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Course Description: In this course, we will examine jazz
music, musicians, and careers. The
central reference point will be jazz
recordings and how they have defined
and shaped the business. We will look
at who was recorded as well as where,
when and how they were recorded,
including how the developing
technology changed the music. We will
examine who benefited from the
recordings and who did not.
Two seminal recordings in jazz history, Kind of Blue (Miles Davis) and A Love Supreme (John Coltrane), will be central studies in the course. Visits by recording artists, engineers and authors are planned. This is not a course in recording technology, but rather a course studying the importance of these technologies to jazz musicians and their careers. Related to this, we will study other media influence on the business, including radio, TV, video and the internet. The course is taught by Associate Professor of Music, Skip Wilkins, who is a jazz pianist, composer and recording and touring artist. www.skipwilkinsjazz.com |
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