Jazz and New Orleans

Catalog description

Jazz is often called "America's Classical Music." It is the only global art form invented by Americans, as created and developed by African-Americans in New Orleans. Jazz began life as "emancipation music," according to clarinetist Sidney Bechet. This class will draw a straight line from the New Orleans jazz of Bechet and Louis Armstrong to the contemporary brass-band funk of Rebirth,Trombone Shorty, and the Soul Rebels.