Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Koko
- Context
- Washington DC
- Middle class
- Ragtime
- Stride piano
- Recording
- 1940
- Chicago
- RCA Victor
- Multiple microphones
- Ribbon microphones
- 2 - 4 parts
- Structure
- Rough 12 Bar Blues
- Intro, CHx7, Coda
- Instruments
- Valve Trombone, Juan Tizol, CH1
- Trombone Solo, Joe Nanton, CH2
- Trombone Solo, Joe Nanton, CH3
- Piano, Duke Ellington, CH4
- Trumpets in unison, CH5
- Double bass, Jimmy
Blanton, then ENS, CH6
- Full ENS CH7
- Reduced ENS, Coda
- Reduced ENS, Coda
- Alto, Johnny Hodges,
Otto Hardwick
- Clarinet, Barney Bigard
- Tenor, Ben Webster
- Barri, Harry Carney
- Trumpets, Wallace
Jones, Cootie
Williams, Rex Stewart
- Trombones,
Lawrence Brown
- Guitar, Fred Guy
- Drums, Sonny Greer
- Tonality & Harmony
- Eb Minor
- Aeolian
- Bluesy feel with clashing chords
- Avoidance of modulation
- Ye Olde Duke McEllington Effect
- Collective Improv
- Chords arranged for
sections of reeds,
trumpets or trombones-
one to each note
- Unison Melodies or riffs
- Antiphonal
effets, call and
resonse, counter
melodies
- Solo improv
accompanied by
contrasting
sections and
rythm section
Anmerkungen:
- His piano playing is
used very sparingly,
just highlighting the x
motif throughout