... states a melodic phrase-the call-and a group of voices or instruments follows with a responding or completing phrase-the response. -Chord: a group of notes that are played at the same time. -Chord progression: the sequence of chords that underlie a particular melody. -Chorus: the element of the song that ... : is a group of musicians within an ensemble who provide the underlying rhythm and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic reference for the rest of the band. It usually have piano, guitar, bass, drum and heard often in big band era. -Riff: is a short, meiodic idea, usually ...

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... as Ragtime, Swing, Scat and BeBop. A New Orleans barber by the name of Buddy Bolden picked up his cornet and blew the first stammering notes of jazz in the year of eighteen ninety-one. A half-century later, jazz, Americas great contribution to music crossed the threshold of the universities ... , almost all of which have continued to this day. It was and still is sometimes played fast and shallow, with intentionally still rhythms on a piano. William Krell called "The Mississippi Rag" in eighteen ninety-seven published the first true ragtime composition. Tome Turpin was the first African...

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... to move to the northern states. As its popularity spread, the sound diversified, an what was once played with a single acoustic guitar or piano became electrified, played in groups. Once the blues made its way north, artists Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf dominated the Chicago blues scene, ... depot in Tutwiler, Mississippi, in 1903. Handy is the first person to publish a composition with the term "Blues" in the title and utilizing "blue notes, " which are flatted thirds and sevenths. The two famous songs that first brought the genre to the mass public are, "Memphis Blues," published in 1...

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... only influenced how jazz sounded, but also how jazz was played. Ragtime, a syncopated and cheerful form, invoked loose dancing styles from its piano centered music. In contrast, blues conjured emotions connected to the past and brought a more soulful sound to listeners. Despite the differences between ragtime ... "ragged" style and pursued a music career that made him not only popular, but also respected. Unfortunately, his efforts were for naught during his lifetime. Despite becoming known as "the King of Ragtime Writers," Joplin did not see ragtime develop into the ... musician that em...

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... 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 Garner 2contained a rhythm that was looser ... synthesizes the attitude that the Beats held towards the abject lifestyle prescript to black jazz musicians. The Beats, overwhelmingly white, and college-educated, foregoed thei...

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... , the correlation, between the lullaby sung by Zulu women, and the performance of blues singer, Bessie Smith, is striking in its similarity. Also, the African scale, which contains notes flatted on the 3rd, 7th, and sometimes 5th degrees, is directly translated into blues music, which also incorporates slides into its instrumental form. The inception of this particular singing style ... into the mainstream, blues was also being combined with another African influenced genre, ragtime, to create early jazz style in New Orleans. Primarily instrumental, ragtime was commonly performed on pia...

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... split jazz into 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 ... Most bop musicians had an unusual technique. They played long, dazzling phrases with many notes, difficult intervals, unexpected breaks, and unusual turns in melodic direction. On slower tunes, they had a good ear for small changes of harmony. Only really skilled musicians were able to play bebop w...

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... brother was in the army, he let Sonny stayed with his wife and her parents. Where he was going to school, and practicing his piano as well. He was doing just fine till Isabel started getting bad reputation letters from his school. The letters were about Sonny not going ... Sonny wasn't ready to accept it. So they had long conversation about Sonny's career. In the middle of a long conversation on page 94, Sonny's brother notes, "I simply couldn't see why on earth he'd want to spend his time hanging around nightclubs, clowning around on bandstands, while people pushed each other around a ....

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... 1926. John Coltrane was an only child. His father, John was a tailor who played the violin and ukulele, and his mother Alice played piano and sang in the church choir. This was a great environment to foster his love of music. Coltrane soon moved with his family to the town ... very religious and this instilled in him a deep devotion in religion. At the age of twelve Coltrane's received his first instrument a clarinet which he played for hours on end, that same year Coltrane's father died. A year after Coltrane's father died his mother decided to move away to North to Atlantic City ... of...

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... 23, 1926. John Coltrane was an only child. His father, John was a tailor who played the violin and ukulele, and his mother Alice played piano and sang in the church choir. This was a great environment to foster his love of music. Coltrane soon moved with his family to the town ... and this instilled in him a deep devotion in religion. At the age of twelve Coltrane received his first instrument, a clarinet, he played the clarinet for hours on end, that same year Coltrane's father died. A year after Coltrane's father died, his mother decided to move North to Atlantic City to ... off his...

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