Education
Music 271: 4/27/07 (Last Day!)II: “Modern Jazz” or “Bebop”: A: Principal players:• Tenor Sax: Charlie Parker• Trumpet: John Gillespie (Dizzy Gillespie)• Piano: Thelonious Monk• Drums: Max Roach B: Harmonic and melodic inventions and their impact:• Music driven by improvisation, with minimal constraints on the performers (regulated jam sessions)• “Koko” - built upon the chords of a tune by British band leader Ray Nolan (Cherokee)• Standard of Improvisation• Stole a large portion of the Big Band audienceIII: Derivative jazz styles:A: Hard Bop (after 1955): remains the standard style of modern Jazz (Miles Davis, John Coltrane) B: Third Stream (after 1959): Mix of Jazz and Art musicC: Free Jazz (after 1959): led by Ornette Coleman, all elements of jazz should be improvised on the spot (similar to chance music by John Cage). 37-min long free jazz performance by 8 performersIV: Jazz-Rock Fusion (1969 - ):• British Invasion, Beach Boys, Bob Dylan were big on the rock scene• Fusion attempted to marry the two genres• Miles Davis was one of the first to experiment with this (GB: p.86)