WVU Music 271 Podcast

This is the podcast for Dr. Chris Wilkinson’s Music 271 class. 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 audience

III: 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 music
C: 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 performers

IV: 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)