Comments on: A new chapter http://blog.adlermusic.com/2010/07/new-chapter.html thoughts on music, politics, and the world Mon, 05 Mar 2012 21:20:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: John Goldsby http://blog.adlermusic.com/2010/07/new-chapter.html#comment-573 John Goldsby Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:42:02 +0000 http://blog.adlermusic.com/?p=1525#comment-573 Congratulations, David, on your new position at Queens college. They boast a stellar faculty indeed, in addition to curating the Louis Armstrong House Museum--the ultimate jazz history street cred. I've also found the Giddins/DeVeaux book "Jazz" to be a real gem. The authors give just enough technical description to get to the meat of the music without venturing into jazz nerdiness. They also combine the musical developments with the social aspects of musicians lives. When I teach jazz history (usually lectures on the development of jazz bass playing), I find it important to combine music with the 'story' behind the music--either personal, social, technological or business. Here's wishing you engaged students and lots of good listening! Congratulations, David, on your new position at Queens college. They boast a stellar faculty indeed, in addition to curating the Louis Armstrong House Museum–the ultimate jazz history street cred. I’ve also found the Giddins/DeVeaux book “Jazz” to be a real gem. The authors give just enough technical description to get to the meat of the music without venturing into jazz nerdiness. They also combine the musical developments with the social aspects of musicians lives. When I teach jazz history (usually lectures on the development of jazz bass playing), I find it important to combine music with the ‘story’ behind the music–either personal, social, technological or business.

Here’s wishing you engaged students and lots of good listening!

]]> By: Chris Jentsch http://blog.adlermusic.com/2010/07/new-chapter.html#comment-462 Chris Jentsch Thu, 22 Jul 2010 03:06:08 +0000 http://blog.adlermusic.com/?p=1525#comment-462 Good luck ramping up! In my years of teaching Jazz History there's one clip that comes to mind when thinking about a video my community college students have been consistently knocked out by. I hope you have a "smart" classroom (one that has internet you can project onto a screen). Max Roach-Hi Hat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8syiOwwVyY Good luck ramping up! In my years of teaching Jazz History there’s one clip that comes to mind when thinking about a video my community college students have been consistently knocked out by. I hope you have a “smart” classroom (one that has internet you can project onto a screen).

Max Roach-Hi Hat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8syiOwwVyY

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