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objectives
To learn about the style and
features of jazz music
Introduction
Jazz developed in the USA
in the early 1900s, fusing
European harmonies and
African rhythms with other
types of music.
Jazz developed rapidly into
different styles such as
trad, swing, bebop, cool
and Latin.
2012 Rhinegold Education
Structure of a jazz
performance
A typical jazz performance
has this structure:
Whole band plays
the head (the
main tune)
The frontline
instruments
play solos,
while the rhythm
section accompanies
Styles of jazz
Trad
Bebop
Latin
Influenced by
Brazilian and
Cuban rhythms
1920s
1930s
1940s
Swing
Cool
Easy-going and
laid-back: a reaction
against bebop
1950s
19171996
A great jazz
singer
19011971
A famous
jazz
trumpeter
19201955
A virtuosic
jazz saxophonist
Miles Davis
19261991
Another
famous jazz
trumpeter
Written Activity 1:
test your jazz knowledge
a) When and where did jazz start to develop?
b) Name two frontline instruments and two rhythm section instruments.
c) Describe swing rhythm, and name a type of jazz that tends not
to use it.
d) Name a famous jazz vocalist.
e) Name a famous jazz trumpeter.
f) What does improvisation mean?
g) Name a famous jazz tune.
h) What does the term head mean in jazz?
i) What style developed first trad jazz or swing?
Type of jazz
Musical features
Trad
Swing
Famous artists
Scott Joplin
1930s 1940s
Latin
Cool
Bebop
Miles Davis
Mid-1940s
Written Activity 3:
Produce a guide
to jazz for
describing
jazz
someone who has never heard
it before.
Practical Activity 1:
bass line and melody
Practise playing composition
this jazz bass line (or make up your own):
Improvise some melodies over the top of your bass line,
using the blues scale in the key of A:
Practical Activity 2:
experimenting with scat
singing
Listen to an example of
scat singing such as Ella
Fitzgeralds One Note Samba. Then improvise your own
vocal line using syllables such as these:
Doo
Shoo
Ba
Wap
Boo