Jazz

Jazz 1 Jazz Important Notes Musical Device: Lick, Stop-time, Riff, Fill Blues Scales: 1, b3, 4, b5, 5, b7 Role as a Rhythm section: Walking Bass, Comping (Piano) Traditional Jazz (Dixieland) COLLECTIVE IMPROVISATION Instrumentation:Trumpet (main melody), Trombone (improvise bass line), Clarinet (embellishment), Rhythm Section (Piano, Banjo, Bass) Form 12-bar blues Rhythm March-like rhythms Swing BIG BAND ARRANGEMENT Instrumentation5 Saxophones, 4 Trumpets, 5 Trombones, Rhythm Section (Piano, Double Bass, Drumset) Melody • “Head” is the melody that is written down • Use of blues scales • Call and Response in the form of trading fours (2-2 between soloists) • Woodwinds: Melody, Brasses: Punctuate Texture Thick Form 12-bar blues, 32-bar form (AABA) Bebop (HOT) SOLOIST InstrumentationSmaller ensembles - Rhythm section + Soloist Melody • Complex Improvisation • Virtuosic • Contrafact (new melody overlaid on a familiar harmonic structure) • Complex harmonies, use of chromaticism Form 12-bar Blues or 32-Bar form (AABA) Tempo Fast/Up-tempo Cool Jazz (COOL) ARRANGEMENT + “CHILL VIBES” Rhythm Rhythm section + 1/2 Horns - Trumpet with mute (Miles Davis) or Saxophone (Paul Desmond) Melody • Simpler, Sparse, with rests in between • Classical Influence (+ modern) • Forms: 12-bar blues, 32-bar AABA, Other Flexible forms (Eg. Rondo) Tempo Generally Slow