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