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Exam 4 Flashcards

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Mainstream Jazz

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Is 1950s and ’60s jazz music with typical bebop language and continuation of the Charlie and Dizzy tradition still big bands currently as well but most go to small groups (combos).

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Rock and Roll

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The biggest competitor to jazz music.

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Hardbop

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Modified bebop. It ethnicizes bebop and adds a little sugar to it.

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

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Art Blakey was a drummer; he had a small group with a piano player named Horace Silver and their group was the Jazz Messengers. The two parted their own ways Horace went on and had his own group and Art Blakey got his own Group and kept the name Art Blakey and the jazz messengers the group was usually young to mid-20-year-olds. They would travel across the country and around the world. He wanted a fiery sound from his group. He also made sure that his drums were a very prevalent sound in their music because he was the leader of the group.

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Jaz Messengers Purpose

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They would travel to jazz clubs and bars and other things Blakey’s mission was to take these younger musicians for two years and then replace them once they got good, and he kept doing this in an ongoing cycle. They would go on to form their own groups.

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Dynamic Contrast

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The contrast between loud and soft

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Listening part (moanin’)

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AAAMMMEEENNN - Soul Jazz almost sounds like a rock tune.
Lee Morgan – Trumpet Solo.
Song Form – call and response, bridge, AABA.

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Horace Silver

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Piano player. Was a great composer. Sometimes has a Latin flare to his music.

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Funky and soul Jazz years

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1950’s-60’s

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Clifford Brown and Max Roach

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Clifford Brown (trumpet) died in a car wreck the night that he had a performance he died at a young age. Max Roach (drums) was a very influential musician and civil rights movement.

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Freedom Now (jazz Suite)

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co-wrote by Max Roach and is a civil rights movement piece. Singer abbey Lincoln who was briefly married to Max Roach.

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Joy spring (professors favorite)

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Clifford Brown and Max Roach – Song form AABA. Professors’ favorite song.

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Postmodern Jazz

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Anything after cool jazz or the last unit.

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Ornette Coleman

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Saxophone player he was most popular for his free jazz approach.

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Art

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its possibilities are endless and crazy.

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Free Jazz Album

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by Ornette Coleman Quartet is one of the top 10 most influential jazz albums but not for the sound of the actual music. Created kind of a firestorm in the jazz community.

Lots of similarities to bebop.

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The Ornette Coleman Quartet

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Saxophone, drums, bass, and Trumpet Don Cherry.

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Free Jazz Sounds

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out of tune and not in order and chaotic to the professor.

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Jazz organ Trio

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three instruments electric organ specifically the Hammond B3 has a bit of a vibrato sound to it, the organ has two sets of keyboards and a set of keys for your feet. The other instruments are the guitar and drums. The guitar is electric and connected to an amplifier. Missing a bass but they fix this by the organ playing the walking bass line with their feet.

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What Organ is most commonly used

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Hammond B3

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James and Wes (song)

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Wes Montgomery guitar player, Jimmy Smith organ player

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Charles Mingus

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Grew up wanting to become an orchestral trombone player but realized the color of his skin would hold him back. He decided to form his own group become a jazz musician and hire the people he wanted to hire. The Mingus Big Band. Mingus had a bit of a volatile personality.

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Fables of Faubus

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(Faubus the governor of Arkansas who tried keeping the Little Rock Nine out of the schools)

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The birth of the cool Album

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The Birth of the Cool album by Miles Davis is very important to jazz. The composer was Gil Evans.

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Milestones

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Miles Davis album

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Sketches of Spain

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Spanish-influenced music played by Miles Davis.

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Porgy and Bess

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arranged by Gil Evens A tune of this album is called Summertime.

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Chameleon

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Miles exists in at least 6 different categories of jazz music he was very diverse and changed for example MODAL, Cool, progressive, Bebop, jazz-rock fusion, and Pop jazz. Also did some orchestral jazz or third stream.

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Modal Jazz

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is music that is focused on very few harmonies.

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Harmon Mute

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Miles used a Harmon mute very often that has kind of a bubbly sound to it.

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The Second Great Quintet

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(Miles Davis trumpet, Wayne Shorter saxophone, Herbie Hancock piano, Ron Carter Bass, Tony Williams drums) – They started to incorporate free jazz into what they were doing.

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Orbits

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Wayne Shorter wrote this tune. Progressive jazz

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Bitches Brew

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Top 3 album for all jazz

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Jazz-rock fusion

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jazz and rock were both influenced by each other.

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Miles Davis Sidemen

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John Coltrane Saxophone, Lester Young Saxophone, Coleman Hawkins Saxophone

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John Coltrane

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Coleman Hawkins tradition. John played the soprano saxophone.
- heavy sheets of sound up and down

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Maynard Ferguson

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Trumpet Player – Gonna Fly Now is the theme music for Rocky in the movie.

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Tower of Power

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Diggin on James Brown which was a 12-bar blues.

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Herbie Hancock

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A keyboard player he formed a group called the Headhunters their well-known tune was called Chameleon. Eventually went away from his group and became a soloist and his hit son Rocket was very well known for playing the keytar keyboard guitar mix.

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Weather Report

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Joe Zawinul – Played the keyboard.

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Wayne Shorter

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(saxophone) – wrote a tune named Orbits.

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Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter Group

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These two made a group called (weather report) a lot of synthetic and electric sounds Jocko Pastorious was a famous bass guitar player who didn’t like wearing a shirt.

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Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters

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a famous tune was called Chameleon.

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John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra

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John formed this group that is a rock band with violinists they had some very distorted sounds. John was a guitar player.

44
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Chick Corea and the return to forever

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Chick was a piano player who was classically trained.

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Chuck Mangione

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trumpet and flugelhorn player famous song (Feel So Good).

46
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Jazz around the world

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Jazz is no longer a singular American thing. Some jazz musicians from America would move to other countries because they would get more appreciation and better pay.

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ECM

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(Editions contemporary music) they liked non-electric jazz.

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Keith Jarrett

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A piano player who played with Miles Davis he went towards ECM’s style of playing. He uses vamps in his playing a lot. He has kind of a country-sounding style of play. Moved to Europe and was usually a jazz piano trio player.

Famous tune - Windup

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Wynton Marsalis

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Became the first person to win Grammy awards in jazz and classical recordings in the same year. Came from a long line of jazz musicians his dad was a piano player and most of his children became jazz musicians.

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Metric Modulation

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you can come up with a new pulse by changing the pattern of the notes being played.

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Anthony Braxton

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He operates in more of a big band capacity he also mixes in elements of free jazz like group improvisation.

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Big Bands

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– in the 1960s it picked up at universities. A very well-known one was the Stan Kenton big band they used some very odd brass playing techniques.

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Moanin

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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

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Daahoud

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Clifford Brown

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James and Wes

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Jazz organ trio Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery

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Mind and Time

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Ornette Coleman

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Milestones

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Miles Davis

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Orbits

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Miles Davis written by Wayne shorter

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Afro Blue

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John Coltrane

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Palladium - Weather Report

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Joe Zawinul and Wayne Shorter

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Heavy Metal

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Chick Corea

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Windup

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Keith Jarrett

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Delfeayos Dilema

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Wynton Marsalis

64
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Piece 1

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Anthony Braxton

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