Cool Jazz Flashcards
Characteristics of Cool Jazz
- light, airy, soft, and subdued sound
- unusual instruments for jazz (french horn, tuba, flute)
- restrained expressions, emphasis on mid register
- delicate ballance between improvisation and composition
- various sized of ensembles
- based on bebop
Miles Davis
trumpet Cool Jazz (later Fusion)
Birth of the Cool (“Boplicity”)
Cool Jazz
Miles Davis and Gil Evans
MJQ
John Lewis (piano) Milt Jackson (vibraphone) Percy Heath (bass) Connie Kay (drums)
“Yesterdays
Cool Jazz
MJQ
Dave Brubeck
piano
experimented with unusual meters
Gerry Mulligan
barritone sax
Lee Konitz
alto sax
Chet Baker
trumpet, vocalist
Stan Getz
tenor sax
incorporated “bossa nova” into jazz
brought bossa nova to US
Time Out “Blue Rondo A La Turk”
Dave Brubeck (experimented with unusual time signature in this album)
bossa nova
“New Wave”
born in brazil
Charlie Bird
guitar
brought bossa nova to US
Antonio Carlos Jobim
“Desafinado”
“The Girl from Ipanema”
Lennie Tristano
pianist
became blind shortly after birth
played with bebop and cool jazz musicians
music sounded “experimental and emotionally aloof”
also showed off extravagant virtuosity
only had a cult following
Black musicians left out of Cool Jazz popularity
Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray (tenor sax) Sonny Criss (alto sax) Hampton Hawes (piano)
“Lady Bird”
Dexter Gordon
cool jazz
Third Stream
fused jazz and western music
Gunther Schuller
Third stream
Jimmy Giuffre
Third stream
George Russell
Third stream
Don Ellis
Third stream
John Lewis
Third stream
“Transformation”
Gunther Schuller Orchestra
Third stream
