All About Jazz

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All About Jazz
From Bebop To The Blues
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Bebop

• 1940s
• Later simply called bop
• Smaller groups
• More solos
• Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker
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FuSiOn
(Jazz-Rock)

• 1970s
• Jazz Improvisation Chord progressions
• Rhythms of rock
• More electronic
• Chick Corea, Pat Matheny, Weather Report,
  Chicago, Blood Sweat and Tears, and Herbie
  Hancock (www.hypermusicistoryofjazz)

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Cool Jazz

• 1940s
• Soft, instrumental
• Lagging beat
• Unusual orchestrations
• French Horn, and Tuba
• Miles Davis, Gil Evans, and Frank Rosolino.

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• 1900s
• Stories and Emotions
• African-American
• 12-bar chord progression
• Guitar, piano, harmonica, and drums.
• Robert Johnson, Bessie Smith, B.B. King, and W.C.
  Handy

The Blues
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Ragtime

• 1880s-1900s
• Contributed the development of jazz
• Composed mostly for a piano
• 16 note base syncopated melody
• Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, and Jelly Roll Morton.

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Jazz

• Latin Jazz 1930s
• Free Jazz 1960s
• Electric Jazz 1970s
• Dixie Land Jazz 1917s
• Big Band Boom Jazz 1930s
• New Orleans Jazz 1900s
• Swing Jazz 1930s

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Bibliography

• Jazz. Encyclopedia Britannica Online. CD ROM.
  School ed
• Louis Satchmo Armstrong. http//www.redhotjazz
  .com/louie.html. -07Dec. 2004 ltgt.
• Morgan, Tom. Jazz, the First Thirty Years
  http//www.jass.com/jazzo.html (6 Dec 2004)
• Ronallo, Doug. All about Jazz History of Jazz
  Timeline. httpwww.redhotjazz.com/louie.html (6
  Dec 2004)
• The Red Hot Jazz Archive A History of Jazz
  Before 1930 httpwww.redhotjazz.com (6 Dec
  2004)
• Daniel John Hardinas awesome brain power