Exam 3 Flashcards
Bebop revolution
This is a new direction in jazz that goes away from big bands and instead focuses more on soloists. Bebop is 95% improvisation and 5% of the written part, this is a flip from the era before.
Bebop popularity
The popularity of Bebop jazz was not as popular because the public did not like it as much.
Bebop
all the instrument’s roles are expanded. Drums becoming more of a solo instrument. More bass solos. Trumpet and saxophone are expanding their capabilities.
Double time solo
is when a musician is improvising and gets a sudden flurry of activity (double time passage).
Bebop groups
smaller groups of four five maybe six people playing. Also, people could dance to the music sometimes if it wasn’t extremely fast. The saxophone takes over the clarinet and gets pushed out of the way a little bit.
contrafact
new melody written over chord changes for a song that already exists. For example, I’ve got Rhythm is the original and then there are tons of contrafacts of it.
Bebop lifestyle
it is expected that they drink after they perform with the money they’ve made. There was drug use becoming more popular and there were still some alcohol issues as well. Was an underground movement.
Dizzy Gillespie
Played with a mouth full of air he was also a little bit of a dancer on stage (TAP) and made a song called Salt Peanut. Later in his career, he played with his bell up because of an accident and he ended up liking it more because he could hear himself play better and he kept it that way. Very interested in Cuban music and collaborated with some Cuban musicians Chano Pozo. African Cuban Music. Cubop (Cuban Bebop). Had a good upper register with his high notes. Had a much cleaner way of living than Charlie Parker.
Manteca
– Chano Pozo and Dizzy Gillespie play this song.
Charlie parker
– a Saxophone player from Kansas City went to Lincoln prep and did not graduate and dropped out and played the baritone in his time in school. Had a terrible heroin problem. Was in a car wreck had a back or neck injury and got addicted to painkillers he ran out of prescriptions he found his own way to self-medicate with heroin. (He was a union musician and exploded once he was exposed to the public, he is the best saxophone player ever.)
Charlie Parker Nickname
The nickname was Yardbird or Bird – story they hit a chicken and he got out to get it and cook it later for dinner. He would use his nickname in his songs example Song: Ornithology which is the study of birds.
Charlie Parker Behavior
He spent his early years in Kansas City then moved to New York and was one of the leaders of the Bebop revolution. His behavior was wildly erratic.
Massey Hall
– Charlie showed up with a plastic saxophone because he sold him for the money he needed. The recording quality of this was very bad but he sounded very good with this plastic saxophone.
The fall of Charlie Parker
Died at the age of 34. In March of 1954 he was playing the Oasis Club and was off drugs but was consuming lots of alcohol he got a call that his 2-year-old daughter had died of pneumonia. Charlie died and his age was more like 56 when he was just 34.
KoKo
Contrafact based on the chord changes to a song called Cherokee. Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie perform this.
Bebop sound
A lot of Bebop swings and is quite aggressive not laid back
JJ Johnson
trombone player
Sonny Stitt
saxophone player
Dexter Johnson
saxophone player
Sonny Rawlings
saxophone player
Fats Navarro
trumpet player
Howard Mcgee
trumpet player
