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Courtney Pine - Back in the Day Flashcards

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1
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Who is Courtney Pine?

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Modern British Jazz musician

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When was ‘Back in the Day’ released?

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Album was released 2000

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What styles are used in this album?

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Modern styles fused with american modern jazz

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What influences are in this album?

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Reggae influences - from Jamaican parents

Hip hop influences - rap and turntable

American jazz influences- Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins

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Give 3 points for context for Lady Day and John Coltrane (LDAJC)

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  • Cover of Gil Scott-Heron.
  • Pays tribute to 20th-century jazz performers Billie holiday and Coltrane.
  • Blues and soul-influenced.
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Give 3 points for context on Inner State of Mind (ISOM)

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  • Original composition
  • Jazz and hip-hop (rap, sampling, turntable)
  • Tributes to ‘Summertime’ and ‘So What’
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Give 3 points on context for Love and Affection (LAA)

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  • Cover of 1970’s Caribbean-British Joan Armatrading’s song (common thing to do with jazz music)
  • This version is more pop
  • Aspects of rock and R&B
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Who sings in LDAJC?

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Blues/soul singer Lyden David Hall

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What instrument has a solo in LDAJC?

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There is a jazz saxophone solo

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10
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Name 3 techniques used in the jazz saxophone solo in LDAJC.

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  • Glissandi
  • Note bending
  • Chromatic runs
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11
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Name 2 extended techniques used in the jazz saxophone solo in LDAJC.

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  • Multiphonics
  • Slap tonguing
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What technique is used in the guitar in the chorus of LDAJC?

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Wah-wah pedal in choruses.

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Who sings in ISOM?

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Jazz singer Eska Mtunwezi

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What type of sax does Courtney Pine play in ISOM?

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Soprano sax

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Who sings the backing vocals in LAA?

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London Community Gospel Choir

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How is the guitar utilised in LAA.

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  • Guitar is distorted
  • played with tremolo
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What 2 instruments does pine play in LAA and why?

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  • Tenor saxophone
  • Bass clarinet
  • He is a multi-instrumentalist
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18
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What is used in the backings along with the London Community Gospel choir?

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Synth strings

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19
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Give an overall summary of the structure of LDJAC.

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Intro
Verse
Chorus
verse
chorus
extended sax solo
verse
chorus
extended outro/coda

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3 points of what happens in the intro of LDAJC (bars 1-4)

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Turn table effects

leads to fast rock tempo

vocal melisma uses blue note (flattened fifth)

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4 points of what happens in the 1st verse of LDAJC (bars 5-20)

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  • 8 bars on tonic C7(#9) for vocalist and rhythm section.
  • Short sax fills

-blues subdominant for 4 bars then back to tonic for 8

  • keyboard vibrato as set like Hammond organ
22
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2 points of what happens in the 1st chorus of LDAJC (bars 21-36)

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  • Faster harmonic rhythm to dominant (but Gm) and subdominant
  • faster harmonic rhythm with chromatic 7th chords descent
23
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3 points of what happens in 2nd verse and chorus of LDAJC

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  • end with a second time bar which is a link to the sax solo
  • additional backing vocals mostly in 5ths
  • saxophone slow lip vibrato
24
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5 points on the extended sax-solo LDAJC

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  • Improvised
  • pitch bend
  • High tessitura
  • slides
  • ends with long rapid descending chromatic scale
25
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What are the harmonic progressions in the extended sax solo LDAJC?

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C7(#9) - Eb7 - Ab7 - G+7, DS

26
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what happens after the extended sax solo LDAJC?

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The verse and chorus are repeated and then to coda

27
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4 points that happen in extended outro/coda LDAJC

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  • Improvised vocals
  • low tessitura sax counterpoint
  • ostinato three sequence
  • Mutliphonics and slap tonguing
28
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what chord is there a paused on at bar 129 of the extended outro/coda LDAJC

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Bbm7(add4)

29
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What is the metre of LDAJC

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  • 4/4
  • except for 2/4 bar 122
30
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What is the tempo of LDAJC and what creates momentum?

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160 bpm and fast drums groove filtered give high frequency for momentum.

31
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List 4 types of rhythms used in LDAJC?

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  • Syncopation
  • Dotted rhythms
  • Triplets
  • Sextuplets
32
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What are the rhythms used in LDAJC fairly typical of?

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  • Jazz
33
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What is the texture in LDAJC?

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  • Mainly melody dominated homophony
  • some counter-point between sax and voice
  • stop time
34
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What harmonic device is used in the choruses of LDAJC?

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Wah-wah pedal

35
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What is played in contrary motion to guitar in bar 75 LDAJC

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descending chromatic bassline - contrary motion with guitar

36
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Give a summary of the structure of ISOM

A

Instrumental introduction
Vocals
Rap
Vocals
Rap
Vocals
Instrumental outro

37
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6 points for instrumental introduction bars 1-9 in ISOM

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  • Starts acapella 2-4 part harmony of four crotchet rising idea THEN MDH
  • sax improvised syncopation
  • distorted guitar sample
  • rock drum beat
  • dorian mode on C and blues notes
  • Occasional slide up to notes
38
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What ornementation is used in the instrumental introduction of ISOM

A

Grace notes

39
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3 points about 1st vocal section bars 10-21 ISOM

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  • Summertime theme but no real change to subdominant
  • fuller harmony in bar 18 with C7(#9)
  • Cm-F with extensions
40
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2 points about 1st rap section bars 22-35 ISOM

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  • Chords from beginning to accompany rap
  • sax improvisation
41
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5 points about 2nd returning vocal section bars 36-53 ISOM

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  • Sumertime theme varied
  • turntables
  • crotchet rising figure interrupts at bar 44
  • bar 46-47 blue notes and multitracked backing vocals
  • Vocal solo dissolves into jazz scat singing at bar 52
42
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4 points about 2nd returning rap section bar 54-71
ISOM

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  • improvised flute bars and improvised sax
  • rap over Cm7-F-Cm7-Dm7 now
  • Occasional vocal phrases

Homorhythmic tutti instrumental link at bar 70 (parallel movement but intervals vary)

43
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6 points about 3rd vocal section bars 72-93 ISOM

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  • Summertime varied
  • more scatting
  • some turntables
  • long rising glissando
  • sax pitch bend (rhapsody in blue)

-crotchet vocal phrase from beginning

44
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4 points of instrumental outro bars 94-end ISOM

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  • Long sax improvisation (scalic)
  • ‘na na’ free vocal improvisation
  • pentatonic guitar riffs
  • long high sax trill on 9th at end (reverb)
45
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What is the tempo of ISOM?

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114bpm

46
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What is the metre of ISOM?

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4/4 throughout

47
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What is the metre of ISOM?

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4/4 throughout

48
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How is rhythm used in ISOM make 4 points.

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  • Crotchet title hook
  • syncopation

-homorhythm

  • variation of sax rhythms (quintuplets, sextuplets and semibreves)
49
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Describe the melody in ISOM

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  • melody is conjunct and disjunct
  • intervals in summertime idea vary each time
50
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Make two points about the texture of ISOM

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  • Starts acapella in 2-4 part harmony then becomes melody dominated homophony
  • Some polyphony - e.g. vocals and guitar in outro, lead and backing vocals

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