History of Jazz

• in ellington’s band
• trumpet
• “Concerto for Cootie”
• Swing
• growling, or jungle music

• Played with Weather Report
• electric Base
• drug problems and bipolar. beaten to death getting into a club.
• Jazz rock fusion
• fast tempo
• changed the direction of Jazz bass playing

Jaco Pastorious’ band 

• used collective improvisation
• emancipation of traditional roles in the rhythm section
• Joe Zawinul

• one of the biggest names in Jazz
• guitarist
• Jazz Rock Fusion
• spacious and open sounds (elevator type music)
• Songs: first circle, slip away, 5-5-7(named for the chorus)

• Sax 
• Songs: Nefertiti, Chameleon
• Jazz Rock Fusion
• electronic overdubs
• platinum selling.

• Tenor and Sporano
• after parker, the most widely imiatated saxophonist in Jazz.
• Miles Davis Quintet
• worked with Monk
• drugs, but overcame the addiction. A Love Supreme is the album that celebrates it.
• one main objectives was to elaborate the full implications of bop chord progressions.
• played with sheets of sound
• re established
• Hard bop and Bop.

• Transition to bepop.
• first one to amplify guitar
• played with goodman
• breakfast fued.

• belgian gypsy guitarist
• only had 3 fingeres on one hand
• unamplified guitar
• first outstanding Jazz Musician
• Qunitette du Hot Club de France
• transition

• severly limited vision
• amazing technique and velocity at piano
• reharminization
• songs: Willow Weep for Me, Tiger Rag
• transition 

• nicknamed yardbird
• possibly the most important musical figures in jazz history
• played and lots of notes. densley packed solos
• saxiphonist
• songs: Shaw Nuff(with Dizzy), Embraceable You (two alternate takes)
• bebop

• first important bop trumpeter
• introduced Afro-Cuban music
• Cab Calloway called his music “chinese music”
• bebop

• Unorthodox composer
• played like he could bend the notes like a jaz player
• pianist
• songs: straight no chaser
• bebop

• admired as a composer not as a pianist
• worked with Paul Desmond (alto sax)
• mastery of “odd” meters
• “Time out” was most Famous Album
• songs: take 5, blue rondao ala turk (based on Mozart)

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.;

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.;

Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there. 

For me, music and life are all about style. 

I’ll play it and tell you what it is later.;

It’s always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don’t know where it comes from, it’s just there and I don’t question it.;

• played through 4 decades of Jazz
• trumpet
• nonflamboyant style (just the pretty notes)
• caressed harmonies rather than set them on fire
• thought to be more of a re-composer rather than a rearranger.
• Albums: Birth of Cool (bop), Bitche Brew(jazz rock fusion), Kind of Blue (introduced modal Jazz), Hard Bop
• Allstar band from Kind of Blue: Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans (piano), Cannonball Adderly (alto sax), Jimmy Cobb (drums), Paul Chambers (bass)

Paul Chambers

Wynton Kelly

Bill Evans

Jimmy Cobb

John Coltrane

Cannonball Adderley

Miles

Wayne Shorter (Saxophone)

Herbie Hancock (Piano)

Tony Williams (Drums)

Ron Carter (Bass)

-free flowing sounds, airy feeling.

Stella by Starlight

Nefertitti

Hand Jive

Brown Hornet

Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

Tutu

• west coast
• Pianoless quartet
• no harmonic instrument
• used counterpoint as the main focus
• songs: Bernie’s Tune, Walkin’ Shoes

• Piano
• AABA
• Uses brass vs. reeds-call and response
• played in silent movie theaters
• took over Bennie Moten’s band in 1935
• style went from stride to very sparse
• songs: doggin’ around, jumpin at the woodside

• played in basie’s band 
• strummed chords on each beat.
• rarely played solos, more of a rhythm player

• edward kennedy ellington
• composer, band leader and pianist
• 2000+ compositions.
• “Master of the three minute form”
• took the idiom of jazz into the format of extended works
• often wrote more than one versoin to a song
• “jungle” pieces at the cotton club
• dance pieces
• cotton club was his important engagement
• buber miley- growling sounds and plunger mute
• discovered the “golden section”
• wrote the suites- a group of pieces tied together in some way and intended to be performed together
• somposed a film score, Anatomy of a murder

Poems are free flowing

Lyrics are defined by form and meter

Poems can be of any length

Lyrics must be concise

Poetry can have a visual dimension – giving the reader a chance to go back and reflect on abstractions

Lyrics are primarily aural and are absorbed by the ear as the song goes along

• Ellington’s “alter ego”
• cowrote with ellington a lot of music during the 50s.
• liked to compose the dark keys
• wrote Take a Train, Lush Life at 18
• flourished in Ellington’s Shadow

• Bossa Nova (rich)
• Samba (poor)
• contains a cool jazz sense of flavor
• BimBom played on classical nylon stringed guitar

• drummer and leader of the Jazz messengers
• epitomized the “loosening” of Jazz drumming styles
• loud intrusions
• call and response
• AABA
• 12 bar blues
• songs: moanin’, blues march

• Free Jazz
• post modern
• his jazz sounds like rock
• Naked City
• opposite of Wynton Marsalis

• Neo Traditionalism
• plays at the lincoln center in NY

on the trumpet. died in a car crash in 1956 at the age of 25. played long fluid lines remenicent of Bebop, but was a Hard Bop player.

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songs: Charokee, Easy Living

armstrong

ellington

parker

davis

coltrane

evans

• Known as a Rearranger instead of a composer.
• worked with Miles Davis for a while.

• A reaction (in part); to the anemic, cool jazz records that exploited the superficial elements of west coast.
• Return to roots: gospel and blues influences;
• Simpler harmony, rhythm and melody than bebop
• Powerful, explosive, hard driving
• ;Funk; became an important concept.