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Popular Big Bands
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-Simialirties to early big bands is sectional writing, dance oriented, bigger halls
-Differences from E.B.B- Less spont. and more pop oriented
-Most nostalgic to WW2 era |
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Popular Big Band
Social Considerations
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-Benny Goodman orchesrta was first to implement white and black musicians, and the first jazz group to play in carnagy hall
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Popular Big Band
Key Artists
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Benny Goodman (Clarinet)
-King of swing; used hernderson arrangments; first to integrate B and W musicians; Tested on Song- Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman
Glenn Miller (Trambone)
Trambone; composer; G.M orchestra; No improv; Song: "Moonlight Serenade", "In the Mood"
Tommy Dorsey (Trambone)
Vitruoso; played with Frank and Buddy rich; Song: "Im getting sentimental over you"
Artie Shaw (Clarinet)
Virtuoso clarinet; exotic sound; use of strings; hated the business; Song: "Frenesi" (1940)
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Jazz Singer
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-Improvisation through one or more of the followng
1. changing melody
2. scat singing
3. rhythmic phrasing
-most performed standards, some blues, had expressive interpretations |
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Jazz Singers
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-African-american artists came from desperate childhoods poverty
-All greatly impacted both contemporarie and future singers |
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Louie Armstrong (singer/trumpet)
-consistent style singing or playing trumpet; an entertainer; starred in films; song:"Hotter Than That" call and response break and there was scatting in this song;
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-Influeced by Ma Rainey
-City blues
-emotional impact on audience
-bending notes/growling and gutteral sounds
-highest paid black entertainer of her day
-"St. Louis Blue" with Armstrong
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-Greatest woman scat singer of all time
-hired by chick webb ( Band leader and drummer)
-she was brillinat in song interpretations, rhythmic conception, scatting/reworking melody
-First hit was a million seller and its called "A tisket, A tisket" |
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-AKA. Lady Day
-sang in harlem in speakeasies in her teens
-influence was Louie Armstorng and Bessie Smith
-emotional interepretations of standards
-performed with Count Basie and Artie Shaw
-"Strange Fruit" and "God Bless this Child" (Composed).
-strange fruit is a Luis Allen poem |
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-Hes the best
-Hes the shit
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