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Hist & Lit of Jazz Final Flash Cards
Study guide on flash cards for final exam on 12/14
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Undergraduate 1
12/08/2009

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Name of ballad recorded by Hawkins in 1939
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Body and Soul
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Forum where new ideas were articulated
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Minton's Playhouse
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In 1943, first bebop combo formed by Oscar Pettiford and WHO?
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Dizzy Gillespie
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First bebop recordings made in 1945 by what two musicians?
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Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
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Gillespie, Davis or Brown?
Apprehensive about settling into a single mode of expression-new ways to manipulate rhythm, timbre, and silence-used harmony, mute and amplified trumpet.
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Miles Davis
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Gillespie, Davis or Brown?
Delicate vibrato, low notes followed by explosive passage in high register, screeching.
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Dizzy Gillespie
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1950 cool jazz album
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The Birth of Cool
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1959 album using modes
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Kind of Blue
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Who anticipated cool jazz on tenor sax, laidback?
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Lester Young
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Where did Gil Evans and Miles David rehearse with a 9-piece group?
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the basement on 55th street
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Parker, Konitz or Mulligan?
First modern jazz sax
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Charlie Parker
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Parker, Konitz or Mulligan?
Model for cool jazz influenced West Coast
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Lee Konitz
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Parker, Konitz or Mulligan?
Pianoless quartet, subdued, relaxed, etc
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Gerry Mulligan
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Coltrane or Rollins?
Running notes, sense of anguish, sheets of sound
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John Coltrane
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Holiday, Vaughan or Fitzgerald?
Influenced by Armstrong and Bessie Smieth, semi-talking/singing style, slightly behind the beat
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Billie Holiday
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bebop, cool, or hard bop:
Afro-Cuban rhythms, hectic tempos, advanced harmony, unison playing, fluid melodic
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Bebop
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bebop, cool, or hard bop:
Slower tempos, serious music, modal jazz, mellow sonorities, new instuments
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Cool
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bebop, cool, or hard bop:
less complex harmony, darker tonal sonorites, stronger accents
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hard bop
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Drummer who led the jazz messengers with Horace Silver
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Art Blakey
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Guitarist who played long flowing lines; electric guitarist
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Charlie Christian
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Name of album with "take five" and "blue rondo"
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Time Out
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Group which was elegant combining improvisation with classical composition
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Modern Jazz Quartet
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Band leader who developed concert jazz, emphasized composition & music education
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Stan Kenton
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Leader who used swing, bebop, cool, hard bop, classical, third stream, gospel, blues, spanish, african, eastern, avant-garde
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Charlie Mingus
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John Birks Gillespie's nickname
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Baritone saxophonist
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Gerry Mulligan
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Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
Dazzled listeners flawless techician, passing chords.
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Art Tatum
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Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
Block chords, multimeter, alto saxophonist was Paul Desmond
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Dave Brubeck
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Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
Suggested rather than defined harmony, quartal harmony, cool introspective, sensitive, soft touch
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Bill Evans
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Name the pianist: Powell, Brubeck, Tatum or Evans?
First bebop player, right hand played quick, fluid, smooth flowing lines
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Bud Powell
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Name the pianist: Monk, Silver or Peterson?
Earthy, bluesy, gospel, hard bop leader, soul, funk and latin influences
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Silver
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Name the pianist: Monk, Silver or Peterson?
Short musical ideas unified his music, jabs, syncopation & dissonance
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Monk
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Name the pianist: Monk, Silver or Peterson?
Borrowed approaches from others, virtuosis, graceful, mysterious reharmonizations, funky, hard bop
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Oscar Peterson
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Things to Come or Boplicity?
Vibes solo, sarcastic 4 note backup
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Things to Come
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Things to Come or Boplicity?
Cool jazz, dreamy dissonance
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Boplicity
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Hora Decubitis, Shaw 'Nuff, or Commencement?
Eclectic, swing, Bebop, hard Bop, Funky riff-based 12-bar blues
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Hora Decubritus
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Hora Decubitis, Shaw 'Nuff, or Commencement?
Large ensemble, written music, bombastic sounds, concert jazz
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Commencement
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Hora Decubitis, Shaw 'Nuff, or Commencement?
Introduction uses an Afro-Cuban rhythm (vamp) and returns towards end
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Shaw 'Nuff
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Tea for Two or Something's Comin'?
Stride piano gone wild, dazzlings runs, walking chords, rhythmic energy
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Tea for Two
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Tea for Two or Something's Comin'?
Agitated string bass, dissonant chords, drums play military-type rhythm, brilliantly executed, blues-based scale in both hands
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Something's Comin'
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