| What is the name of the best selling jazz album and who composed it? |
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| “Kind of Blue” and Miles Davis |
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| What two songs on “Kind of Blue” became staples in the jazz repertoire? Which one is favorite of college and high-school marching bands? |
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| “All Blues” and “So What” (“So What” was a favorite of school marching bands) |
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| What musicians performed on “Kind of Blue?” |
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| Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb |
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| What musical elements were employed in “Kind of Blue?” What made it so popular? |
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| Medium tempo, composed the day of recording with band members unknowing what they would play, much space for a soloist to fill, improvisation, blues |
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| small combos, unison playing, fast playing, complex chords, tonal clashes, not used for dancing, larger harmonic boundaries, accented note between beats |
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| historical category of works that includes the descriptors of an evolutionary line, describes heroes of the tradition |
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| what was the standard format for bop? |
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| first chorus: unison, second: improvised choruses, last: unison again |
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| unusual harmonies and fast tempos with complex rhythms |
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| more spontaneous punctuations on th ebass drum |
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| how did the rhythm section change in bop? |
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| bass and snare drums were used for accents and punctuations, bombs included, piano used syncopated chordal punctuations, guitar become a melody instrument with advent of amp, walking bass line |
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| sax, bop, called “yardbird” or “bird”, liked higher harmonics, played in double time |
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| trumpet, bop, louie armstrong influence, playing modeled on roy eldrige, arranger with cab calloways band |
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| where early bop sessions began |
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| “center of the jazz world” |
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| fifth and sixth avenue, where first actual bop band was formed |
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| piano, bop, voices/spaces were innovative and could play accurately at fast tempos |
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| when large bands used bop harmonics and melodic developments |
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| the fusion between a cuban-influenced rhythm section and an african american influenced trumpet and sax |
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| timbalero and vibraphone, cubop |
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| created by playing on rhythm over another |
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| the use of classical forms in jazz |
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| french horn, arranger, cool |
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| drums, cool, kind of blue |
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| french horn, third stream cool |
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| a composition that emphasizes two or more tonal centers at the same time |
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| use of two modes with the same chord |
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| placing a small jazz group of seven or eight players within a large symphonic orchestra |
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| constant use of amen chordal progression |
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| coltranes fast playing of arpeggios |
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| schoenberg’s twelve-tone system |
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| each tone has equal importance and no key center is applied |
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| association for the advancement of creative music, a support group for musicians working in new and experimental music |
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| free in terms of harmony, timbre, meter |
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| jazz, rock, latin fusion band |
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| straight ahead feeling that develops a half-time |
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