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Miles Davis 'All Blues'
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- 1Miles Davis-b. Illinois 1926
-Started trumpet age 13
-Formed own ensemble in 1948 after being in Charlie Parker's
-Died September 28th 1991 - 2Davis' Musical Style- Felt there was more to jazz than a quest for speed: Birth of Cool (1st album) is laid more back
- Has a relaxed, non-virtuoso playing technique in All Blues - 3Modal Jazz-Freed from more restrictive jazz
-Use a mode/scale, not a complex chord structure
-Led to longer, freer improvisations
-Songs are longer than bebop+cool jazz, allowing extended soloing - 4Blues-Mixing of musical styles in 19/20th century New Orleans
-Included Call+Response, Strong Rhythmic Content+Improvisation
-Fusion of African pentatonic scales + 7 note western scales formed the blues scale - 5Blue Notes-A note bent between a minor and major third
-In the blues scale - 6Popular forms of jazz-Ragtime
-Swing
-Big Band
-New Orleans Jazz
-Bebop - 7Ragtime-Music characterized by a syncopated melodic line and regularly accented accompaniment
- 8New Orleans Jazz-One of the first recognised jazz styles, originating in New Orleans
- 9Bebop-A jazz style requiring virtuosic technique, including fast tempos and complex harmonies
- 10Big Band-A jazz style popular in the 1920s and 1930s in which the pieces were generally written for a large ensemble to be played in dance halls
- 11Swing-A development of big band jazz. The term is also used to describe a particular type of rhythmic 'groove' desirable in jazz music.
- 12Changes-The chord sequence in a jazz song
- 13Head-The main melody of a jazz song, generally played at the beginning of the song
- 14Modal Jazz-A jazz style in which the soloists base their solos on modes instead of the chord changes
- 15TrumpetMiles Davis
- 16Alto SaxJulian 'Cannonball' Adderly
- 17Tenor SaxJohn Coltrane
- 18PianoBill Evans
- 19BassPaul Chambers
- 20DrumsJimmy Cobb
- 21Form and Structure-Intro
-Head 1
-Link
-Head 2
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-Improv 1 (Davis)
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-Improv 2 (Adderley)
-Link
-Improv 3 (Coltrane)
-Link
-Improv 4 (Evans)
-Link
-Head 3
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-Head 4
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-Outro - 22Tonality-Modal Jazz
-Davis improvises on the G mixolydian mode - 23Pitch and Melody-Head and solos are played over 12 bar blues (changes) based on notes of a mode
-Improvs are ornamented + combine riffs together - 24Dynamics-P throughout
-Diminuendo in Head 4 - 25Rhythm-Rhythm section gives harmony + rhythmic background (bass+drum+piano)
-Provides comping: background chords + rhythms - 26Texture-Made up of riffs
-3 riffs are used
1: (G-D-ED-F-DED) Double Bass
2: Alto = Tenor Sax play in thirds (D/B-E/C-F/D-E/C)
3: Piano - 27Tempo-156
-Bar feels like it is in 2 slow beats, so feels like a laid back dotted minim tempo (152) - 28Time Signiature-6/4
-Jazz Waltz - 29Harmony-Based on repeated 12 bar blues chord sequence (changes) : 19 in total
-D7#9 and Eflat7#9 are extended chords
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