Music, By Amiri Baraka
Four lives in the Bebop Business by AB Spellman.
