Jazz: The Final Reader - Sherer History · Free jazz “whereas each jazz performance can be seen...
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Jazz: The Final Day
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Bebopper Born in North Carolina (southern Gospel influence) Piano
Unique percussive style
“masterpieces in logic”
Wrote many jazz standards
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Hard Bop
Miles Davis
Helped create “Cool” and West Coast Jazz
Created a reaction to his own cool jazz
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (‘50s-’80s!)
“Moanin’”
▪ Mixes early R&B with gospel and jazz
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Free jazz “whereas each jazz performance can be seen as a
unique poem, John Coltrane plays novels.”
His rendition of a popular tune from The Sound of Music, “My Favorite Things,” became the first jazz song to get radio play since Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five.”
Another essential album from Coltrane is A Love Supreme in 1964.
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Avant-garde if you get so far from the chords
themselves, why even bother to play them?
Why play an established rhythm?
Why not just have all members of a quartet simply listen to each other and improvise.
“Bird would have approved of us.”
▪ Who knows, perhaps this was the next big breakthrough the Bird was working on before he passed away.
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Brazilian (Latin) “the new trend, wave, or beat”
Jelly Roll Morton and Diz talked about a “Spanish Tinge”
Utilizes the Latin Samba fused with Jazz traditions
Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz “Desafinado”▪ Means “slightly out of tune”
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Jazz Fusion
Uses synthesizers and electronics – totally new to jazz
Bitches Brew
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MC Solar and Ron Carter (others)
Jazz Liberatorz “Blue Avenue”▪ or “Mountain Sunrise” feat. Mos Def
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Django Reinhardt “Minor Swing”
What can we say, the Europeans (especially French) fell heals over head in love with American jazz.