JAZZ MUSIC

Characteristics of ragtime, modal, cool, fusion jazz?

Thats a wide range of variety your asking for right there.

Ragtime is a genre that developed in America during the late 1890s and its pretty known for its jumpy pianos. If you want a reference, just think about the jumpy piano tunes that are classic for western movies at taberns. They also used ragtime a lot as musical background for mute movies as well.

A song that really illustrates ragtime is “The entertainer”. You can look it up in youtube or something. Another really famous one is a track from the musical “Jesuschrist Superstar” by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The theme song for Jesus’ enterview with Pilatus’.

Here you can read a lot about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime

Cool Jazz, its a genre that was born in the mid 50s. It was the result the evolution and confluence of Be-Bop.

Modal Jazz my friend is a gigantic term that swirls around Modal theory, which is the use of scales to create different ambiences depending on the color of the scale (saying color its a very general way to describe specific numeric relationships inbetween the notes of the scales). Medieval, scandinavian, tribal, flamenco, etc etc etc etc you name it, if its there is a scale, there is a mode to interpret it. And its result in Jazz music is Modal Jazz.

Fusion: A little bit of this, a little bit of that. This and that are open for every musican to choose.

Modes of Transport

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Alfred 0021956 Jazz Lead Guitar Solos Music Book $31.54 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational’ reference’ pop’ and performance materials for teachers’ students’ professionals’ and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument’ style’ and difficulty level. You know your scales’ understand how to play over a chord progression’ and learned enough music theory to fill an encyclopedia’ but you still aren’t satisfied with your solos. This book teaches jazz guitarists how to apply their knowledge of scales’ chord progressions’ and music theory towards creating great guitar solos. Eight fulllength solos in a variety of styles are studied in detail’ including analysis of chord progressions and the material used to improvise over them’ techniques’ and structural characteristics. Styles range from classic standards and Gypsy jazz to Latin’ modal and smooth jazz. All eight solos are performed on the accompanying CD.

Alfred Publishing 00SB84CD Complete Method for Improvisation for All Instruments Revised Edition Music Book $40.77 This uniquely organized method devotes a thorough chapter to each of the prevailing tunetypes of jazz standard bebop modal blues contemporary ballad and free form listing and discussing their characteristics and illustrating approaches to understanding and performing each type of tune. Includes CD.Contributors: By Jerry CokerGenre: JazzFormat: Book CDCategory: Textbook Jazz

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The Ancestry of Jazz: A Musical Family History $32.25 In 1917, the members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recordings and announced that they had invented this new music. However, since the appearance of Buddy Boldens band in 1897, jazz had regularly been performed in New Orleans dance halls. But did it just appear at that time? Did it descend from the music of jungle drums played in New Orleans Congo Square, or was the backwoods country reel its actual ancestor? Was it invented by Creole dance band musicians, by Buddy Bolden, or by white street players? In The Loudest Trumpet: Buddy Bolden and the Early History of Jazz, Daniel Hardie told the story of Buddy Boldens music, and in Exploring Early Jazz: The Origins and Evolution of the New Orleans Style he described the beginnings of the new music and its development in the thirty years before the first jazz recordings. In The Ancestry of Jazz: A Musical Family History he investigates and describes the musical families introduced to Americas English, French and Spanish colonies and their descendants, to uncover the connections between them, the musical sources from which the characteristics of Early Jazz were derived, and their influence on American popular music. Author: Hardie, Daniel Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 Publication Date: 2004/02/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 inches

Alfred 0017860 Complete Jazz Keyboard Method Mastering Jazz Keyboard Music Book $25.2 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational’ reference’ pop’ and performance materials for teachers’ students’ professionals’ and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument’ style’ and difficulty level. The conclusion to this jazz method starts with a review of concepts from Intermediate Jazz Keyboard and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings’ modal soloing’ substitution’ reharmonization’ modes of the minor scales’ diminished and wholetone scales’ walking bass’ stride piano technique’ nondiatonic progressions and much more. The perfect launching pad for a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music’ this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist’s journey into jazz. The CD includes examples and opportunities to play along.

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Alfred 0017862 Complete Jazz Keyboard Method Mastering Jazz Keyboard Music Book $26.11 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational’ reference’ pop’ and performance materials for teachers’ students’ professionals’ and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument’ style’ and difficulty level. The conclusion to this jazz method starts with a review of concepts from Intermediate Jazz Keyboard and quickly moves on to more advanced concepts of chord voicings’ modal soloing’ substitution’ reharmonization’ modes of the minor scales’ diminished and wholetone scales’ walking bass’ stride piano technique’ nondiatonic progressions and much more. The perfect launching pad for a lifetime of discovery and joy of playing music’ this is an essential vehicle for any keyboardist’s journey into jazz. The CD includes examples and opportunities to play along.

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Chinese Characteristics. $39.07 Title: Chinese Characteristics.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the worlds largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world. Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture, environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry, mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Smith, Arthur Henderson; 1890. ii. 427 ii. p.; 8 . 010057.ee.28. Author: Smith, Arthur Henderson Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Publication Date: 2011/03/14 Language: English Dimensions: 7.44 x 9.69 x 0.91 inches