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David Baker, Distinguished Professor of Music and Chair
of the Jazz Department at the Indiana University School of Music
in Bloomington. A virtuoso performer on multiple instruments and
top in his field in several disciplines, Mr. Baker has taught and
performed throughout the USA, Canada, Europe, Scandinavia, New Zealand
and Japan. He is also the conductor and musical and artistic director
of the Smithsonian jazz masterworks Orchestra.
Mr. Baker received both bachelor's and master's degrees in music
education from Indiana University and has studied with a wide range
of master teachers. A 1973 Pulitzer Prize nominee, he has been inducted
into Down Beat magazine's Jazz Education Hall of Fame, and has received
numerous other awards. His compositions tally over 2,000 in number
and range from jazz and sonatas to film scores. Baker is currently
president of the National Jazz Service Organization and senior consultant
for music programs for the Smithsonian Institution. He is author
of Jazz Pedagogy and more than 60 other books on jazz and black
music, and has written numerous articles in Down Beat, Instrumentalist
and Orchestra News. He has more than 65 recordings, 70 books, and
400 articles to his credit.
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Jazz - America's History through
Music
Wednesday-Sunday November
15-19, 2000
East Central University, Ada campus
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This course covered the history of jazz from the Swing Era
to the present. It was organized by style periods and included
swing (the music of the Big Band Era); bebop; the cool school;
hard bop; and the post-1959 phenomena of modal jazz, free jazz,
the Thirdstream, liturgical jazz, ethnic jazz, and other tangents.
Students examined the musical characteristics of each style
through recordings, film (some of which is quite rare), live
demonstrations, transcriptions, and verbal explication; and
placed each style in its historical, cultural, social, economic,
and political context. In addition, the course also covered
the lives and times of some of jazz's most important musicians
- their influences; innovations; seminal recordings; and the
events, people, and circumstances that helped to shape their
lives.
This course was designed for anyone who has an interest in
the evolution of jazz. A person did not need to be able to read
music, nor have performance skills, established listening habits,
or a background which includes formal training in music.
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The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied
by OSLEP)
Jazz: The First Century. John Edward Hasse,
ed., William Morrow/Harper Collins Publishers, 2000.
The History of Jazz. Ted Gioia. Oxford University
Press, 1997.
The Making of Jazz. James Lincoln Collier. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978.
The Jazz Book. Westport, Joachim E. Berendt.
Connecticut: Lawrence Hill & Company, 1981.
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