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what was charlie parker nickname

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Bird

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Charlie parker instrument

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Alto Saxophone

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Charlie parker importance

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main innovator in Bop and most important alto sax

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charlie parker important song

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donna lee (interacts with rhythm section)

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dizzy gillespie intrument

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trumpet

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dizzy gillespie importance

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first important bepop trumpet, copies parker on trumpets

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dizzy gillespie special sound

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high notes mostly and suell up cheeks

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miles davis instrument

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trumpet and uses alot of styles

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what type of jazz did miles davis play

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mostly modal jazz avant garde

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miles davis importance to jazz

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outspoken about civil rights, innovator/visionary, made de harmon mute (buzzing sound) and modal jazz recording

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miles davis song description

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So what uses cymbals always hitting, calm, piano and trumpet and repetitive tuuh-huh

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Dave brubeck instrument

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piano

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dave brubeck importance

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innovator of time sign, most famous jazz musician

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how was dave brubeck music

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expressed with music heard abraod and blended jazz with classical

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dave brubeck song

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take 5 has drums and sax alto repetitve melody of piano

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Horance silver instrument and style

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Piano and hard bop

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Horace silver importance

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key figure of hard bop and arrangements

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horace silver inspiration and methodology

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he was inspired bu gospel and blues and was a harsh band leader

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horace silver song and description

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The preacher which was funk+gospel+blues

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Art blakey instruments

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drums

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art blakey group

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art blakey and the messengers

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what was art blakey importance

what did he expect from the band

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he expected energetic solos

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clifford brown instrument

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trumpet

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clifford brown importance

how would you describe his trumpet playing

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most complete trumpet virtuoso after dizzy, played for only 4 years

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Dexter gordon intrument and style

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tenor sax and played hard bop/ bepop

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Dexter gordon influenced by who and who

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Influenced by Coleman Hawking and influenced sonny rollins and john coltrane

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dexter gordon song

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Second balcony jump had constant drums and cyments and joyful

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Sonny Rollins instruments

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tenor sax

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sonny rollins important

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influential jazz improvement. Influence on sound, thematic, rhythm, cadenzas

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Sonny rollins song

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St-Thomas: sing sing sing intro and repeats improv motives

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West montgomery instrument

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Guitar

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West montgomery importance

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Thumb technique= quiet mellow tone and bluesy sounding

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nat king cole instrument

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piano player but became famous for his voice

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34
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nat king cole was know for

what did he not do

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was popular in the 40’s and hosted a telelivsion show and he didnt improvise

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35
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Ella fitzgerald nickname

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First lady of song

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Ella fitzgerald style and instrument

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bop and vocalist

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Ella fitzgerald importance

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Operatic singer with large range used alot of scatting

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38
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Ella fitzgerald song

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How high the moon

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Frank sinatra nickname

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Ol’Blues Eyes

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Frank sinatra importance

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Popular american (very in demande) and signed to capitold records made lots of songs

41
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frank sinatra song

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My kind of Town

42
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Sarah Vaughan nickname and why

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Sassy she had a sharp tongue

43
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Sarah vaught importance

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scattering, used vocal infections and timber. Interpretation of melodies

44
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Thelonious monk instrument and style

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Piano and boho bop

45
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thelonious monk importance

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Improviser and composer, played with flat fingers and had a minimalistic approach to playing (only when necessary)

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Charles mingus intrument and what style

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Bass and a mix of N-O, swing, bop , romantic

47
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Charles mingus importance

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He mixed Jazz with civil rights mouvement with a song such as Fables of Farbus ( segretation song) he made music with message

48
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Charles Mingus song

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Better get hit in your soul: bluesy chaos,

49
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Ornette coleman instrument and syle

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Alto sax and free jazz

50
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ornette coleman importance

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Innovator of free jazz (changed the playbook) and pushed to mainstream.
He did improve with free chord changes and everyone followed (like a conversation).
He played for a reactions (with no harmony, time, structure and meter)
He took the roles/rules/demands and broke them

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John coltrane instrument

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Tenor sax (avant garde)

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John coltrane importance

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Most influential sax since he’s an innovator (made new harmonic system)
Quartet influenced a generation of musicians
playes alot of notes and played with miles davis alot

53
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The album love supreme

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An autobiographical four part suite about his spiritual and religious awakening from recovering of addiction

54
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who put together the mahavishu orchestra and what instrument did he play

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John Mclaughlin the guitar

55
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what styles were mixed in mahavushu orchestra

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jazz with indian and eastern influences

56
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describe mahavishnu orchestra sound

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loud, powerfull, aggressive (similar to rock) and they used electric violin and double necked guitar

57
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Bitches brew was who’s band

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Miles davis jam fusion

58
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What style was bitches brew

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jazz and electronic

59
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what made bitches brew interesting

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Miles david had electrified his rhythm section
made a lot of post-production to add effects in his albums
Miles conducted sometimes while playing

60
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Who’s group was Return to forever

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Chick corea

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What styles was return to forever and their inspo

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a mix between latin (brazil) and jazz fusion
their inspo was mahavishuan

62
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What made return to forever and chick corea important

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they were in scientology so they reached a big audience

63
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What song was chick corea and return to foever

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Spain

64
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who made the group blank and the headhunters

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Herbre hancock

65
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What style of music was herbre hancock and the headhunters

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a mix of funk rhythm section with jazz player

66
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What was interesting about herbre hancock and the headhunters music

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they used layer rhythm, syncopation and simple harmony (2 chords) with soloing over top of all
was guitard music

67
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What was herbre hancock and the headhunters song

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Watermelong man which was the definition of funky, had repetitive loops. Had the electronic keyboard and bottle

68
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what was weather report style

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they experienced with sounf and improv with wierd sound scape. They acted like big rock show and had big keyboard set ups

69
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Weather report song

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Birdland

70
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Where did bop originate

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Jam sessions ( became a bop laboratory)

71
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What was bop used for

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a voice for racial inequalities

72
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how was bop described

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more aggressive, busy, fast and complex

73
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what happend to improv in bop

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more harmonic progressions ( we could hear chords without rhythm)

74
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How did harmony change in bop

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it was busier and complex and melody sounded like solos + more interactions with rhythm sections

75
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how was cool jazz described

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mid range timber, softer dynamics, less syncopation, articulation and vibrato

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what happend with the rhythm section in cool jazz

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a supportive vs combative ( a more supportive approach)

77
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how would you describe free jazz

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no harmony, structure, time and meter
free from chords changes
more of a conversation

78
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who is most known for free jazz

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ornette coleman

79
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who is most known for modal jazz

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Miles davis

80
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how would you describe modal jazz

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1 scale for 8 bars, 1 song only, not exciting more flat

81
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what was miles davis second quintet about

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it was controlled freedom and they were musing bounderies.
They played more playfully and different from the first quintet, less structure, freedom to move away from the chored changes ( what controlled freedom is about)`

82
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what were the obstacles for jazz with the british rock invasion

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youth: wanted to listen to people their age
electronics/recording: amplification and manipulation of sound
rhythm: rock played on 8 counts
virtuosity: more songwriter and rock was more viruostic
group: rock focused on group and group oriented creative process

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how was hard bop described

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funky jazz, rebellion against the soft/mellow sound of cool jazz
had a harder more swinging edge
darker and heavier (tenor sax and drums)
assertive style
more accessible than bop
east coast revival of bop

84
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artists such as horace silver and art blakey wanted audience how

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with tunes that were rehearsed with shorter solos

85
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how was the vocals in jazz

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singer often imitated instruments with their rhythm,ic freedom while instrumentalists tried to copy the flexibility/expressiveness of the voice
vocalists concentrated on the melody not the abstract variations typical of intrumentalists

86
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where did charles mingus song fables of faubus come from

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faubus s wanted arkansa to be segregated and sent army to schools so Mingus wrote a song against faubus

87
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who palyed the saxophone (4)

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charlie parker
dexter gordon
sonny rollins
john coltrane

88
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who played the trumpet (3)

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dizzy gillespie
clifford brown
miles davis

89
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who played the piano

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thelonious monk
horace silver
dave brubeck
chick corea
herbie hancock

90
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who played the bass

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charles mingus

91
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who played the dtrums

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art blakey

92
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who played the guitar

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wes montgomery
john mclaughlin

93
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who did vocals

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ella fitzgerald
frank sinatra
sarah vaughan

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jazz history (2 decks)

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