Jazz Artists Curriculum
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  First Year
    1st Quarter - Count Basie, Lester Young, Ella Fitzgerald, Steve Grossman
    2nd Quarter - Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, J. J. Johnson
    3rd Quarter - Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Roy Eldridge
    4th Quarter - Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet, Joe Henderson

  Second Year
    1st Quarter - Stan Kenton, Thelonious Monk, Billy Holiday, Carl Fontana
    2nd Quarter - Woody Herman, Louis Armstrong, Clifford Brown
    3rd Quarter - Billy Strayhorn,Charlie Mingus, Chet Baker, Joe Pass
    4th Quarter - Coleman Hawkins, John Coltrane, Wynton Marsalis

  Third Year
    1st Quarter - Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Oscar Peterson, Frank Rosolino
    2nd Quarter - Art Blakey, Keith Jarrett, Joe Williams, Pat Methany
    3rd Quarter - Scott Joplin, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Dexter Gordon
    4th Quarter - Mc Coy Tyner, Gerry Mulligan, Freddie Hubbard

  Fourth Year
    1st Quarter - Benny Goodman, Art Tatum, Artie Shaw, Curtis Fuller
    2nd Quarter - Cannonball Adderly, Dorsey Brothers, Charlie Christian
    3rd Quarter - Gene Krupa, Louie Bellson, Lionel Hampton, Jim Hall
    4th Quarter - Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Stan Getz, Lee Morgan

  Worksheets and recordings of these artists will be studied so that the student may be exposed to their styles,   interpretations, improvisation and communication skills through music.

  The quizzes will be on the following dates:
          1st Quarter Artists:  Wed, Sept. 24
          2nd Quarter Artists:  Wed, Dec. 3
          3rd Quarter Artists:  Wed, Feb. 25
          4th Quarter Artists:  Wed, May 5