Midterm 2 Flashcards
Miles Runs the VooDoo Down
Miles Davis
Starts with drums and snare
Followed by trumpet
Birdland
Weather Report
Starts with electric guitar stringing
Has tambourine
Spinning Wheel
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
Cherokee
Wynton Marsalis
Starts very fast
Strasbourg/ St. Denis
Roy Hargrove
Also has stringing, deeper instrument
It Had to Be You
Harry Connick Jr.
A Love Supreme - Part 1. Acknowledge
John Coltrane
September
Earth, Wind, Fire
Take the A Train
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Starts with piano
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
Chicago
Starts with ‘ta ta tatata, ta ta tatata’
Miles Davis
- Trumpet Player
- Pioneered Electric Jazz
John Coltrane
- Tenor Saxophone
- Composed and performed “A Love Supreme”
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
- Rock and Roll Horn Band
Earth, Wind and Fire
- Funk Horn Band
Weather Report
- Fusion band featuring jazz musicians
Wynton Marsalis
- Trumpet player and leader of Young Lions Movement
Branford Marsalis
- Saxophone
- Brother of Wynton Marsalis
Harry Connick Jr.
- Vocalist and Pianist
- From New Orleans
Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
- Big Band led by Wynton Marsalis
Chicago
- Rock and Roll/Pop horn band
Electric Jazz
Jazz music featuring electronic instruments and rooted in rock and roll
Fusion
Popular music involving jazz, rock & roll, R&B, soul, and electronic music in the 1970’s
Young Lions
Group of young musicians from New Orleans who led the jazz revival of the 1980’s
Lincoln Center
Home of musical groups in New York that houses the big band led by Wynton Marsalis
