... tune. A four-musician band plays this piece: we can find the following instruments: drums (Adrian Harpham), organ (Reuben Wilson), guitar (Robin Macatangay), and trumpet. For the moment, and even if I already listened to this track several time in the past, I am not able to determine to which era this tune ... is accentuated with the guitarist emphasizing the sound. At the beginning of the 17th measure, the fourth and last instrument finally joins in. The trumpet players (he seems to use a shell because the sounds are quite short and specific) begins to play the given melody, accompanie...

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... making it the biggest selling jazz album in history. Bitches Brew became the first gold record of his extraordinary career. Miles Davis was on the trumpet, Wayne Shorter and Steve Grossman on soprano saxophone, Bennie Maupin on bass clarinet, and John McLaughlin on electric guitar. Dave Holland, Harvey Brooks and ... Jack Johnson was a hero to Miles Davis, and this album stands as his musical homage to the legendary boxer. Miles Davis was on the Trumpet, Billy Cobham on the Drums, Steve Grossman on the Soprano Sax and the Saxophone. Herbie Hancock played the Keyboards, Michael Henderson p...

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... in jazz bands. This accompaniment is often syncopated. The term "comp " is probably derived from a contraction of the wo rd accompany or complement. -Cornet: the trumpet's close cousin, is common in early jazz and sounds like a trumpet but is mellower and more restrained. -Drums: the drum sets is like a piano that the drummer can play a number of instrumental parts simultaneously. But the ... musical sound. -Eighth note: is a musical note played for one eighth the duration of whole note. -Flats: means "lower in pitch"; the flat symbol lowers a note by a half step. -Flugelhorn: trumpet-l...

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... instrumental in the propagation of this new form, such as Charlie "Bird" Parker (alto sax), Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Thelonious Monk (piano), Bud Powell (piano), Miles Davis (trumpet), and Charles Mingus (bass). The standard ensemble became a quintet, consisting of piano, bass, drums, reed instrument, and trumpet. (Erenberg). The distinguishing factors of the bop style were: notes that were more far-reaching, and which ... and third beat of a measure, as in traditional Western music, bop music stresses the second and fourth. The playing pattern usually initiates with the theme, then f...

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... like his father, who was a dentist". For Miles thirteenth birthday, his father bought him his first trumpet. Miles was privileged to come from the family he did, because it meant he was able to have private trumpet lessons. He was trained by a teacher named Elwood Buchanan, before his natural talent and flare for ... improvisation took over. Miles progressed quickly at the trumpet, and played in a band in high school. In 1941, he joined his first professional group as a trumpeter. They were called Eddie Randall ... style of jazz which was in part founded by saxophonist Lester Young. Mile...

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... player. Not to mention that his mother was also a very talented pianist. At the age of 13, Baker makes a significant mark in his musical career by replacing the trombone with a trumpet due to the fact that the trombone being huge. Even though Baker received musical education at Glendale Junior High School, he left school at the age of 16 to join ... composed of several styles that can be classified and discussed under three main perspectives namely, styles related to playing the trumpet, flugelhorn and as well as his vocal styles. His styles in overall includes Cool, West Coast Jazz, Vo...

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... invitation from King Oliver to join his band in Chicago. Louis soon became a great asset to King Olivers' band. King Oliver took Louis and molded him into the next great trumpet player. Louis and Joe complimented each other when they played. Drummer George Wettling said, "He (Oliver) and Louis Armstrong had some breaks they played together that I've never heard played ... satisfied to establish or paraphrase a tunes melody, Armstrong broke away from melody, and improvised original, melody like lines that were compatible with the tunes chord progression. Armstrong command of the trumpet ...

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... achieve more of an orchestral sound. The Big Bands of this era were predominantly wind orchestras containing alto and tenor sax sections, trumpet and trombone sections, along with piano and drums. When Bop music arrived, the alto saxophone and trumpet were the preferred instruments of the major soloists who were backed up by piano, string bass and drums. With the advent of ... ...

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... though Armstrong was young during his early career, he was looked up to by many black people. To them he was a hero not only because he sang and played the trumpet better than anyone else, but more so because he had made it big and for the most part, no one cared what color his skin was. His influence can be ... he was extremely popular over here, he was even more popular in Europe because they weren't as concerned with racism. Up until the 50's he still sang and play the trumpet. On July 6th two days after his birthday he died in his sleep at home in Queens, New York. He was 71 years o...

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... two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940's. The most important musicians who gathered at Minton's where Thelonious Monk, piano, Kenny Clarke, drums, Charlie Christian, guitar, Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet, and the altoist Charlie Parker. This was later to become the real genius of modern jazz, as Louis Armstrong is the genius of traditional jazz. One of these musicians, Charlie ... clarity, and they played melodies that never were meant to be sung. Bop never came as naturally to the voice as it did to Parker's alto saxophone and Dizzy Gillespie's trumpet and then to the other instrum...

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... and the same with modern jazz. A few examples of Progressive Swing are Stan Kenton's "Chorale for Brass, Piano and Bongos" recorded in nineteen forty-seven and "Invention for Guitar and Trumpet" in nineteen fifty-two. Although the Swing style may have launched the art status of jazz by placing it in the ears and minds of the world, it was its ... instrumental-style improvisation vocally. This requires a vocabulary of vowels and consonants related less to particular words and more to the tone and expression of jazz instrumentalists such as in the trumpet-like "Oop-Pop-a-Da" by Babs Gonza...

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... forms of improvisation. His contribution to pieces such as "Dipper Mouth Blues- demonstrate this innovation. Also, the piece is a good example of the jazz use of instruments such as the trumpet, clarinet, and trombone now used for solos rather than merely as supporting pieces of an ensemble or band. Plus, Armstrong's voice became an important solo instrument in his works. Using ... ...

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... and after the engagement was ended, he returned to Kansas City vowing to never be humiliated again. Coltrane kept playing in bands and eventually got his big break with a young trumpet player named Miles Davis. Davis was mentored by Charlie Parker, and like Coltrane, Davis had a unique outlook on jazz music. Davis and Coltrane's collaboration made names for both young musicians ... ...

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... the saloons and into middle-class drawing rooms," but in actuality, "the larger public did not consider ragtime to be on par with 'better music'" (Haskin 39). On the other hand, W.C. Handy popularized "Memphis Blues" and made it a classic. The two artists withstood difficulties in attempting to popularize their music. Ragtime originated through traveling pianists ... ragtime develop into the respected genre that he hoped to see. Even when his compositions became popular, "no music publisher considered the ballet marketable enough to publish" (Haskin 39). It was not until almost six...

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