prize17-10, Exercise 3: Designing your own listening plan

Model answer (a method, since the choices are yours):

1. Choose eight recordings that cover at least five of the styles in the course, with at least two made after 1980. Take one from each of: early New Orleans-style, a 1920s soloist, a big band, bebop, a cool or hard bop record, a modal or free record, a fusion record, and one recent.
2. For each, write one sentence saying what to listen for, using the Chapter 1 ingredients: where is the swing, who solos, what is the form?
3. Check each date in at least two places, such as a discography, the record company's page or a reference book. If the sources disagree, note both dates.
4. Put the plan in a list of (year, title) pairs, as in the chapter, and print it sorted by year.

Care: the post-1980 choices are the ones with the least settled history. Say how you found them (a festival, a radio show, a friend) rather than claiming they are the best.