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What instrument does the composer play?
The trumpet
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What album is All Blues taken from?
Kind of Blue
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What style is All Blues written in?
Modal jazz
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Give three examples of things Blues would include.
- Call and response
- Improvisation
- Strong rhythmic content
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Give two examples of things popular jazz includes.
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What does modal jazz include?
- There is a scale or mode to use so it is less restricted
- Longer, freer improvisations
- Significantly longer
- More advanced improvisations
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What is the time signature?
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What is the tonality?
- Modal jazz
- G mixolydian scale
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What is the texture?
- Made up of riffs
- Played on bass, alto sax and tenor sax
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Describe the pitch and melody.
- Played over 12 bar chord sequence
- Improvisations are ornamented and combine riffs together
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Describe the dynamics.
- Mainly piano throughout
- Diminuendo in final Head
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Describe the rhythm.
- Drums, bass and piano
- Provides the comping
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Describe the instrumentation.
- Frontline - trumpet
- Alto sax
- Tenor sax
- Rhythm - piano
- Bass
- Drums
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Who plays the trumpet?
Miles Davis
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Who plays the alto sax?
Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley
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Who plays the tenor sax?
John Coltrane
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Who plays the piano?
Bill Evans
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Who plays the bass?
Paul Chambers
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Who plays the drums?
Jimmy Cobb
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What is the tempo?
- 156 bpm
- Feels like dotted minim - 152 bpm
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Describe the harmony.
- Repeated 12 bar chord sequence
- Four-bar linking riff between each section
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What is the 12 bar chord sequence?
- G7
- G7
- G7
- G7
- C7
- C7
- G7
- G7
- D7#9
- Eb#9/D7#9
- G7
- G7
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What is the structure?
- Head
- Link
- Head 2
- Solo - trumpet
- Solo - alto sax
- Solo - tenor sax
- Solo - piano
- Head 3
- Head 4
- Outro
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