Songs Flashcards
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West End Blues - page 46
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- By: Louis Armstrong (trumpet) and Earl Hines (piano)
- Era: 1928, Early Jazz
- Form: 12 bar blues
- # of choruses: 5
- Instruments: trumpet, vocals, clarinet, trombone, piano, banjo, and drums
- First chorus: melody by armstrong on trumpet
- Second: trombone solo
- Third: improvised duet between clarinet and armstrong’s vocals
- Fourth:Unaccompanied Piano improvisation by Earl Hines
- Fifth: trumpet solo
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Taxi War Dance - page 70
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- By: Count Basie (piano) and Lester Young (tenor sax)
- Era: 1939, Swing
- Form: 32 bar AABA
- # of choruses: 4 intro, chorus, two measure intro of 2nd chorus, chorus, chorus,chorus, bridge, ending
- First: Lester Young Tenor Sax solo
- Second: Trombone solo
- Third: Call and Response Passage
- Fourth: Call and Response
- Instruments: 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, 4 saxophones, piano, guitar, bass, drums
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Sittin’ In - page 65
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- By: Roy Eldridge (trumpet) and Chu Berry (tenor sax)
- Era: 1938, Swing
- Form: Something else
- # of choruses: 5 choruses, but other intermediates
- Instruments: Trumpet, tenor sax, piano, guitar, bass, drums
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Body and Soul - page 66
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- By: Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax)
- Era: 1939, Swing
- Form: 32 AABA
- # of choruses: 2 choruses
- Instruments: tenor sax and piano
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Back In Your Own Backyard - page 83
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- By: Billie Holiday and Lester Young (tenor)
- Era: 1938, Swing
- Form: 32 AABA
- # of choruses: 3 choruses
- Instruments: trumpet, tenor sax, piano, bass, guitar, drums (Jo Jones), vocals
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Leap Frog - page 107
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- By: Charlie Parker (alto) and Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)
- Era: 1950, Bebop
- Form: 32 AABA
- # of choruses: 6 choruses
- Instruments: alto sax , trumpet, piano (Thelonious Monk), bass, and drums
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The Egyptian - page 140
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- By: Art Blakey (drums) and his Jazz Messengers
- Era:1964, Hard Bop
- Form: Something else
- # of choruses: 6 choruses
- Instruments: trumpet, tenor sax, trombone, piano, bass, drums
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Gregory is Here - page 144
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- By: Horace Silver (piano) and the Brecker Brothers
- Era: 1972, Hard Bop
- Form: AABA (not 32 bar??)
- # of choruses: 4 choruses and an out chorus
- Instruments:tenor sax, flugelhorn, piano, bass guitar, drums
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Walkin’ and Swingin’ - page 92
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- By: Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy ft. Mary Lou Williams (piano)
- Era: 1936, Swing
- Form: 32 AABA
- # of choruses: 4 choruses
- Instruments: piano, guitar, 3 trumpets, trombone, 2 alto saxs, 1 tenor sax, bass, drums
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Groovin’ High
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- By: Charlie Parker (alto sax)and Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)
- Era: 1945, Bebop
- Form: Something Else
- # of choruses: 3 choruses
- Instruments: trumpet, guitar, alto sax, piano, bass, drums
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‘Round Midnight
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- By: Thelonious Monk (piano)
- Era: 1969, Bebop
- Form: 32 AABA
- # of choruses: 2 choruses
- Instruments: piano
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Fables of Faubus
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- By: Charles Mingus
- Era: 1959, Hard Bop
- Form: something else
- # of choruses: 3 choruses? ? ?
- Instruments: 3 saxophones, trombone, piano, bass and drums (considered to be unusual)
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Reckless Blues
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- By:Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith
- Era: Early Jazz
- Form: 12 bar blues
- # of choruses: 4
- Instruments: vocals, cornet, harmonium
