all blues

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GCSE Music (popular music in context) Karteikarten am all blues, erstellt von jenny sclater am 01/05/2017.
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date 1959
background to jazz (3) and the piece (1) modal jazz was a reaction against bebop bebop: fast and virtuosic modal: uncomplicated, improvisations based one modes album recorded with almost no rehearsal and no score
players (6(1)) sextet frontline (instruments that have main melody/prominent solos): - Miles Davis on trumpet - Julian Adderley on alto sax - John Coltrane on tenor sax rhythm section (provide harmonic and rhythmic backing) - Bill Evans on piano - Paul Chambers - Jimmy Cobb
structure (4) 12 bar blues progression repeated 19 times introduction → head → solos → links → coda tenor and alto sax/trumpet have 48 bar solos piano has 24 bar solo
instrumentation (5) frontline and rhythm section snare drum played with brushes at the start trumpet played with a Harmon mute piano plays tremolo at the start of the piece pianist uses comping in the solos
rhythm, metre and tempo 6/4 tempo is jazz waltz swung quavers → classic jazz technique frequent syncopation rhythmic displacement cross rhythms
melody (6) improvised characterised by rising 6ths some chromatic notes blue notes (flattened 3rd, 5th or 7ths) mixolydian mode (white note scales) head: not improvised, mostly moves in step
trumpet solo (melody) (1) mostly made up of short, syncopated motifs
alto sax solo (melody) (2) uses quicker notes and a wider range; more virtuosic than trumpet solo
tenor sax solo (melody) (2) fast scales and quick runs; also very virtuosic
piano solo (melody) (2) calmer improvisation, simple melody that leads into a string of parallel chords
harmony and tonality (4) based on 12-bar blues sequence: G7 G7 G7 G7 Gm7 Gm7 G7 G7 D7 Eb7/D7 F/G F/G6 in g major but with a flattened seventh (f natural) extended chords
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