JAZZ 201 Jazz Appreciation Workshop
with Ben Young

Where & When

Hartford Public Library
500 Main Street, Hartford, CT

Room: Center for Contemporary Culture on the main floor

Monday evenings – 8 consecutive weeks
5:30 – 7:30 PM
March 23 – May 11

This workshop is FREE

Class Schedule

** Postponed **
Schedule of Topics
3/23: The blues and the beginnings of Jazz
3/30: The Jazz Age
4/6: The Swing Era
4/13: Bebop
4/20: Economic history of jazz
4/27: After Bebop
5/4: Jazz expansions of the 1950’s
5/11: People’s Choice

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After last year’s highly successful run of Jazz 101 in Hartford, we’re offering the follow-up course this spring. Like Jazz 101 we meet once per week for eight weeks, and also like the predecessor, Jazz 201 flows through the entire history of Jazz music in sequence. This intermediate course, though, focuses on more refined lessons–observing how contemporaries show up differently in sound and practice–King Oliver’s methodologies compared with Jelly Roll Morton’s; Clifford Brown’s solo presence as distinct from Miles Davis’s, or Charles Mingus’s modernity compared with that of Art Blakey, etc.

The only pre-requisite is your interest in jazz music. Jazz 101 is not a prerequisite. There are no tests, no papers, no homework, no pressure, no question is too basic! Classes begin March 23 for 8 consecutive Mondays 5:30-7:30PM at the Hartford Public Library and are FREE OF CHARGE.

Instructor Ben Young has been teaching jazz curriculum for 10 years, at JaLC and in several cities of the Northeast. Young’s experience also includes teaching the histories of Jazz and Improvised music on radio for 25 years at New York’s WKCR, and doing research and production for record labels, Verve, BMG and others.

Please register by clicking the button below. Seating is limited. Your email allows us to send out course material prior to class.

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