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Review of Chapters 18-24 for Intro to Jazz
Review of Notes and Book for Chapter 18-23
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12/05/2009

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Did Charlie Parker play with vibrato?
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NO, he played with little to no vibrato, except on ballads
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quotation
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in a solo, a reference to a well-known melody from the popular or classical repertories (characteristic of Parkers playing)
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Where is Birdland located?
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on Brodway between 52nd and 53rd Street, opened in honor of Parker
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Eddie Lockjaw Davis
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Tenor sax, course and gritty sound, rough
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who was the most influential artist in the last 10 years of his or her life (45-55)
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Charlie Parker
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General understated manner of expresson or rhetrical stance is an example of what style of  jazz?
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Cool jazz
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subdued rhythms, soft articulations, muted accents, lyrical melodies
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cool jazz
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combination of mellow-sounding brass instruments such as frensh horns, trumpets,trombones buket mutes, flugel horn and tuba
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cool jazz
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soft dynamics, use of brushes not sticks
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cool jazz
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what other type of music had an inspiration of cool jazz
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European classical music
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Lenny tristano, what is his style
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piano, cool jazz
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Lee Konitz
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alto sax
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what composers did tristano have his students study
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Bach, parker, armstrong and eldridge
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Claude Thornhill, what style?
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Piano, cool jazz
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Hard Bop was creaed in reaction to what?
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cool jazz.
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Gil Evans
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Arranger
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what jazzplayer is famous for combining different instruments such as french horns to jazz
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Claude thornhill
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Who did West coast Jazz appeal to?
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economically comfortable white men, and university students
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who fomed the famous pianoless quartet
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Gerry Mulligan
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Pacific Jazz
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A label designed specifically for West Coast artists
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Where did Dave Brubeck and his initial trio play frequently
Definition
At the BlackHawk
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Paul Desmond
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Alto Saxophon player inthe Dave Brubeck quartet
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Joe Morello
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Drummer in Dave Brubeck's classic quartet
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third stream jazz
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jazz fused with classical music
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milt Jackson
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vibrphonist in the MJQ
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John Lewis
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pianist in MJQ
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Kenny Clarke
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drummer in the MJQ
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Billy Bowen
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guitar
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Although cool jazz drew inspiration form european classical music where did hard boppers get their inspiration from?
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gospel, blues which involved call and response singing, dancing, clapping and shouting
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who pioneered R&B?
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Louis Jordan
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Soul
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th converision of blesy sacred hymns into love songs
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who was a mjor pioneer of soul
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ray charles
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aggresive, strong accents, prominent drummer role, bluesy, sometimes gospel related chord progressions describes what?
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hard bop
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Blue Note
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the label that epitomized hard bop in the 50s and 60s
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Art Blakey and Horace silver are most associated with what type of music
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hard bop
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Kenny Dorham plays what instrument

(Bonus: in what group)

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trumpet: The Jazz Messengers
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Hank Mobley
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tenor saxophone
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what musician pursued funky (gospel and blues) type of Jazz
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Horace Silver
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Wayne Marsh
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tenor
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who was the transition figure into cool jazz
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Lenny Tristano
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biggest star to emerge from cool jazz
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Dave Brubeck
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who was the musician that experimented using different meters in jazz including 3,5,7, and 9 meters
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Joe Morello
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drummer (near sighted)
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Allen Dawson
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drummer
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sermon on the Mount was written by
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Dave brubeck
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what classical element did the MJQ incroporate into their song "Concorde"
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a fugue style
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Bags Groove written by...

featuring....

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Modern Jazz Quartet: Milt "Bags" Jackson
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What are the MJQ so famous for?
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for blending cool and Bebop jazz
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Max Roach
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drummer
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Senor Blues
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Horace Silver
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"Nothing Can Stop me now"
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Horace Silver
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with what famous musician did Clifford Brown put together a quintet
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Max Roach (brown-roach quintet)
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Gertrude's Bounce
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Brown-Roach Quintet
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St Thomas
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Sonny Rollins
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Bobby Timmons
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Piano
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I remember Clifford
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Benny Golson
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Benny Golson
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Tenor sax
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modal jazz is based on
Definition
scales
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who developed the theory of Modal JAzz
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George Russell
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Donna Lee
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Charlie Parker
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Impressions
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John Coltrane
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Flamenco Sketches
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Miles Davis
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India
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John Coltrane
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Who got the Free jazz movement going
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Ornette Coleman
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Shape of Jazz to Come Album
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Ornette Coleman
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Cecil Taylor
Definition
Piano
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Jazz Advance
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Cecil Taylor
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Rick Kick Shaw
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Cecil Taylor
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Other than Dizzy Gillespie who else did a recording of Night in Tunisia
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Bud Powell
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Ko-Ko
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Charlie Parker (Bebop)
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Embraceable You
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Charlie Parker
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Parker's Mood
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Charlie Parker (bebop)
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Disappointed (bebop)

 

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Eddie Jefferson
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Doodlin'
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DeeDee Bridgewater
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Intuition

Style:

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Lenny Tristano, Cool Jazz
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Wow, (style)
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Lenny Tristano
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No Figs (style)
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Lenny Tristano, Cool jazz
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Bernie's Tune
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Gerry Mulligan (cool jazz)
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Walkin' Shoes
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Gerry Mulligan
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Style of Take Five
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cool jazz
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style of Blue Rondo a La Turk
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cool Jazz
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What famous drummer made a recording of "Night in Tunisia"
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Art Blakey
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Sonnymoon for two, style
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Sonny Rollins, hard bop
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"I know that you know", style
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Sonny Rollins and Dizzy Gillespie, Hard Bop
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What album was Boplicity, Move and Jeru on and who recorded them?
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Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis
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Summertime
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Miles Davis
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Solea is off of what album?
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sketches of Spain
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Miles Davis Runs the voodoo down, style
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Davis, fusion
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Thinking one thing doin another
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Miles Davis
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Honky Tonk, fusion
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Miles Davis, fusion
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"What it is" came from what album and by who?
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Decoy, Davis
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Tutu, style
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Davis, Fusion
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Lonely Woman, style
Definition
Ornette Coleman, free Jazz
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"Free Jazz"
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Ornette Coleman
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Idut
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Cecil Taylor
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Space is the Place
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Sun Ra
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Why was the free jazz album important
Definition
it gave free jazz its name
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Alabama, style
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John Coltrane, hard bop
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Resolution is from what album? and by who?
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A love supreme, John Coltrane.
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Fats Navarro
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Trumpet Player
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Charles Mingus
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bass
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Ascension
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John Coltrane
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Jupiter
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John Coltrane
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Don Cherry
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trumpet
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who formed a classic quartet?
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Ornette coleman
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Charlie Haden
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bass
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the leader of the Myth Science Arkestra
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Sun Ra
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Ginger Bread Boy
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Miles Davis
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The Street
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52nd Street wih clubs suchas 3 Deuces, Onyx, Kelly Stable and the spotlight
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The 1949 recordings put together by Miles Davis were known as
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The Birth of the Cool
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Who was Davis' arranger?
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Gil Evans
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Sid's Ahead is what style of jazz
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modal jazz
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name of Miles Davis' second quintet
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Miles Smiles
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what happened to Davis in 1979?
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He sobered up and was not playing
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what happened to Davis in 1981
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first big gig at Newport Jazz fest, played "man with a horn" not a huge success
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Archie Shepp
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teno Sax
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who was responsible for big bands coming to college campuses
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Stan Kenton
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Maynard Ferguson
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high range trumpet player
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Don Ellis
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trumpet
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who famously used a fourth valve on theri trumpet to create a 1/4 tone
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Don Ellis
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who music was associated with a funky quality of hard bop other than Hoarce Silver
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Jimmy Smith
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Back a the Chicken Shack
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Jimmy Smith
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Jimmy Smith
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Hammond B3
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dot com blues
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Jimmy Smith
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Blood sweat and tears is what style?
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fusion
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Lacreesha McEvil
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BS and T
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what musical technique was utilized in rock
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repetition
Term
what two piano players were famous for using electric piano
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Herbie HAncock and Chick Corea
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Maiden Voyage style? and artist?
Definition
Modal jazz and Herbie Hancock
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who was the creater of WEather Report?
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Joe Zawinul
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Rockit
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Herbie Hancock
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Joe Zawinul
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Keyboards
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Bill Chase
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trumpet
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Open up wide
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Bill Chase
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Close up tight
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Bill Chase
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Umbrellas
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Weather Report
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Rain Dance
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Herbie Hancock
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what is the name given where hte structure of the song ends and its a free solo
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Cadenza
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what famous vocal bop artist liked to imitate wa-wa sounds of trumpet with their voice
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Dee Dee Bridgewater
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What musical style bridge the gap between rock and roll and bop?
Definition
west coast jazz/ cool jazz
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Digression
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Tristano, cool jazz
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what famous jazz artist created the album "cross currents"
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Lenny Tristano
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what famous piano player led experimented big band and was a model for cool ensembles?
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Claude Thornhill
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IN pursuit of the 27th man
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Horace Silver
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who was th most influential hard bop player tenor player?
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sonny Rollins.
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who wrote the book the Lydian Chromatic concept?
Definition
George Russell
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What was Miles Davis' best selling album

Bonus: what his best selling number?

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Kind of Blue

"So What"

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style of Impressions by John Coltrane?
Definition
Modal Jazz
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what was one of the firt modal Jazz pieces?
Definition
Milestones
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Eric Dolphy
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clarinet
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Free Jazz was a way to get back to the aesthetics and attitude of what?
Definition
blues
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Sound of Grammar: who wrote it and why is it so important
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Ornette Coleman, only recordin to receive Pultizer Prize in Music
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what musician had a classi quartet
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Ornette Coleman
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What club galvanized the free jazz movement?
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The 5 spot
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what jazz musician is known for thei tonal clusters?
Definition
Cecil Taylor
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In the last few year of John Coltrane's life what was the name of the album that he put out?
Definition
A love supreme
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Ascension
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John COltrane
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what album was coltrane's Jupiter on?
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Interstellar Space
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although Donna Lee is recorded under Parkers name who actually wrote the song? and why was it so important in their career?
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miles davis: it was the first song recorded by Davis
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Gunther Shuler: instrument and why he was imporant?
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french horn, helped develop third stream jazz
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why is sid's ahead important, and what album is it on?
Definition
First recorded example of Modal Jazz
Term
why is bitches brew important?
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first jazz rock fusion album recorded.
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what jazz musician was a complete perfectionist and would play songs over and over until they thought it was right.
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John Coltrane
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chasing the "trane"
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joh coltrane
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what drummer played with John coltrane on his song jupiter?
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Rashid Al.
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down and dirty
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stan Kenton
Term
what trumpet player used a ring modulator in their playing?
Definition
Don Ellis
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what famou jazz musician had success writing severa film scores
Definition
Herbie Hancock
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who was named 1971 #2 musician of the year
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Bill Chase
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how many quintets did MIles Davis have?
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2
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Archie Shepp played what style of music
Definition
Free Jazz
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energy jazz
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a subcategory of free jazz that emphasizess speed rhythmic intensity, and expressive passion
Term
what free jazz player had experience arranging for Flethcer Henderson?
Definition
Sun Ra
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what did the Association for the advancement of creative Musicians do?
Definition
sponsored concerts, helped musicians find work, encouraged high ethical manners from its players,
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post bop players were moderates of the _______movement and incorporated these elements in their playing
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Free Jazz
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4 parts to A Love Supreme
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Acknowldgment, resolution, pursuanceand psalm
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Definition