StMaryMusic

assignment for wednesday, feb. 7:

SECOND DRAFTS OF PAPERS DUE FRIDAY!!!
FIRST SHORT PAPERS ON COLTRANE (JAN 31 POST BELOW) ARE LATE!!!
VOCAB DUE FRIDAY!!!!

read pp. 17 - 28 in nisenson

vocab: fervent, adulterated, prodigiously, endemic, febrile, incendiary, imbroglio, vortex, eccentric, vistas

NOTE:
this chapter is a bit of a chronicle of the state of jazz in the 1950's. i have posted music by some of the mentioned artists at the website.

sonny rollins with clifford brown: www.hotcuprecords.com/music/house.mp3
sonny rollins with max roach: www.hotcuprecords.com/music/surrey.mp3
thelonius monk: www.hotcuprecrods.com/music/dream.mp3


discussion questions:
compare the playing of miles davis and fats navarro. i have posted both of them playing on the same set of chord changes.
miles playing "half nelson" and fats playing "ladybird" are really the same song with different melodies.
www.hotcuprecords.com/music/halfnelson.mp3
www.hotcuprecords.com/music/ladybird.mp3

how does nisenson's opinion of "hard bop" differ from baraka's? (pp. 19-20 in nisenson, and pp. 216 - 220 in baraka)