Jazz research on the Internet: a continuing saga
Monday, August 10 – THE RELATIONSHIP OF JAZZ TO THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS – John Garvey, Faculty, University of Illinois, Moderator. Panelists: Marshall Stearns, Herb Pomeroy. Wheatleigh Lounge, 8:30 p.m.
Tuesday, August 11 – CONCERT – Bobby Hackett. Music Barn, 8:30 p.m.
Continue ReadingWednesday, August 14, 8:30 PM – PRIMITIVE BEGINNINGS OF JAZZ – Willis James
Thursday, August 15, 8:40 PM – CONCERT, Music Barn: Mahalia Jackson
Friday, August 16, 8:30 PM – IMPACT OF PERSONALITIES ON JAZZ – Rex Stewart
Saturday, August 17, 8:30 PM – JAZZ IN TELEVISION – Frank Nichols
Sunday, August 18, 8:40 PM – CONCERT, Music Barn: Wilbur De Paris and his New Orleans Jazz Band
Monday, August 19, 8:30 PM – THE MUSIC OF AFRICA – Fela Sowande
Tuesday, August 20, 8:30 PM – JAZZ AND ITS CORRELATION TO THE ARTS – Rudi Blesh and Barry Ulanov
Wednesday, August 21, 8:30 PM – TECHNIQUES IN JAZZ COMPOSITION – George Russell, assisted by School Faculty
Thursday, August 22, 8:30 PM – MANAGEMENT AND BOOKING OF JAZZ – Monte Kay, Rudy Viola, Pete Kameron, and Jack Whittemore
Friday, August 23 – JAZZ FRONTIERS – Lennie Tristano and Bill Russo
Saturday, August 24, 8:30 PM – PROBLEMS IN JAZZ RECORDING – Nesuhi Ertegun and Jack Tracy
NEW DIRECTIONS IN JAZZ – Teo Macero
Sunday, August 25, 8:40 PM – CONCERT, Music Barn – Oscar Peterson Trio, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach
Monday, August 26, 8:30 PM – JAZZ AND ITS PLACE IN AMERICAN CULTURE – Eric Larrabee
Tuesday, August 27, 8:30 PM – FUNCTION OF THE CRITIC IN JAZZ – John Wilson (The New York Times), Nat Hentoff (Saturday Review of Literature), Bill Coss (Metronome)
Wednesday, August 28, 8:30 PM – PANEL DISCUSSION – Evaluation of the School of Jazz by panel of Faculty and Students
Thursday, August 29, 8:40 PM – CONCERT, Music Barn – SCHOOL OF JAZZ ON PARADE… A jam session concert by the entire student and faculty groups now participating in the School of Jazz.
Continue ReadingWednesday Evening, August 28, 8:30 PM Wheatleigh
Panel:
Marshall Stearns: moderator
John Lewis: “Original purposes and objectives of the School of Jazz”
Oscar Peterson: “Faculty and Student accomplishments during three weeks”
Jule Foster: “The School of Jazz as a Non-Profit Organization”
Francis Thorne: “Student reply to the statement of original purposes and objectives of the School of Jazz”
Dave Blume: “Student’s view to the future…
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Primitive Beginnings of Jazz Willis James, 1958
Problems in Jazz Recording Nesuhi Ertegun, George Avakian and Jack Tracy, 1957, Nesuhi Ertegun, 1958
The Relationship of Jazz to Classical Music Gunther Schuller, 1958
Problems of Jazz Festival Organization, panel, 1958
The Purpose of Jazz Criticism, panel, 1958
Jazz In England Harold Pendleton, 1958
Modern Music and Jazz Gunther Schuller 1958
Leslie Katz – on the effect of sociological events on the creativity of the artist in Jazz, 1958
Continue ReadingWhat the School of Jazz has meant to me:
For about the last seven years, I have been attracted to jazz. Five of these years I have studied drums. All of the professional coaching and instruction that I have received up to this summer was in the classical music idiom.
Continue ReadingA complete discography of all School of Jazz students and faculty would be an enormous task. Included here is a limited view showing mostly the interaction of students with faculty and also recordings made at Lenox.
In addition to those listed, it should be noted that recordings of The Jimmy Giuffre 3, Modern Jazz Quartet, and Oscar Peterson Trio (with Ray Brown and Herb Ellis) albums have an indirect connection to the Lenox School of Jazz as all members were on the Lenox faculty.
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