MU239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Philly Joe Jones, John Coltrane, African-American Music
11 Nov 2018
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In 1955, davis (clean after quitting heroin) formed the first incarnation of the. The group, while still using the bebop vocabulary, started exploring a more melodic and bluesy style that helped make them of the most popular and influential groups in all of jazz history. One of the first hard bops groups and helped start a new genre. Standard quartet to septet instrumentation (sax, trumpet, piano, bass drums, maybe trombone or guitar) Return to the use of pop culture repertoire to reach a larger audience (songs from hollywood movies, broadway, and r&b hits) Purposeful use of rhythmic ideas and concepts from other more popular styles of. African american music (specifically r&b, soul, gospel, and blues ( in an attempt to compete with those styles and win back a black audience to jazz. One of the inventors of the modern bebop style of drumming.
