Music Stage 5

• Year 9 Assessment Schedule
•  Year 10 Assessment Schedule

As of Term 1…

Listed here are a series of jazz videos you are to watch and analyse for your Listening Tasks.

Remember to choose 2 and fill out the listening log sheets in as much detail as possible.

1. Wave (James Moody)

2. Snowman (Jan Garbarek)

3. Dave Weckl

4. So What (Miles Davis)

5. Round Midnight (Miles Davis)

6. What a Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)

7. Mack the Knife (Robbie Williams)

8. Night & Day (Ella Fitzgerald)

9. Tequila & Four on Six (George Benson etc)

10. Chameleon (Herbie Hancock)

11. Please Don’t Talk About Me (Billie Holiday)

12. Ain’t Misbehavin (Muppets)

13. St Louis Blues (Dizzy Gilespie)

14. Don’t Know Why (Norah Jones)

15. A Gal in Callico (Oscar Peterson Trio)

16. Little Brown Jug

17. My Last regret (Robert Cray)

18. Summertime (Fantasia)

19. Orange Coloured Sky (Natalie Gauci)

20. Jazz Fusion

Characteristics of Jazz

• tone colour (instrumentation)
• improvisation
• use of the blues chord progression
• scat singing

Early Jazz

- Go to this website and listen to the radio programs listed as you scroll down the page.

Search for your composer and listen to the radio program. It will give you a lot of information and a way to talk about your composers' music in an analytical manner.

BBC Radio Discovering Music

Make sure you start listening and take notes!

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