Jazz History
The videos in this series are adapted from a PowerPoint presentation used to teach a course for university jazz majors. The timeline stretches from about 1900-1970 because that was the most I felt I could adequately cover in the time allotted for the in-person course. This series is presented from…
71 videos · Chase Sanborn
- THE EVOLUTION OF AUDIO RECORDING (Remember this?) Jazz History #1
- PLAYER PIANOS (The first jazz we can hear) Jazz History #2
- SCOTT JOPLIN (Ragtime King) Jazz History #3
- NEW ORLEANS AND THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JASS BAND (The cradleland) Jazz History #4
- JELLY ROLL MORTON (No shrinking violet) Jazz History #5
- JAMES P. JOHNSON (Top dog) Jazz History #6
- WILLIE SMITH (The Lion) Jazz History #7
- THE JAZZ AGE & TIN PAN ALLEY (Lucrative cacophony) Jazz History #9
- FATS WALLER (One never knows, do one?) Jazz History #8
- PAUL WHITEMAN (What's he doing here?) Jazz History #10
- FLETCHER HENDERSON (The other king) Jazz History #11
- SIDNEY BECHET (Sarrusophonist extraordinaire) Jazz History #12
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG PART ONE (Leading the way) Jazz History #13
- LIL HARDIN (Mrs. Armstrong but more than that) Jazz History #14
- EARL 'FATHA' HINES (If Louis Armstrong played the piano) Jazz History #15
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG PART TWO (West End Blues) Jazz History #16
- JACK TEAGARDEN (Inventor of the spit valve?) Jazz History #17
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG PART THREE (Political activist and pop star) Jazz History #18
- BIX BEIDERBECKE & FRANKIE TRUMBAUER (The charge of the white brigade) Jazz History #19
- BESSIE SMITH (Jazz Empress) / Jazz History Ep. 20
- DUKE ELLINGTON PART ONE (Grace and humility) / Jazz History #21
- DUKE ELLINGTON PART TWO (Musician and poker player) Jazz History #22
- DUKE ELLINGTON & BILLY STRAYHORN (Two halves of a whole) Jazz History #23
- MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Through muck and mud) Jazz History #24
- ART TATUM (God is in the house) Jazz History #25
- OSCAR PETERSON (Heir apparent and pride of the north) Jazz History #26
- DOROTHY DONEGAN (The greatest pianist you might never have heard) Jazz History #27
- JOHN HAMMOND & NORMAN GRANZ (Enormously influential) Jazz History #28
- SWINGING AT THE SAVOY (So you think you can dance?) Jazz History #29
- BENNY GOODMAN (Swinging King) Jazz History #30
- THE INTERNATIONAL SWEETHEARTS OF RHYTHM (You need to know this) Jazz History #31
- MELBA LISTON (Breaking the gender barrier) Jazz History #32
- COUNT BASIE (Pride of Red Bank) Jazz History #33
- COLEMAN HAWKINS (On the Bean) Jazz History #34
- BEN WEBSTER (Two sides of the jazz coin) Jazz History #35
- LESTER YOUNG (Hello Pork Pie Hat) Jazz History #36
- BILLIE HOLIDAY (Two-note wonder) Jazz History #37
- ELLA FITZGERALD (First lady of song) Jazz History #38
- SARAH VAUGHAN (Divine inspiration) Jazz History #39
- DINAH WASHINGTON (Bewigged and beguiling) Jazz History #40
- NANCY WILSON (Class + virtuosity) Jazz History #41
- ANITA O'DAY (Good times with a great hat) Jazz History #42
- CARMEN McRAE (Sings Monk) Jazz History #43
- BETTY CARTER (Bebop Betty) Jazz History # 44
- THE BIRTH OF BEBOP (And modern jazz) Jazz History #45
- KENNY CLARKE & CHARLIE CHRISTIAN (From swing to bop) Jazz History #46
- CHARLIE PARKER (What a chicken!) Jazz History #47
- DIZZY GILLESPIE (Bebop trumpeter and presidential candidate) Jazz History #48
- THELONIOUS MONK (A Sphere of influence) Jazz History #49
- BUD POWELL (Bouncing with...) Jazz History #50
- PANNONICA (The Jazz Baroness) Jazz History #51
- POST BOP JAZZ STYLES (Was 1959 the most important year?) Jazz History #52
- THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET (Dignity Personified) Jazz History #53
- THE JAZZ MESSENGERS (A convoluted history) Jazz History #54
- HORACE SILVER (The Hard Bop Grandpop) Jazz History #55
- ART BLAKEY (Orgy in Rhythm) Jazz History #56
- BILL EVANS (Who everybody digs) Jazz History #57
- BILL EVANS (It's not easy being green) Jazz History #58
- SONNY ROLLINS (Living legend) Jazz History #54
- SONNY ROLLINS (Reigns Supreme) Jazz History #55
- JOHN COLTRANE (A giant step for jazz kind) Jazz History #56
- JOHN COLTRANE (A saintly persona) Jazz History #57
- CHARLES MINGUS (Angry man of jazz?) Jazz History #58
- ORNETTE COLEMAN (Shaping jazz) Jazz History #59
- MILES DAVIS (From the beginning) Jazz History #60
- MILES DAVIS (Hard Bop & Harmon) Jazz History #61
- MILES DAVIS (Ascendent) Jazz History #62
- MILES DAVIS & GIL EVANS (Partnership par excellence) Jazz History #63
- MILES DAVIS (The second great quintet) Jazz History #64
- MILES DAVIS (Electric Brewmaster) Jazz History #65
- What's So GREAT About CHET BAKER?