Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring Chapter 2 Early Jazz Music Links

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1 Chapter 2 Early Jazz Music Links New Orleans Style Livery Stable Blues The First Jazz Recording No, they did not invent Jazz! Tailgate Ramble Preservation Hall Jazz Band Not New Orleans Style collective improvisation, call & response, look at drum set watch 0:00-2:05; 4:00-end; (other parts have solos - Chicago Style) Examples: Bass Drum High-Hat (0:00-0:45) Snare Drum Small Tom Tom Large Tom Tom Early Snare Pattern Wood Block Pattern Cymbal Buddy Bolden's Blues played by Winton Marsalis, solo: played by Winton Marsalis, with full band, closer to Chicago Style: Wolverine Blues Jelly Roll Morton

2 New Orleans Blues Jelly Roll Morton has Habanera Rhythm, Spanish Tinge Dead Man Blues Jelly Roll Morton and The Red Hot Peppers watch 0:00-0:54; 2:02-end (other parts have solos - Chicago Style) has Two-Beat feel, Chicago Style The Pearls Jelly Roll Morton and The Red Hot Peppers St. Louis Blues Wild Cat Blues with Clarence Williams' Blue Five Wild Man Blues / St. Louis Blues Blue Horizon Tiger Rag their biggest hit, the best selling record to date Darktown Strutters Ball

3 Chicago Style Chimes Blues King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - info Canal St. Blues King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band West End Blues Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five a Jazz classic, a beautiful example of Satchmo's solo style Stardust Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra a later work Heebie Jeebies Scat Singing Louis Armstrong Live - Full Concert second song starts w/ collective improvisation 3:20-4:36, though rhythm section not New Orleans style third song starts 7:38, singing starts 9:30 with scat Singing The Blues Bix Beiderbecke with Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra a much imitated solo by Bix note Frankie Trumbauer (saxophone), Eddie Lang (guitar) - both very influential an early slow ballad that swings source music was a popular song melody not played until after the cornet solo

4 Weather Bird Earl 'Fatha' Hines with the Louis Armstrong band, written for him by Louis Armstrong Classic Blues Reckless Blues Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong Music Theory Example: Natural Minor Scale Examples: Natural Minor Scale Minor Triad Examples: Chord Progression 12 Bar Blues AABA form online keyboard Jazz on the Silver Screen: New Orleans Arthur Lubin - Director 1947 a Hollywood 'history' about the closing of Storyville

5 A Rhapsody In Black And Blue Aubrey Scotto - Director 1932 a short musical fantasy film Satchmo The Great Garry Giddins - Director documentary, here's Part 1 St. Louis Blues Allen Reisner - Director W.C. Handy Biopic Additional Recordings: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans and another full song starts at 2:06 Preservation Hall Jazz Band The Crave and other songs - Jelly Roll Morton Smokehouse Blues Jelly Roll Morton and The Red Hot Peppers Dipper Mouth Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band

6 West End Blues and other songs by Louis Armstrong Chimes Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and related songs Louis Armstrong - Live 1959 Full concert Bix Beiderbecke - collection of songs Shivery Stomp and other songs - Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra I Ain't Got Nobody Earl 'Fatha' Hines Earl Hines Influences Fine and Dandy Album - Earl Hines Bessie Smith