ARTJ 301 FINE ARTS ELECTIVE
LITR 450 SPECIAL TOPICS AND LITERATURE
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Week 1: Introduction and Overview
Music:
Ain't No Flies on Me: Roy Eldridge
Blues March: Art Blakey
Boogie Woogie on St. Louis Blues: Earl Hines/Paul Baron
Cancer: Mary Lou Williams
Everything I Have Is Yours: Billy Eckstine
Fifty-Seven Varieties: Earl Hines
Idaho: Erroll Garner
Manhattan Murals: Duke Ellington
Poinciana: Ahmad Jamal
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot: Glenn Miller
Take the A Train: Duke Eliington
Une Petite Laitue: Roy Eldridge
We'll See Yaw'll After While, Ya Heah: Stanley Turrentine
Michael Harper Poetry Assignment
Week 2: Mary Lou Williams - Soul on Soul
Music:
Margie [Piano Solo]
Stardust, Part 1
Stardust, Part 2
Blues for Peter
Waltz Boogie
Mary's Waltz
In the Purple Grotto
Anima Christi #1
Anima Christi #2
Mary's Idea
Walkin' and Swingin'
What's Your Story Morning Glory?
Zodiac Suite:
Aries
Taurus
Gemini
Leo
Virgo
Libra
Scorpio
Cancer
Cancer (Orchestral)
Week 3: Bu and Klook - the drummers Art Blakey and Kenny Clarke and the creation of "be-bop"
Music:
Blues March: Art Blakey
Confirmation: Art Blakey
Free for All: Art Blakey
Doodlin': Art Blakey
Moanin': Art Blakey
Indiana: Don Byas
Well you Needn't: Thelonious Monk
Oleo: Miles Davis
Willie the Wailer: Miles Davis
But Not for Me (Take 1): Miles Davis
The Man I Love (Take 2): Miles Davis
Week 4: A Handful of Keys 1 - piano legends Earl Hines, Horace Parlan, Ahmad Jamal
Music:
Boogie Woogie on the St. Louis Blues: Earl Hines
Darn that Dream: Ahmad Jamal
Poinciana: Ahmad Jamal
Weather Bird: Earl Hines/Louis Armstrong
Week 5: A Handful of Keys 2- more piano greats Erroll Garner, Dodo Marmarosa, Sonny Clark
Music:
Dial "S" for Sonny
Week 6: Jazz Originals - vocalist Billy Eckstine and trumpeter Roy Eldridge
Music:
Everything I Have Is Yours: Billy Eckstine
You're My Everything : Billy Eckstine
Cool Breeze: Billy Eckstine
Week 7: Take The A Train, Indeed - The musical life of Billy Strayhorn
Music:
Take the A Train: Duke Eliington
Take the A Train (long version): Duke Eliington
Lush Life: Nat King Cole Trio
Lush Life: Loren Schoenberg
Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn Vocals
Week 9: Jazz and Poetry
Readings:
Po'Boy Blues by Langston Hughes
Reckless Blues by Bessie Smith
Weary Blues by Langston Hughes
Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
Allen Ginsberg: America, In the Baggage Room at Greyhound, Howl
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel
Straight Life by William Matthews
Black String of Days by Yusef Komunyakaa
Music:
Reckless Blues: Bessie Smith
Good Morning Blues: Leadbelly
Week 10: Jazz and Short Fiction: John Edgar Wideman, Eudora Welty
Readings:
Powerhouse by Eudora Welty
Commentary related to John Edgar Wideman's "Everybody Knew Bubba Riff" and "All Stories are True"
Week 11: August Wilson's The Piano Lesson
Week 12: Race and Culture in Animation
Video:
Minnie the Moocher, with Betty Boop, Cab Calloway
Video Commentary:
Moaning Lisa, The Simpsons
The Jazz Singer, Al Jolson
I Love to Singa, Loony Tunes
Minnie the Moocher, Betty Boop
Scrub Me Momma with a Boogie Beat, Universal
Book Revue, Loony Tunes
Solid Serenade, Hanna Barbera
Three Little Bops, Loony Tunes
PowerPoint:
Jazz and Animated Film Shorts
Week 13: Jazz and Abstraction
PowerPoint:
Jazz and Abstraction
Video Commentary:
Ballet Mécanique by Fernand Léger
Pollock by Ed Harris
Music:
Free Jazz by Ornette Coleman
Cherokee by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Ornithology by Charlie Parker
Week 14: Images from the Harlem Renaissance
PowerPoint:
Images from the Harlem Renaissance
Final Exam: take-home essay
This class is made possible by a joint collaboration by:
New York Institute of Technology,
Jazz at Lincoln Center, and
The Jazz Museum in Harlem
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