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Lenox School of Jazz

Lenox School of Jazz – 1959 Evening Event Schedule

November 1, 1993 By From the Archives


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.

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Lenox School of Jazz – 1957 Evening Event Schedule

November 1, 1993 By From the Archives


Wednesday, 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.

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Student-Faculty Evaulation of the first session of the School of Jazz (1957)

November 1, 1993 By From the Archives

Wednesday 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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Lenox School of Jazz – Lectures and Lecturers

November 1, 1993 By Michael Fitzgerald


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

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Lenox School of Jazz – Student Comments and Testimonials

November 1, 1993 By Michael Fitzgerald


What 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.

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Lenox School of Jazz – Related Recordings

November 1, 1993 By Michael Fitzgerald

A 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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