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Ch. 6-8 Lecture Outline & Exam 2 Study Guide
Ch. 6-8 Lecture Outline & Exam 2 Study Guide
Contributions to jazz:
Benny Goodman;
New York jazz (Louis Armstrong);
defined swing;
merged jazz and dance styles in New York
Ch. 6: The Swing Era
– Early big band leaders/conductors:
• Duke Ellington (Ch. 7)
• Count Basie (Ch. 8)
Ch. 6: The Swing Era
–Early big band leaders/conductors:
• Jimmie Lunceford
• “Rhythm is Our Business”
• “I’m Nuts About Screwy Music”
• “I Want the Waiter With the Water”
• “White Heat”
• LP: “Lunceford Special” (1939)
•Hard-driving swing
•Internationally famous (along with Armstrong & Ellington)
•Racially integrated ensembles
•Quartet; sextet; septet; big band; septet/sextet
•Introduced:
–Pianist Teddy Wilson
–Guitarist Charlie Christian
–Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton
Ch. 6: The Swing Era
– Early big band leaders/conductors:
– Other Clarinetists:
• Jimmie Noone and Artie Shaw
• Tommy Dorsey
• “Song of India” (1938)
• “Bugle Call Rag” and “Ole Miss” (1942)
• “Opus One”
Ch. 6: Great Swing Musicians
– Trumpet:
– Roy Eldridge (1911-1989)
• Bridged improv gap between Armstrong & Gillespie
• Rapid, fiery solos
• High register, sax-like solo lines
• “Rockin’ Chair”
• “After You’ve Gone” (1941) (Gene Krupa) CD 1, Tr.16
– Alto Saxophone:
• Benny Carter (1907-2003)
– “Angel Eyes”
• Johnny Hodges
– “I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good”
Ch. 6: Great Swing Musicians
Piano:
Art Tatum (1909-1956)
-Influences: James Johnson, Fats Waller
-highly technical solos (rapid runs, sometimes two melodies at once)
-changed chords within a phrase (led to bi- and polytonality)
-Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (1989)
Tiger Rag
LP 5, Tr. 1: Willow Weep For Me
LP 5, Tr. 2: Too Marvelous for Words
“Yesterdays”
Dvorak’s “Humoresque”
“Over the Rainbow” (1953)
Ch. 6: Great Swing Musicians
• Influences of Art Tatum:
• Earl Hines (1903-1983)
– “All of Me” (1965)
– Wolf Trap Park Jazz Festival, 1976