On this page you can find links to the recommended listening for each lesson of the Idler Guide to Jazz with Sandy Burnett. Notes can be found below each video which expand on Sandy’s teaching and you can always ask questions in our community forum.
Simply click on the title of each song to play it online:
Lesson 1: The Early Years
The first examples of jazz up to 1927
Lesson 2: 1927 – 1939
The popularising of the jazz genre
Lesson 3: 1940s
The birth of the bop style
Lesson 4: 1950s
The Cool School and its performers
Lesson 5: 1960s
Hard Bop and its pioneers
Lesson 6: Avant Garde
Improvisation, fusion and the future of jazz
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