Zusammenfassung der Ressource
All Blues
Miles Davis
- INSTRUMENTATION
- Sextet
- Trumpet (Miles Davis)
- Harmon mute for Head
- Alto Sax (Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley)
- Tenor Sax (John Coltrane)
- Piano (Bill Evans)
- Tremolo at start.
Comping accompanying
with chords and short
melodies
- Bass (Paul Chambers)
- played PIZZICATO
- Drums (Jimmy Cobb)
- played with wire brushes at start
- Frontline - main melody instruments
- Rhythm Section - piano, bass,
drums provide harmonic/rhythmic
backing
- METRE
- 6/4
- TEMPO
- Jazz Waltz - each bar sounds like 3/4
- RHYTHMS
- Swing Quavers - each pair of quavers is
played with the first one slightly longer (a
bit like a dotted feel)
- SYNCOPATION
- TEXTURE
- simple
- drum plays steady beat
- wind instruments play in 3rds and 4ths
- simple riffs played by double bass
- DYNAMICS
- mf - moderately loud
- ensemble plays quietly while
the soloist is playing
- STRUCTURE
- 12 bar blues
- one playthrough of the chord
sequence is called a chorus
- 4-bar riff in parallel 3rds separate each section
- Five sections known as a 'Head arrangement'
- Introduction
- 4 bars - rhythm section followed by riff
- Head 1
- Head melody followed by riff, played twice
- Solos
- trumpet/alto sax/tenor sax/piano each followed by riff
- Head 2
- Head melody followed by riff, played twice
- Coda
- muted trumpet solo
- HARMONY/TONALITY
- G major
- 12 bar blues
- Chord sequence is known as changes
- uses flattened 7th (blue notes)
- modal jazz as G major with flattened 7th is mixolydian mode
- chords are ectended bu using 7ths,
augmented 9ths (#9)
- MELODY
- Head melody - simple using rising 6ths
- 4 improvised solos
- Ghost notes - hinted notes but not necessarily played