The History of American Jazz: 1945-1985
4-weeks (first 4) | Unavailable
This course examines the origins and the earliest recordings of bebop, a brash new style
that developed during the Second World War. In the following decades, a series of
reactions and counter-reactions led to cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz, fusion and much
more. The innovations of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Dave
Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Bill Evans and many more will be considered.
Brian Mann
Brian Mann taught courses in music history and theory for many years in the Vassar College
Department of Music. He is a graduate of the University of Edinburgh (B. Mus) and the University of California, Berkeley (M.A., Ph.D.)