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Cool Jazz Flashcards

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Characteristics of Cool Jazz

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  • 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
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Miles Davis

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trumpet
Cool Jazz (later Fusion)
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Birth of the Cool (“Boplicity”)

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Cool Jazz

Miles Davis and Gil Evans

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MJQ

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John Lewis (piano)
Milt Jackson (vibraphone)
Percy Heath (bass)
Connie Kay (drums)
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5
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“Yesterdays

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Cool Jazz

MJQ

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Dave Brubeck

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piano

experimented with unusual meters

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Gerry Mulligan

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barritone sax

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Lee Konitz

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alto sax

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Chet Baker

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trumpet, vocalist

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Stan Getz

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tenor sax
incorporated “bossa nova” into jazz
brought bossa nova to US

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Time Out “Blue Rondo A La Turk”

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Dave Brubeck (experimented with unusual time signature in this album)

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12
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bossa nova

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“New Wave”

born in brazil

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13
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Charlie Bird

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guitar

brought bossa nova to US

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Antonio Carlos Jobim

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“Desafinado”

“The Girl from Ipanema”

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Lennie Tristano

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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

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16
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Black musicians left out of Cool Jazz popularity

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Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray (tenor sax)
Sonny Criss (alto sax)
Hampton Hawes (piano)
17
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“Lady Bird”

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Dexter Gordon

cool jazz

18
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Third Stream

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fused jazz and western music

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Gunther Schuller

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Third stream

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Jimmy Giuffre

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Third stream

21
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George Russell

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Third stream

22
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Don Ellis

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Third stream

23
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John Lewis

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Third stream

24
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“Transformation”

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Gunther Schuller Orchestra

Third stream

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