Jazz And Other Forms Flashcards
Reflection of the cultural diversity and individualism of America.
Jazz music
Born around _____ between the end of World War I and the Great Depression.
1895 in mew orleans
Unquestionably the most important single force in the development of early jazz styles.
Louis Armstrong
strong but flexible (8th notes)
Rhythm
highly sophisticated
Harmony
uniquely American
Form
improvisation (blue notes)
Melody
extreme
Dynamics
Jazz music was called New Orleans or Dixieland Jazz during this period.
1920s Jazz Age
Bands became bigger for swing, often including 16 or more players.
1930s era of swing
pianist and composer who was particularly noted for showing the combination of improvisation and composed parts in swing.
Duke Ellington
combined the rhythms of African and Latin American countries with the harmonies from US Jazz.
Uses straight rhythms rather than the swung rhythms of earlier.
1940s/1950s Latin Jazz, Hot and Cool Jazz
collaborated with other artists and brought Latin Jazz to mainstream awareness.
Dizzy gillespia
collaborated with other artists and brought Latin Jazz to mainstream awareness.
Dizzy gillespia
result of the experimentations done by different musicians with complex rhythm and harmony.
Be-bop/Modern Jazz
pioneered the style of be-pop.
Charlie Parker
gentler, more subtle and without the fiery intensity of Hot Jazz.
Cool jazz
developed in California and like Cool Jazz was more impersonal and relaxed than be-pop.
West coast jazz
extension of Be-pop but had a slower tempo with more varied bass playing.
Hard bop
drummer in “The Jazz Messengers”, a group who played hard bop.
Art blakey
development from Hard Bop, strongly influenced by blues and gospel music.
Soul jazz
also known as Avant-Jazz disregarded previous rules and constrants on harmony and structure.
Free jazz
leader of the free jazz movement
Cecil tayler
Result of the collaboration of jazz with rock music.
1970s Jazz Fusion
played over rock rhythms using the electric guitar and piano.
Jazz solos
example of a group that fused jazz and rock together using improvisation.
Weather report
musical genre that developed in the 1980s and the 1990s.
It combined parts of jazz music with soul, funk, disco and hip-hop.
Acid jazz
include Jamiroquai, The Brand New Heavies and James Taylor Quartet.
Acid jazz groups
mixes alternative hip-hop music with jazz.
Jazz rap
used samples from previous jazz artists like Gang Starr’s first single which included samples from Charlie Parker and Miles Davis’s final album with MC Easy Mo Bee
Jazz rap groups
Also known Electrojazz, because of its use of electronic dance music and house beats.
It is characterized by repetitiveness and sometimes blaring loudness reflecting its club roots.
1990s to present Nu Jazz
