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Exam 2 Flashcards

1
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Who attended Fisk University and is an alto saxophonist?

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Jimmie Lunceford

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2
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born with a form of tuberculosis that left him like a hunchback

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Chick Webb

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3
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discovered ella fitzgerald

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chick webb

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4
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white and jewish bandleader, clarinet player

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Artie Shaw

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5
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Duke ellington

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pianist, played at cotton club 1927-1931

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Sidney bechet

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clarinetist

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7
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Ellington’s 3 moods

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exotic style, ballads, dance pieces (ellington was a swing era bandleader)

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Billy Strayhorn

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co-composer who works with ellington, openly gay, very behind-the-scenes

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prominent woman pianist/arranger

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mary lou williams

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10
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controls kansas city in 1926-1938 and caused lots corruption and illegal things

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tom pendergast

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11
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territory bands

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local bands within a particular territory that can be reached by car in a day

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12
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Blue Devils

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a territory band active in Kansas city in 1920’s-30’s, discovered by count basie

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13
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head arrangements

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aurally conceived, not written down, riffs created, flexible and potentially endless

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14
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count basie

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stride pianist from new jersey, started in vaudeville in 1930’s

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15
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plays for the bennie moten band in 1931 as 2nd pianist

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count basie

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16
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Coleman hawkins

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father of tenor saxophone, nicknamed “bean,” “Body and Soul”

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17
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Lester Young

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tenor saxophone, nicknamed “Pres,” known for his private slang, held saxophone at an angle, “cool” aesthetic

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18
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Fats Waller

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stride pianist & composer, pupil of james p johnson, harlem

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19
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swing pianists who are also bandleaders

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ellington, basie, teddy wilson

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20
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peak of stride piano

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swing era

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21
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Art Tatum

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the stride piano virtuoso, used extended chords, harmonic substitution, and melodic paraphrase (the tune comes back)

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22
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wrote “Over the Rainbow”

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Art Tatum

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23
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Valaida Snow

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trumpet player, singer, entertainer

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24
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not a natural singer with a limited range

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billie holliday

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25
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known for scat singing

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ella fitzgerald

26
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woman revered by both the jazz and pop community

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ella fitzgerald

27
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mintons playhouse

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in harlem, famous for bebop jam sessions, discouraged beginners with fast tempos and unfamiliar keys

28
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Kenny Clark

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drummer, nicknamed “klook,” shifts beat from bass drum to ride cymbal

29
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thelonious monk

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piano, composer, loved to experiment, bipolar

30
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charlie christian

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electric guitar, very innovative, plays with benny goodman sextet, dies of tuberculosis

31
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dropping bombs

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bass drum accents

32
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bebop attitude

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progressive approach to pretty much everything

33
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chromatic harmony

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“progressive” swing

34
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charlie parker

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alto saxophonist, nicknamed “bird,” had a heroin addiction, very fast playing, one of the best blues players

35
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dizzy gillespie

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trumpet player, moves through various bands in NYC and Pilly, the “head and hands of bebop,” long career

36
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art blakey

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drums

37
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jj johnson

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trombone, learns to play bebop at young age and lives a very long time until 2001

38
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three jazz naratives

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modernism, fusion, historicist

39
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jazz “mainstream” categories

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bebop & swing

40
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categories of bebop

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cool jazz and hard bop

41
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notable cool jazz musician

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charlie parker

42
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cool jazz traits

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experimental, laid back, relaxed, soft, subtle, flexible rhythm, more restraint in rhythm section

43
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came up with the “Birth of Cool”

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Miles Davis, very socially ambitious and interracial and intellectual

44
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Miles davis

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trumpet player, plays for charlie parker

45
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Gil Evans

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arranger and composer

46
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Miles Davis nonet

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experiment in instrumentation, composition and improvisers interrelate

47
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Dave Brubeck

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cool jazz pianist & composer, known for his use of irregular meters (“Take 5”)

48
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Take 5

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song with 5 beats per measure, dave brubeck, tune by paul desmond (alto sax)

49
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hard bop

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more elemental, not interested in experimenting, hard driving and heavy on the drums, more passionate

50
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black cool jazz

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said that jazz should be considered an art music and deserves respectability

51
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Modern jazz quartet

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fancy, played in tuxedos, very classy, based jazz performances on classical compositions, 4 members, together for 40 years

52
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fugue

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polyphonic composition with a main theme that comes back and is done by many voices

53
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third stream idea

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idea that classical is one stream, jazz is one stream, and mixing them together creates another one

54
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famous hard bop group

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jazz messengers, art blakey on drums and horace silver on piano

55
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codified hard bop

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blues/gospel simplicity + bebop complexity

56
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charles mingus

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bass player and composer, influenced and was involved in cool jazz, hard bop, and historicist

57
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pianist at mintons playhouse and tailored his music to the peopel there

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thelonious monk

58
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george russell

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composer and music theorist, used scales and not chords when improvising

59
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concerto

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a piece designed to highlight an individual musician

60
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a good example of the black middle class

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miles davis, father was dental surgeon and politician, grandfather was landowner

61
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studdied at juilliard before going to minton’s and 52nd street

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miles davis

62
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covered a lot of territory and did almost everything

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miles davis

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