MUS 135 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Newport Jazz Festival, Modern Jazz Quartet, Dizzy Gillespie
7 Sep 2016
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Avant-garde someone who initiates a paradigm shift or major change, highly innovative. Birth of cool album containing experimental jam sessions not created with the intent of being released, after the public heard a few they became so popular they were released on this album, created and popularized cool jazz. Blue note label in jazz from 1939 to present, known for making artistic album covers. Cabaret card license for jazz musicians in unions, needed to play in ny establishments that served alcohol, could be taken for nearly any reason an officer saw fit, laws passed to hinder what new. Yorkers thought was a growing culture of immorality. Cadenzas means of dissecting a tune harmonically and rhythmically. Clave rhythm used in latin jazz, primarily with a cuban influence. Contemporary record label that helped advance the west coast jazz style. Cool jazz-lyrical melodies, vibrato is less popular, goes back to warmer registers of instruments.
