UNAS 1106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Armstrong
1 Mar 2017
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Congo square: where slaves would gather on sundays. Louis armstrong: listening to louis armstrong taught billy holiday how to turn singing into an instrumental type of music. Bessie: first important female jazz singer. Ella fitzgerald: became the queen of scat, gained fame at the apollo theatre, became well known singing a tisket a tasket. 52nd street: where all musicians gathered to play in clubs, popular in the 40s. Bop: originated in harlem, travelled to 52nd street, known as bebop and then rebop, prior to bebop it was a combination or swing, confrontation between jazz and bop. Most musicians regarded bebop as a jazz taken in a new direction: all about chord changes. May be a melody but that melody was hard to hear because it was always about chord changes: solos were thing, speeds were fast. Monk: prolific piano player and composer, minor c 6, harmoniously different than the previous piano composers. Sarah vaughn: was the queen of bebop.
