The Listening Project: Jazz
Each classroom studies 30 songs in the cannon of a genre over the course of the year.
Jazz Listening Canon:
- The Entertainer – Scott Joplin (1902)
- Charleston – James P. Johnson (1923)
- Chimes Blues – King Joe Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band (1923)
- Potato Head Blues – Hot Seven (Louis Armstrong) (1927)
- East St. Louis Toodle-oo – Duke Ellington (1927)
- Smashing Thirds – Thomas “Fats” Waller (1929)
- Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) – Duke Ellington (1931)
- Shine – Django Reinhardt (1936)
- Sing, Sing, Sing – Benny Goodman (1936)
- One O’Clock Jump – Count Basie (1937)
- A Tisket, A Tasket – Ella Fitzgerald (1938)
- In the Mood – Glenn Miller & His Orchestra (1939)
- Take the A Train – Duke Ellington (Billy Strayhorn) (1941)
- Night in Tunisia – Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie (1942)
- Groovin’ High – Dizzy Gillespie (1945)
- Ornithology – Charlie Parker (1946)
- Straight No Chaser – Thelonious Monk (1951)
- Round About Midnight – Miles Davis (1957)
- Moanin’ – Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (1958)
- Take Five – Dave Brubeck Quartet (1959)
- Better Get Hit in Your Soul – Charles Mingus (1959)
- Giant Steps – John Coltrane (1960)
- My Favorite Things – John Coltrane (1961)
- Waltz for Debbie – Bill Evans Trio (1961)
- Song for My Father – Horace Silver (1965)
- What A Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong (1968)
- Pedal Up – Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1973)
- Chameleon – Herbie Hancock (1973)
- Birdland – Weather Report (1977)
- Nonaah – Art Ensemble of Chicago/Roscoe Mitchell (1977)
Jazz Listening Canon (.doc)