Jazz Test 3
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- Art Blakey's Band
- The Jazz Messengers
- The Jazz Messengers
- -helped bring soul and gospel to bop
- The Jazz messengers Pianist
- Horace Silver
- Alto Sax player who had such a bluesy sound everyone always thought it was a tenor saxophone.
- Cannonball Adderley
- John Coltrane's Modal Jazz Songs
- Impressions, My Favorite Things
- What was one significance of Clifford Brown/
- He did not do drugs
- Who brought charlie parkers soprano ideas to tenor sax
- sonny rollins
- What musician took years off at a time to go to the bridge and play
- sonny rollins
- who brought afro cuban style of music into jazz
- dizzy gillespie
- The introduction of what type of music stole away a large portion of jazz's fanbase
- Rock and Roll, the Beatles, Elvis
- 1959 Modal Jazz CD by Miles Davis, and the famous song
- Kind of Blue, So What
- 4 records Miles produced in two days
- steamin', cookin', relaxin', workin'
- in 1949 miles came out with what album? who with
- birth of cool w/ gil evans
- Jazz musicians that fell to drugs
- Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins, Art Pepper, John COltrane, 8 of 16 members in Woody Erving's band
- Dave Brubeck's Breakout Album
- Time-Out
- 10 differences between swing and bebop
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1. small combos instead of big bands
2. there was less arranging in bop
3. Average Tempo was faster
4. Clarinet was rare in bop
5. Rhythm guitar was rare in bop
6. Melodies were more complex in bop
7. Homonies were more complex in bop
8. Comping was more prevalent than stride style or on-the-beat chording
9. Drummers kept time on the suspended cymbal rather than snare, high-hat or bass
10. bop was a more agitated style than swing - contrafact
- new melody or tune written over the changes of a pre-existing standard
- b5
- flatted fifth, sat on it in bebop
- Ko-Ko
- Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie
- Enter Evening
- Cecil Taylor Unit
- Alone Together
- Chet Baker
- Tempus Fugit
- Bud Powell
- Yasmina, A Black Woman
- Archie SHepp
- Giant Steps
- John Coltrane
- Misterioso
- Theloneous Monk
- Vendome
- Modern Jazz Quartet
- Free Jazz
- Ornette Coleman
- Caravan
- Art Blakey
- Take Five
- Dave Brubeck
- The Bridge
- Sonny Rollins
- Manteca
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Daahoud
- Clifford Brown and Max Roach
- Venus de Milo
- Miles Davis
- My favorite things
- John Coltrane
- Who played the Bongo Drums for the Afro-Cuban style?
- Chano Pozo
- Where one chords stretches out for long periods of time
- Modal jazz
- Miles Davis' 3 Most popular albums, under Bolumbia Records
- Miles ahead, porgy and bess, sketches of spain
- Miles davis worked with which arranger?
- Gil Evans
- Spiritual Music started by John Coltrane
- Avant-Garde music
- John COltrane's most influential album
- a love supreme 1964
- Free Jazz started in the counterculture during...
- 1960's Vietnam war, civil rights movements, popularity of rock and roll
- Charles Mingus
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-bass player
-prolific composer and arranger
-played complex gospel tunes
-diverse styles as well as instrumentations - Cecil Taylor
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-pianist
-did not play with normal jazz swing and focuses on musical textures not lines
-mixed classical and jazz and came up with Bassa Nova - Charlie Parker
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-"Bird"
- alto saxophone
- had tremenjdous fertility of melodic imagination, mastery of the sax, and a dizzying pace of improv - Paul Desmond
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-alto sax
-known for his good taste, melodic continuity, fertile imagination and accurate intonation - Wes Montgomery
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-guitar
-used his thumb instead of a pick
-relaxed and melodic projecting unhurried swing - Ornette Coleman
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-alto saxophonist
-leading figure in free jazz
-started the first free jazz quartet
-self imposed structure - Dizzy Gillespie
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-trumpet
-brought an afro-cuban style to jazz
-mastery of the trumpet
-created a new vocabulary of phrases and ways of matching solos to chords - Dave Brubeck
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-piano
-his breakout album was called time out
- west coast player who explored and experimented with unusual time signatures - Stan Getz
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-tenor saxaphone
-in the '60's he brought the Bossa Nova wave to the U.S.
-light, fluffy and graceful sax playing whose solos sounded more like classical - Clifford Brown
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-trumpet
-consolidated and refined the jazz music vocabulary
-had a smooth and relaxed way to deliver lines - Horace Silver
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-piano
-composed catchy themes and arranged them for his quartets
-his music swung with a crispness and bounce witha a funky gospelish quality - Wayne Shorter
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-tenor saxaphone
-had a unusual way to make chords move with his compositions
-had melodic constructions that suggests a dreamy, floating quality - Tony Williams
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-drummer
-occasionally kept time on the ride cymbal
-colored the group with a variety of cymbal splashes, snare drum fills and imaginative rhythmic patters - Sun Ra
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-piano
-exlored collective improvisation in big band music
-was one of the first to use synthesizers and electric keyboard instruments - Thelonious Monk
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-paino
-played in a spare manner with unusual rhythms and harmonies and wrote tunes rendered difficult by their odd accents and chord progressions - Max Roach
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-drummer
-intelligently developed solos that are often melodic and a command of the drum set that never overshadowed the musical scene - J.J. Johnson
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-trombone
-produced a smooth, consistent sound and attacked each note cleanly and maintained consistent size and quality - Chet Baker
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-trumpet
-solos swing in an easy manner and projects a mellow mood
-tone quality if soft, not brassy - Art Blakey
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-drummer
-combined soul, anticipation and spirituality to bring back audience that jazz lost to R&B - Sonny Rollins
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-tenor saxaphone
-bring charlie parkers soprano ideas to tenor
-solos included simple figures and clear ideas even at fast speeds - John COltrane
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-saxaphone
-played harsh and brittle with little vibrato
-made people aware of the spirituality in jazz - Gil Evans
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-arranger
-brilliant arranger for Miles Davis
-prolific imagination and high level of workmanship - Bill Evans
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-piano
-played for miles davis
-only white guy in an all black person band - Miles Davis
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-trumpet
-highest paid musician in jazz - Herbie Hancock
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-piano
-gracefully shifting rhythms and harmonies that were greatly advanced - Elvin Jones
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-drums
-avoids stating the first beat of the measure, keeping time steady but loose - Archie Shepp
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-tenor sax
-wrote about racial issues - Modern Jazz Quartet
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-intricate arrangements
-use of classical techniques - The Art Ensemble of Chicago
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-crazy makeup, dramatic skits
-collective improvisation, more of a show
-recited poetry - Miles Davis' Quintet
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Tenor Sax- Wayne Shorter
Trumpet- Miles Davis
Bass- Ron Carter
Drums- Tony Williams
Piano- Herbie Hancock