MUSC-116 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Bix Beiderbecke, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck
23 Mar 2020
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The controversies surrounding bebop in the 1940s led to a profoundly different jazz environment in the 1950s. Cubop: bebop"s take on latin jazz: dizzy gillespie and his orchestra with chapano pozo manteca (1947, similar to the influence of habanera on dixieland jazz (los campanillas, larger bands, more smooth beat and rhythm. Cool jazz: a reaction to bebop, a lot less emotional as opposed to bebop which tends toward emotionality, miles davis (new york) + dave brubeck (california, found their place in clubs like the five spot caf . Located at 5 cooper square in the bowery neighborhood in nyc. Gil evans frequented and lived around, would compose/arrange players. The added percussion: traits of cool jazz. Although very angular, song is still very laid back. Difficulty is derived from more complex harmonic changes. Miles davis" trumpet playing was far more laid back and fuzzy. Louis armstrong : bix beiderbecke ; dizzy gillespie : miles davis.
