Course Outcomes
Style
Students will perform traditional jazz, improvising within the traditional jazz tutti texture. Each student will demonstrate the roll of his or her instrument within the context of traditional jazz.
Improvisation
Each student will improvise solos in the style of the early jazz masters who play his or her instrument.
Performance Routines
Students will play typical introductions, endings, solo backgrounds, texture routines characteristic of traditional jazz styles
25 Standard "Dixieland" tunes
Students will demonstrate the ability to play 25 "Dixieland Standards." These are among the most commonly performed tunes that are played by professional "Dixieland" bands at casual performance engagements (gigs).
Standard tunes:
- Avalon
- Basin Street Blues
- Big Butter and Egg Man
- Black and Blue
- Bourbon Street Parade
- Do You Know What it Means
- High Society
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- I Found A New Baby
- Indiana (Back Home Again in)
- Ja Da
- Just A Closer Walk With Thee
- Muskrat Ramble
- Royal Garden Blues
- St. James Infirmary
- St. Louis Blues
- Struttin' With Some Barbecue
- Sweet Georgia Brown
- That's A Plenty
- Tin Roof Blues
- Twelfth Street Rag
- Up a Lazy River
- When the Saints Go Marching In
- When You're Smiling
- Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey
