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Where did bebop start?
Jam sessions at Minton's Playhouse.
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Characteristics of bebop:
- Extreme tempos
- Smaller combo ensemble
- Complex chord changes
- Mostly soloing, short head of tune
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Salt Peanuts:
Dizzy Gillespie
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Dizzy Gillespie:
- Very smart
- Short attention span
- Very forceful sound
- Got into Brazilian/Afro-Cuban music
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Manteca:
Dizzy Gillespie– starts with congas
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Charlie Parker:
- Alto sax
- Drug addict (heroin)
- Uses a lot of notes outside of scale
- Short life (dies at 34)
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Koko:
Charlie Parker– fast brushes at beginning, sticks at solo
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Thelonius Monk:
- Piano
- A lot of dissonance
- Not very fast playing
- Not friendly or outgoing, quiet
- A lot of attack on notes
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Rhythm A Ning:
Thelonius Monk– heavy attack on piano notes, tons of dissonant chords
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Bud Powell:
Piano (made weird moaning sounds when playing)
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Kenny Clark's instrument
drums
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Sarah Vaughn:
Vocals, very low voice
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Eddie Jefferson:
Perfected vocalese
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Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross
Bop vocal ensemble
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Night in Tunisia:
Bud Powell– weird noises when playing piano
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Bud Powell played with ________'s phrasing
Charlie Parker's phrasing
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Scrapple from the Apple:
Charlie Parker– long strings of notes on alto sax (not taking a breath for a long time)
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First most important post-bop group
Miles Davis Nonet
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Boplicity:
Miles Davis Nonet– full sound (tuba and French horn included), weird chords, relaxed sound, no dynamics
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Arranger for Miles Davis Nonet
Gil Evans
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Characteristics of Cool Jazz
- Medium tempos
- Emphasis on arrangement
- little to no blues influence, classical influence
- no dynamic contrast
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Combining classical and jazz=
Third Stream
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Django:
Modern Jazz Quartet– drums, bass, vibes and piano, prelude-sounding
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Modern Jazz Quartet personnel:
- Piano: John Lewis
- Vibes: Milt Jackson
- Drums: Kenny Clarke
- Bass: Percy Heath
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Line for Lyons:
Chet Baker (trumpet)/Gerry Mulligan (bari sax)– brushes on drums, NO PIANO, trumpet and sax playing melody together
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Cool/West Coast Jazz groups:
- Modern Jazz Quartet
- Dave Brubeck
- Miles Davis Nonet
- Stan Getz
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Bossa Nova came from
Brazil (South America)
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Corcovado:
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto– Portugese!!
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Hard Bop:
Return to blues and gospel
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Who were the main leaders in The Jazz Messengers?
- Horace Silver: piano
- Art Blakey: drums
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Moanin':
Jazz Messengers– call and response, swing/shuffle
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Doodlin':
Jazz Messengers– horns repeat 3/4 ostinato in 4/4, call and response with piano
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St. Thomas:
Sonny "the titan" Rollins– tenor sax, starts with drum groove on toms, solo starts with repeating 2 notes
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Clifford Brown:
Clean (no drugs), played trumpet, killed in car crash
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Charles Mingus
bass, civil rights activist with music
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Freddie Freeloader:
Miles Davis Sextet– piano has melody
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So What:
Miles Davis Sextet: long intro, bass with melody
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Who influenced Miles Davis for modal composing on Kind of Blue?
Bill Evans (WITH A B!!!)
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Personnel on Kind of Blue:
- Miles Davis: trumpet
- John Coaltrain: tenor sax
- Cannonball Adderly: alto sax
- Paul Chambers: bass
- Jimmy Cobb: drums
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My Funny Valentine:
Sarah Vaughn– beautiful, lyrical, super low female voice
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Sarah Vaughn's nickname
The Divine One
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Stan Getz's style of music
Bossa Nova
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Desafinado:
Stan Getz– moderato bossa, plays dotted quarter pattern on claves or cowbell....
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