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Scales

• Major Scales

• Modes of the Major Scale

• ”Blues” scales

Radio Programs About Famous Jazz Musicians

If you would like to learn more about the history of jazz, check out these shows hosted by great musicians and feel free to browse through the different episodes and just listen to the ones that look particularly interesting to you.

• Jazz Profiles, hosted by singer Nancy Wilson

• Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz

• Jazz Night In America, hosted by bassist Christian McBride

Hear & Now Listening Assignments

There are no wrong answers so have fun!

1. John Coltrane

2. Miles Davis

3. Clifford Brown & Max Roach

4. Your Turn

5. Duke Ellington

6. Louis Armstrong

7. Ella Fitzgerald

8. Billie Holiday

9. Lester Young

10. Cab Calloway featuring The Nicholas Brothers

11. Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster

12. Erroll Garner & Art Tatum

13. Fats Waller

14. Count Basie Orchestra

15. Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra

16. Charlie Parker

17. Bud Powell

18. Oscar Pettiford

19. Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian

20. Lionel Hampton

21. Tadd Dameron

22. Max Roach

23. Dizzy Gillespie

24. Thelonious Monk

25. Sonny Stitt

26. Your Turn Again

27. Charles Mingus

28. Dexter Gordon

29. Sarah Vaughan

30. Roy Haynes

31. J.J. Johnson

32. Dinah Washington

33. Melba Liston

34. Mardi Gras & Carnival in the Americas and Caribbean

35. Horace Silver

36. Benny Golson

37. Mary Lou Williams

38. Art Blakey

39. Nat King Cole

40. Ornette Coleman

41. Lee Morgan

42. Eric Dolphy

43. Nancy Wilson

44. Red Garland, Tommy Flanagan & Wynton Kelly

45. Sonny Rollins

46. Betty Carter

47. Ahmad Jamal

48. Wes Montgomery

49. Cannonball Adderley

50. Bill Evans

51. Miles Davis Quintet w/ Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter & Tony Williams