Skript Flashcards
(20 cards)
Jamya: Very funny you guys but where did everyone go?
Who’s everyone Jamya? We’re the only ones here.
Jamya: All those cats I was jamming with, Louis, Benny, The Count and Thelonious
THELONIOUS?!?!
Jamya: No really you guys! I know it seems unbelievable, but some the greatest jazz artists of all time were were right here just a few minutes ago singing and swinging, like you wouldn’t believe! There was Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington Thelonious.
Thelonious??
Jamya: Like like, like is not a word that should be used in the same sentence as jazz! Like is for Big Macs, like is for summers at the beach, like is for the way I feel about Justine Bieber!
Ooh…….Jusrine Bieber
Jamya: That’s right, like is for fast food, like is for the beach, like is for the way a feel about Just… Well you know , those I like, Jazz……. I LOOOOVE!!
Well thank you Charlie Parker!
Julie/Charlie Parker: You can just call me bird, that’s what all my friends call me.
Bird?
Benny Goodman: Oh mister Ellington, you know as good as I that once you make it to the pearly gates Jazz festival you rarely have any other commitments
Excuse me Jamya p, but haven’t all these Jazz musicians… Umm…you know… Passed on
Mary Lou: You said it Louise now come on everybody are we gonna jam or just stand here all night?
Let’s Jam!!
Alisha/Count Basie: That is pretty cool music Tyler I can see why you like it. But you know, all that kind of music has its roots in the music we all play…
How is that?
Mary Lou: This custom of story telling through music, found its way into the story telling traditions of the old south. Then found its way into the music of the blues. Later it became part of the platter of bebop jazz and today’s rap.
Excuse me Count Dracula…
Count Basie: That’s Basie
Yeah yeah whatever, I guess I don’t really know what jazz is.
Tyler: That makes two of us and I certainly don’t know what everyone is so excited about
So Count Lazy…What’s jazz
Duke Ellington: You might as well ask what’s swing?
Well??
Ma Rainy: It all began back in the days of slavery when the rhythmic music of west Africa mixed with the songs of the new world to make a whole new sound
Oh I see! So jazz is that music that the slaves sang as they worked in the fields
Ala: Can you teach us to sing the blues miss holiday?
Yeah miss holiday teach us to sing the blues!
Scott Joplin: now who was it?
F.Scott.Fitzgerald
Scott Joplin: and what year was it?
1920
Scott Joplin: When they said Jazz they weren’t just talking about the blues they were talking about soul. They were talking about Dixieland and when they said jazz they were talking about ragtime!
No kidding,Mr Joplin….Blues, soul, Dixieland, ragtime? That’s all jazz?
Courtney: Yes but other than Bessie smith and Billie holiday, it seems like all of the big names in jazz are men.
Yeah aren’t there any women who are big in jazz
Ella Fitzgerald: A tiskit a tasked a pink and yellow basket
Ella Fitzgerald…. Of coarse!
