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38 Cards in this Set
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Piano
Born in Toledo Blind "over the rainbow" |
Art Tatem
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Who invented the electric guitar? When? Who popularized it?
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Less Paul, 1930's, Charlie Christian
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played the electric guitar and keyboard
helped create melodic role with guitar popularized the electric guitar |
Charlie Christian
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What are the four characteristics of be-bop?
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not dance music, emphasized the soloist and their improvisations, not played by big bands, played complex harmonies
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what is evolution of be-bop?
what is revolution of be-bop? |
style and creativity of the music
what was going on in society (segregation) |
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who began to take on the role as soloist when be-bop started?
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pianoest and bass players
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contraction for accompanying the way the guitar and piano players play during be-bop
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comping
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what was going on in society during be-bop?
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jobs weren't available so musicians were always on the road and doing jam sessions
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what started be-bop?
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jam sessions
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be-bop was a reaction to what era?
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swing
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greatest jazz alto sax composer of all time
known as bird grew up in kansas city was a drug addict, went to california for a year |
Charlie Parker
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trumpet player
very inspirational sustained hard drugs, lived a long life elder statesman of be-bop |
Dizzie Gillespie
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piano player
beaten up by cops went to france had mental illness |
Bud Powel
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tenor sax player
big heroine addict over comes it |
Dexter Gordon
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Trumpet player
most famous jazz musician kind of blue was his most popular album of all time bitches brew first fusion record |
Miles Davis
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Piano player
most celebrated jazz composer of all time besides duke ellington mild for of autism |
Thelonious Monk
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upright bass player
outspoken "Fabels of Fabus" (about segregation) |
Charles Mingus
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tenor and sapranno sax player
"a love supreme" known as "sheets of sound" |
John Coletrane
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Piano Player
abducted by aliens |
Sun Ra
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what type of jazz was a reaction to be-bop? it discards harmony, melody, and song forms. instrumentation was from africa and asia
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Free Jazz
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Alto Sax player (plastic)
compositions are highly melodic and emotional one of the first to use microtonal music |
Ornette Coleman
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Piano Player
Never performs the same music twice came up with "Unit Structures" |
Cecil Taylor
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Tenor Sax player
from Cleveland committed suicide |
Albert Ayler
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what kind of music moves away from jazz and is geared towards latin music but still had a lot of improvisations and solos are still taken?
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Salsa Music
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what is the kind of music that is a combination of musical styles that come from Puerto Rico, Cuba, and Brazil?
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Latin Music
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what kind of music has a lot to do with a rise on rock and roll music?
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Jazz Fusion
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Medeksi, Martin, and Wood
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piano, drums, bass
rock and rollish jam band highly improvisational |
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Philadelphia
drums-quest love hip hop jazz band "say what" |
the roots
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over the rainbow
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art tatem
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nows the time
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charlie parker
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so what
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miles davis
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acknowledgement
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john coltrane
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ghosts
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albert ayler
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boogie stop shuffle
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charles mingus
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bulbs
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cecil taylor
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giant steps
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john coltrane
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rhythm-a-ning
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thelonious monk
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lonely woman
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ornette coleman
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