UNAS 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Bud Powell, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie
19 Mar 2017
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Lecture 19: how they are phrasing the song, how they are telling the story. Sinatra"s waterto(cid:449)(cid:374: blues feel, late 40s or early 50s. Jazz vocalists: the voice itself is an instrument, a lot of the great vocalists, their voices were patterned after particular types of instruments, sarah vaughn-saxophone. Billy holiday: strange fruit, beauty not only has to be attractive but it opens you up to an understanding about the human condition, ominous, about lynching, brings you to use all your senses (auditory, smell, visual) Blues: sets the condition for rock and roll, early rock and rollers were imbued in rhythm and blues. 1948 ko-ko (not duke ellington: named after another musician, charlie parker and dizzy gillespie. Lecture 19: sounds like a busy bee. Shaw nuff: named after a person, loosely (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) (cid:862)i"(cid:448)e got rhyth(cid:373)(cid:863, both parker and gillespie are playing in unison. Dizzy gillespie a night in tunisia: bud powell on the piano, max roche is on drums, 1951.
