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JAZZ MIDTERM LSU GRIMES
grimes' midterm last section
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Music
Undergraduate 1
03/15/2012

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Robert Johnson
Definition

Guitar

"Hellhounds on my trail"

unmeasured rythm

 

Term

Slam Stewart

 

Definition
Bass player with the ability to bow and hum an octave higher
Term
Dizzy Gillespie
Definition

1st bop trumpeter

huge cheeks "pouches"

salt peanuts

afro cuban

worked with yardbird

Term

Dave Brubeck

 

Definition

Pianist/composer

Blue rondo a la turk

mixed meters

cross rhythm

 

Term
MJQ
Definition

Piano-John Lewis

Vibraphone-Mitt Jackson

Drums-Connie Key

Bass-Perry Heath

tuxes, very elegent guys

Bebop, cool jazz

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Art tatum
Definition

Piano

blind, very fast

Term
Chet Baker
Definition

trumpeteer

cool jazz

counterpoint, horizontal

Term

Gerry Mulligan

 

Definition

SAX

cool jazz

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Lester Young
Definition

Cool sax

Count Basie orchestra

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Count Basie
Definition

Kansas city missouri

bass vs. reeds

riff based composition

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Coleman Hawkins
Definition

Sax player

swing, big band

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Chano Pozo
Definition

drums

worked with dizzy 

latin jazz

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Sidney Bechet
Definition

Sax/clarinet

"blue horizon"

1st important solo

vibrato

Term
Charlie Christian
Definition

guitar

bebop/cool jazz

Term

Bennie Goodman

 

Definition

Jewish

clarinet classical training

1st integrated jazz band

'King of swing'

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Django Reinheart
Definition

two fingers

european

guitar

worked with tatum hawkin slam stewart

Term
 Milt Jackson
Definition
vibraphonist with modern jazz quartet
Term
Charlie "Yardbird" Parker
Definition

heavy drug user

composer/saxophonist

Bebop

 

 

Term

Cootie Williams

 

Definition

trumpet

Duke ellington wrote concerto for cooite

used plunger mute

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