Songs/Artists Flashcards
“Koko” artist?
Charlie Parker (alto sax)
Charlie Parker instrument?
Alto Sax
“Koko” personnel?
- Charlie Parker( alto sax)
* Dizzy Gilliespie (trumpet)
Dizzy Gilliespie instrument?
Trumpet
“Koko”-Charlie Parker main points?
- “Bebop”
- fast tempo
- high-energy
- harmonically intricate
- Lots of drum activity Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie trade quick solos
- Then Parker starts one of his best known developmental, virtuostic solos,
- bass “walks”
- pianist “comps”
- Dizzy Gillespie uses a “cup” mute
“Manteca” artist?
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)
Dizzy Gillespie instrument?
Trumpet
“Manteca” personnel?
- Dizzy Gillespie-trumpet
- Chano Pozo (congas)
- Cecil Payne (baritone sax)
“Manteca”-Dizzy Gillespie main points?
- Cuban percussion patterns by Pozo
- “Mambo” melody in horns
- Big band horn section
- high-register fast solo lines on trumpet by Gillespie
- loud afro/Cuban melody
- Gillespie plays very powerful melodic statements, sax solo,
- Gillespie begins his sax solo on a very high note and stays in the upper register, band plays tune out
- you can hear members shouting “Manteca”
“Straight No Chaser” artist?
Thelonious Monk (piano)
Thelonious Monk instrument?
Piano
“Straight No Chaser” personnel?
• Thelonious Monk (piano)
“Straight No Chaser”- Thelonious Monk main points?
- drum into sets up swing groove
- Monk plays the repetitive melody on piano-supported by his trademark dark chord voicings
- sax and vibes play melody with Monk a second time
- rhythmically playful piano solo-heavy-handed
- bebop alto sax solo
- vibes solo
- band plays melody out
BEBOP MODULE songs?
- “Koko”-Charlie Parker
- “Manteca”-Dizzy Gillespie
- “Straight No Chaser”- Thelonious Monk
“Senor Blues” artist?
Horace Silver (piano)
Horace Silver instrument?
Piano
“Senor Blues” personnel?
• Horace Silver (piano)
“Senor Blues”- Horace Silver main points?
- Piano sets up 12/8 bass pattern
- drums and bass join in
- horns play mysterious laid back “A” section of melody, “B” section is much louder and aggressive
- trumpet solo
- laid back tenor sax solo
- “punchy” interlude
- groove changes into 4/4 for piano solo
- bluesy
- repetitive piano solo
“Wee Dot” artistS?
Art Blakey (drums) and the Jazz Messengers
Art Blakey instrument?
Drums
Jazz Messengers play in what song?
“Wee Dot” with Art Blakey
“Wee Dot” personnel?
• Art Blakey (drums)
“Wee Dot”- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messenger’s main points?
- “Explosive” drum solo intro
- horns enter in typical AB&JM aggressive style
- developmental alto sax solo
- fluid, fast-paced trumpet solo
- Blakey plays hard
HARDOP MODULE songs?
- “Senor Blues”- Horace Silver
* “Wee Dot”- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers
“Blue Rondo Ala Turk” artist?
Dave Brubeck (piano)
Dave Brubeck instrument?
Piano
“Blue Rondo Ala Turk” personnel?
• Dave Brubeck (piano)
“Blue Rondo Ala Turk”- Dave Brubeck
- solo piano intro (in 9/8)
- sounds like “classical” music (no swing feel or blues)
- alto sax joins in with soft, “cool” sound
- bass and drums outline the 9/8 (alternating between 2+2+2+3 and 3+3+3)
- switches to a 4/4 blues featuring “cool” alto sax solo
- eventually switches between 9/8 and blues until it returns completely to 9/8
“But Not For Me” artist?
Chet Baker (trumpet, voice)
Chet Baker instrument?
Trumpet and Voice
“But Not For Me” personnel?
• Chet Baker (trumpet, voice)
“But Not For Me”- Chet Baker main points?
- Soft
- “cool” trumpet solo
- drums on brushes
- Chet sings the tune in his dark
- dusky voice
- another trumpet solo—very lyrical (vocal-like)
- piano solo
- Chet sings melody again
COOL JAZZ MODULE songs?
- “Blue Rondo Ala Turk”- Dave Brubeck
* “But Not For Me”- Chet Baker
MILES DAVIS MODULE songs?
- “So What”- Miles Davis
* “Backseat Betty”- Miles Davis
“So What” artist?
Miles Davis (tumpet)
Miles Davis instrument?
Trumpet
“So What” personnel?
• Miles Davis (trumpet)
“So What”- Miles Davis main points?
- mysterious piano/bass intro,
- bass plays melody—horns play “responses”
- Miles trumpet solo-very sparse and developmental
- John Coltrane solo-densely packed and very expressive
- Cannonball solo-bluesy and double timed
- under-stated piano solo by Bill Evans
- call and response melody with bass and horns
“Backseat Betty” artist?
Miles Davis (trumpet)
Miles Davis instrument?
Trumpet
“Backseat Betty” personnel?
• Miles Davis (trumpet)
“Backseat Betty”- Miles Davis main points?
- intro with funk bass licks
- Miles enters with muted trumpet-plays sparse but energetic solo lines
- guitar plays combination of funk guitar and power chords
- Miles removes mute and plays higher and more aggressively
- band responds—lots of interaction between guitar, percussion and bass
JOHN COLTRANE MODULE song?
“Resolution”- John Coltrane
“Resolution” artist?
John Coltrane (tenor sax)
John Coltrane instrument?
Tenor Sax
“Resolution” personnel?
• John Coltrane (tenor sax)
“Resolution”- John Coltrane main points?
- • dark bass intro using “double stops”
- sax/piano/drums enter abruptly
- Coltrane plays wailing melody
- McCoy plays “power chords” on piano
- Elvin lays down classic laid back, hard swinging drums heavy-handed
- energetic piano solo
- tenor sax solo starts with long notes but quickly evolves into a classic densely packed Coltrane solo
“West End Blues” artist?
Louis Armstrong (trumpet/voice)
Louis Armstrong instrument?
Trumpet and Voice
“West End Blues” personnel?
• Louis Armstrong (trumpet/voice)
“West End Blues”- Louis Armstrong main points?
- virtuostic trumpet intro
- trumpet plays melody with clarinet
- trombone providing “color”
- banjo keeps time (no bass instrument)
- trombone plays slow, expressive solo
- Armstrong trades licks vocally (scat singing) with Dodds’ clarinet, piano solo, trumpet solo that begins with a high note that crescendos into a blues phrase
EARLY JAZZ MODULE song?
“West End Blues”- Louis Armstrong
“The Daily Jump” Orchestra?
Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra personnel?
• Count Basie (piano) Joe Newman
“The Daily Jump”- Count Basie Orchestra main points?
- standard Count Basie piano intro-sparse and in the upper register,
- guitar provides quarter note chords with bass
- band enters in a call and response arrangement style between saxes and brass
- trumpet solo
- sax solo with band playing “punches” behind
- band plays high energy “shout chorus” after solos
- break down back to a classic simple Count Basie piano solo
- band plays loud ending
“Take the ‘A’ Train” Orchestra?
Duke Ellington Orchestra
“Take the ‘A’ Train” personnel?
• Duke Ellington (piano)
“Take the ‘A’ Train”- Duke Ellington Orchestra main points?
- piano intro similar to Basie, but a much more aggressive solo approach by Ellington-no guitar, full band enters with the familiar melody in a very dense
- complex arrangement
- muted trumpet solo with a lot of “background” activity in the horns
- interlude with really high trumpet parts
- call and response between saxes and trumpet solo—all in all a very complex and highly involved arrangement
“Prelude To a Kiss” Orchestra?
Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring Johnny Hodges
“Prelude To a Kiss” personnel?
- Duke Ellington (piano)
* Johnny Hodges (reeds, alto saxophone)
“Prelude To a Kiss”-Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring Johnny Hodges main points?
- ballad piano intro by Ellington
- Hodges plays the very lyrical melody in a very expressive manner
- trombones/saxes provide subtle yet complex background arrangement
- advanced use of dynamics (loud to soft/soft to loud)
- drums play with brushes
- Hodges plays an aggressive solo while the band slowly rises in volume and density—after a very high trumpet note the volume abruptly drops back to the original
Duke Ellingtion instrument?
Piano
Jonnny Hodges instrument?
Alto Sax
“You Go To My Head” artist?
Billie Holiday (vocals)
Billie Holiday instrument?
Vocal
“You Go To My Head” personnel?
• Billie Holiday (vocals)
“You Go To My Head”- Billie Holiday main points?
- short sax solo at beginning
- Holiday enters with the tune in her trademark laid-back dark approach
- horns play soft “pads” underneath her
- piano plays light fills around her lyrics
- sax solo
- Holiday sings the final stanza
“The Daily Jump”- Count Basie Orchestra main points?
- standard Count Basie piano intro-sparse and in the upper register
- guitar provides quarter note chords with bass
- band enters in a call and response arrangement style between saxes and brass
- trumpet solo and sax solo with band playing “punches” behind
- band plays high energy “shout chorus” after solos
- break down back to a classic simple Count Basie piano solo
- band plays loud ending
SWING MODULE songs?
- “The Daily Jump”- Count Basie Orchestra
- “Take the ‘A’ Train”- Duke Ellington Orchestra
- “Prelude To a Kiss”-Duke Ellington Orchestra featuring Johnny Hodges
- “You Go To My Head”- Billie Holiday
“Better Git It In Your Soul” artist?
Charles Mingus (bass)
Charles Mingus instrument?
Bass
“Better Git It In Your Soul” personnel?
• Charles Mingus (bass)
“Better Git It In Your Soul”- Charles Mingus main points?
- bluesy bass intro by Mingus
- bluesy piano and trombone riffs enter
- band comes in with gospel-tinged melody (typical of Mingus)
- high energy alto sax solo with hard-driving drums and bass
- horns play repetitive backgrounds
- bluesy piano solo
- sax interjects during piano solo
- horns return with riffs (you can hear Mingus shouting in the background)
- breakdown into a gospel sax solo with band members clapping
- drum solo
- band plays repetitive riffs under drum solo
- melody returns
- “Amen” ending
“Congeniality”- Ornette Coleman
Ornette Coleman (alto sax)
Ornette Coleman
Alto Sax
“Congeniality” artist?
Ornette Coleman (alto sax)
Ornette Coleman instrument?
Alto Sax
“Congeniality” personnel?
• Ornette Coleman (alto sax)
“Congeniality”- Ornette Coleman main points?
- sax and trumpet play the opening statement
- drums and bass enter
- melody varies between fast lines and loose
- floating feel
- “free”
- alto sax solo
- no underlying harmony—just bass and drums providing time in an ambiguous harmonic setting,
- Coleman uses fast runs and a loud, “honking” tone
- Cherry plays trumpet solo over same “free” form
- band plays melody out
MINGUS/COLEMAN MODULE songs?
- “Better Git It In Your Soul”- Charles Mingus
* “Congeniality”- Ornette Coleman
“Autumn Leaves” artists?
Bill Evans Trio (piano)
Bill Evans Trio instrument?
Piano
“Autumn Leaves” personnel?
• Bill Evans (piano)
“Autumn Leaves”- Bill Evans Trio main points?
- syncopated intro
- Evans plays the melody while LaFaro plays counter lines on bass (no walking)
- bass solo (drums/piano drop out)
- Evans joins into “conversation” with bass
- Motian joins on brushes
- piano solo starts—bass walks
- drums switch to sticks
- Evans “ghosts” his chords under his solo lines
- 3-way “conversation” begins again
- piano plays melody
MODERN PIANISTS MODULE song?
• “Autumn Leaves”- Bill Evans Trio
“Chameleon” artists?
Herbie Hancock (keyboards) and the Headhunters
Herbie Hancock
Keyboards
The Headhunters play in what song?
“Chameleon” with Herbie Hancock
“Chameleon” personnel?
• Herbie Hancock (keyboards)
“Chameleon”- Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters main points?
- Hancock starts with his first keyboard “layer” with a synth bass line
- rock drum groove begins
- second layer: guitar line
- third layer: clavinet, melody played by sax
- fourth keyboard layer (Moog synth)
- Moog solo-starts with long tones and odd sounds and develops into a densely packed solo
- drums and bass change groove and Fender Rhodes solo starts (fifth keyboard)
- recording fades out
“Birdland”- Weather Report
Weather Report
“Birdland” personnel?
• Joe Zawinul (keyboards)
“Birdland”- Weather Report main points?
- synth bass intro
- Pastorius plays familiar melody in upper register (harmonics) of the electric bass
- Shorter and Zawinul play the response melody
- multiple sections of keyboard layers with sparse interjections by bass, sax and percussion, band comes together for the “chorus” which includes voice and synth brass, long, breathy interlude with analog synth bass,
- sparse fills by Shorter on sax
- melody is repeated
- chorus is played out with keyboard solo and hand claps, fade out
FUSION MODULE songs?
- “Chameleon”- Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters
* “Birdland”- Weather Report
