Jazz: The Final Day

Bebopper Born in North Carolina (southern Gospel influence) Piano

Unique percussive style

“masterpieces in logic”

Wrote many jazz standards

Hard Bop

Miles Davis

Helped create “Cool” and West Coast Jazz

Created a reaction to his own cool jazz

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (‘50s-’80s!)

“Moanin’”

▪ Mixes early R&B with gospel and jazz

Free jazz “whereas each jazz performance can be seen as a

unique poem, John Coltrane plays novels.”

His rendition of a popular tune from The Sound of Music, “My Favorite Things,” became the first jazz song to get radio play since Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five.”

Another essential album from Coltrane is A Love Supreme in 1964.

Avant-garde if you get so far from the chords

themselves, why even bother to play them?

Why play an established rhythm?

Why not just have all members of a quartet simply listen to each other and improvise.

“Bird would have approved of us.”

▪ Who knows, perhaps this was the next big breakthrough the Bird was working on before he passed away.

Brazilian (Latin) “the new trend, wave, or beat”

Jelly Roll Morton and Diz talked about a “Spanish Tinge”

Utilizes the Latin Samba fused with Jazz traditions

Joao Gilberto and Stan Getz “Desafinado”▪ Means “slightly out of tune”

Jazz Fusion

Uses synthesizers and electronics – totally new to jazz

Bitches Brew

MC Solar and Ron Carter (others)

Jazz Liberatorz “Blue Avenue”▪ or “Mountain Sunrise” feat. Mos Def

Django Reinhardt “Minor Swing”

What can we say, the Europeans (especially French) fell heals over head in love with American jazz.