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| Trumpet, Duke Ellingtons Band, Concerto for Cootie |
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| Double Bassist with Bill Evans |
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| Electric Bass Player with Weather Report, One of greatest Jazz Bassist, Changed Direction of Jazz bass playing |
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| Trumpet, Solo Style, Drugs worked with Gerry Mulligan, No piano, no harmonic instrumentation. Used Counterpoint |
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| Guitarist and Violin Player, 2 finger, solo style. Quintet Du Hot Club du France, Transitional (European Jazz Musician) |
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| Guitarist and Violin Player, 2 finger, solo style. Quintet Du Hot Club du France, Transitional |
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Had song Moanin, Call and Response, leader of Jazz Messengers, loosening drumming and loud intrusions, blues march because drum solo is like marching Band. Hard Bop
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| White Tennor sax player for American latin Jazz |
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| piano reharmonization, amazing technique and velocity at piano, Transitional |
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| Played Tenor Sax, was in Miles first great quintet, Densely packed solos, A Love Supreme, Hard Bop (Miles Band) Post Bop (solo) |
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| Trumpet player, used augmentation, Hard Bop |
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| Tenor Sax player, Used Melodic Development, Hard Bop |
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| The lengthening of the time values of notes in a melodic part. Clifford Brown |
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| Piano, Used Supermetric, mixed meters, Cross rythym, Blue Rhondo A la Turk, West Coast/Cool Jazz. Played with Paul Desmond |
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| The art or technique of setting, writing, or playing a melody or melodies in conjunction with another, according to fixed rules. |
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| Piano Player, Miles Second Great, Headhunters Album, Eletronic Sound, Jazz Rock, Post Bop |
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| Miles “the trumpet player” Davis Albums in Order |
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| 1. Birth of the Cool 2. Kind of Blue 3. Nefertiti 4. Bitches Brew 5. Tutu. |
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| Used Harmon mute close to the Microphone. Not Warm and Fuzzy personality. |
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| Played Afrocuban influenced music, Bends notes, Used Melodic/cell development (Straight No Chaser), unorthodox |
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| First Guitarist to use Amplification, Long Solo Lines, Transitional |
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| Master Composer of the Brazillian Style Music, Latin Style |
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| Piano, Ellington’s Alter Ego, Played in Dark Keys, Co wrote a lot of Duke Ellington’s Songs (after swing period) |
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| Clarinet, King of Swing, Pop Icon, First interracially mixed band, Made Jazz acceptable by general public, Swing |
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| Piano, Composer and Band Leader, Master of 3 minute form, |
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| Used golden Section, Personal Sounds of players, Jungle Pieces, Cotton Club, Played all the Suites, expanded, Composed a Film Score (Anatomy of a Murder) Swing, and 1950’s |
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| Piano, Stride to Plank plank, reformed Benny Morton’s Band, Jumping at the Woodside |
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| Piano, Played in West Coast Jazz. Played with Miles Davis, Birth of Cool. Always preferred integrity and freedom vs. just anything for money. Composed for over 50 years |
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| Gutarist in jazz rock, spacious and open sounds |
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| Free Jazz, Post avant Garde experimentalist, played the annoying crap |
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| Free Jazz Trumpeter, Saved the acoustic sound in Jazz, director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center |
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| Free Jazz alto sax player, played “Harmolodic” style |
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| Played with Dizzy Gillespi with the AfroCuban music, Drums, song was Cubanobe Cubanobop (Bebop) |
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| Louis Armstrong,Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker,(1900-1950’s) Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans (1951-2000) |
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| Congo Square – what and where is it? |
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| Where Blacks Danced, New Orleans |
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• collective improvisation
• Emancipation of traditional roles in the rhythm section.
• Little distinction b/t soloist & accompanist.
Joe Zawinul, Miroslav Vitous |
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| Chet Baker-Jerry Mulligan |
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| no piano – counterpoint(Relationship between two or more voices that are independent in contour and rhythm and interdependent in harmony), Didn’t want it to be horizontal |
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| tenor sax, piano, drummer, bass, trumpet (Quintet) |
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| Common Format for Hard Bop |
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| Big Bands, 5 Saxophones, 3-4 trumpets, 3-4 trombones, piano, bass, guitar, drums |
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| Common Format for Swing period group |
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Nicholas Slonimsky-
what is it and who used this? |
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Thesaurus of musical scales
John Coltrane, Book that list all the musical Scales. |
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| Just as easy to hear or ignore, quiet, refined “Funk” |
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| Sooth Jazz (instrumental pop) |
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| Kenny G, George Benson, Bob James |
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| color, Used by John Coltrane |
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| Influences of French impressionism |
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| Bill Evans was Harmonically influenced by Maurice Ravel |
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| Form of many standard tunes 32 bars four sections 8 bars each, includes a bride ex. Somewhere Over the Rainbow, |
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| Ragtime military March form ex. Maple Leaf Rag by Scot Joplin, Blues- 12 bars 3 sections 4 bars each, statement statement Commentary |
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| Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn like a Shakesperian Sonnet, Based off of play Midsummers Night Dream |
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| – Duke Ellington & Billy Strayhorn Not actually written for Romeo & Juliet. |
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| vibrato- Added at the end of a not to achieve warmth. Instruments are copied by the Vocalist |
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| Billie Holiday (Lady Day) Lyrics come alive, Heavy Lyrics about blacks getting lynched in the south, lyrics were written by a High School teacher. Anthem for anti-lynching movement |
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| “I don’t want to rob you of the joy of discovering it yourself” |
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| Differences between Brazilian and Afro Cuban styles of Latin Music- |
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| Both Latin Jazz and no swinging; Afro Cuban is more rhythmic and intense and bass notes are seldom on beat, Brazilian Bass notes are almost always on the beat. |
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| Golden section, Fibonacci series, .618,- Duke Ellington used this as a way to keep his music proportional |
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| Lester Young influenced who? |
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| The West Coast/Cool Jazz Saxophone Players. |
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| Fusion- roots and origins- |
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| Used Electric Bass Guitar and Piano instead of acoustic Piano, No swinging and no triple division. Straight 8th notes. |
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| Supermetric.what is it and who used it in which piece? |
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| Dave Brubeck in Blue Rhondo A la Turk, It is When Big Beats are played on top of the smaller Beats |
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| Cotton Club – what was it and who played there? |
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| Duke Ellington, Jungle Music |
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| Fast tempos, Melodic Chromaticism, Move from entertainer to Artist, artifacts for copyright reasons. |
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| Louis Armstrong – was he an Uncle Tom? |
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| He really wasn’t because he wanted to please the whites, he was called this because of the little rock 9 |
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| Headhunters – what is this? |
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| Herbie Hancocks Album, Very Electronic, Hired Jazz players who could play funk and funk players who could play Jazz. |
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| Miles Davis band members. First Quintet |
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First Quintet: (1959-1963)
1. Bill Evans & Wyton Kelly- Piano
2. Paul Chambers- Bass
3. Jimmy Cobb- Drums
4. John Coltrane- Tenor Sax
5. Cannon Ball Aderly- Alto Sax
6. Miles Davis- Trumpet |
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| Miles Davis Second Quintet |
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Second Great Quintet: (1963-1968)
1. Wayne Shorter- Sax
2. Herbie Hancock- Piano
3. Tony Williams- Drums
4. Ron Carter- Bass
5. Miles Davis- Trumpet |
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| A song with lyrics that don’t rhyme |
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| Moaning and singing while playing – who does this? |
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| Harmolodic – a term coined by whom? |
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| Ornette Coleman means simultaneous soundings of a single melodic line. |
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| Eletric Piano that was portable so musicans didn’t have to worry about the clubs piano, Used in pop and Jazz music. |
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| Technology used to transcribe music on a computer MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. |
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| Sine Qua Non– latin term, what does it mean, how does it apply to the jazz idiom- |
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| Means Without which there is nothing, Jazz is nothing without improvisation |
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| Anatomy of a Murder- film score by whom? |
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Nonet instrumentation
what unusual instruments were added, and who wrote this music for whom? |
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obviously nine instruments
French Horn and Tuba added to Miles Davis Quintet on Birth of the Cool |
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| Willis Conover broadcast Jazz to Easter Europe During Cold War. |
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| Sheets of Sound – what is it and who used this technique? |
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| John Colrane was yielded by his technique dense notes. |
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| What does it mean to say that jazz is black music? |
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| early origins were written by creoles. Its hard to assign new orleans to a race. |
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| Can a cultural icon belong to anyone? |
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he british cant stand to hear shakespeare in a american accent. Germans cant play french music.
-calling cajun describes it origin or musical elements but doesn’t limit who play it |
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Art Taylor (drummer)
what do you think about the word jazz? |
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| -hotter topic in the 70s then it is now |
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Gene Lees
DIscuss the sense of inferiority toward european culture that may be pervasive. |
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| -You had to pay royalties for american composers but not for british. |
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| scoops pitches on the saxophone |
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| mahalia Jackson would not sing? |
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| the blues, just gospel “anybody singing the blues is in a deep pit yellin for help” |
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| writing lyrics to an instrumental solo. Freddie Freeloader by Jon Hendricks |
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| wrote what he knew, big band.Final- section plunger dead give away Ellington |
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| -lord what fools these … be |
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| densely packed solos, played fast sax, composer may have been the most important figure in jazz |
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