Jazz Flashcards
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Parallels of jazz musician
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- individualism and emotional
- intellectualized (alienates audience)
2
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Ragtime
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Ragtime + African rhythms + cultures
- most popular in America for 25 years
- syncopation gone mad
- huge for dancers (and young people since parents didn’t like it)
- before syncopation = bad
- late 1800s
- keyboard music
- steady bass
3
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New Orleans/Louisiana
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HUGE place for jazz
-slave trade
Dixieland
-storyville (brothels/taverns)
4
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Blues
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- coexisted with ragtime
- find meaning when you can’t find it (and the world is against you finding it)
- black people aesthetic after civil war
- —baggage (empathetic) and emotional (helps deal with problems)
- 1900-present basically
- call and response
- walking bass (12 bar)
- racism, politics
5
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Dixieland
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- polyphonic and improv (everyone)
- accomp is strict (quarter notes)
- not blind improv (follows song form)
- no drums (if percussion is there it’s called traps)
- 1900-1920
- Louis Armstrong
- Pete fountain
- jelly roll Morton
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Big Band Swing
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- dance based pop music
- segregation
- brass, piano, drums (SAFE)
- blues for band
- less improv than Dixieland
- about selling records and playing halls (first commercially successful)
- 1932-1942
7
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Bebop
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- jazz quintet becomes popular
- to combat the “job” or playing in the big band swing bands
- 1940-1950
- for listening, not dancing
- more complex solos
- fast key changes
- Charlie Parker
- dizzy Gillespie
- miles Davis
8
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Minton’s playhouse
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- birthplace of bebop
- great minds coming in and playing together
- playing with chord sheets/standards
- accomp disappears (everyone matters)
- not always fast
- self indulgent (alienated people) (tense)
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Cool jazz
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- void of intensity and angst
- a bit behind the beat
- silence
- modal
- 1945-1955
- blend of jazz + classical
- Gerry mulligan
- bill Evans
- miles Davis
10
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John Coltrame
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- intellectual and emotional
- improv to a whole new level
- modulates
11
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Jazz fusion
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- Latin Jazz
- Afro-Cuban music
- folk music
- free jazz (tonality? Tempo? Pfft)
- miles Davis (synthesizers + fusion)
- pat methany (popular)
- collaboration + improv important
- 1960s to now
12
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Basic elements
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- improv
- swing rhythms
13
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Scott Joplin
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-King of ragtime
14
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Jelly roll Morton
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-first arranger
15
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Impact of big band swing
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- golden age of jazz
- escape via swing dancing
- caused racial tension
- white musicians for rich
