WEST END BLUES 1 28 June 1928
LEARNING OBJECTIVES To be able to give a brief account of the development of jazz to the 1920s To study the background of West End Blues To learn some specific jazz vocabulary
DEFINITIONS PLEASE Head Chorus Polyrhythm Front line Rhythm section Scat Call and response Stride Changes Turnaround Chalumeau range (of clarinet) Comping Satchmo
ORIGINS OF JAZZ Work songs and spirituals Syncopation Polyrhythm Pentatonic melody Africa Jigs and reels Waltzes and dances Hymns Marching Bands Europe Blues Ragtime (piano) Dixieland Trad Jazz
TRAD JAZZ Blues 12-bar blues, 4/4 Banjo + voice Blue notes b 3 b 5 b 7 Ragtime Piano, 2/4 Stride (Schumann!!) Syncopated melody Scott Joplin Dixieland New Orleans Collective improvisation Front line: cornet, clarinet, trombone Rhythm section: cb or tuba, piano or banjo, percussion Joe “King” Oliver Dippermouth Blues 1923 I I IV IV I IV V I I
COMPARISON King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopaters 11 June 1928 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five 28 June 1928 King Oliver and his Dixie Syncopaters 16 January 1929
LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND HIS HOT FIVE Studio only group Preferred solo improvisation to collective Lineup: Armstrong (tpt, voice) Jimmy Strong (cl) Fred Robinson (trb) Earl Hines (pf) Mancy Carr (banjo) Zutty Singleton (dr) What’s missing?
INTERESTING THINGS Recorded on wax cylinder Low frequencies would not be heard well No bass Bock-a-da-bock TRANSCRIPTION
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