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Donna Lee. "Donna Lee" is a jazz standard tune attributed to Charlie Parker, although Miles Davis has also claimed authorship. [1][2] Written in A-flat, it is based on the chord changes of the jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana". [1] Beginning with an unusual half-bar rest, "Donna Lee" is a very complex, fast-moving chart with a ...
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz. Author. Geoff Dyer. Publication date. 1991. ISBN. 0-349-11005-0. But Beautiful is a book about jazz and jazz musicians by Geoff Dyer. First published in 1991, it is the first of Dyer's so-called "genre-defying" works.
Milestones (instrumental composition) "Milestones" is a jazz composition written by Miles Davis. It appears on the album of the same name in 1958. It has since become a jazz standard. "Milestones" is the first example of Miles composing in a modal style and experimentation in this piece led to the writing of "So What" from the 1959 album Kind ...
Avant-garde jazz. Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz, experimental jazz, or "new thing") [1][2] is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz. [3] It originated in the early 1950s and developed through to the late 1960s. [4] Originally synonymous with free jazz, much avant-garde jazz ...
He cites various jazz performers for the natural quality of their sound production, sound that makes each performer readily identifiable. A final brief section in this chapter, on improvisation, states that group improvisation, a hallmark of early jazz, is a distinctively African practice. Schuller counters a variety of other theories of the ...
Jazz elements such as improvisation, rhythmic complexities and harmonic textures were introduced to the genre and consequently had a big impact in new listeners and in some ways kept the versatility of jazz relatable to a newer generation that did not necessarily relate to what the traditionalists call real jazz (bebop, cool and modal jazz). [200]
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age" "Echoes of the Jazz Age" is a short essay by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in Scribner's Magazine in November 1931. The essay analyzes the societal conditions in the United States which gave rise to the raucous historical era known as the Jazz Age and the subsequent events which led to the era's abrupt conclusion ...
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo (usually exceeding 200 bpm), complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references ...