Jass Flashcards
Sing Sing Sing
Nearly broke the fucking house at Carnegie Hall.
One of the most popular LPs ever recorded.
Interracial goodness!
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday-
Used in racial road test against lynching. Not a large range and used a graph vocal style like west African influence.
Blue Skies
Trumpet Like Style
Complex harmonic language.
Intense.
St. Louis Toodle-oo
Duke
Exotic jungle music used in strip houses. Used trumpet plungers.
Body and soul
Coleman Hawkins -
Tenor Sax
First to use triton subs and strict doubletime.
Harmonic language and rhythm influence bebop.
Diminuendo and crescendo in blue
Duke
Reinstated his career after a slump. 1958 is when Duke had his rebirth.
Take the a train
Written by Billy Strayhorn.
Was Dukes main theme.
Written when do cave Strayhorn directions on how to get to the certain club.
O’clock jump
Count Basie’s theme song tight homophonic structure
April in Paris
Use a pop goes the weasel tag and One more once “in the middle of the chorus did the same thing for Bassey that Newport did for Duke
Lester leaps in
Lester Young
His style later influence cool jazz long lines with them changes
Uses Count’s ensemble
Round midnight
Monk
Koko
Parker
Bebop
Dizzys style
Manteca
Dizzy Gillespie
Had a massively noticeable Latin influence with a famous drummer Chano Pozo
Shaw’ Nuff
Parker and Diz
Done over I’ve got rhythm
First bebop recording.
Brilliant Corners
Monk
