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C-Jam blues

Ellington certain scale song on c scale that everybody copiedblues notes

Blues notes

Bb and B in G

Blues form

Cyclical aab lyrics

Break

Everything but percussion stops

Congo square

Site where jazz was founded in New Orleans

Counterpoint

Conflicting melodies

Field holler

Origin for blues, diasporac connections

Ragtime

Piano bouncin jazz (Joplin)

Second line

People that follow the band for the music in a parade

Spanish American war

Cuban opens up for musical contributions Latin vibe to jazz

Stride

Piano style of putting a whole composition on a piano

Storyville

Red light district founding jazz

Clef club

High level composers, intermediary for music industry

Historiography

Writing of history

Jazz classique

Whitemans appropriative making a lady out of jazz

Jazz

Fletcher Henderson

Composed for Benny Goodman, focused on the ability of the specific musician

Jungle music

renewed interest in Africa

Mintons

Swing club

Basie

Swing and blues, loves riffs

Coleman Hawkins

Swing era artist precursor to bebop because of arpeggios

Boplicity

Davis song, shows jazz fusion, harmonizing

Hard bop

Overt reconnection to blues and traditional African music on the street, not concert halls. Simplified bebop

Contrafact

Rhythm changes

Lenox School of Jazz

Bebop school that helped create avant garde

Modal jazZ

Using something other than chords to establish harmony (by Davis)

George Russell

Afro-Cuban and Bebop fusion (Cubano be Cubano bop)

So what

Davis (modal jazz)

Sheets of sound

Coltrane thing - many notes in rapid succession to saturate sound

Moldy figs

Jazz purists from free jazz guys

Four on the floor

Disco and electronic rhythm

Loft scene

Avant- grade jazz base

AACM

Free jazz collective

Stop time

When the beats continue although you can’t hear them

Jump blues

Uninteresting mainstream non bebop music

America’s Classical Music

Non bebop label for traditional jazz

Cecil taylor

Pianist who plays 88 drums (free jazz)

Henry threadgill

Free jazz

Progression rock

Virtuosity in rock, combined for jazz fusion

B*s Brew

Massively innovative, creates progressive rock

Road education

Blakey

Young lions

Non conservative musicians who revive hard bop

Neo conservatives and traditionalists

Marsalis, the guys who want the old stuff

Barreto

Against boogaloo but wrote salsa music, post bop

Irakere

Cuban defections to other countries while on tour

Jazz left

Non conservative, innovative movement

Soul makossa

By dibango, samples by MJ

Angelique Kidjo

French, Yoruba, Benin, musical identity

Milano Astatke

Ehtiopian ethiojazz

Sathima Bea Benjamin

Ibrahim’s wife, fled South Africa and made her own music and Ekapa records

Ada Bricktop Smith

Club owner in Paris who reserved acts for black musicians traveling in europe

ECM records

Poland

Norman Granz

Pablo records, straight jazz in fusion era

Anouar Brahem

Tunisia, brings in Arabic music guitar and tradition