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Miles Davis

When did he preformed his own ensemble

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In 1948

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Miles Davis

Features of blues

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Call and response
Improvisation
Strong rhythmic content

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Miles Davis

What do popular types of jazz include

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Ragtime
Swing
Played by big bands in 1920

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Miles Davis

What is all blues an examples of

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Modal Jazz

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Miles Davis

Features of the _______ Jazz

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Use of scale or mode
Freer improvisation
Modal Jazz songs and numbers are significantly longer
Extending soloing

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Miles Davis

Metre

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6/4

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Miles Davis

Tonality

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Modal Jazz
The harmony is focuses on mode or scale and improvised solid

Davis improvised on the G mixolydian mode

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Miles Davis

Texture

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Is made up of riffs a short rhythmic ostinato common in Jazz
3 riffs are used in Jazz blues

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Miles Davis

When and where was he born

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Illinois in 1926

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Miles Davis

Pitch and melody

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12 bar blues chord sequence
The changes based if a note of a mode
The improvisations are ornamented and combine riffs together

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Miles Davis

Dynamics

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Mainly p there is diminuendo in the final head 4

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Miles Davis

Rhythm

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Provides harmony and rhythmic background
Drums 
Bass 
Piano
Provides comping
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Miles Davis

Instrumentation

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Frontline trumpet
Alto sax 
Tenor sax
Rhythm piano
Bass 
Drums
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Miles Davis

Tempo

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T of crotchet 156

The bar feels like it is split into two slow beats

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Miles Davis

Notes

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G7 G7 G7 G7
C7 C7 G7 G7
D7#9 Eb7#9/D7#9 G7 G7

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Miles Davis

Harmony

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All blues is base around repeated 12 bar blues chord sequence
With a four bar linking riff
Altering chords
Repeated 19 times in total

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Miles Davis

Form structure

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Hea- original tune or melody is played melody played on muted trumpet with a simple motif

Head 2
Muted trumpet but melody is slightly developed

Head 3 trumpet muted again
Head 4 melody now developed with minor feel link section

Davis plays a short solo on the tonic G over the sax riff and piano trill before it fades out

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