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Lecture 9
Cool Jazz/Hard Bop

I. Introduction

A. Announcements

B. Content of Today’s Class

II. Cool Jazz

A. Context

B. The Music

1. The Cool Jazz Style

The Birth of Cool

2. Musicians

a) Important

(1) Lennie Tristano

(2) Miles Davis

b) Other Musicians

(1) Trumpet

(2) Saxophone

Lee Konitz

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker

(3) Drums

(4) Guitar

(5) Piano

Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond

(6) Trombone

3. Miles Davis

a) Introduction

b) Kind of Blue (1959)

c) 1963-1968

III. Hard Bop

A. Context

B. The Music

1. Hard Bop Style

2. Musicians

a) Piano

Horace Silver

b) Trumpet

Clifford Brown (Brownie)

c) Drums

d) Saxophone

e) Guitar

f) Bass

IV. Reading and Listening

A. Reading (Focus on names seen in class)

1. Cool Jazz

a) Gridley, p. 184, 186-190 (Don’t read ‘Big Bands’); p. 194-204

b) Miles Davis: Gridley, p. 229-233; 236-237; 241-246; 247, 254-256

2. Hard Bop

a) Gridley, p. 205-219

B. Listening (Listen and read carefully)

1. "No Figs", Jazz Classics, Track 46; Gridley, p. 185-186

2. "Flamenco Sketches", Jazz Classics, Track 55, Gridley, p. 238-240

3. "Masqualero", Jazz Classics, Track 78, Gridley, p. 248-254.

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