Cool, Hard Bop and Beyond

First Class: Cool, Hard Bop and Beyond-Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins Date: Wed, May 2, 2012, 7 pm Venue: Classroom Location: Lexington Avenue at 92nd St Event Code: TW12S61122

This enthralling new listening- and discussion-oriented seminar takes a chronological and thematic approach to developing a love and working knowledge of jazz, America’s great indigenous art form!

Each session will focus on a specific style and the artists who helped invent and define it. The new and curious listener emerges with a “sound” basis in jazz and its many improvisatory permutations.

1 Session: $25

Brief Biography
Oliver Trager is the author of three books on jazz and American music. He studied with two of jazz’s unheralded modern figures: Bill Dixon and Milford Graves.