Jazz

1
Jazz

• 1920s to 1960s most popular
• American Made
• Swing Style
• Improvisation

2
Jazz

• Ragtime
• 1897 - 1920s
• African American Invention
• Performed on piano usually in bars or saloons
• Big Band
• 1920s - 1940s
• Saxes, Trumpets, Trombones, Piano, Guitar, Bass,
  Drums

3
Jazz

• Dixieland
• 1940s - 1950s
• New Orleans
• clarinet, trumpet, trombone, sousaphone, banjo,
  bass, drums
• Bebop
• 1940s - 1960s
• technically based
• improvisation intensive

4
Jazz

• Latin
• 1950s - 1970s
• non-swing
• ethnic instruments
• Fusion
• 1960s - 1970s
• mix of rock and bebop
• technically challenging
• radical notes and rhythms

5
Jazz

• Pop Jazz
• popular, movie TV music performed in big band
  format
• Smooth Jazz
• solo artists
• simple melodies

6
Jazz

• Ragtime - Scott Joplin
• From Sedalia, Missouri
• Attended Smith College 1896
• Wrote Marches, Waltzes and is considered the
  Father of Ragtime

7
Jazz

• Big Band - Glenn Miller
• Formed a band during high school
• Played trombone, composed and arranged Big Band
  Music
• In 1942 he joined the Army Air Force and was
  commissioned to provide music for the troops

8
Jazz

• Dixieland - Louis Armstrong (aka Satchmo)
• From New Orleans
• Trumpet player and vocalist with a very unique
  voice
• Worked as a performer on a Riverboat, in a pit
  orchestra on Broadway

9
Jazz

• Bebop - Charlie Parker (aka Bird)
• From Kansas City, Kansas
• Started playing Saxophone at 11 and joined high
  school band at 14
• Moved to NY in 1939 to pursue a music career

10
Jazz

• Latin Stan Kenton
• Grew up in California
• Often criticized for his modern approach to big
  band

11
Jazz

• Fusion - Herbie Hancock
• From Chicago
• Studied classical music at an early age
• Considered a child prodigy
• Innovator of modern jazz

12
Jazz

• Pop Maynard Ferguson
• From Verdun, Quebec
• Hired in 1950 by Stan Kenton
• Noted for his screetch trumpet high notes
• Formed his own bands from 1956 on

13
Jazz

• Smooth Jazz
• Kenny Gorelick
• From Seattle, Washington
• Started Saxophone at age 10
• Failed on his first audition for school jazz band
• Guinness Book of World Records for longest note
  on Sax 4547