MUSIC 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Black Bottom Stomp, Jelly Roll Morton, Benny Goodman
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Learning the basic elements of swing era big band jazz: written arrangements and improvisation, early big bands of the 1920s, denny goodman, duke ellington, count basie, other swing era jazz innovators and big band vocalists. Some jazz musicians became pop stars: many important big band leaders came out of the chicago jazz scene of the 1920s, benny goodman, tommy and jimmy dorsey, glenn miller. Swing evolved out of new orleans and chicago jazz and new york society bands. Section 1 - focus on call and response between written and improvised parts. Section 2 - focus on solo improvisation with various accompanying instruments: shout chorus: most exciting part of a swing era arrangement, near the end of the arrangement, mix of written and improvisation. Fletcher henderson: established the instrumentation for the modern big bands!!! Set the early standards for jazz arranging: pitted saxes against the brass, developed effective block chord voicings, having a group of instruments playing a chord.
