Name of ballad recorded by Hawkins in 1939
Body and Soul
Forum where new ideas were articulated
Minton’s Playhouse
In 1943, first bebop combo formed by Oscar Pettiford and WHO?
Dizzy Gillespie
First bebop recordings made in 1945 by what two musicians?
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
Gillespie, Davis or Brown?
Apprehensive about settling into a single mode of expression-new ways to manipulate rhythm, timbre, and silence-used harmony, mute and amplified trumpet.
Miles Davis
Gillespie, Davis or Brown?
Delicate vibrato, low notes followed by explosive passage in high register, screeching.
Dizzy Gillespie
1950 cool jazz album
The Birth of Cool
1959 album using modes
Kind of Blue
Who anticipated cool jazz on tenor sax, laidback?
Lester Young
Where did Gil Evans and Miles David rehearse with a 9-piece group?
the basement on 55th street
Parker, Konitz or Mulligan?
First modern jazz sax
Charlie Parker
Parker, Konitz or Mulligan?
Model for cool jazz influenced West Coast
Lee Konitz
Parker, Konitz or Mulligan?
Pianoless quartet, subdued, relaxed, etc
Gerry Mulligan
Coltrane or Rollins?
Running notes, sense of anguish, sheets of sound
John Coltrane
Holiday, Vaughan or Fitzgerald?
Influenced by Armstrong and Bessie Smieth, semi-talking/singing style, slightly behind the beat
Billie Holiday
bebop, cool, or hard bop:
Afro-Cuban rhythms, hectic tempos, advanced harmony, unison playing, fluid melodic
Bebop
bebop, cool, or hard bop:
Slower tempos, serious music, modal jazz, mellow sonorities, new instuments
Cool
bebop, cool, or hard bop:
less complex harmony, darker tonal sonorites, stronger accents
hard bop
Drummer who led the jazz messengers with Horace Silver
Art Blakey
Guitarist who played long flowing lines; electric guitarist
Charlie Christian
Name of album with “take five” and “blue rondo”
Time Out
Group which was elegant combining improvisation with classical composition
Modern Jazz Quartet
Band leader who developed concert jazz, emphasized composition & music education
Stan Kenton
Leader who used swing, bebop, cool, hard bop, classical, third stream, gospel, blues, spanish, african, eastern, avant-garde
Charlie Mingus
John Birks Gillespie’s nickname
Dizzy Gillespie
Baritone saxophonist
Gerry Mulligan
Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
Dazzled listeners flawless techician, passing chords.
Art Tatum
Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
Block chords, multimeter, alto saxophonist was Paul Desmond
Dave Brubeck
Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
Suggested rather than defined harmony, quartal harmony, cool introspective, sensitive, soft touch
Bill Evans
Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
First bebop player, right hand played quick, fluid, smooth flowing lines
Bud Powell
Name the pianist: Monk, Silver or Peterson?
Earthy, bluesy, gospel, hard bop leader, soul, funk and latin influences
Silver
Name the pianist: Monk, Silver or Peterson?
Short musical ideas unified his music, jabs, syncopation & dissonance
Monk
Name the pianist: Monk, Silver or Peterson?
Borrowed approaches from others, virtuosis, graceful, mysterious reharmonizations, funky, hard bop
Oscar Peterson
Things to Come or Boplicity?
Vibes solo, sarcastic 4 note backup
Things to Come
Things to Come or Boplicity?
Cool jazz, dreamy dissonance
Boplicity
Hora Decubitis, Shaw ‘Nuff, or Commencement?
Eclectic, swing, Bebop, hard Bop, Funky riff-based 12-bar blues
Hora Decubritus
Hora Decubitis, Shaw ‘Nuff, or Commencement?
Large ensemble, written music, bombastic sounds, concert jazz
Commencement
Hora Decubitis, Shaw ‘Nuff, or Commencement?
Introduction uses an Afro-Cuban rhythm (vamp) and returns towards end
Shaw ‘Nuff
Tea for Two or Something’s Comin’?
Stride piano gone wild, dazzlings runs, walking chords, rhythmic energy
Tea for Two
Tea for Two or Something’s Comin’?
Agitated string bass, dissonant chords, drums play military-type rhythm, brilliantly executed, blues-based scale in both hands
Something’s Comin’