MUSC 145 Exam 1

Terms	Definitions
Charlie Patton	Delta Blues
Lestor Young	tenor Sax played with Basie repesated the same note and was a model improviser
Jerry Mulligan	barry sax
Don Cheaton	trumpet
Colman Hawkins	tenor sax
stop time	section stops except the solo
Roy Eldridge	trumpet player
Bin Webster	tenor sax
Joe Williams	Jazz singer
Classic Blues Structure	12 bar AAB I IV I V I
Song form structure	AABA 32 bars to a chorus (4 beats per bar)
Ragtime Structure	AABBACCDD(additive structure)
Duple meter	can be "divided" in two" bar structure
coda	concluding section of somg
3 big areas w/improvisation	chords blues song form scales(modes)
ragtime	not improvisation comes from march structure and is forerunner to jazz each letter(strain) 16 bars unlike song form
Jelly Roll Morton's Band	Red Hot Peppers
Sidney Biche	Soprano Sax
Armstrong's Band	Hot 5(7)
Fatz Waller	1st house organ in Jazz
Marie Lou Williams	first jazz musician(piano) to play with a symphony orchestra
Art Tatum	Called Boogie -great improviser
call-and-response	an alternating dialogue between individuals or groups
decrescendo	gradually softer
chord	harmonic unit composed of three to seven pitches, each spaced a third apart from the next one
measure or bar	the regular grouping of beats in a given meter (16 beats adds up to four measures)
syncopation	the accentuation of rhythms that ordinarily go unaccented
pitch	the "highness" or "lowness" of a sound sometimes called a note
swing	the propulsive rhythmic intensity in a jazz performance defined, in part, by accented upbeats and an alternating eighth note
melody	a linear succession of pitches that we hear as a coherent unit
scale	collection of pitches from which musicians draw to create melodies
octave	the interval of an eighth
harmony	simultaneous sounding of two or more pitches
key	central pitch
modulation	process of changing from one key another
mode	minor/major harmonic quality
consonance	state of harmonic rest
dissonance	a state of harmonic tension
tone color or timbre	distiguishing element of instruments
instrumentation	instruments chosen for a given performance
Hebie Jebies	first recording of skat
Paul Whiteman	viola player mixed jazz and clasical together(symphonic jazz)
Gershwin	wrote rhapsody blues
Austen High Gang	began to see Chicago style and less improv
Vickies Spaldecca	coronet player
Cotton Club	segregated club that had a night radio broadcast
Stride	Left hand technique
Willie the Lion Smith	stride player
James P Johnson	"father of stride" "Harlem Strict" wrote head arrangements Swing Carolina Shout and Charleston piano roll
Jimmie Nancy	Most influential person in Boogie
Luxe Louis	boogie
Joe Tourene	shout singer
Latin Jazz	combines harmonic language of bebop and Latin Rhythms
Son music	Mixes African and Spanish Music
Juan Tizol	trombone player from Puerto Rico that wrote Ellinton
Bauza	thought to be the founder of Latin Jazz played clarinet, trumpet, sac and was arranger and composer music director for the Afro-Cubans band wrote "Tanga" first Latin jazz tune
Machito	singer whose group Afro-Cubans were fisrt succesful Latin Jazz Band
rhythmic section of Latin jazz band	Tumbadoras(Congas), Timbales, Maracas, Bongos, Guiro, Claves, cowbells, piano, bass
Modal Jazz	based on one chord seen in Bauza's Tanga
Gillespie	wrote Afro-Cuban piece Manteca w/Pozo fused w/Bauza founder of Bebop
Stan Kenton	band leader that began mixing Jazz w/ Latin music beginning in 1947 His 1966 recording of "Latin Fire" is excellent
Cal Tjader	one of must successful West-Coast Latin Jazz musicians. (Drums, later vibes)
Fusion of Latin Jazz	Cuban Music and New Orl. music and cuban with early ragtime(influenced by Joplin
Alberto Socarras	first Jazz flute solo recorded
Clide	important in Latin Jazz
Chano Pozo	Cuban percussionist and first percussionist to record w/Jazz band
Brass band	included coronet, trombode, tube(not only brass) and also wind(clarinet) and drums and behind was 2nd line of Dance (Mardi Gras) trumpet as tune repetitive structure every beat equal to a flat four
Frontline of Brass Band	primary instrument was the coronet clarinet playing extras(embellishment baseline was the trombone
Buddie Bolden	best known musician in New Orleans coronet player had a string and wind group Replaced by Fred Kepler
Jazz in Chicago	swing larger groups prominence of saxophone interest in trumpet and bango use of susaphone(String base)\ solo improv faster tempo
Ma Rainy	mother of blues
Mamie Smith	first lady of blues(first record made by a African American singer which was Crazy Blues
Bessie Smith	Empress of the blues biggest name in blues recording and movies
First Jazz Record	One Step and Livery Stable Blues
Ervin Mills	music contractor
Buber Miley	Ellington's Growling trumpeter
Tricky Sam Nanton	Trombone player in Ellington's band who used special mutes and used growling technique
Hot Swing	Not typical song form(AABA) Popular with ellington improvisation featuring soloists and head arrangements for listening
Sweet Swing	for dancing and social functions(riffs)
Ellington as a composer	-played with tambors and ranges -wrote for players -extended harmony -non traditional instrument -messed with modes(major and minor) and clashing pitches
Joe King Oliver	coronet player, cornet player, used mutes, Louis Armstrong's mentor, formed theCreole Jazz Band (N.O style)
Lil' Hardin	Creole Jazz Band's pianist; married Armstrong, composer as well
Clarence Williams	soprano sax (N.O style)
Sidney Biche	clarinet and soprano sax...shot somebody
Jelly Roll Morton	piano, singer and dancer(Ragtime style w/blues feel) first player to write tunes on paper "invented jazz"
rhondo form	ABACA
Fletcher Henderson	Big Band Swing/Chicago Style? block voicing(melody on top),use of riffs, contrast of reed and brass divided sections up
Kansas City Swing	good improv -blues structure lots of choruses -riffs
Count Basie	was an Kansas City jazz pianist, organist, bandleader(Kansas City 6), and composer. -comping-doing the minimum -riffs Roso ballroom
Kansas City Six	Count Basie's recording unit
Freddie Green	rhythm guitar(replaced banjo) player
Buc Clayton	trumpet player who wrote out head arrangements for Count Basie.(songform)
Herschel Evans	Tenor saxoponist played old style with Lester Young
Head	tune at the beginning
sweet	INDIVIDUAL collection of tunes with a subject
Shiwasaree	used to describe complex art work
Pentatonic scale	scale with five notes (traditional chinese scale)
diduadoo	involved circular breathing and was a wood instrument
Benny Goodman	clarinet played jazz and classical "king of swing" for a while
Arnie Shaw	new king of jazz and was a clarinet
Krupa	drummer in "China Boys"
Ray noble	piano and successful english band leader
Glen Miller	trombone player in Ray Noble's band. Sweet band leader
Claude Thornhill	Piano Player
Charlie Barnet	tenor sax played a tune written by Ray
I Got rhythym	rhythm "chord" changes from Gershwin's piece
Mississippi Fred McDowell	Soon One Mornin
J.Rushing	Brussels Blues
Billie Holiday	Fine and Mellow
Joe Williams	Goin to Chicago
Ernie Andrews	She's Gotta Go
Joe Williams	Sawmill Blues
Wynonie Harris	Good Rockin' Tonight
Goodman	Body and Soul
Jimmy Rushing	Some of these days
bunk Johnson	Didnt He Ramble
Bessie Smith	Back Water Blues
Oliver	Chimes
Clarence Williams	WIld Cat Blues
Morton	Wolverine Blues
James P Johnson	You've got to be Modernistic
Fats Waller	After You're Gone
Luxe Lewis	Honky Tonk Train
Big Joe Turner	Rebecca
Marie Lou Williams	Roll 'Em
Henderson	Sugar Foot Stomp
Henderson	Hotter than Ell
Jimmy Lunceford	For Dancers Only
Moten	Moten Swing
Basie	Jumpin' at the Woodside
Basie	Corner Pocket April in Paris
Young	D.b. Blues I've Found a New Baby Drum Boogie
Goodman	King Porter Stomp Sing, Sing, Sing Rose Room
Miller	In the mood
Krupa	Drum Boogie
Krupa/Eldridge	After you're Gone
christian	i found a new baby