Final exam Flashcards by Marcus Cepeda | Brainscape

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Wynton Marsalis

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Neo-traditional trumpeter

Won a grammy in both Jazz and Classical catagories

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Sun Ra

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Postmodernist pianist

Says he isn’t from this planet and was sent to earth to save the universe with Jazz

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John Zorn

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Postmodern saxophonist

Owned Tzatik Label

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Herbie Hancock

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Jazz-Rock Fusion pianist

artist of the song “Watermelon Man”

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Gerald Joseph “Gerry” Mulligan

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Cool Jazz saxophonist

Had a quartet with trumpeter Chet Baker

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Dave Brubeck

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Cool Jazz pianist

a part of the Dave Bruneck Quartet

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Stan Getz

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Cool Jazz saxophonist

He was known as The Sound

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Art Blakey

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Hard Bop pianist

leader of the band “The Messengers”

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Clifford Brown

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Hard Bop Trumpeter

Died in a car accident at 25

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Charles “Bird” Parker

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Bebop jazz saxophonist

invented the bebop vocabulary

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John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie

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Bebop trumpeter

artist of “Manteca”

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Earl Rudolph “Bud” Powell

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Bebop pianist

called “The Charlie Parker of the Piano”

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Thelonious Sphere Monk

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Bebop pianist

artist of “Round Midnight”

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Lee Morgan

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Hard Bop trumpeter

artist of “Cornbread”

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Miles Davis

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Modal trumpet

invented cool

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Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins

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Hard Bop tenor saxophonist

artist of “Tenor Madness”

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John Leslie “Wes” Montgomery

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Hard Bop guitarist

Played with his thumb

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John William Coltrane

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Modal jazz saxophonist

recorded “Kind of Blues” with Miles Davis

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Charles Mingus

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modal jazz bassists

artist of “Moanin’”

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Max Roach

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Bebop/hardbop drummer

fought for civil rights through his music

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Ornette Coleman

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Free Jazz atlo saxophonist

inventor of free jazz

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Eric Allan Dolphy

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Free Jazz flute

First important bass clarinet solo in jazz

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Dexter Gordon

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bebop/hardbop saxophonist

addicted to heroin and moved to Europe