MUSC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Jazz Improvisation, Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition And Festival, African Diaspora
23 Oct 2016
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Jazz- improvisation centered music based on musical traditions of the african diaspora and western eurpoe. Musical revivals- any social movement with the goal of restoring and preserving a musical tradition which is believed to be disappearing or completely relegated to the past: goals of music revivals. Improve existing culture through values based on historical value and authenticity, as determined by revivalist: revival ingredients. Wynton marsalis: trumpeter, classical and jazz grammy winner, public face of jazz in 1980s & 90s (did bebop [1930-1950], founder of jlco & essentially ellington. Specializes in performing direct transcriptions of swing-era jazz: direct transcriptions- taking recordings, listening to them, and with pen and paper, transcribing what was played. Stylistically very conservative, focuses on swing and bebop. High school competition for re-creating recording of duke. Free national education program: public figure. People are thinking i"m trying to say jazz is greater than pop music.
