exam 3 (missing list) Flashcards
free jazz
a jazz style that encourages musicians to discard normal musical conventions such as Melody, Harmony, Time and Form
Ornette Coleman
free jazz guy
from texas
moved to NYC
older jazz people hated his style of free jazz but the younger musicians loved it
Cecil Taylor
from queens
brought up on NY stride piano
also a free jazz guy
third stream
jazz music that’s inspired from classical music, mostly from the 20th century
fusion
70s jazz with a more electric feel weather report - birdland miles davis & his band - heavy metal return to forever - spain john mclaughlin (and the mahavishu orchestra) - meeting of the spirits
miles davis’ notable band members (7)
Wayne Shorter - tenor Herbie Hancock - piano Keith Jarrett - piano Joe Zawinul - piano Dave Holland - piano Jack Dejohnette - drums Kenny Garrett - sax
weather report members
Joe Zawinul - piano
Wayne Shorter - tenor
Peter Erskine - drums
Jaco Pastorius - electric bass
return to forever members
Chick Corea - piano
Stanley Clarke - bass
Lenny White - drums
constantly switched horn players
john mclaughlin (and the mahavishu orchestra)
adopted unconventional aspects of jazz like violins and indian-style music
John Coltrane
originally from NC but moved to Philly in the 50s
clarinet and alto sax
worked and learned from Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk
His style changed with every album
‘a love supreme’ his most notable album
Members of John Coltrane’s quartet
McCoy Tyner - piano
Jimmy Garrison - bass
Elvin Jones - drums
musical innovations of John Coltrane
songs with chord progressions that move quickly and to unusual keys
continued liberation of rhythm section playing
freedom with form and the use of “vamps” (alternating between a solo section and a melody)
digital recording
sound waves become 0s and 1s (data) and get converted; nearly everything is done this way now, as opposed to analog recording which made sound waves physical imprints
synthesizers
allows those to create and synthesise sounds, and were quickly able to store and play dozens of voices / sounds at once
digital samplers
stored both pre-recorded and synthesised sounds
Digital sequencers
recorded data rather than sounds; creates loops that manipulate grooves
drum machines
relied on pads that can be struck and activated by performer, used on many early hip hop recordings; triggers production of sampled sounds
kenny rogers
crossover artist from the 70s
starred in tv and movies
sold $250M worth of records from 1977-1984
‘the gambler’ ‘islands in the stream’ ‘lady’
peter gabriel
originally a member of Genesis
went solo in 1976
touched on a bunch of genres
loved his music videos
madonna
from Michigan originally a dancer and model thrived in the NYC dance club scene of the 80s collabed with a whole bunch of artists only MJ was more popular in the 80s
mc hammer
born Stanley Burrell high octane dancer with popular live act seen as pandering to a mass audience dismissed for being a mediocre lyricist went bankrupt
vanilla ice
born Robert Van Winkle
high octane dancer who developed small audience in black texas clubs
shunned for creating fake gangsta image
nwa
Ice Cube, Dr Dre, Easy-E, DJ Yella, MC Ren
Brutally accurate lyrics about sex and violence in urban life
Inspired by public enemy, but became more popular than them
New jack swing – bouncy drum machine generated dance grooves
REM members
Michael stipe – vocals
Mike mills – bass
Peter buck – guitar
Bill berry - drums
george clinton
aka Dr Funkenstein
leader of parliament and funkadelic
hung out with garage bands and hippies
worked with bootsy Collins and maceo parker
known for polyrhythms, psychedelic solos and jazz horn arrangements
long call-and-response patterns
the concert show experience
sly and the family stone
led by Sylvester stewart “psychedelic soul” interracial band worked as a DJ for both rock and soul stations anchored by larry graham on bass
notable modern jazz musicans
nicholas payton, wynton marsalis and terrence blanchard (all trumpet players from NOLA)
roy hargrove
hard bop icon
jazz trumpeter
grammy winner
died last year aged 49
kenny garrett
post-bop sax player
played with Ellington and Davis
went solo after stints with both bands
post-bop
Post-bop is jazz from the mid-1960s onward that assimilates hard bop, modal jazz, avant-garde and free jazz without necessarily being immediately identifiable as any of the above
neo bop
Neo-bop (also called neotraditionalist) refers to a style of jazz that gained popularity in the 1980s among musicians who found greater aesthetic affinity for acoustically-based, swinging, melodic forms of jazz than for free jazz and jazz fusion that had gained prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.
backspinning
Back spinning simply refers to causing the currently playing vinyl record to spin backward. DJ’s basically manipulate the sound such that what comes out instead of the actual song on the vinyl, is a shrill sound that is used to slip cue or cut the music playing. It can be considered as a forced rewinding of the record
scratching
Scratching, sometimes referred to as scrubbing, is a DJ and turntablist technique of moving a vinyl record back and forth on a turntable to produce percussive or rhythmic sounds. A crossfader on a DJ mixer may be used to fade between two records simultaneously
mp3
a means of compressing a sound sequence into a very small file, to enable digital storage and transmission.
napster
Napster is a set of three music-focused online services. It was founded as a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing Internet software that emphasized sharing digital audio files, typically audio songs, encoded in MP3 format.
auto-tune
a device or facility for tuning something automatically, especially a piece of computer software that enables the correction of an out-of-tune vocal performance.
parents music resource center
n American committee formed in 1985 with the stated goal of increasing parental control over the access of children to music deemed to have violent, drug-related or sexual themes via labeling albums with Parental Advisory stickers.
pro tools
Pro Tools is a digital audio workstation developed and released by Avid Technology (formerly Digidesign) for Microsoft Windows and macOS which can be used for a wide range of sound recording and sound production purposes.
(think zayne’s music)
360-degree deal
In the music industry, a 360 deal (from 360° deal) is a business relationship between an artist and a music industry company. The company agrees to provide financial and other support for the artist, including direct advances as well as support in marketing, promotion, touring and other areas.
