Jazz Music

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Jazz
- Key Features
  - Syncopated, Swung rhythm
  - Walking bass, a steady base line, made up of notes on the beat
  - Seat singing- singing nonsense notes instead of words
  - 12 bar blues - 12 bar chord pattern
  - Blues scale - A major scale with flattened 3rd 5th and 7th degrees
  - Comping - Accompanying an improvised solo with chords on piano
  - Stabs- Staccato chords played on brass instruments
  - Glisando
  - Instrumental Break
  - Improvisation
- Originated in the Southern States of America
- Famous Musicians
  - Louis Armstrong
  - Duke Ellington
  - Miles Davis
  - Chick Corea
- Performing Jazz
  - For large ensembles Jazz is written out but in most other styles jazz is improvised
  - A Jazz piece is often constructed from a lead sheet
  - The main idea is called the head which is memorised by the performers
  - The jazz band is frequently split into the Frontline ( melody ) and the rhythm section.
    - Rhythm Instruments include Pianos, Bass, Drums and Guitar
    - Frontline instruments include Trumpet, Saxophone and Clarinet
- Structure
  - Everyone plays the head
    - Frontline Instruments take turns at the solos
      - Everyone plays the head to finnish
The jazz band is frequently split into the Frontline ( melody ) and the rhythm section.
- Rhythm Instruments include Pianos, Bass, Drums and Guitar
- Frontline instruments include Trumpet, Saxophone and Clarinet