All Blues

All Blues

1. Instrumentation

   • Miles Davis - Trumpet
     • Muted
       • for the head
     • Short, syncopated motifs
   • Adderley - Alto Sax
     • FRONTLINE
       • Play the main melody and have prominant solos
     • Quicker notes
     • Wider range
     • More virtuosic than Davis'
   • Coltrane - Tenor Sax
     • Virtustic
     • fast scales
     • Quick runs
   • Evans - Piano
     • Calm, simple melody
     • Parallel chords
   • Chambers - Bass
     • uses pizzicato
   • Cobb - Drums
     • RHYTHM
       • Harmonic and Rythmic backing
         • Although Piano has a short solo
   • The album was played with almost no rehearsal and no score
   • Cymbals

2. Structure

   • 12 bar blues progression
     • G7/ G7/ G7/ G7/ Gm7/ Gm7/ G7/ G7/ D7/ Eb7-D7/ F - G/ F - G6
       • This is known as the Changes
   • Head arrangement structure
     • Intro/ Head/ Solos/ Head 2/ Coda
       • With links inbetween
   • Spontaneous improvisation

3. Melody

   • Rising 6th
     • D to B
     • Bar 9
     • then a stepwise movement
       • notes played that are next to eachother
       • bar 19
   • Syncopation
     • variety of unexpected rhythms
       • makes the music off beat
   • Trill
     • Piano
     • Bar 1-onwards
   • Mordent
     • Neighbouring note and back again
       • G-A-G
     • Bar 11

4. Harmony and Tonality

   • Voicings
     • Various ways of ordering the notes in a chord from lowest to highest.
   • Chromatic
     • Music in which notes are used that are not in the key of that piece
   • In the key of Gmajor
     • With a flattened seventh note
       • called a blue note
     • the same as the mixolydian mode
       • Modal jazz
         • can be wither major or minor or both(modal)
         • a jazz style in which soloists base their solos on modes instead of chord changes

5. Rhythm, Metre & Tempo

   • in 6/4 time
     • sounds like 3/4 time
       • a 'jazz waltz'
   • Swing Quavers
     • each pair of quavers is played with the first a little longer than the second
   • Syncopation

6. Background

   • Jazz
     • originated in the south of america
       • in the early 20th century
     • improvisation is key feature
     • Bebop
       • complex chord progressions
         • fast and virtuosic
     • Modal
       • based on modes
         • laidback & uncomplicated
   • Miles Davis
     • one of the best known jazz trumpeters
       • helped develop new jazz styles
         • Miles developed modal jazz in the 1950s to contrast bebop.