Jazz

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Mind Map on Jazz, created by James Burns on 03/14/2015.
James Burns
Mind Map by James Burns, updated more than 1 year ago
James Burns
Created by James Burns about 11 years ago
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Jazz
  1. Traditional Jazz
    1. Influences: Blues- Ragtime- Marching Bands
      1. Started in clubs in Storyville (the vice area of New Orleans)
        1. Instruments were mostly home made (used spoons and washboards)
      2. Well known musicians:
        1. King Oliver
          1. Louis Armstrong
            1. Key Song: Riverside blues
          2. Big Band/Swing
            1. Started in NY and Chicago
              1. Featured large orchestras
                1. used Double bass, Stride piano, Swing drums, Mute trumpets and woodwind
                  1. Call and response with improvisation is used
              2. 1930s- 40s
                1. Commercial broadway music (Cotton Club and Savoy are notable placed)
                  1. Duke Ellington is notable to play this
                  2. 1900-1920
                  3. Bebop
                    1. Faster than swing and mainly improvised
                      1. Polyrhythm (multiple rhythms at once)
                      2. Smaller bands with solo's and call & response
                        1. Dizzy Gillespie
                          1. Emerged in the 1940s
                          2. Cool Jazz
                            1. Late 40's
                              1. Smooth and laid back
                                1. Strange time signatures
                                  1. Small bands
                                    1. Piano
                                      1. Miles Davis
                                      2. drum kits
                                        1. Saxophone
                                          1. Trombone/ Trumpet
                                        2. Free Jazz
                                          1. Sax, bass, drums, violin, trumpet
                                            1. 1950s
                                              1. Doesn't stick to any rules (unique)
                                                1. Ornette Coleman and Weather Report
                                          2. Jazz Fusion
                                            1. 1970s
                                              1. used new technology such as effects on the guitar
                                                1. Experimental vibes to it
                                                  1. Mixed with other genres such as rock
                                                    1. Used Clarinet, Piano, and keyboards
                                                      1. Pat Methany
                                                        1. Return to Forever/Question and Answer are known songs
                                                          1. Herbie Hancock- The Rocket
                                                            1. Weather Report
                                              2. Vocal Jazz
                                                1. 1920s
                                                  1. Crooning vocals
                                                    1. Saxophone, Vocals, Drums
                                                      1. Scat vocals (where vocals are similar to instruments)
                                                        1. Jungle Book- example of Scat vocals
                                                          1. Rat Pack- Spoken word style vocals
                                                          2. Scat vocals invented by Louis Armstrong
                                                            1. Nina Simone
                                                              1. Bing Crosby
                                                    2. RECORDING STYLES
                                                      1. Early Jazz recordings up to the 40's were recorded on a gramophone disc
                                                        1. Recorded at 78 rpm
                                                          1. They were recorded at once
                                                          2. Recorded in Mono
                                                            1. Can't record low frequencies well
                                                              1. Crackles and hisses in the background
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