Musc 1236 People Notecards Flashcards
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Thelonius Monk Instrument
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Composer, Piano
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Charles Mingus Instrument
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Composer, Bass
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Gil Evans Instrument
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Composer, Arranger
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George Russell Instrument
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Composer, bandleader (not instrumentalist)
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Miles Davis Instrument
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Trumpet, Composer
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Bill Evans Instrument
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Pianist, Composer
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John Coltrane Instrument
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Tenor Saxophone
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Louis Jordan Instrument
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saxophonists, singer, songwriter, bandleader
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Ray Charles Instrument
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Vocalist, composer, piano
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Jimmy Smith Instrument
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organist
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Frank Sinatra Instrument
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singer
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Rosemary Clooney Instrument
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singer
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Nat “King” Cole Instrument
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pianist, singer
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Sarah Vaughan Instrument
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singer
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Carmen Miranda Instrument
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Brazilian entertainer (fruit hat)
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Xavier Cugat Instrument
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bandleader, violinist
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Mario Bauza Instrument
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trumpet, arranger
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Machito Instrument
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bandleader, singer, maracas player
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Dizzy Gillespie Instrument
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trumpet, bandleader, composer, arranger
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Herbie Hancock Instrument
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pianist
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Keith Jarrett Instrument
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pianist
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Wynton Marsalis Instrument
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trumpet
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Harry Conick Jr. Instrument
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singer
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Diana Krall Instrument
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singer
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Michael Brecker Instrument
tenor saxophone
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Jason Moran Instrument
pianist
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What style is associated the Thelonius Monk?
bebop
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What style is associated with Gil Evans?
Cool Jazz
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What style is associated with Miles Davis?
bebop, hard bop, cool bands
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What style is associated with Bill Evans?
hard bop
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What style is associated with John Coltrane?
He is an older musician attacted to avante-garde jazz
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What style is associated with Louis Jordan?
R&B
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What style is associated with Ray Charles?
Soul Jazz
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What style is associated with Jimmy Smith?
Soul Jazz
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What style is associated with Frank Sinatra?
Singer
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What style is associated with Rosemary Clooney?
Singer
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What style is associated with Nat "King" Cole?
Singer
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What style is associated with Sarah Vaughan?
Singer
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What style is associated with Carmen Miranda?
Latin Jazz
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What style is associated with Xavier Cugat?
Latin Jazz
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What style is associated with Mario Bauza?
Latin Jazz
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What style is associated with Machito?
Latin Jazz
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What style is associated with Dizzy Gillespie?
Latin Jazz, bebop
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What style is associated with Herbie Hancock?
1970s-80s jazz rock fusion
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What style is associated with Keith Jarrett?
1970s-80s jazz rock fusion
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What style is associated with Wynton Marsalis?
Neoclassicist
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What style is associated with Harry Conick Jr?
Nostaliga
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What style is associated with Diana Krall?
Nostaliga
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What style is associated with Michael Brecker?
Acoustic Jazz
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What style is associated with Jason Moran?
Avant Garde Fusion + Historicism
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What style is associated with Charles Mingus?
cool jazz and hard bop while combiniing experimentalism
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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;
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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.
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Who is associated with Minton's Playhouse?
Thelonius Monk
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Who recruited Thelonius Monk to play where?
Kenny Clarke; Minton's Playhouse
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Who was Charles Mingus?
Bigger than life figure who made a big mark on jazz, became increasingly notorious for outspoken comments
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Who was the first person to write tributes to the past?
Charles Mingus?
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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?
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Who was in the Red Norvo Trio?
Charles Mingus
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What album got Charles Mingus famous?
Clown album
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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
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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
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What is Gil Evans best known for?
His use of the concerto form
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How would you characterize Gil Evans music?
counterpoint, sonorous slow-moving chords, sound palette that combined low with high instruments
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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
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Who is associated with Jimi Hendrix?
Gil Evans
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Who did Gil Evans super give with?
Miles Davis
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Who is George Russell?
He was a composer, bandleader, but not an instrumentalist. He introduced modalism into jazz. Father of modal jazz
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Who is the father of modal jazz?
George Russell
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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,
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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;
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What are Miles Davis solos famous for?
Emotional and rhythmically restrained
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What is very emblematic of Miles Davis style?
Harmon Mute
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Who was in the Miles Davis Quintet?
Miles Davis (trumpet), John Coltrane (tenor sax), Red Garland (pianist), Paul Chambers (bass), Philly Joe Jones (Drummer)
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Who arranged for Miles Davis?
Gil Evans
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What ensemble helped launch cool jazz?
Miles Davis Nonet
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What was Miles Davis childhood like?
Born in Illionis to a wealthy family
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Who did Miles Davis study with?
Charle Parker
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What were Miles Davis nicknames?
the sorcery, man who walked on eggshells, prince of darkness
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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
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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
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What helps Bill evans in kind of blue?
His quartal harmonies help define the modal achievement of Kind of Blue
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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.
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Why did Miles Davis fire Coltrane?
Dependence on drugs
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How did critics describe John Coltranes music?
Sheets of sounds
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Who brought coltrane to NY?
Gillespie
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How did John Coltrane grow up?
Grew up in north carolina in a racist, bad community, father died when he was 12
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Where did John Coltrane first study?
Ornstein School of Music and Granoff Studios
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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
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What were the topics of Louis Jordans songs?
Funny
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What styles did Louis Jordan blend?
Blended elements of jazz, boogie-woogie, and latin rhythms
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Who was Ray Charles?
vocalist, composer, and piano player who single handedly represented a fusion between swing, bop, R&B, gospel, and rock; blind
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Who was nicknamed the genius?
Ray Charles
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Who did Frank Sinatra originally imitate?
Bing Cosby
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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
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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
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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.
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Who discovered Sarah Vaughan?
Earl Hines
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Who was nicknamed sassy? Where did this nickname come from?
Sarah Vaughan; in praise of her voice and musicianship
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Who was nicknamed the divine one? Where did this nickname come from?
Sarah Vaughan; denote her artistic temperment
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Who was Carmen Miranda?
Brazilian entertainer, known for performing her songs in outrageous costumes that involved huge fruit salad hats.
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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
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Who was Mario Bauza?
Little known godfather of Cubop (Afro-cuban jazz), trumper player and arranger, worked with Chick Webbs big bands
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Who did Mario Bauza work with?
Chick Webb
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Who is Machito?
bandleader, singer, maracas player, latin jazz, joined Cab Calloways orchestra and recorded with Xavier Cugar. Formed the Afro Cubans
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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
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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.
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Who formed headhunters?
Herbi Hancock
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Who was Keith Jarrett?
pianist, idiosyncratic musician, seems possessed when he plays, exciting
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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
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Who is Harry Conick Jr.?
First of several male singers to invoke the manner of Frank Sinatra
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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.
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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
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Who was Jason Moran?
pianist, combined avant-garde, fusion, and historicism. He works with the original material but frequently alters or stops the tempo.
