Karteikarten
all blues
Karten in diesem Stapel (12)
- 1date1959
- 2background to jazz (3) and the piece (1)modal jazz was a reaction against bebop
bebop: fast and virtuosic
modal: uncomplicated, improvisations based one modes
album recorded with almost no rehearsal and no score - 3players (6(1))sextet
frontline (instruments that have main melody/prominent solos):
- Miles Davis on trumpet
- Julian Adderley on alto sax
- John Coltrane on tenor sax
rhythm section (provide harmonic and rhythmic backing)
- Bill Evans on piano
- Paul Chambers
- Jimmy Cobb - 4structure (4)12 bar blues progression repeated 19 times
introduction → head → solos → links → coda
tenor and alto sax/trumpet have 48 bar solos
piano has 24 bar solo - 5instrumentation (5)frontline and rhythm section
snare drum played with brushes at the start
trumpet played with a Harmon mute
piano plays tremolo at the start of the piece
pianist uses comping in the solos - 6rhythm, metre and tempo6/4
tempo is jazz waltz
swung quavers → classic jazz technique
frequent syncopation
rhythmic displacement
cross rhythms - 7melody (6)improvised
characterised by rising 6ths
some chromatic notes
blue notes (flattened 3rd, 5th or 7ths)
mixolydian mode (white note scales)
head: not improvised, mostly moves in step - 8trumpet solo (melody) (1)mostly made up of short, syncopated motifs
- 9alto sax solo (melody) (2)uses quicker notes and a wider range; more virtuosic than trumpet solo
- 10tenor sax solo (melody) (2)fast scales and quick runs; also very virtuosic
- 11piano solo (melody) (2)calmer improvisation, simple melody that leads into a string of parallel chords
- 12harmony and tonality (4)based on 12-bar blues sequence:
G7 G7 G7 G7 Gm7 Gm7 G7 G7 D7 Eb7/D7 F/G F/G6
in g major but with a flattened seventh (f natural)
extended chords
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- GCSE Music (popular music in context) Karteikarten am all blues, erstellt von jenny sclater am 01/05/2017.
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