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jazz is unique for which two special aspects? |
1. Provocative rhythms 2. its insistence that performers create their parts as they play. |
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what two components does jazz involve?
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jazz involves improvisation and swing feeling. |
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How might one describe the swing feeling of jazz? |
jazz swing feeling is like swing feeling in the general sense, but it also has an abundance of syncopated rhythms, swing eight0notes, and a continuous rise and fall of tension. |
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what are some reasons jazz originated in new orelans? |
ethnic diversity and creoles of color -the blues -the need for live music -brass bands -ragtime -party atmosphere -dance music |
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dixieland style and sintrumention |
in parades as well as dance halls, small bands were trying to perform music orginially weritten for large bands. their compromise led to what became sstandard dixeieland style and instruemntation. in trying to fill out the soun more activity was required of each paltyer, so musicians improvised parts to ordfer, they go in the bahoit of improvisn and as jazz eveolved this bahit changed from a necessity into a choice.
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What are some influences of early jazz?
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1 roots in ragtime 2 blues 3 brass band music |
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What are some important difference following the early jazz period? |
1 much of each performance was improvised 2 rhythmic feelings was looser and more relaxed thus anticipating jazz swing feeling 3 it generated some of its own repertory of compositions 4 its collectively improvised format created a more complex musical product than was typical in gratime, blues, or brass band music |
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Who are some significant characters in early jazz? |
1 trumpter louis armstrong 2 clarinentist-saxophonist sidney becht 3 pianist jelly roll morton 4 pianist earl hines 5 pianist fats waller 6 saxophonist benny goodman 7 trombonist glenn miller |
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What instrument did earl hines play |
piano |
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what instrument did bix beiderbeck play? |
cornetist |
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what insturment did james p johnson play |
pianist |
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who are some notable early jazz tumpetists |
joe king oliver louis armstrong bix biederbeck |
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who are some early jazz composer-arrangegers? |
james p johnson jelly roll morton fats waller |
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who composed the Charleston? |
james p johnson |
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who are some notable pianists? |
james p johnson jelly toll morton fats waller earl hines fletcher henderson
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what are some significant points about the orginial dixieland jazz band? |
the dixie jazz band onestep it is the frsit jazz record ever issued |
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who is joe oliver? |
all star new orleans groups which at various times had most of hte best black enw orleans jazz msucians chicago trumper
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five things about jelly roll mroton |
1 painstist 2 composer arranger 3 bandleqader 4 new orealsn 5 separate list!
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separate list about jelly roll morton 5 things |
1 he was the first important jazz composer and several pieces became well kown in rearranged from played by other bands -wloverrine blues -milenburg joys -wild man blues -king porter stomp 2 he introduced arrang practices in his small group performacnes that came ot be imitated udring early stages in the history of big bands 3. he was one fo the fristy jazz msucians to blend composition with improvisation in an elaborate and balanced way that still conveyed the kind of excitement that had typied collectively improvised jazz. in this way, morton anticipated similar contributions by duke eilllgionton, ... 4 he recorded piano solos that were well organized forcegully executed musical statements with hornlike lines in them. 5 he helped bridge the gap between ragtime piano style and hazz pino styles by loosening ragtime's feeling and decreasing its embellishemnets |
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who was earl hines? |
1 early jazz painist who significantly influenced piano playing stles of the 30s and 40s 2 because his right hand lines sometimes sound like jazz trumpet playing the hiens approach earned the title of trumpet style or horn like 3 hines was prone to introducing new and often haming ideas into his solos in midflight, departing on tangents the source of which was udnerstood only by him 4 9 separate points
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what 9 notable features of earl hines are mentioned? |
1 stride style 2 walking 10ths 3 hornlike lines 4 flowerly embellishements 5 octave voicing 5 tempo 6 stoptime solobreaks for the right hand 7 bried double time figure 8 off balance left hand rhythms which are highly syncopated seeming to cmoe out of nowehre 9 |
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2 notable facts about fats walle |
1 new york born 2 one of the best known stride piansts -ain't misbehaving
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james p johnson |
new jersey born 2 one of the first jazz musicians to broadcast on the radio 3 known to jazz musicians rpimarily as an innovatide stride pianst 4 composer conductor pianist
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louis armstrong |
often called the father of jazz 2 pops 3 new orleans bornd 4 joe oliver's new orelans style band in chicago dippermouth blues 5 nicknames -dippermouth -satchel -satchmo 6 most widely immitated jazz improviser priot to the appearnce of modern saxophonst CHARLIE PARKER IN THE 50S |
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historic contribution of louis armstrong |
1 armstrong was one of the first great soloists in hazz history
2 one of the first jazz musicans to refine a rhythmic conception that - abandoned the stiffness of ragtime -employed swing 1/8 note patterns -more relaxed feeling than ragtime
3 few have approximated his skill and creativity as musical architechts. few had his degree of control over the general form of a solo. he calmly forged sensible lines that had both the flow of spontaneity and the stamp of finality.
4 brought a superb sense of drama of jhazz solo conception
5 during a period when most improvisers were satisfied simply to embellish or paraphrase a tune's melody- and armstrong was a master at both- armstrong frequently broke away from that melody and improvised original melody like lines that were compatible with the tune's chord progressions.
6 command of the trumpet was arguably great than that of any preceding jazz trumpter who record
7 armstong populatized the musical vocabulary of the new orelans trumpeter style and thene xtended it
8 armstrong's tremendously fertile melodic imagination provided jazz with a repertory on phrase and way of going about constructing improvisation
armstrong singing style influenced many popular singers including pouis prima billie holiday and bring corsby. in this way he affected american music beyond the boundaries of jazz. armstrong's influence was so pervasive that elslie grouse titles a book about american jazz singers louis' childrend
10 armstrong populartized scat singing a vocal technique in whic ltyics are nto used. the voice improvises in the manner of jazz trumpeter saxophonist |
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bix beiderbeck |
important white trumpter and composer from ioqaw his recordings are significant in ealry jazz |
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clarinet |
johnny dodds jimie noone sidney bechet |
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trombone |
kid ory |
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jwho died with tonsilectomy |
benny morton eddy lang |
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benny morton <--> count bassie |
bands
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rift style |
unamplified accustic guitar |
