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Exam 3: Modern Jazz Flashcards

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1
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What was the birthplace of bebop?

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Minton’s Playhouse in Manhatten

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Kenny Clark’s two innovations to Bebop:

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  1. pulse on ride cymbal…shimmering sound
  2. Dropping bombs with bass drum
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3
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Comping

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to create an accompaniment to a tune using chords and rhythms

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True or False: Drums, piano, and bass all changed with the bebop revolution.

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False…bass did not change at all. It’s still the timekeeper.

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Attributes of bebop

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Complex, dissonant harmonies (tritone & flat fifth)
Comping on the piano
Dropping bombs and ride cymbal on the drums

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6
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What helped to grow the bebop movement?

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Black musicians tired of racism were able to freely enjoy making music!

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What was Charlie Parker’s instrument?

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alto saxophone

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8
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Which jazz musicians helped to innovate woodshedding when he disappeared into the Ozarks and mastered every key?

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Charlie Parker

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9
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What substance controlled Parker’s life?

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Heroin

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Charlie Parker started out as a dishwasher in a restaurant that featured ___ ______

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Art Tatum

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Whose territory band did Charlie Parker join? Where?

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Jay MacShann
Kansas City

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12
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What was Charlie Parker known for?

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Supercharged rhythm & incredible speed

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13
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Dizzy Gillespie played the ______

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trumpet

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Dizzy played with ___ ______ until he was wrongly accused of launching a spitball and was fired.

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Cab Calloway

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15
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Describe Dizzy’s personality

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Fiery temperament
Wicked sense of humor
Unpredictable
Practical jokes

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16
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Which jazz musician was self-taught, had bad embouchure technique, and raised Bebop?

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Dizzy Gillespie

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17
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Example of songs featuring Dizzy Gillespie

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Salt Peanuts, A Night in Tunisia

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18
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Bebop was born in _____ and nurtured on ______

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Harlem; 52nd street

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_______ was the first big band to feature bebop

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Billy Eckstine

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20
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Dizzy inspired the ____-_____ ____ movement, setting the stage for salsa and bossa nova

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Afro-Cuban jazz

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21
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Describe Dizzy’s stage persona

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Goatee
Puffed cheeks
Crowd pleaser
Introduced musicians to each other

22
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Who was the finest pianist of the bebop generation?

A

Bud Powell

23
Q

Bud Powell was from _____

A

NYC

24
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True or False: Bud Powell came from a family of musicians, studying the likes of Bach and Chopin.

A

True

25
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What happened to Bud Powell while he was touring with Cootie Williams?

A

He was unjustly beaten by the police in Philadelphia, leading to crippling headaches and epilepsy.

26
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Example of Bud Powell’s playing

A

Tempus Fugue-It

27
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Who was Dexter Gordon?

A

Bebop tenor saxophonist who lived the California life (film, heroin, racial discrimination)

28
Q

Who was the first to make a million dollars in jazz?

A

Norman Granz

29
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True or false: Norman Granz was all for segregation.

A

False. Rather, he encouraged integrated bands AND audiences

30
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Cool jazz was primarily in the east/west coast

A

Played in the west coast by musicians from the east coast, lol

31
Q

Hot jazz

A

Aggressive rhythms/improv
heavy timbre
vibrato
evocative blues scales
overt expressiveness

32
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Cool jazz

A

Sophisticated harmonies
melodic calm
restrained timbre
limited vibrato
stable dynamics
tempered blues

33
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True or False: In Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis had a balanced relationship between improvisation and composition

A

True

34
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The Miles Davis Nonet was ______ and ______

A

pan-generational; inter-racial

35
Q

What is the name of the longest-running chamber group?

A

Modern Jazz Quartet

36
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According to John Lewis, ______ and blues were compatible.

A

Bach

37
Q

Hard bop was in the east/west coast

A

East

38
Q

Hard bop

A

Heavy
Dark
Extended improv

39
Q

Art Blakey used _____ _____ to support soloists on his drums

A

Press rolls

40
Q

Example of Art Blakey song

A

Moanin

41
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Horace Silver was a _____

A

pianist

42
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Example of Horace Silver song

A

Song for my Father

43
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Who helped to innovate time signature changes in jazz?

A

Dave Brubeck

44
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Clifford Brown was a ____ soloist in the hard bop movement

A

Trumpet

45
Q

Sonny Rollins was a _____ soloist in avant-garde among other genres

A

tenor saxophone

46
Q

Wes Montgomery played the _______

A

electric guitar

47
Q

Describe the style of Thelonious Monk

A

Eccentric, difficult, quirky rhythms, progressive harmonies

48
Q

Charles Mingus was a ____

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bassist (slap da bass)

49
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_______ wrote grand tone poems, suites, jazz standards, parodies, and threnodies while leading his cutting-edge Jazz Workshop and maintaining his stature as one of the greatest bass players of all time

A

Charles Mingus

50
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Who headed up the Old Bottle, New Wine project?

A

Gil Evans

51
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_______ was not an instrumentalist, but a bandleader and composer who wrote the rules for modal jazz

A

George Russell

52
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MUS 203: History of Blues & Jazz (3 decks)

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