Jazz Final
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- John McLaughlin
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- fusion guitarist, bandleader, and composer
- rock > jazz
- phenomenal speed
- Mahavishnu Orchestra considered greatest fusion band
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Clifford Brown and Max Roach
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- Brown: trumpet, composer, epitomized mainstream hard bop trumpet, fat warm sound(refined), next Dizzy
- Roach: developed the hard bop drum style
- Cannoball Adderley
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- alto sax, composer
- Parker's successor
- hardest swinging horn; warm glowing tone
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Sonny Rollins
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- tenor sax
- used Parker's alto style on tenor
- master of rearrangement techniques
- Horace Silver
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- piano, composer, bandleader
- most prolific hard bop composer
- elaborate arrangement with Latin feel
- mae small band sound bigger then they were
- piano, composer, bandleader
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Lennie Tristano
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- piano, composer, bandleader
- created modern alternative to bebop(just as complicated)
- created own style: smooth, less jumpy
- Tatum+Young+Bach
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Lee Konitz
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- alto sax
- most talented of Tristano's students
- speed and agility
- Pat Metheny
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- guitarist, composer, bandleader
- balanc, graceful flow + country twang
- worked with Ornette
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John Coltrane
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- "Classic Quartet": McCoy Tyner- Piano, Jimmy Garrison- bass, Elvis Jones- Drum
- Giant Steps: Two beats per chord, change frequency, known as "Coltrane's Matrix&q
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Chicago Avant Garde
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- stressed the continuity between composition and improvisation
- unusual and varied instrumentation
- often abolition of traditional rules regarding soloist and accompaniment
- acoustic, rarely are elect
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Ornette Coleman
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- alto sax/composer
- PIONEER OF FREE JAZZ
- legato, very bluesy, often out-of-tune
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Sun Ra
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- keyboards/composer/bandleader
- unusual instrumentation
- electric
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Cecil Taylor
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- piano/composer
- nontraditional jazz style
- aggressive and turbulent
- dense tone clusters
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Art Ensemble of Chicago
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- multi-instrumentalists, especially percussion
- free, collective improvisation
- costume and makeup
- Charles Mingus
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- bass virtuoso innovator
- bandleader-composer
- combined composition and improv.
- bass virtuoso innovator
- Weather Report
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- Greatest innovators of fusion
- Standard instrumentation in new creative ways
- Collective improvisation of textures
- Funk band emphasis
- Joe Zawinul: piano, synthesizer; founding member,wrote hits for Cannonball, played
- Joe Zawinul
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- piano, synthesizer
- founding member of Weather Report
- piano, synthesizer
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Dave Brubeck
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- piano, composer
- led best known cool jazz group, Paul Desmond on alto
- classic sound; simple and tuneful
- Time Out explored odd meter compositions
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Miles Davis
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- Style: original, little vibrato, "cool", harmon mute, timing and dramatic construction of melody
- Kind of Blue: less complex, mode based
- Birth of the Cool
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Herbie Hancock
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- piano, composer, bandleader
- most sought-after band pianist of the 1960s