MUSC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Modal Jazz, Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue
17 Jan 2016
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A british rock band from liverpool, england. Rooted in british folk, blues, and early rock and roll. Later experimented with psychedelic rock and avant-garde music. The first rock starts with international appeal. Thrived using both live performances and commercial studio recordings. Rhythmically and structurally complex, it defies normal popular music structures of verse-chorus, running instead through a series of disparate, seemingly unrelated sections. One of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th c. Experimented with many different genres of jazz including bop, cool, fusion, and hip hop. Listening: so what from kind of blue (1959). In contrast to the fast-tempo jazz of his contemporaries, davis wrote this as. Modal jazz, which consisted of long sections of simply a single chord. So what has only two distinct chords throughout the 32- bar structure. This shows the influence of popular music on jazz going into the. Formed by john mclaughlin, the former guitarist for miles davis.
