April 6 2015 History of American Music Jazz KIND OF BLUE 1 Recorded August 17 1959 2 Columbia 30t St studio NYC 3 Bill Evans piano 4 Jim Cobb drums 5 Paul Chambers bass 6 John Coltrane sax 7 Cannonball Adderley sax THIRD STREAM named Third Stream in 1957 1 2 By Gunter Schuller very famous for being in the classical realm and having significance in the other areas as well 3 a new genre of music located about halfway between jazz and classical music Notable composers and musicians 4 Gunther Schuller John Lewis piano 5 Jacques Louissier and his Play Bach Trio 6 Teo Macero later produced Miles Davis and Dave Bruebeck MODERN JAZZ QUARTET more classy jazz musicians 1 Established in 1952 by 2 Milt Jackson Vibraphone 3 John Lewis Piano musical director 4 Percy Heath bass 5 Kenny Clarke drums MJQ MODERN JAZZ QUARTET 1 Performed in bebop cool jazz and third stream styles 2 Titles Afternoon in Paris Bags Groove Django represent the new European interest in jazz named for jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET Influence development of bossa nova modal jazz and free jazz 1 Album time out 1959 2 3 Song Take Five from the album Time Out 4 The album cover of this is famous because of it s unique art FREE JAZZ 1 Taking the pieces of jazz and re constructing them 2 Wider ranges of improvisation 3 Discarded common elements of jazz such as fixed chord progressions 4 Pioneers of free jazz ORNETTE COLEMAN sax most people claim him as the founder of free jazz John Coltrane sax represents the spiritual element noted for his work with Miles Davis Cecil Taylor pianist Trained at New England Conservatory brilliant player and intellectual respected by other players but style is way out there 1 Takes jazz that connects them back to the motherland 2 Jazz music normal black music they re named it because the name jazz music had a LESTER BOWIE lot of negative connotations COLEMAN 1 1960 recorded Free Jazz A Collective Improvisation featuring a double quartet 2 album cover art by modern American artist Jackson Pollock 3 1969 inducted the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame 4 2007 album Sound Grammar won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for music 5 2007 received a Grammy Award for life time achievement follow the sound Bonnaroo 2007 CHARLIE MINGUS 1922 1979 1 Wrote book on his autobiography called the double base underdog and how he felt many inequalities huge amount of anger and depression very much a confrontational person part of the difficulty was the presentation of the message Inspirations hard bop Black Gospel music Third Stream Jazz free jazz classical music 2 Jazz bassist composer bandleader and occasional pianist 3 Activist against racial injustice 4 5 He and max roach founded their own record label 6 ALBUM 7 Charlie mingus presents Charlie mingus which remains among his finest 8 FABLES OF FAUBUS a scaling attack on the governor JOHN COLTRANE 192601967 1 He presents sheets of sound meaning he plays almost constantly scads and scads of pitches incredibly exploratory when it comes to the harmony 2 No question whether he can handle his instrument question is whether is instrument can 3 1963 did Alabama response to the bombing in Burmaham 4 Appeared as a sideman on many other albums 5 Album A Love Supreme acknowledgment that he had been given an opportunity to handle him re orient his life 6 He made about fifty recordings as a leader in his twelve year long recording career and appeared as a sideman on many other albums 7 He received a posthumous special citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board in 2007 8 For his masterful improvisation supreme musicianship and iconic centrality to the history of jazz 9 Large influence on later jazz rock A LOVE SUPREME BY JOHN COLTRANE 1 Album A Love Supreme acknowledgment that he had been given an opportunity to re orient his life 2 Recorded Dec 1964 3 Changed lifestyle no drugs etc 1957 4 Expressed huge gratitude to God 5 liner notes includes writing and then performs it as if he is a kind of preacher A LOVE SUPREME 4 PARTS 1 acknowledgment 2 resolution 3 Pursuance 4 Psalms MILES DAVIS 1 Album Bitches Brew 2 Post production element a lot of manipulation done in the studio