Miles Davis
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- Created on: 24-03-14 17:46
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- Miles Davis
- 1959
- Modal Jazz (flattened 7th)
- 6/4
- Jazz waltz
- Frontline instruments
- Trumpet
- Alto sax
- Tenor sax
- Rhythm instruments
- Piano
- Bass
- Drum kit (played with brushes)
- 'Comping' - Accompanying
- 12 Bar Blues x 19
- Intro / Head 1 / Solo / Solo/ Solo / Solo / Head 2 / Outro (coda)
- Intro - 2 riffs played by a double bass, Piano & sax's (rising & falling thirds)
- Head - main melody played by trumpet using a Harmon mute (everybody else also plays)
- Solo 1 = trumpet
- Solo 2 = alto sax
- Solo 3 = tenor sax
- Solo 4 = piano
- Short links in between solos played by piano - texture is thin
- Extended chords (adding 7th, 9th or 11th notes)
- Chord Voicing (playing a chord in a different order)
- Swung rhythms & syncopation
- Mixolydian mode (major scale w/ flattened 7th)
- Freer & longer improvisations
- Saxophones enter with a chordal riff
- 12 Bar Blues: G7/G7/G7/G /Gm7/Gm7/ G7/G7/ D7#9/ Eb7#9/G7/G7
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