Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 Chapter 7 Modal Jazz Music Links Predecessors George Russell (composer) - Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization 1953 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydian_Chromatic_Concept_of_Tonal_Organization http://www.lydianchromaticconcept.com/main.html http://www.lydianchromaticconcept.com/lccoto.html Milestones 1958 Miles Davis Quintet class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k94zDsJ-JMU Miles Davis (trumpet, bandleader) So What 1959 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqU AABA form: A = D Dorian Mode; B = Eb Dorian Mode improvised piano / bass intro bass plays melody, piano plays chords in a rhythmic pattern, then horn come in on chords typical Jazz form: intro, head, solos, head first significant modal composition live version: class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c notice how different the solos are from the original, how bluesy Miles is, how exploratory Coltrane is Flamenco Sketches 1959 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez-Kefu4vvU All Blues 1959 record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-488UORrfJ0 Bill Evans (piano) 1 Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 Peace Piece 1958 on Everybody Digs Bill Evans class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2GgV34qIg Nardis live 1970: starts 3:36, piano solo 8:07 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcMWov0_TAE My Man's Gone Now Village Vanguard class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5rF1rAOY2w Waltz For Debby live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH3GSrCmzC8 Milestones live village vanguard 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqAZNprCtjI Gloria's Step Village Vanguard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knzFrkdV3ok Some Other Time 1958 on Everybody Digs Bill Evans - not modal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV53dWisQBw Epilogue 1958 on Everybody Digs Bill Evans - short https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMhTCMak5s Time Remembered live1971 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VopGbXJ0tc Herbie Hancock (piano) Maiden Voyage record 1965: class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwmRQ0PBtXU live 1986: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSj4oLRbQhg 2 Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 Cantaloupe Island funky modal record 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPVuLS-HXJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B1oIXGX0Io live 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwmRQ0PBtXU Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone) Armageddon 1964 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCepSR4pUMY Witch Hunt 1964 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njo1zvr216s McCoy Tyner (piano) his playing was an integral part of the Coltrane sound John 'Trane' Coltrane (tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone) My Favorite Things 1960 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWG2dsXV5HI McCoy Tyner Steve Davis Elvin Jones became a hit for him two scales, one major, one minor pedal point bass, droning quaility, sounds Indian from that and soprano sax sound of music: class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IagRZBvLtw&list=RD0IagRZBvLtw live video 1961 w/ Eric Dolphy on flute: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3JpqhpkXg live 1965: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kPXw6YaCEY Impressions album: live 1961 impressions, india; studio 1962 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mZ54FJ6h-k live (date?): class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkBx9TG-iTc 3 Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 India 1961 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIgP6-HqKhs later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yIYo0qgBfU Africa Africa / Brass album 1961 orchestrated to used tyner's voicings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI3WwoBOR_s Blues Minor Africa / Brass album 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRHszQqM31k Classic Quartet McCoy Tyner Jimmy Garrison Elvin Jones Elvin Jones matches intensity of Trane & Tyner polyrhythmic different rhythm than the rest of the band, or two rhythms himself Jimmy Garrison agressiveness lifted the whole band Oliver Nelson (alto, tenor & soprano saxophones, composer, arranger) Stolen Moments 1961 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbaGDDbpcQ4 Yearnin' 1961 class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpFQT7rR29k Cascades 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOhMMG9_AKI 4 Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 The Blues and the Abstract Truth 1961 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I777BcgQL9o&list=PLcJnGPHSdzd9HgCBYpZ7TAHQZg4v2Z9r X Additional Recordings: So What and many other miles recordings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqNTltOGh5c&list=RDzqNTltOGh5c#t=99 Kind of Blue NPR Documentary: http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=10862796&m=116962 59 Kind Of Blue / Made In Heaven Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQzNsZAtCo 3 Parts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGQzNsZAtCo&list=PL-O7Lg- GHqUeW0P9HVyOqxfOp6oUK89AY (only no 1 works) The Making of Kind Of Blue: full recording https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKzCurl8RU 5 .