MUSIC 335R
Jazz Legacy Band
Music
College of Fine Arts and Communications
Course Description
Traditional ensemble specializing in early jazz. Band occasionally tours off campus.
When Taught
Fall and Winter
Grade Rule
Grade Rule 8: A, B, C, D, E, I (Standard grade rule)
Min
1
Fixed
1
Fixed
2
Fixed
0
Other Prerequisites
Audition.
Title
Performance Routines
Learning Outcome
Students will play typical introductions, endings, solo backgrounds, texture routines characteristic of traditional jazz styles
Title
Improvisation
Learning Outcome
Each student will improvise solos in the style of the early jazz masters who play his or her instrument.
Title
Style
Learning Outcome
Students will perform traditional jazz, improvising within the traditional jazz tutti texture. Each student will demonstrate the roll of his or her instrument within the context of traditional jazz.
Title
25 Standard "Dixieland" tunes
Learning Outcome
Students will demonstrate the ability to play 25 "Dixieland Standards." These are among the most commonly performed tunes that are played by professional "Dixieland" bands at casual performance engagements (gigs).
Standard tunes:
Avalon
Basin Street Blues
Big Butter and Egg Man
Black and Blue
Bourbon Street Parade
Do You Know What it Means
High Society
I Can't Give You Anything But Love
I Found A New Baby
Indiana (Back Home Again in)
Ja Da
Just A Closer Walk With Thee
Muskrat Ramble
Royal Garden Blues
St. James Infirmary
St. Louis Blues
Struttin' With Some Barbecue
Sweet Georgia Brown
That's A Plenty
Tin Roof Blues
Twelfth Street Rag
Up a Lazy River
When the Saints Go Marching In
When You're Smiling
Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
