Learning Series: All About Jazz: America’s Great Art Form

Library : Eldredge Public Library

Location : Forgeron Hall - Front Meeting Room

Start : Monday 24th of November 2025 1:30 PM

End : Monday 24th of November 2025 3:00 PM

Description :

In this course, John Basile will lead discussions of jazz, one of the few original art forms to emerge from the United States. Its first star was Louis Armstrong, the great trumpet player and equally great singer. Other greats who shaped the music’s development include Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, and Ella Fitzgerald. The course will include information on all of these musicians and more, and we’ll listen to examples of their music as we trace the development of jazz from primarily a blues-influenced dance music through the Swing Era, Bebop, Modal Jazz and into the Avant Garde. The course will conclude with a session on jazz on Cape Cod. This is a three part series: November 24, December 1 and 8This program is part of the Friends of the Eldredge Public Library Learning Series. A $10 donation per course is suggested. All net proceeds are used by the Friends of the EPL to support the Library. Registration and payment forms are available at the Library front desk and online at www.eldredgelibrary.org/learning-series.