Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 Chapter 2 Early Jazz Music Links New Orleans Style Livery Stable Blues Original Dixieland Jass Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WojNaU4-kI The First Jazz Recording No, they did not invent Jazz! Tailgate Ramble Preservation Hall Jazz Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7M8ZkQma3I 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g-1Gpwx9EE played by Winton Marsalis, with full band, closer to Chicago Style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jirqq-c7E0 Wolverine Blues Jelly Roll Morton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1XtZntLFxs { PAGE } Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 New Orleans Blues Jelly Roll Morton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CtyQXFtu2U has Habanera Rhythm, Spanish Tinge Dead Man Blues Jelly Roll Morton and The Red Hot Peppers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXbJSzj27JA 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuNxOjFX8oI St. Louis Blues Sidney Bechet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I8i2OGnXgg Wild Cat Blues Sidney Bechet with Clarence Williams' Blue Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEWQLSAtOKM Wild Man Blues / St. Louis Blues Sidney Bechet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_SXyK2sKK8 Blue Horizon Sidney Bechet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNgYTkcPCZw Tiger Rag Original Dixieland Jass Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz0fk3G7upQ their biggest hit, the best selling record to date Darktown Strutters Ball Original Dixieland Jass Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMHJ8PgVatk { PAGE } Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 Chicago Style Chimes Blues King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng0XUYN8YI8 King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band - info http://www.redhotjazz.com/kingocjb.html Canal St. Blues King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXXmuX5t1ns West End Blues Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W232OsTAMo8 a Jazz classic, a beautiful example of Satchmo's solo style Stardust Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r94-7nJt-WM a later work Heebie Jeebies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmGt2U-xTE Scat Singing Louis Armstrong Live - Full Concert 1959 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h-gobVAnr8 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ue9igC7flI 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 { PAGE } Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 Weather Bird Earl 'Fatha' Hines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyb_wr40pog with the Louis Armstrong band, written for him by Louis Armstrong Classic Blues Reckless Blues Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNfgW5cIWT8 St. Louis Blues Bessie Smith with Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNWs0LsimFs Music Theory Example: Natural Minor Scale Examples: Natural Minor Scale Minor Triad Examples: Chord Progression 12 Bar Blues AABA form online keyboard http://method-behind-the-music.com/piano/ Jazz on the Silver Screen: New Orleans Arthur Lubin - Director 1947 a Hollywood 'history' about the closing of Storyville https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5NZ_AbXC8U { PAGE } Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 A Rhapsody In Black And Blue Aubrey Scotto - Director 1932 a short musical fantasy film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUcQESVYlec Satchmo The Great Garry Giddins - Director documentary, here's Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCUNR3hPY4Y St. Louis Blues Allen Reisner - Director W.C. Handy Biopic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyHcsT8dark Additional Recordings: Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans and another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG7aoz0Rpdc full song starts at 2:06 Preservation Hall Jazz Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWB4UiRopLE https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAB5943F15D1DBF35 The Crave and other songs - Jelly Roll Morton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGjDbKauVo&list=RDMkGjDbKauVo Smokehouse Blues 1926 - Jelly Roll Morton and The Red Hot Peppers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm0PUdtigsA Original Dixieland Jass Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WojNaU4-kI&list=RDwEWQLSAtOKM&index=2 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1ED9249FFBB6C7E4 Sidney Bechet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzG3vllEwyg&list=RDXzG3vllEwyg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEWQLSAtOKM&list=RDwEWQLSAtOKM Dipper Mouth Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1923 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEF9QeHxrYw { PAGE } Jazz Fundamentals Academy for Lifelong Learning Cape Cod Community College Greg Polanik Spring 2015 West End Blues and other songs by Louis Armstrong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5Hbh_-IRs8&list=RDf5Hbh_-IRs8 Chimes Blues - King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and related songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpxXFg1_H7g&list=RDlpxXFg1_H7g Louis Armstrong - Live 1959 Full concert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h-gobVAnr8 Bix Beiderbecke - collection of songs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyvH6wf4ghw&list=PLD4C04E3985D6DF90 Shivery Stomp and other songs - Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-JZrewoQI&list=RDwf-JZrewoQI#t=1 I Ain't Got Nobody Earl 'Fatha' Hines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J35iH-ge-o0 Earl Hines Influences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyXtW700vQ8 Fine and Dandy Album - Earl Hines 1949 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-M_XF3uGbs Bessie Smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=592aU2u53ME&list=PL9F194574E9524C0D { PAGE } .