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32 Cards in this Set
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Duke Ellington's Instrument and style
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Piano. Stride Style.
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Duke Ellington's Importance
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Wrote over 2000 compositions.
Tailored pieces to players personalities. Used Voicing Across Sections. |
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Voicing Across Sections
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Taking different instruments from different classes and having them flip. Clarinet plays low and Trombone plays high.
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Benny Goodman is credited for...
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Birthing the Swing era.
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Benny Goodman became famous on and where
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NBC's Lets dance. Palomer Ballroom in LA
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Benny Goodman's significance/Style/Insrument
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Owned as many as Fletcher Henderson's pieces as he could and played them with a Swinging hot Style. Played Clarinet.
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Saxophone
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Leading instrument of the Swing Era.
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Big Band
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Preferred instrumentation of the swing era.
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Written Arrangements
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Big bands did this to play together and keep in sync.
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New Orleans style Vs. Swing Era
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Tuba replaced by Bass.
Banjo replaced by Rhythm Guitar. Percussion replaced by whole drum set. |
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Kansas City Style Jazz
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Head Arrangements
Call and Response Riffs |
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Louis Armstrong started what...
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Soloists
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Roy Eldridge played what?
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Trumpet. Took to new level
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Count basie's style.
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Less is more.
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Count Basie's instrument
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Piano Stride Style
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Freddie Green
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Count Basie's Rhythm Guitarist.
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Jo Jones
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Count Basie's Drummer
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Roy Eldridge
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Trumpeter.
Bridged gap between traditional (Armstrong) Style and Contemporary (Dizzy) styles. |
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Art Tatum
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Pianist. Stride style left hand right hand fast. Spontaneous at changing chords mid performance.
Transitional figure to bebop |
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Billie Holiday
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Made lyrics come alive.
Song's meaning directly to you. Original and fresh. |
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Ells Fitzgerald
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Flawless vocal technique
Accurate pitch Vocal range spanned 3 octaves Scat Singer |
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Coleman Hawkins
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1st imp. tenor saxophonist
Supercharged sax brought it to light. Deep husky vibrato. Vertical player lots of notes. HARMONIC IMPROV |
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Lester Young
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Nicknamed Prez President
Model for modern jazz Linear vibrato MELODIC IMPROV Inspired cool Jazz |
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Sweet Band
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All White
Slow - Med tempo (Danceable) Not a lot of improv Swing Politely |
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Hot Band
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Black
Exciting Arrangements Great ensemble writing/improv High Dance Deepest Swingers |
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Bebop
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Higher Faster more Complex
More variety and Richer Less Singable |
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Bebops Time
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1940s
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Why Was Bebop Rejected
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Undanceable
Too Complex No lyrics |
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Charlie Parker
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BIRD
Alto Sax Built entire section of improv and composition by unique notes Speed as improvised |
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Dizzie Gillespie
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Trumpet
Innovative Weaved in and out of different keys withing a single phrase logically fresh tunes as a composer |
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The Lonious Monk
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Piano
Unorthodox melodies Weird style of play Sometimes stopped comping and let bass/drums |
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Bud Powell
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Piano
Most imitated Bebop Pianist Incorporated styles of Gillespie and Parker New left hand style of comping 2-3 notes Model for pianists 40-50s |
