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Albums “Cannonball Adderley/Nancy Wilson” Capitol, 1961 Nancy Wilson, voice Cannonball Adderley, alto saxophone Nat Adderley, cornet Louis Hayes, drums Sam Jones, bass Joe Zawinul, piano “Sonny Side Up” Verve, 1958 Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet & voice Sonny Stitt, tenor saxophone Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophone Ray Bryant, piano Tommy Bryant, bass Charlie Persip, drums “We Get Requests” Verve, 1964 Oscar Peterson, piano Ray Brown, bass Ed Thigpen, drums Here, Duke Ellington is on the left, strumming a guitar. He is one of the greatest American composers, who worked closely with Billy Strayhorn (pictured below). Sitting at the piano, Duke’s usual seat in the band, is Cab Calloway. The music of these two iconic artists is often portrayed in movies that take place during the 1920s, ‘30s or ‘40s. You can see examples of this in The Notebook, The Great Gatsby, and Cab Calloway even appears as himself in The Blues Brothers and Stormy Weather. Cab and Duke had separate bands, but there are instances of them performing together. As in this picture, jazz musicians still often spend time at each others homes, participating in jam sessions, learning each other’s music, socializing, having fun and exploring techniques of composition and improvisation. The Jam Session L-R: James Moody (saxophone) Sonny Stitt (saxophone) Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) L-R: Terry Gibbs (vibraphone) Terry Pollard (vibraphone & piano) Billy Strayhorn (composer) LISTENING GUIDE JAZZ SAXOPHONE STUDIO GUIDE 1
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Albums“Cannonball Adderley/Nancy Wilson”
Capitol, 1961Nancy Wilson, voice
Cannonball Adderley, alto saxophoneNat Adderley, cornetLouis Hayes, drums
Sam Jones, bassJoe Zawinul, piano
“Sonny Side Up”Verve, 1958
Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet & voiceSonny Stitt, tenor saxophone
Sonny Rollins, tenor saxophoneRay Bryant, piano
Tommy Bryant, bassCharlie Persip, drums
“We Get Requests”
Verve, 1964Oscar Peterson, piano
Ray Brown, bassEd Thigpen, drums
Here, Duke Ellington is on the left, strumming a guitar. He is one of the greatest American composers, who worked closely with Billy Strayhorn (pictured below). Sitting at the piano, Duke’s usual seat in the band, is Cab Calloway. The music of these two iconic artists is often portrayed in movies that take place during the 1920s, ‘30s or ‘40s. You can see examples of this in The Notebook, The Great Gatsby, and
Cab Calloway even appears as himself in The Blues Brothers and Stormy Weather. Cab and Duke had separate bands, but there are instances of them performing together. As in this picture, jazz musicians still often spend time at each others homes, participating in jam sessions, learning each other’s music, socializing, having fun and exploring techniques of composition and improvisation.
The Jam Session
L-R: James Moody (saxophone)Sonny Stitt (saxophone)
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)
L-R: Terry Gibbs (vibraphone)Terry Pollard (vibraphone & piano)
Billy Strayhorn (composer)
LISTENING GUIDEJAZZ SAXOPHONE STUDIO GUIDE 1
Why Listen So Much?• • •
Jazz is the people that perform it. In order to build a relationship with this music, we must build a relationship with its musicians. We are lucky because we don’t need to meet them and talk to them in order to get to know them and the stories they want to tell, we can do this by listening to what they have to
say in their music. Sometimes they tell us they’re happy, and sometimes they tell us that they’re sad. Sometimes they are at a party and sometimes they are alone, and we can learn this and more by listening to them. Maybe they are telling a story that we have been through before. Once we hear how they tell their story, we can use their example to help us tell our own. Listening to a lot of music also helps us explain our performance goals to other musicians. You may compose something and not know exactly how to explain it, but you can have your band listen to something from a record you heard that embodies a sound you want to portray.
How To Find Recordings
1. Online Radio: Spotify
2. Online Radio: Pandora
3. Digital Download: iTunes
4. Borrow: Public Library
5. Purchase: Encore Records
6. Purchase: amazon.com
7. Preview: allmusic.com
8. Online Video: youtube.com
9. Online Playlist: songza.com
Esperanza Spalding
Your NotesExample Sparks: What was your favorite song? What story did it tell? What was your least favorite song? How did it make you feel?
Were you excited? Do you want to learn how to play a song from your listening? What didn’t you like?Do you want to learn how to play just one idea from your listening? Were you bored? Who was your favorite musician?
Who played your favorite solo? Which ensemble did you like the best?
