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Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker
1,424 words... lly redefined the way to improvise in a song, and it is full of creative and unique musical ideas, also called "licks." Famous people such as the saxophonist Charlie Parker, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and the drummer Max Roach created bebop during the 40 s and the Postwar Decades, which was definitely a big leap for jazz. This style of jazz is less restricted, and improvisation involved longer phrases, more choruses, and more emotions. Modal jazz, also called free jazz, has no rules at a...
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Chord Progression Dizzy Gillespie
2,031 wordsAbstract This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising, looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses, several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn, and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece New Rhumba, showed how Davis was using his technical ability to create an impressive solo, but was also leaning tow...
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Miles Davis Great Britain
2,097 words... he chords throughout this section are actually the same as the opening, being D then C/A, because it would mean that Davis is super-imposing the sub-dominant chord of D over the top, but this issue remains debatable. After this run Davis returns for a few bars to the disjointed style that we saw earlier. Davis returns to using the flattened 13 ths that he used earlier, and also in the run, but he also uses the 11 th extension, and a natural 13 th, which is anticipating the 9 th extension of ...
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Songs On The Album Alto Sax Davis
674 wordsMiles Davis, from his beginnings as a nineteen-year-old kid in 1945 New York City, to his final days in the early 1990? s, is to be considers one of the jazz? s best. The 1996 album entitled, Bluing: Miles Davis Plays the Blues, the engineers at Prestige Records bring Miles Davis back to life. Packed with over 73 minutes and of 12 bar blues, Bluing brings nine great tunes of Davis? together on one disk. Having been originally recorded in the 1950? s, these nine cuts take the listener through a d...
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Avant Garde Dizzy Gillespie
2,137 wordsJazz, John Coltrane John Coltrane Jazz, taking its roots in African American folk music, has evolved, metamorphosed, and transposed itself over the last century to become a truly American art form. More than any other type of music, it places special emphasis on innovative individual interpretation. Instead of relying on a written score, the musician improvises. For each specific period or style through which jazz has gone through over the past seventy years, there is almost always a single pers...
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19 Th Century Types Of Music
2,786 wordsJazz When it comes to music, most people dont say they like it. People say they like heavy metal, pop, rhythm and blues, or any other type of music, since they have their own preference to what type of music they like, not just enjoying the broad area of music. One of those types of music which many enjoy is jazz. Actually right now jazz is really big and popular in Europe, andis rising in its popularity in the USA through its many forms. Jazz does have many forms, so many that some people would...
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Avant Garde John Coltrane
1,482 wordsJohn William Coltrane John Coltrane was one of the major innovators of contemporary jazz and the New Wave, which was a movement of more freedom in improvisation. John William Coltrane, b. Hamlet, N. C. , Sept. 23, 1926, d. July 17, 1967, is considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the past 35 years (only Miles Davis comes close), one of the greatest saxophonists of all time, and a remarkable innovator. Coltrane is a very interesting person because he traversed many styles of play...
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Chord Progression Dizzy Gillespie
4,177 wordsMiles Davis And The Development Of Improvisation Miles Davis And The Development Of Improvisation In Jazz Music Abstract This essay is a discussion of how the way jazz trumpeter Miles Davis changes his way of improvising, looking at two pieces from different times. The solos in the pieces were transcribed by myself and then analysed in detail. From these analyses, several conclusions on the style of improvising were drawn, and then the conclusions from the two pieces were compared. The piece? Ne...
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Charlie Parker Miles Davis
328 wordsMiles Dewey Davis was born on the 26 th of May 1926, in Alton, Illinois. He became famous around the world for his incredible trumpet and flugelhorn playing, but he was also an accomplished keyboard player, and composer. Although born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis lived in East St Louis. He came from a wealthy middle-class background. It isnt surprising to see that a person with the talent of Miles Davis came from a Davis father musical family. His mother played the violin, and his sister play...
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Miles Davis Jazz Musicians
1,716 wordsThe Electric Miles Davis Born in Alton, Illinois, Miles Davis grew up in a middle-class family in East St. Louis. Miles Davis took up the trumpet at the age of 13 and was playing professionally two years later. Some of his first gigs included performances with his high school banana playing with Eddie Randall and the blue Devils. Miles Davis has said that the greatest musical experience of his life was hearing the Billy Eckstine orchestra when it passed through St. Louis. In September 1944 Davis...
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