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17 Cards in this Set
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Bluenote Records
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40s - Big Record with 1 song on one side
50s - the LP (Long Playing) record... took pride in making very striking record covers - started first, but many followed |
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Rudy Van Gelder
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Recorded in his mom's house; formal education was optometry, but became a record artist
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Ray Charles
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Traveled w/ a big band; began with a very tin pan alley sounds, was influenced by the sanctified church; rooted in Jazz, but moved toward R&B
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Art Blakey (& The Jazz Messengers)
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Like grad school for Jazz musicians... played hard bop and also music of the sanctified church "Soul Jazz"
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Soul Jazz
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Rhythm is huge; predecessor of R&B
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Horace Silver
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Originally Began the Jazz Messengers w/ Art Blakey, became known as a composer & pianist
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Jimmy Smith
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An early "Soul Jazz" Guy
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Wes Montgomery
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Soul Jazz/Hardbop musician
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1940s - 1950s shifts in the pop music
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More electric instruments
Smaller ensembles More vocals |
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Re-emergence of Big Bands
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Count Basie re-emerges with a band, but much more acquainted with written arrangements, played a lot of blues
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Chuck Berry and Elvis
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Popular musicians, both began with the blues
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Joe Williams
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Count Basie's Blues vocalist
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Duke Ellington
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Kept his band on the road, but it got to the point where there were a lot of bad gigs - Turning Point: Newport festival... revitalized his career, got on the cover of time
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Paul Gonsalves
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Had the solo at Newport
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Oscar Peterson
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Piano virtuoso - think of Art Tatum; Canada (Also Maynor Ferguson, who was a trumpet player)
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Verve Record
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Oscar Peterson becomes their go-to pianist;
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Norman Grant
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Jazz Philharmonics; insisted all members stay at same hotel and get paid what classical musicians do; 1st class treatment and audience not segregated
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