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39 Cards in this Set
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Aleatoric music |
Indeterminant, Dice Music |
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Balafon |
West African Tuned Percussion, Marimba like |
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Clave Rhythm |
Afro-Cuban Rhythm Pattern |
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Mbaqana |
South African Music starting in the 60's |
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Tabla |
Indian Drum Pair |
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Toques |
Yoruba Ritual Music Rhythm |
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Samba |
Brazilian dance music from the 30's |
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Kwela |
South African Pennywhistle street music |
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Formulaic improvisation |
creating solos by manipulating, atthe speed of thought, musical formulae or patterns that one hasworked out and internalized |
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Motivic improvisation |
improvisation that focuses onrepeating a given motif by retaining its essential pattern butchanging the pitches to match the changing chords of thecompositional structure. |
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Sheets of Sound |
Coltrane's Idea. Rapid notes |
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Altissimo |
The Overtones |
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Timbales |
Cuban Drum pair |
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Gil Evans |
Pianist and Arranger. Worked with Miles. Mainly arranger |
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Bill Evans |
Pianist. Mostly trios. Worked with Miles on Kind of Blue |
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Don Cherry |
Trumpet Player, Ornette Coleman, Fusion |
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Herbie Hancock |
Pianist, Keyboardist, Worked with Miles |
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Wayne Shorter |
Saxophonist (soprano), worked with Miles and left for Weather Report |
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Jaco Pastorius |
Bass Player- Weather Report and Metheny |
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Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) |
South African Pianist, worked with Ellington |
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Art Blakey |
Drummer- Monk, Parker, Gillespie. Jazz Messengers polyrhythms |
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Ornette Coleman |
Free Jazz Saxophone, with Don Cherry and Freddie Hubbard |
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Chick Corea |
Avant Guard and Jazz Fusion Pianist |
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Tito Puente |
Latin Jazz composer, Timbales |
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Charles Mingus |
Bass Player- Ellington and Basie and Cicil Taylor |
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Cicil Taylor |
Pianist, Densely complex solos |
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Lester Young |
Saxophone, Getz's Hero |
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Max Roach |
Percussionist, worked with all the classics. |
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Miles Davis Quintet Keyboard |
Herbie Hancock |
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Sun Ra |
Free Jazz piano. Went to Saturn |
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Zawinul |
Left Miles Davis' band (Bitches Brew) for Weather Report |
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Nguyen Le |
Vietnamese Guitar Player |
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Horace Silver |
Bebop Pianist |
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Dexter Gordon |
Inventor of Bebop |
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Clifford Brown |
Bebop Trumpeter, Max Roach |
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Eric Dolphy |
Bass Clarinet and Flute Solos, use of wide intervals, human/animal sounds |
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Miles Davis' Quintet Bass |
Ron Carter |
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Miles Davis' Quintet Drums |
Tony Williams |
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Miles Davis' Quintet Sax |
Wayne Shorter |
