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Course Description


Instructor: John S. O’Shea, MD (and music fan)

Continuing our popular exploration of 1920s and 1930s jazz — a seminal period in jazz and actually in all of music — this course will again feature all new material as part of a planned multi-year series. This year will feature the fabulous music and stories of Jelly Roll Morton (who just might have invented jazz, and was probably its best small band arranger and leader); Jean Goldkette and Bix Beiderbecke, with a bit of Bing Crosby; Fletcher Henderson (co-inventor of the big band); Earl Hines (the best pianist to lead a big band); Count Basie and Lester Young (jazz’s most inventive improviser); Chick Webb and the young Ella Fitzgerald; Benny Carter (expert on almost all wind instruments, plus among the best arrangers); and John Kirby (leader of The Biggest Little Band in the Land).
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