Jazz Album Appreciation with Dosta - Top 10 Jazz Albums

Name: Jazz Album Appreciation with Dosta - Top 10 Jazz Albums
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Open to a new understanding of Creative Concept

Created byDosta Andrew Lake

Last updated 11/2022

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What you'll learn

Learn the deeper significance of Jazz appreciation
Discover the cultural implications of various artistic and creative processes
Appreciate diversity of personalities in the world of Jazz
Understand the weight and freedom of tradition in creative processes

Course content

2 sections • 6 lectures • 42m total length

Introduction4:01
Explore how influential jazz albums reveal cultural, musical, spiritual, psychological, and social dimensions while celebrating the album as a complete art form, from cover to listening order.

Kind of Blue5:47
Kind of Blue shifts jazz from bebop to an atmospheric, soulful expression, via one chord per 16 bars, as Miles Davis frees space for tone and flavor.
Radiance9:02
Radiance, a Keith Jarrett solo piano album, marks a turning point in improvised music with a new process that blends studio workshop material into live performance.
Song Book7:34
Explore Kenny Garrett's Songbook, a 1990s modern jazz quartet where an explosive, euphoric color palette and original songs push jazz beyond tradition, with acoustic saxophone, piano, bass, and drums.
Tokyo '967:16
Explore how the Keith Jarrett Trio balances the piano's soft detail with drums' energy on Tokyo 96, featuring spontaneous improvisation in Caribbean Sky.
Monk and Coltrane8:42
Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane deliver a landmark Carnegie Hall live album, showcasing Coltrane's chaos alongside Monk's restrained approach and the compelling interplay between them.

Requirements

No previous skill required, however, a basic understanding and appreciation of Jazz is recommended

Description

The great American tradition of Jazz music is a cultural phenomenon like no other

Perhaps no other style encompasses so much and balances so well between technicality and conceptual approach

Jazz appreciation opens up so much more than just a greater experience of the music, it also expands our understanding of consciousness and creative living

Learn how tradition relates to innovation

Learn how industry forces relate to creative endeavor

Learn the essence that is behind the sound of music

Learn the qualities of consciousness that music brings and why is critical for our own transcendence, as evolving human beings, to discover these qualities again

Creative concept is at the heart of any prominent jazz album, and by reviewing these albums we discuss the workings of higher understanding

Learn how concept drives newness of ideas

Learn how higher understanding opens a deeper awareness of experience

Learn what is beyond the mind, and how music puts one in touch with the ‘soul’

Learn how the impression music makes is directly related to the quality of consciousness that resides within you

Appreciate Jazz at it’s finest hour, in it’s highest form, at the peak of spiritual expression

Music is life!

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Who this course is for:

Jazz Students
Music Students
Cultural Connoisseurs
Music Appreciation enthusiasts

Jazz Album Appreciation with Dosta - Top 10 Jazz Albums

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 4min

Recommended Albums5 lectures • 38min

Requirements

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