JAZZ

This terminology of periods is not normally used in jazz, which has a shorter history than the other forms represented here. (More commonly used period/style designations include traditional, swing, bebop, free jazz, and so on.) Still a comparable progression, which we will discuss in class, has occurred in jazz history, as well.

CLASSICISM


King Oliver and His Dixie Syncopators
Sugar Foot Stomp (1926)

Decca GRD-616



ROMANTICISM


Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra
Body and Soul (1939)

RCA Bluebird 66617-2



MODERNISM


Sonny Rollins
Strode Rode (1956)

Stash ST-CD-23



POSTMODERNISM


Ornette Coleman Double Quartet
Free Jazz (1960)

Atlantic 1364-2

 


The progression may be even clearer when we hear different styles together, as in this meeting between Romantic Coleman Hawkins and Modernist Sonny Rollins.

Sonny Rollins & Co. with Coleman Hawkins
All the Things You Are (1963)

RCA Bluebird 2179-2-RB



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