NO jazz Flashcards
NO example track and MF melody and structure and rhythm and harmony
‘Livery Stable Blues’ - ODJB (1917)
First to record (Chicago) sold 250,000 copies
Hot and lively, asked to play fast so whole song was on record
Novelty
Syncopation in melodic instr and regular on beat (in 4) accomp - informal swing (some swung some not)
Accidentals, diatonic harmony, blues like harmonic structure
Repeated verse structure using solo breaks of a few bars
Group improv
Imitating animals - pitch bends and growls
Who was buddy bolden?
‘King bolden’
Trumpet player who deserves credit for starting jazz
Hot jazz and blues, slowed down notes, louder and bolder, combination of blues ragtime, marching, especially lives in Storyville
‘Funky butt blues’
NO MF instr and texture
NO polyphony with monophonic breaks
3 melodic instr :
cornet (main melody, nick LaRocca)
Clarinet (high elaborate melody lines)
Trombone (bass line and more regular rhythms)
Drums and piano accomp (snare, hihat and bass drum, vamping)
