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Jazz History: Cool to Fusion
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Undergraduate 1
11/30/2011

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Cool Style
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short range, fewer notes, drum brushes, more relaxed, unusual time signatures, pianoless quartet
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Hard Bop/Funky Style
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more energy, drummers used sticks, more aggressive, "returning to the roots of jazz", balanced and pretty, 4:1 cadence, electric organ appears
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Third Stream Style
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related to cool, conscious effort to combine classical and jazz, uses orchestra instruments, more complex/classical form, less impro
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Free Form Style
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just about anything, reoccuring theme with free form in the middle, no predetermined chord progression, no piano, as it got more free it became less popular
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Fusion Style
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influenced by rock, electric bass introduced, attention on rhythm, solos drop in and out, end with fade out
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Dave Brubeck
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1st to introduce idea of playing in complex time signatures; piano cool
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Gerry Mulligan
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1st to create a piano-less quartet; played baritone sax; cool
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Instruments introduced during the cool period are...
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string instruments, flugalhorn, flute, oboe, french horn, bassone
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Horace Silver
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1st piano player to play funky/hard bop stype
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John Coltrane
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took vertical improv as far as it could go; popularized soprano sax
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Miles Davis is best known as a...
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band leader
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Lenny Trestano
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piano cool
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Jimmy Smith
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electric organ
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Bill Evans
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piano modes
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Cecil Taylor
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piano free form
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Sunny Rollins
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sax funky
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Ornette Coleman
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sax free form
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Wes Montgomery
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guitar
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The most famous/best '50s quintet of Hard Bop was...
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Max Roach and Clifford Brown's quintet
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Playing on modes was pioneered by...
and popularized by...
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Bill Evans and Miles Davis
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Weather Report
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most popular fusion group b/c they had a sense of dynamic and lasted a long time
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Why did drummers return to the lower arsenal of drums in fusion?
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because they had to keep time and be louder than all the other instruments.
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John Lewis
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piano classical sound
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Milt Jackson
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vibes
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Stan Gets
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sax cool
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Lee Kontz
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sax cool
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Miles Davis
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trumpet
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