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Mile davises jobs |
A composer, bandleader, and trumpet ear |
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Miles Davis was one of the most |
Acclaimed figures in the history of 20th century music |
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Miles Davis was at the forefront of |
Several major stylistic developments in jazz and fusion |
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Miles Davis played trumpet without |
Vibrato and head clear, mid-range tone |
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Miles Davis was "sensitive soul" forge a street wise exterior that later earned him |
The title of Prince of darkness |
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Recordings on muted trumpet help mile Davis develop |
Signature sounds that broke through to mainstream recognition |
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From 1944 to 1948 Miles Davis went to New York City after what |
Stink in Billy eckstine big band which feature dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and art blakely |
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Miles Davis studied at |
Juilliard gaining music theory knowledge |
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Miles Davis played on 52nd Street with |
Coleman Hawkins Debuted with Charlie Parker quintet replacing dizzy Gillespie on trumpet They're following Styles contrasted |
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What album came in 1949 that started the Miles Davis nonet |
"Birth of the cool" |
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Why was the Miles Davis nonet formed |
There were Jazz musicians who were unhappy about the increasingly virtuoso instrumental techniques that dominated the Bebop scene |
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Miles Davis nonet achieved that sounds similar to |
The human voice: carefully arranged compositions emphasizing a relaxed melodic approach to the improvisation |
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Which pieces of the Miles Davis nonet became influential pieces on the cool style of jazz |
"Boplicity" and "move" |
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Cool Jazz was very prominent where |
The West coast |
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Hard-bop incorporated influences from |
Blues, Gospel music, and rhythm and blues |
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The rhythmic feeling of hard bop was also labeled as |
Funky and soulful, using triqdic harmonies and amen chords from traditional gospel music |
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Davis recruited players for the first great quintet in 1955 that included |
Tenor sax John Coltrane, recording and performing some Bebop pieces and songs from Great American Songbook |
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Call Trina Davis contrasted in the same way |
Parker and Davis contrasted Davis played long lyrical melody lines while Coltrane played high-energy solos |
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What is a chord |
More than one note played at a time |
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How many chords can exist in a musical composition |
The number is infinite |
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Modal jazz came out when |
1959 |
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What album made by Columbia records was regarded as one of the best albums of all time |
Kind of blue Ex of modal jazz |
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Modal Jazz usually has less |
Chord progressions, where single chords May last 4 to 16 measures; quartal harmonies or melodies; polytonality |
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Modal Jazz was inspired by |
Inspired after seeing a performance of Les ballet Africans from Guinea it used confidence and dissonance when an instrument would play for long periods of time on just one chord |
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Ornette Coleman was |
The shape of jazz to come |
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What happened in 1959 |
The birth of free jazz |
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Ornette Coleman developed |
His own unique way of playing, found his own sound that was often met with hostility |
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Ornette Coleman album contained |
Compositions that had a brief thematic statement followed by several minutes of free improv |
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Ornette Coleman had a quartet consisting of |
Alto sax (Coleman), trumpet ,bass and drums, There were no chordal instruments like piano or guitar |
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When was post bop |
Between 1964 and 1968 |
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In the post Bop era Davis assembled his second great quintet consisting of |
Wayne shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams |
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Davis's second Great quintet tackle similar repertoire as earlier Davis bands had played, but played with |
Increasing structural and rhythmic freedom |
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The later half of the post Bop arisaka quintet approach new music as "time no changes" this referred to |
Davidson's choice to depart from chord progressions and adopt a more open approach with rhythm sections responding to The Soloist melodies like ornette Coleman early recordings |
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What was the last era |
Jazz fusion (the electric period) |
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"bitches brew" |
Saxophone, the use of electric piano, in guitar, and favorite a rock oriented improv style and can also be labeled as experimental jazz |
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Jazz fusion combined aspects of jazz |
Harmony and improvisation with Styles like funk, Rock, rhythm and blues and Latin jazz |
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Jazz fusion with characterized by |
Electric instruments and amplified sound as well as electronic effects and synthesizers |
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What was chor |
Instrumental Brazilian popular music originating in the 19th century |
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Who was piyinguinha |
Saxophone and flutist |
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What did piyinguinha intergrate |
The early choro composers of the 19th century and contemporary jazz harmonies |
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He had sophisticated |
Arrangements that incorporated afro-brazilian rhythms |
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He was one of the first |
Popular artists to take advantage of radio wasn't studio recording |
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Who was Antonin Carlos jobim |
He was a prolific composer of bossa novas Brazilian songwriter, arranger , singer, pianist and guitarist |
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Jobim composed pieces that are now |
Jazz and popular standards such as "garota de ipanema" |
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Jobim roots were |
Firmly planted in the modern music of pixinguinha |
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Bossanova |
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Samba |
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The girl from ipanema was from what album |
1963 album titled getz/Gilberto Features joao Gilberto,Stan get and Antonio Carlos jobim |
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1964 single of girl from ipanema was omitted by |
Portuguese lyrics originally sung by joao gilberto |
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Astrud Gilberto sung girl from ipanema , establishing her as |
Bossa novas singer She had never sung pro before getz/Gilberto album |
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Samba versus bossa |
The bossa nova style places more emphasis on Melody and less on percussion it is music to dance to. The rhythmic feel is more sway than swing It was influenced from blues and samba |
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Aside from guitar style, gilberto's big innovation was |
The vocal style employed by bossa Nova singers. The characteristic nasal vocal production is a peculiar trait of the caboclo folk tradition of northeastern Brazil |
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Cabacco is |
Mixed indigenous Brazilian and European ancestry |
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Jazz fusion combined aspects of |
Jazz with rock, funk, r&b and Latin jazz |
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Jazz fusion used what |
Electric instruments such as electric bass and guitar, synthesizers, electronic effects |
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Yes you can put emphasis on |
Original compositions |
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Judge fusion could employ |
Odd time signatures, elaborate chord progressions and melodies |
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What year did weather report album come out |
1971 |
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Weather report album was what |
And avant-garde experimental Jazz group originally, they also Incorporated More commercial pieces |
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Weather report album features |
Some pieces were a half an hour in length It was influenced by different styles of Latin, African, it's European music |
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What did album light as a feather return to forever in 1972 start with |
Latin influence music that transform into a jazz rock group that took influence from both psychedelic and progressive rock |
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Played as a feather keyboardist Chick corea participated in the birth of |
Electric jazz fusion movements in Miles, Davis's band and became a major modern jazz piano voice |
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Who were the Brecker Brothers(1975) |
They were a duo of Michael and Randy brecker Michael play tenor sax and Randy played trumpet |
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Randy became famous as |
An original member of blood, sweat & tears |
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The brecker Brothers released what album in 1978 |
Heavy metal Bebop |
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Miles Davis jazz transitions |
1. Cool Jazz 2 hard bop 3 modal Jazz 4 post Bop 5 jazz fusion |
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Miles Davis's Jazz transitions |
1. Cool Jazz 2. Hard bop 3. Modal Jazz 4.post bop 5. Jazz fusions |