http://www.jazzstudiesonline.org/files/Jazz%20as%20Decal.pdf
Fair warning: this is an exercise in false dichotomies – jazz and classical music in the twentieth century were often feeding off similar roots. But my key contention is that even now, long after Gunther Schuller’s ‘Third Stream’, the phenomenon that is the appeal of ‘World Music’, and the fusion of everything that isn’t bolted down (to mix a metaphor), we still have a sense of what is jazz and what is classical music.
It could be borrowings of melodic, harmonic or rhythmic qualities, or it could be the tendency of jazz musicians to favour more complex harmonies or to otherwise show their allegiance to the avant garde, which seems to me more of a highbrow borrowing from the classical music world than an indigenous jazz trait.
Something about confluences, tributaries here.
So, the following list of tracks represent a slightly selective history of jazz tracks with classical elements and classical tracks with a jazz influence.
I want this list to be an organic thing. If you can suggest any tracks I’ve neglected, please leave a comment.
The 1920s
| Year | The Jazz Side Of Things | The Classical Side Of Things |
|---|---|---|
| 1920 | Adieu, New York (Georges Auric, 1920) - Andrew West - 2000 | |
| 1921 | Jazzy (from Three Moods) (Copland, 1921) - Leo Smit - 1978 | |
| Caramel mou (Shimmy) (Darius Milhaud, 1921) - Andrew West - 2000 | ||
| 1922 | That Da-Da-Strain - Ethel Waters & Her Jazz Masters | Ragtime (from Suite ‘1922’, Paul Hindemith, 1922) - Simone Pedroni - 1993 |
| The Okey Laughing Record - Karl Valentin & Liesl Karlstadt | Sexema - Rudy Wiedoeft - 1922 | |
| 1923 | La Creation Du Monde (Milhaud, 1923) - cond. Milhaud 1932 | |
| 1924 | Rhapsody In Blue (Gershwin, arr. Grofé 1924) - Paul Whiteman’s Concert Orchestra (p. George Gershwin) - 1927 | |
| Allegro (from Concertino for Piano & Orchestra) (Honegger, 1924) - Minneapolis S.O., cond. Eugene Ormandy, p. Eunice Norton - 1934 | ||
| 1925 | Jazz Symphony (George Antheil, 1925) - San Francisco Symphony, cond. Michael Tilson Thomas - 2000 | |
| 1926 | Chanson (pour Robert Stolz) (from Cinque Etudes de Jazz, Erwin Schulhoff, 1926) - Erwin Schulhoff - 1928 | |
| Sentimental Melody (Copland, 1926) - Leo Smit - 1993 | ||
| 1927 | In A Mist - Bix Beiderbecke | |
| Washboard Blues (1927, Hoagy Carmichael) - Connee Boswell - 1932 | ||
| 1928 | Poor Butterfly - Red Nichols And His Orchestra, v. Scrappy Lambert - 1928 | |
| West End Blues - Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - 1928 | The Rio Grande (Constant Lambert, 1928) - Harty, St. Michaels Singers, Hallé Orch., dir. Lambert - 1930 | |
| Stop Kidding (Neckbones and Sauerkraut) (Arr. John Nesbitt) - McKinney’s Cotton Pickers Orchestra - 1928 | ||
| 1929 | You’ve Got To Be Modernistic (James P Johnson) - Jimmie Johnson & His Orchestra feat. Fats Waller | |
| Futuristic Rhythm - Louisiana Rhythm Kings - 1929 | ||
| Weird and Blue - Jabbo Smith - 1929 | ||
| Numb Fumbling - Fats Waller - 1929 | ||
| Two Guitars (Russ. trad) - Eddie South - 1929 |
Download Part 3: The 1920s here.
The 1930s
| Year | The Jazz Side Of Things | The Classical Side Of Things |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | Creole Rhapsody - Duke Ellington | Allegramente - Piano Concerto in G (Ravel, 1931) Marguerite Long - 1932 |
| 1932 | Hell’s Bells - Art Kassel and his Castles in the Air Orchestra - 1932 | |
| 1933 | Dance of the Octopus - Red Norvo - 1933 | |
| Tiger Rag - Art Tatum - 1933 | ||
| Hole in the Wall - Red Norvo | ||
| Queer Notions - Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra | ||
| 1934 | Have You Forgotten God (Cooke, 1933-1934) - Alistair Cooke - 1955 | |
| Jazznocracy - Jimmy Lunceford - 1934 | ||
| The House is Haunted (Billy Rose & Basil G. Adlam) - Glen Gray & Casa Loma Orchestra - 1934 | ||
| Deep Purple (Peter De Rose) - Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - 1934 | ||
| 1935 | Bess, You Is My Woman (from Porgy and Bess) (Gershwin, 1935) - Todd Duncan & Anne Brown - 1940 | |
| 1936 | Nightfall (Carter) - Benny Carter - 1936 | |
| Waltzing The Blues (Carter) - Benny Carter - 1936 | ||
| Interlude In B Flat (Live in NYC) (Shaw) - Artie Shaw - 1936 | ||
| 1937 | Powerhouse (Scott, 1937) - Raymond Scott Quintette - 1939 | |
| Improvisation - Django Reinhardt - 1937 | ||
| Surprises No 1 - Rudy Vallee | ||
| Smoke Dreams - Mildred Bailey & Red Norvo - 1937 | ||
| Sweet Sue - Don Redman & his Orchestra - 1937 | ||
| 1938 | Stop, Look and Listen - Tommy Dorsey | |
| Quaker City Jazz - Jan Savitt & His Orchestra - 1938 | ||
| In the Dark (Beiderbecke) - Bunny Berigan - 1938 | ||
| The Miserere (Gregorio Allegri) ‘Straight’, then ‘Swung’ - Jelly Roll Morton - 1938 | ||
| 1939 | Montmartre - Rex Steward And His Feetwarmers feat. Django Reinhardt | Sea Fugue Mama - Alec Wilder Octet - 1939 |
| Child Of A Disordered Brain - Earl Hines - 1939 | ||
| Echoes of Spring - Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith - 1939 |
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