Other Homework Help

The report must address and discuss one of the albums on this list:

https://www.jazz.org/blog/10-essential-jazz-albums/

• The artists performing on the album. [20 percent of total]
• The importance and impact of the album in jazz history. [20 percent of total]
• One track from the album must be selected for musical analysis 

Title of the Work and Composer [0 points – simply a requirement]

• Meter(s) – Listen and/or observe the leader’s count-off (or conducting pattern) or accents 

if no conductor was present and determine the meter of the main theme or first 

section(following an introduction if an intro was used). The meter will most likely be 2, 

3, or 4 beats to the measure but could be some other number (like 5 in Take Five). [10 

percent of total]

• Genre or Category – Bebop, Swing, Blues, Smooth, etc. [0 points – simply a 

requirement]

• Harmonic Characteristics: In general terms was the harmonic vocabulary primarily

consonant or mostly dissonant? If possible, identify major scale, minor scale, modal,

traditional blues progressions, etc. [10 percent of total]

• Period of Jazz – list the date written, corresponding style period, one sentence on whether 

this piece displays characteristics of the period and list 2 characteristics YOU heard in 

this piece. If the work is a “modernization” or recasts a well-known work in a new or 

different style, be sure to make that observation and address the most interesting aspects 

of the musical transformation. [10 percent of total]

• Composer’s Chief Contributions to Jazz – this information can be taken from class lesson

slides, online research, and your own observations.