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Jazz player is the composer, focus is on the player, song designed for the player |
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3rd, 5th, 7th notes are lowered |
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Notes are right next to each other |
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a note players are searching for between two notes
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(2 combined notes)
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rythmic figures, removed of an accent where you expect one, adding an accent when you least expect |
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construction of music, when to start, stop etc |
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way they write blues music,
5high sounds 5 low sounds
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Dance music until the 1940’s
then turned into an art form
players music/art
improv was main core of it
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embelishment (illiterate)
then started to study it and make up brand new music
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active listening vs. passive listening |
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harmony, big band, a bunch playing at once |
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piano,bass, drums
in marching band- tuba, piano and drum
africa rhthym comes from slave trade
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drums were feared because…
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had to do with daily life
dance music
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built by french
french gave it to spain
1800’s spain gave it back to french
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1/2 white 1/2 black
sent overseas for school
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lowered creoles to the level of black, took away their power |
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rec. area on Sunday brought slaves there to be free for a day |
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tuesday before lent up until lent
religious event
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Small Social Organization
take care of dead.
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1st line- trumpet, trombone, clarinet
Tuba, Banjo, Drum (rhythm)
2nd line- actual people follow band and make parade (rowdy)
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religiou movement eary 1800s tried to force people to be christian |
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made gospel music popular
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Strict Harmonic Form (doesnt change)
12 bar blues
only 3 chords, each chord has 3 notes
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came from plantation; no form picking cotton, no instruments, early poetry, sings about stuff from day
no rules or reason
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12 bar blues
women performing
iambic contameter
1;2 lines exactly the same
line 3 new
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country and city blues
vs.
vocal or instrumental blues
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up until 1930s either country or city blues
after 1930s vocal or instrumental
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showbiz; when blues craze
dominated by female vocalists with small jazz group
ma rainey (mother or blues);and bessie smith (emperess of blues)
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delta blues singers
big bill brunsey
lightning hopkins
bline lemon jefferson
josh white
lead belly
robert johnson
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father of blues
not a blues player, educated
champion of blues players, opened a talent agency wrote contracts for blacks so they didnt get ripped off
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traveled around country with a tape recorder to record all blues music; saved alot of blues music that wasn’t written down |
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piano style late 1800’s-early 1900s
1st early black music, happy fun, no improv or jazz, dance music of era, devil music born in midwest, influenced by syncopation
march tempo (2,4 time)
music of uptown new orleans came from W. classical music. 1st popular music (structured)
composers music, music of silent films. complicated form
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maple leaf rag late 1800s
creole color, hero, fanaticle about music
wrote and opera- tree manisha no one came
1976 revieved puletzer prize after death
piano rolls- tin pan alley
first truly great black musician
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NY music publishig area, sold music and equipment |
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scott joplin- started it all
james scott- 2nd in command
joseph lamp-
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all three wrote 60-70% of ragtime
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blue collar style piano, blues, comes from west, music of illeterate, survived as early rock n roll, dance music/party music, busy 8/8, or 8/4 music
ostanato bass- walking bass or moving cords in ostenato
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busy
reacurring maladic figure (casE) identifying part of music,
2 ways to play- walking base (one note after another), moving chords (thicker sound)
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west, very emotional style, 1st to record |
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top recorder of boogy woogy craze |
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early recorders of boogy woogy |
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pine top smith-1st
albert amons
pete johnson
meade lux lweis
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1st style of jazz, term from south called jazz after 1917, traditional dixiland before 1917
after 1917 chicago jazz, marches came from collected improc
polyphonic , burbon street black
story ville
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38 block area of negative things of society
;the district; 1896
syndey story tried to clean up city
buddy bolun and lousin armstrong came out of here
navy closed it in 1917
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mass migration north because story ville closed, river only way to get out of N.O (stockyards gave jobs away easy)
original diziland jazz band bade instrumental recording
(band went to europe 1919)
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kid ory band- 1st black band to record |
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1st to write down, thought he invented jazz |
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everything that wasnt ragtime or boogy woogy
grew out of ragtime but looser and more improv
james P. johnson (father of harmlem stride style), fats waller, art tatum, oscar peterson, uv blake, earl paka hins (hands)
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proabition started, outlawed consumption/sales of alcholol (bolstead act) roaring 20s. which why chicago was crime capital of world |
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juke box invented
austin high gang- 1st white band to record music, played more for parties (2/4 march tempo)
highly trained N white combined with soulful blacks of S. guitars instead or banjos, drum kit invented, music written out better, emphasis on soloists (lousin armstrong)
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1st to organize improvised solo
record scatt singing
"pops" or "scatchme" or "Sachel"
came out of storyville
Y- embassador for jazz music, 1st face put with jazz music
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jazz age over, crime family finally broke |
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stockmarket crash, people moved to NY, came most romantic era of jazz, big band era, big dance craze |
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harmonic improv, homophonic most important person in big band = arranger
most popular era of jazz, most danceable
organized = all kinds of dancing
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bolstead act repealed in 1933
swing era launched by benny goodman (w. clarinet) had two blacks play with him
Glen miller- in the mood
jimmy dorsey
white- more commercial and pop
flat 4 time
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Fletch Henderson
duke elington- piano player, rote over 2-3 thousand tunes and arranged many more
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black head arrangement/riff arrangement-made up
blues type sound, didnt read well
not as neat and clean
benny molton
count bassey– piano player, territorial bands, together over 50 years, perfect wing band ever, most relaxed and perfect style, illeterate musicians sound innovator- 1st one to use trumpet mutes etc. (grovel style trumpets)
used classical instruments in jazz, specialty wrote music for individuals, human voice instrument (not words)
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Duke ellington
Harmlem NY ollie matson
jumbo shows- best black talent played there "after hours" No blacks were allowed through fron door, even though all blacks worked there, for whites, illiterate musicians
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benny molton and count bassey in same band for some time |
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1st great arranger for big band
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king of Jazz- white
tennor sax was the main instrument in swing era
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Colman Hawkins
lester young
ben webster
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White- 52nd street in Manhatten "the Street"
Harlem- black after hours
end of 30’s era went away
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why did the big band swing era go away |
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because war, war tax, recording bann
musicians thought it was about time- sick of playing dance music
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Greatest Jazz composer ever
composed 2000+ songs, arranged 5000
piano playing
main gig was cotton club (after hours- 1st band played 2am until 6)
manipulated instruments- 1st sound innovator, groveel style trumpets, double bassed drums
wrote opera and ballet also
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Stride piano
NY
;band that blayed the blues; (12 bar)
head arrangements bands
best of all swing bands
more relaxed than NY
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