Write your short reactions to the following selections. Please react to all 10 songs listed.
Bebop piano player comparison & Emergence of New Styles
Even within a sub-style of jazz such as Bebop, there are stylistic differences among musicians. Listen to these three recordings of three of the most important pianists of the Bebop revolution.
1.Tadd Dameron – Lady Bird (Links to an external site.)Note about the form of this tune: This song has a 16-bar form, and it simply repeats this form throughout the performance. When a composition is written like this and played all the way through without any repeated sections, it is called “through-composed”. So, in musical terms, Lady Bird is a 16-bar through-composed jazz composition, not a popular song-form. In this particular recording, the band plays 8 bars as an introduction before starting the melody.
2.Bud Powell – Somebody Loves Me (Links to an external site.)– AABA form
Timeline: 0 seconds -11 seconds – Intro (8 bars) – note:
12” – A (8 bars)
24” – A (8 bars, repeat of first A)
36” – B (8 bars)
48” – last A (8 bars)
1 minute – improvised solo begins (AABA one complete chorus=32 bars)
1’51” – A begins melody again
2’03” – A
2’16” – improvises on B section (called the “bridge”)
2’29” – A + 4 extra bars to end (“tag”)
3.Thelonious Monk – Blue Monk (Links to an external site.)
This song is a 12-bar blues done in Monk’s unique way
- There is no intro to the tune – they start right at the top of the melody
- They play a short tag at the end to end the tune
- The saxophone player you hear is John Coltrane, whose influence will be noted by all who follow him
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More jazz styles develop – Listening Examples
– Cool Jazz
4.1949 Miles Davis; “Boplicity”, from album Birth of the Cool (Links to an external site.)
5.1956 Chet Baker (trumpet/vocal); “But Not For Me” from the album Chet Baker Sings (Links to an external site.)
6.1959 – Dave Brubeck Quartet (Brubeck on piano; Paul Desmond on alto sax) “Take Five” from the album Time Out. (Links to an external site.)
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Hard Bop style
7. Horace Silver (Horace Silver, Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook) on you tube
from album Pieces of Silver
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8.1963 Cannonball Adderly (alto sax) and Nat Adderly (cornet); “Work Song”, from American network television show Jazz Scene USA (Links to an external site.)
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– Third Stream style
The Stan Kenton recording you heard in Lesson Activity 4.6 (Malaguena), may be considered third stream.
9.1957 Jimmy Guiffre (tenor sax) with the Gunther Schuller Orchestra; “Suspensions” (Links to an external site.)
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10.1960 Miles Davis; “Concierto de Aranjuez” from the album Sketches of Spain. Gil Evans, musical arranger (Links to an external site.)
