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Jazz History Final
Pisano's Jazz History
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Undergraduate 4
05/11/2012

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Dixieland
Definition
group improv
small groups (5-7
Tuba, snare, bass, trumpet, clarinet, Trombone.
No written music
Term
Significant Dixieland players
Definition
Sydney Bichet
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Louie Armstrong
Buddy Bolden
Joe Oliver
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Louis Armstrong
Definition
-Trumpet player
-The first person to become really virtuostic at Jazz. Puts the impetus on solo improv instead of group improv
-Lyrical solos
-also important as a singer, brings scat to Jazz
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Big Band Swing
Definition
-1930s-mid-40s
-2 sections, winds and rhythm
-wind: sax, trumpet, trombone (front)
-rhythm: piano, drumset, bass guitar, tuba, regular guitar (back)
-more written arrangements, less improv, more musicians
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Swing
Definition
Different rhythmic feel-not played straight on the beat
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Significant Big Band Musicians
Definition
Count Basie
Glenn Miller
Benny Goodman
Duke Ellington
Louie Prima
Kenny Dorsey
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Count Basie
Definition
-Kansas City Swing Style
-lots of improv
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Glenn Miller
Definition
-Sweet Band Music
-very orchestrated/choreographed, singing, costuming, etc.
-Chattanooga Choo Choo
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Benny Goodman
Definition
-Toured US, expanded people's awareness of Jazz
-racially integrated his band
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Duke Ellington
Definition
-great pianist
-Huge innovator
-composed over 3,000 pieces of music
-created new sounds with compositions
-considered precursor to bebop, free jazz
Term
1945
Definition
split in Jazz
-Regulated to "art music," no longer popular
-Rock'n'Roll and Rhythm and Blues become America's pop music.
-Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie release Koko: Bebop
Term
Bebop
Definition
-1945-50s
-Smaller instrumentation
-Combo groups of 3-5
-Bass, piano, trumpet, sax, percussion
(always have to have either bass or drum)
-Different from swing and Dixieland
Faster, more virtuostic
still swings
Form: AABA (32 bars, B stands for Bridge)
Head-Improv-Head
Bebop written over chords of existing music
hard bop has its own chords
Hard bop and cool jazz are subcategories of bebop
Term
Significant Bebop Musicians
Definition
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Term
Charlie Parker
Definition
inovator, created the bebop form
set the bar for sax players.
Term
Cool Jazz
Definition
a subcategory of bebop
slower, more laid-back
still have improv and solo
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Head-Improv-Head
Definition
bebop, hard bop, cool jazz, and all small jazz combos today use this form.
Term
Avant Garde
Definition
Late 50s-60s
Don't follow the rules of Jazz
tonality changes, moves away from key centers
-4ths and 5ths instead of 3rds
rhythm still steady
Spiritual jazz
Term
Significant Avant-Garde Musicians
Definition
John Coltrane
Thelonius Monk
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John Coltrane
Definition
Avant-Garde
Virtuosity unrivaled, like Parker
Term
Free Jazz
Definition
Avant-garde taken to the limit
no framework, total freedom
not just polyrythms, but no rhythm at all
no tonality
Term
Fusion
Definition
Jazz mixed with other genres
synthesizers, more drums
jazz rock, jazz acid, funky jazz, disco jazz
Term
Miles Davis
Definition
Fusion
-also important to bebop and avant-garde
Bitch's Brew
-Jazz fused with Electronic music
-Sax, bass clarinets, synthesizers, electronic effects
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