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Question 1

Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin)

Answer 1

Syncopated, lots of different sections, stride style

Question 2

The Entertainer (Scott Joplin)

Answer 2

Syncopated, stride style, march accompaniment

Question 3

Black Bottom Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton)

Answer 3

Two sections based on chord changes (Bb and Eb), New Orleans polyphony around main melody, syncopation, Morton’s solo is very piano ragtime (stride), CL TPT (muted) TRB PN BJ DK, most have solos, ends off-beat drums excitement

Question 4

Hotter Than That (Louis Armstrong)

Answer 4

Armstrong had powerful tone, range, vibrato. rips/falls for colour (dominating presence), swung rather than straight ragtime quavers, more freedom (rubato), scat, lots of solos

Question 5

Jumpin’ At The Woodside (Count Basie)

Answer 5

Intro, 5 choruses (4 32b AABA 1 48 AAAAAA), fast pace, energetic, Alt solo, piano solo, TPT solo, T sax solo (close to bebop style interesting melodic lines), Cl duet with trb then solo

Question 6

Concerto For Cootie (Duke Ellington)

Answer 6

Intro AABACA Coda, Cootie’s solo nonchalant, vibrato with mute with answering TRB to fill space throughout between phrases, trumpet growl (plunger half open), in F

Question 7

Ko-Ko (Charlie Parker)

Answer 7

Intro 2 Chorus drum solo coda (32 64 64 32 28), uses typical AABA throughout but in 16 bars for 64 bar choruses, head in Sax Tpt then tpt then sax then both 3rd apart, Parker solo (quotes Tea for Two), Roach drum solo, 28 (copyright)

Question 8

So What (Miles Davis)

Answer 8

Intro 9 choruses coda, Davis very lyrical lots of space and silence, Harmon mute no stem, rhythmically free, piano fills space and adds to solos, Coltrane’s solo faster energetic (piano matches) double time arpeggios, Cannonball’s solo alt sax virtuosic arpeg/scales, piano solo very chordal, head out

Question 9

Song For My Father (Horace Silver)

Answer 9

4/4 bossa nova, funky Latin groove with lyrical melody, Fm, bass piano share opening riff I V, melody in tpt sax, piano solo parallel 4ths thick texture, moves melody to lower voice, T Sax solo piano continues full rhythmically active chords, repeat theme then coda. (Intro 2 theme 5 chorus theme coda)

Question 10

Civilization Day (Ornette Coleman)

Answer 10

Theme TPT solo Alt solo drum solo theme, time no changes, very active drums and bass constantly, tpt uses repeated figures 8ve apart with bass rising chromatically, Ornette solo post bebop blues influence with total freedom, drum solo keeps pace then theme out

Question 11

Tremendonce (Otis Sandsjo)

Answer 11

Funky Drum groove, polyrhythms (constantly moves note value), improv (Flute has main ostinato pattern), electronic hip hop, needs cues for complex rhythmic changes