OCR AS jazz (2011)
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Background and analysis of OCR's jazz set works for 2011.
Three jazz works feature for the first time in the OCR specification for the summer examination in 2011:
- Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven: Alligator Crawl (Chicago, 1927)
- Charlie Parker’s Reboppers: Ko-Ko (New York, 1945)
- Miles Davis and the Gil Evans Orchestra: It Ain’t Necessarily So from Porgy and Bess (New York, 1958)
The AS listening paper includes questions on these works. In Section B there are 15 marks (out of a total of 90 marks for the paper) for questions on an extract from one of the recordings. In Section C there are 20 marks for an essay on the historical background to the prescribed orchestral and jazz works.
