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Jazz Four Year Repertoires

Jazz Studies Instructors:
Raffi Garabedian, saxophone
Doug Leibinger, trombone
Randy Vincent, guitar 
Ken Cook, piano 
Andrew Emer, bass 
George Marsh, drums
Ian Carey, trumpet

 

At the end of each semester, every Jazz Studies major at SSU must perform a "jury" for a panel of faculty. The 10-minute jury performance will consist of one jazz standard from the following list and one item recommended by your private lesson instructor.

The jazz standard may be performed with a live rhythm section or a Jamey Aebersold-style play­ along recording-the melody and chord progression must be memorized.

Drummers must perform their jury with at least two other players.

Your "position" on the list is determined by your projected graduation date-i.e. first semester freshmen start with the first five tunes; a transfer student with a projected 5-semester plan would begin at "2/2." All five tunes from each semester are eligible- the faculty panel will determine which standard to perform.

 

Freshman Year - 1/1

So What 
Blue Monk
Summertime 
Blue Bossa 
Maiden Voyage
 

1/2

Take the A Train 
Song for My Father 
All Blues
Footprints 
Cantaloupe Island


Sophomore Year - 2/1

Billie's Bounce 
Killer Joe 
Ladybird
The Girl From lpanema 
A Night in Tunisia
2/2 Anthropology 
Autumn Leaves 
Alone Together
Have You Met Miss Jones 
All the Things You Are

 

Junior Year - 3/1

Freddie Freeloader
What is This Thing Called Love? 
Just Friends
How Insensitive
Someday My Prince Will Come
 

3/2

Stella by Starlight
You and the Night and the Music 
Up Jumped Spring
Body and Soul 
Yesterdays
 

Senior Year - 4/1

'Round Midnight 
Along Came Betty 
Isfahan
Cherokee 
Donna Lee
 

4/2

Confirmation 
Take Five
Peace (Horace Silver) 
Dolphin Dance
Giant Steps

 

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