a note players are searching for between two notes

(2 combined notes)

way they write blues music,

5high sounds 5 low sounds

Dance music until the 1940's

then turned into an art form

players music/art

improv was main core of it

embelishment (illiterate)

then started to study it and make up brand new music

rhythmic section

piano,bass, drums

in marching band- tuba, piano and drum

africa rhthym comes from slave trade 

drums were feared because...

blacks talked with them

had to do with daily life

dance music

built by french

french gave it to spain

1800's spain gave it back to french

1/2 white 1/2 black

sent overseas for school

tuesday before lent up until lent

religious event

Small Social Organization

take care of dead.

1st line- trumpet, trombone, clarinet

Tuba, Banjo, Drum (rhythm)

2nd line- actual people follow band and make parade (rowdy)

Great awakening

made gospel music popular

Blues

Strict Harmonic Form (doesnt change)

12 bar blues

only 3 chords, each chord has 3 notes

came from plantation; no form picking cotton, no instruments, early poetry, sings about stuff from day

no rules or reason

City Blues

12 bar blues

women performing

iambic contameter

1&2 lines exactly the same

line 3 new

country and city blues

vs.

vocal or instrumental blues

up until 1930s either country or city blues

after 1930s vocal or instrumental

showbiz; when blues craze

dominated by female vocalists with small jazz group

ma rainey (mother or blues) and bessie smith (emperess of blues)

delta blues singers

big bill brunsey

lightning hopkins

bline lemon jefferson

josh white

lead belly

robert johnson

father of blues

not a blues player, educated

champion of blues players, opened a talent agency wrote contracts for blacks so they didnt get ripped off

piano style late 1800's-early 1900s

1st early black music, happy fun, no improv or jazz, dance music of era, devil music born in midwest, influenced by syncopation

march tempo (2,4 time)

music of uptown new orleans came from W. classical music. 1st popular music (structured)

composers music, music of silent films. complicated form

maple leaf rag late 1800s

creole color, hero, fanaticle about music

wrote and opera- tree manisha no one came

1976 revieved puletzer prize after death

piano rolls- tin pan alley

first truly great black musician

Tin pan alley

big 3

scott joplin- started it all

james scott- 2nd in command

joseph lamp-

all three wrote 60-70% of ragtime

blue collar style piano, blues, comes from west, music of illeterate, survived as early rock n roll, dance music/party music, busy 8/8, or 8/4 music

ostanato bass- walking bass or moving cords in ostenato

busy

reacurring maladic figure (casE) identifying part of music,

2 ways to play- walking base (one note after another), moving chords (thicker sound)

pine top smith-1st

albert amons

pete johnson

meade lux lweis

1st style of jazz, term from south called jazz after 1917, traditional dixiland before 1917

after 1917 chicago jazz, marches came from collected improc

polyphonic , burbon street black

story ville

38 block area of negative things of society

"the district" 1896

syndey story tried to clean up city

buddy bolun and lousin armstrong came out of here

navy closed it in 1917

mass migration north because story ville closed, river only way to get out of N.O (stockyards gave jobs away easy)

original diziland jazz band bade instrumental recording

(band went to europe 1919)

everything that wasnt ragtime or boogy woogy

grew out of ragtime but looser and more improv

james P. johnson (father of harmlem stride style), fats waller, art tatum, oscar peterson, uv blake, earl paka hins (hands)

juke box invented

austin high gang- 1st white band to record music, played more for parties (2/4 march tempo)

highly trained N white combined with soulful blacks of S. guitars instead or banjos, drum kit invented, music written out better, emphasis on soloists (lousin armstrong)

1st to organize improvised solo

record scatt singing

"pops" or "scatchme" or "Sachel"

came out of storyville

Y- embassador for jazz music, 1st face put with jazz music

harmonic improv, homophonic most important person in big band = arranger

most popular era of jazz, most danceable

organized = all kinds of dancing

bolstead act repealed in 1933

swing era launched by benny goodman (w. clarinet) had two blacks play with him

Glen miller- in the mood

jimmy dorsey

white- more commercial and pop

flat 4 time

Fletch Henderson

duke elington- piano player, rote over 2-3 thousand tunes and arranged many more

black head arrangement/riff arrangement-made up

blues type sound, didnt read well

not as neat and clean

benny molton

count bassey- piano player, territorial bands, together over 50 years, perfect wing band ever, most relaxed and perfect style, illeterate musicians sound innovator- 1st one to use trumpet mutes etc. (grovel style trumpets)

used classical instruments in jazz, specialty wrote music for individuals, human voice instrument (not words)

Duke ellington

Harmlem NY ollie matson

jumbo shows- best black talent played there "after hours" No blacks were allowed through fron door, even though all blacks worked there, for whites, illiterate musicians

Don Redman

1st great arranger for big band

king of Jazz- white

tennor sax was the main instrument in swing era

Colman Hawkins

lester young

ben webster

White- 52nd street in Manhatten "the Street"

Harlem- black after hours

end of 30's era went away

because war, war tax, recording bann

musicians thought it was about time- sick of playing dance music

Greatest Jazz composer ever

composed 2000+ songs, arranged 5000

piano playing

main gig was cotton club (after hours- 1st band played 2am until 6)

manipulated instruments- 1st sound innovator, groveel style trumpets, double bassed drums

wrote opera and ballet also

Stride piano

NY

"band that blayed the blues" (12 bar)

head arrangements bands

best of all swing bands

more relaxed than NY