Musc 1236 People Notecards Flashcards
Thelonius Monk Instrument
Composer, Piano
Charles Mingus Instrument
Composer, Bass
Gil Evans Instrument
Composer, Arranger
George Russell Instrument
Composer, bandleader (not instrumentalist)
Miles Davis Instrument
Trumpet, Composer
Bill Evans Instrument
Pianist, Composer
John Coltrane Instrument
Tenor Saxophone
Louis Jordan Instrument
saxophonists, singer, songwriter, bandleader
Ray Charles Instrument
Vocalist, composer, piano
Jimmy Smith Instrument
organist
Frank Sinatra Instrument
singer
Rosemary Clooney Instrument
singer
Nat “King” Cole Instrument
pianist, singer
Sarah Vaughan Instrument
singer
Carmen Miranda Instrument
Brazilian entertainer (fruit hat)
Xavier Cugat Instrument
bandleader, violinist
Mario Bauza Instrument
trumpet, arranger
Machito Instrument
bandleader, singer, maracas player
Dizzy Gillespie Instrument
trumpet, bandleader, composer, arranger
Herbie Hancock Instrument
pianist
Keith Jarrett Instrument
pianist
Wynton Marsalis Instrument
trumpet
Harry Conick Jr. Instrument
singer
Diana Krall Instrument
singer
Michael Brecker Instrument
tenor saxophone
Jason Moran Instrument
pianist
What style is associated the Thelonius Monk?
bebop
What style is associated with Gil Evans?
Cool Jazz
What style is associated with Miles Davis?
bebop, hard bop, cool bands
What style is associated with Bill Evans?
hard bop
What style is associated with John Coltrane?
He is an older musician attacted to avante-garde jazz
What style is associated with Louis Jordan?
R&B
What style is associated with Ray Charles?
Soul Jazz
What style is associated with Jimmy Smith?
Soul Jazz
What style is associated with Frank Sinatra?
Singer
What style is associated with Rosemary Clooney?
Singer
What style is associated with Nat “King” Cole?
Singer
What style is associated with Sarah Vaughan?
Singer
What style is associated with Carmen Miranda?
Latin Jazz
What style is associated with Xavier Cugat?
Latin Jazz
What style is associated with Mario Bauza?
Latin Jazz
What style is associated with Machito?
Latin Jazz
What style is associated with Dizzy Gillespie?
Latin Jazz, bebop
What style is associated with Herbie Hancock?
1970s-80s jazz rock fusion
What style is associated with Keith Jarrett?
1970s-80s jazz rock fusion
What style is associated with Wynton Marsalis?
Neoclassicist
What style is associated with Harry Conick Jr?
Nostaliga
What style is associated with Diana Krall?
Nostaliga
What style is associated with Michael Brecker?
Acoustic Jazz
What style is associated with Jason Moran?
Avant Garde Fusion + Historicism
What style is associated with Charles Mingus?
cool jazz and hard bop while combiniing experimentalism
Who was Thelonius Monk?
Composer and pianist; Most widely perforemd of all jazz composers (after Duke Ellington), at center of bebop development, bipolar and drugs;
What was Thelonius Monk contribution to jazz?
His music altered our perception of harmony, space, swing, and melody, all while remaining tied to the traditions from which it sprang.
Who is associated with Minton’s Playhouse?
Thelonius Monk
Who recruited Thelonius Monk to play where?
Kenny Clarke; Minton’s Playhouse
Who was Charles Mingus?
Bigger than life figure who made a big mark on jazz, became increasingly notorious for outspoken comments
Who was the first person to write tributes to the past?
Charles Mingus?
What were some of Charles Mingus contributions (as a composer)?
He expanded the varity and scope of American music, assimilating influences as far ranging as the sanctified churhc, New Orleans polyphony, swing, boop, Romantic classical music, and modern classical music?
Who was in the Red Norvo Trio?
Charles Mingus
What album got Charles Mingus famous?
Clown album
How did Charles Mingus grow up?
Born in Arizona, moved to LA, with a large proporiton of blacks and Mexican americans, belonged to African Methodist Episocopal Church
Who was Gil Evans?
He was a composer and arranger who focused on the music of other composers, radically althering it into imaginative new pieces
What is Gil Evans best known for?
His use of the concerto form
How would you characterize Gil Evans music?
counterpoint, sonorous slow-moving chords, sound palette that combined low with high instruments
What’s a cool thing Gil Evans did that no one had done before?
He wrote transitional interludes between selections, replacing the usual silences between tracks
Who is associated with Jimi Hendrix?
Gil Evans
Who did Gil Evans super give with?
Miles Davis
Who is George Russell?
He was a composer, bandleader, but not an instrumentalist. He introduced modalism into jazz. Father of modal jazz
Who is the father of modal jazz?
George Russell
Who is Miles Davis?
trumpet player and composer. His worked involved a continuous rethinking of the four primary elements that define jazz and most other kinds of music: harmony, melody, rhythm, and instrumentation; both archetypal modern jazz musician and civil-rigts-era black man, drug problems,
How was Miles Davis trumpet playing approach different?
His approach was different because he preferred the middle register, and focused on timbre and melody, plaing fewer and longer notes;
What are Miles Davis solos famous for?
Emotional and rhythmically restrained
What is very emblematic of Miles Davis style?
Harmon Mute
Who was in the Miles Davis Quintet?
Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (pianist), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (Drummer)
Who arranged for Miles Davis?
Gil Evans
What ensemble helped launch cool jazz?
Miles Davis Nonet
What was Miles Davis childhood like?
Born in Illionis to a wealthy family
Who did Miles Davis study with?
Charle Parker
What were Miles Davis nicknames?
the sorcery, man who walked on eggshells, prince of darkness
Who was Bill Evans?
Miles Davis Pianist, influential musician, he drew on classical background and modal jazz and developed an oriiganl approach to voicing harmonies that made his chords sound fresh and open ended
What is Bill Evans best known for?
his composition blue and green (ten-measure circular sequence of chords that, as Evan configured them, has no obvious beginning or ending
What helps Bill evans in kind of blue?
His quartal harmonies help define the modal achievement of Kind of Blue
Who was John Coltrane?
a tenor saxophone player who became the most intrepid explorer of modal jazz and a culturel-ethical leader of avant-garde jazz in the 1960s.
Why did Miles Davis fire Coltrane?
Dependence on drugs
How did critics describe John Coltranes music?
Sheets of sounds
Who brought coltrane to NY?
Gillespie
How did John Coltrane grow up?
Grew up in north carolina in a racist, bad community, father died when he was 12
Where did John Coltrane first study?
Ornstein School of Music and Granoff Studios
Who was Louis Jordan?
R&B Musician, at the height of the swing era, he proved that a small group could achieve great commercial success; helped to pioneer electric guitar and hammond organ
What were the topics of Louis Jordans songs?
Funny
What styles did Louis Jordan blend?
Blended elements of jazz, boogie-woogie, and latin rhythms
Who was Ray Charles?
vocalist, composer, and piano player who single handedly represented a fusion between swing, bop, R&B, gospel, and rock; blind
Who was nicknamed the genius?
Ray Charles
Where was Ray Charles born?
Born to an impoverished family in Georgia, raised in Greenville, Flirda by his mother who took him to baptist church on Sunday
Who was Jimmy Smith?
“The incredible jimmy smith”; launched a new kind of trio centered on the Hammond B3 Organ, supported by drums and either guitar or tenor saxophone
What did Jimmy Smiths organ technique enable him to do?
His organ technique enabled him to develop an atack that combined R&B rhythms and gospel feeling with daunting bebop vituosity.
What was unique about Frank Sinatra?
He didn’t improvise as freely as a jazz singer, but he embellished the melodic line to make it more interesting
Who did Frank Sinatra originally imitate?
Bing Cosby
Who was Rosemary Clooney?
A best selling recording artist between 1951 and 1954. Her biggest hit about food was so popular it put her on the cover of time and led to a film and television career
Who was Nat “King” Cole?
An accomplished jazz pianist who enjoyed an unexpected triumph as one of the most successful pop singers of all time. His singing on the novelty song “Straigten up and fly right” helped him achieve a commerical breakthrough in 1943, offered TV show as first black person but it was cancelled
Who was Sarah Vaughan?
singer whose voice ranged over four octaves with excellent intonation with a strong feeling of blues and instinctive feel for swing.
Who discovered Sarah Vaughan?
Earl Hines
Who was nicknamed sassy? Where did this nickname come from?
Sarah Vaughan; in praise of her voice and musicianship
Who was nicknamed the divine one? Where did this nickname come from?
Sarah Vaughan; denote her artistic temperment
Who was Carmen Miranda?
Brazilian entertainer, known for performing her songs in outrageous costumes that involved huge fruit salad hats.
Who was Xavier Cugat?
The most influential of all Latin band leaders, a spanish born violinist whose family moved to Cuba when he was a boy. His fame peaked in the 1940s, thanks to hit records and frequent appearances on radio and in the moves. Success due to good neighbor policy
Who was Mario Bauza?
Little known godfather of Cubop (Afro-cuban jazz), trumper player and arranger, worked with Chick Webbs big bands
Who did Mario Bauza work with?
Chick Webb
Who is Machito?
bandleader, singer, maracas player, latin jazz, joined Cab Calloways orchestra and recorded with Xavier Cugar. Formed the Afro Cubans
Who is Dizzy Gillespie?
trumpet player, latin jazz and others, known for adding layers of harmonic complexity previous unheard in jazz; big with bebop and modern jazz
Who was Herbie Hancock?
pianst who during his years with Miles Davis established himself as a postbop composer of subtlety and bristling complexity, while also showing a talent for writing tunes built on funky vamps.
Who formed headhunters?
Herbi Hancock
Who was Keith Jarrett?
pianist, idiosyncratic musician, seems possessed when he plays, exciting
Who was Wynton Marsalis?
Leader of young neoclassical musicians of the 1980s; audacious trumpet player who loudly denied that avante-garde music and fusion had anything to do with jazz; cared about appearances
Who is Harry Conick Jr.?
First of several male singers to invoke the manner of Frank Sinatra
Who was Diana Krall?
Nostalgia, she initially made her name with a trio that echoed the instrumentation (piano, guitar, bass), and songs of nat king cole. She later recorded balands with lush studio orchestras in the manner of mainstream 1950s singers.
Who was Michael Brecker?
tenor saxophone, influenced by Coltrane, acoustic jazz, his solo style incorporated and modernized aspects of John Coltranes style, worked with steely dan
Who was Jason Moran?
pianist, combined avant-garde, fusion, and historicism. He works with the original material but frequently alters or stops the tempo.
