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- Contrafact
- Stand Chord built around
- Flatted 5th
- notes in-between
- cool jazz
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cool/west coast
- low key, non dynamics
-medium tmps.
-European influence
-arrangements vs. imrov. - modal jazz
- Focuses on scale or mode for the number of measures
- Locked hand style
- playing melody on piano with both hands.. left standing out more then right hand
- scat
- voice as sound of music
- walking bass line
- 2 beat style
- syncopation
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A shifting of a normal accent, by stressing the unaccented beats.
syn-co-pa-tion - Double time
- going twice as fast
- stop time/solo break
- When band stops except for one certain instrument that is playing a solo
- improvisation
- not reading from music and just playing whatever you want
- bridge
- rising of notes
- Swing
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-From early 1920\'s-1940\'s
-attracted dancers
-less artistic, more functional
-swing eighth note pattern
-big band
-saxophones, bass, cymbals - Bebop
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-Changes jazz
-intellecutual art music
-vocab
-less popular
-revolutionary and evolutionary
-artistic interprtations - Who made bebop happen?
- Charlie Parker with \"yardbird\"
- Free Jazz
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- Acoustic instruments
- dispenses with melody and steady time keeping
- music with freedom from percent chords - Duke Ellington
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- master composer/arranger
- most important jazz composer
- unique talents, use of harmony & instruments
-cross- sectional voicing
- Ellingtons 4 writing styles
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1. Jungle style = exotic music, written for dancers
2. concertos = featuring soloists & their unique talent
3. impressionistic = musical potraits, picturs, historical pieces, religious pieces
4. popular tunes = 3-min instruments - Johnny Hodges
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- most famous sideman
- slide into notes ( portamento) - Count Basie
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- born in red bank NJ.
- stranded in kansas, becomes fixture of local scene.
- forms barons of rhythm
- discovered by John Hammond
- stride - style pianist
- swing feel
- riffs - Lester Young
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- Tenor sax with Basie band
- smooth swing style
- style modal for \"cool jazz\"
- clear alternative to style of coleman tawkins - Charlie Parker (Bird)
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alto sax in kansas city
- created a new system of music
- accenting notes; syncopated phrases
- energetic
- dry biting tone; kansas city influence
- added more harmonies than written
His music: based on pop tune chord progressions, not melodic, catchy, memorized - Thenlonius Monk
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- pianist composer
- unorthodox melodies with complex harmonies
- perfectly structured tunes
- irregular order of accents
- Lennie Tristano
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- pianist/ composer/ bandleader
- created modern jazz alternative
- 1949 = 1st to record in collective \"free jazz\" style
- locked hands style - Lee konitz
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- sax student of tristano
- first and only alternative to Charlie Parkers playing style
- changed his style in 1950\'s = more sparse - Miles Davis
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- born in East St. loud
- fills in with Easkstine orchestra, meets Bird Diz
- study at Julliard in New York
-1945 = 1st recording session
- middle register
- not afraid to play simply
- expressive
- dramatic - Dave Brubeck
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- Pianist/ composer
- international fame in 1950\'s
- avoids sound similar to bebop
- never studied classical piano - John Coltrane
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- blues band
- Herion addict
- rough biting approach
- controlled shrieks
- influenced all sax players in 1960
+ \"sheets of sound\" - Sarah Vaughn
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- Dark, rich tone
- amazing voice control
- minmal scatting
- Ballads greatest achievements
- \"Body and Soul\"