Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining elements of jazz. Improvisation is composing on the spot, when a singer or instrumentalist invents melodies and lines over a chord progression played by rhythm section instruments (piano, guitar ...
Outside (jazz) In jazz improvisation, outside playing describes approaches where one plays over a scale, mode or chord that is harmonically distant from the given chord. There are several common techniques to playing outside, that include side-stepping or side-slipping, superimposition of Coltrane changes, [1] and polytonality.
Nesuhi Ertegün. " Giant Steps " is a jazz composition by American saxophonist John Coltrane. [1] It was first recorded in 1959 and released on the 1960 album Giant Steps. [2] The composition features a cyclic chord pattern that has come to be known as Coltrane changes. The composition has become a jazz standard, covered by many artists.
Harmolodics is a musical philosophy and method of musical composition and improvisation developed by American jazz saxophonist-composer Ornette Coleman. His work following this philosophy during the late 1970s and 1980s inspired a style of forward-thinking jazz-funk known as harmolodic funk. [ 1] It is associated with avant-garde jazz and free ...
Common jazz parlance refers to upper structures by way of the interval between the root of the bottom chord and the root of the triad juxtaposed above it. [2] For instance, in example one above (C 7 ♯ 9 ) the triad of E ♭ major is a (compound) minor 3rd away from C (root of the bottom chord).
Yahoo! Music. Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September 1961: the fourth of Coleman's six albums for the label. Its title named the then-nascent free jazz movement.
Charlie Banacos (August 11, 1946 – December 8, 2009 [1]) was an American pianist, composer, author and educator, concentrating on jazz . Banacos created over 100 courses of study for improvisation and composition. His concepts of teaching and his courses influenced educators since the late 1950s. He was the original author of courses named ...
Cobra is an unpublished [1] but recorded and frequently performed musical composition by John Zorn. Cobra was conceived as a system with very detailed rules but with no pre-conceived sequence of events (a "game piece") for a group of musical improvisors and a prompter. [2] [3] [4] Zorn completed Cobra on October 9, 1984.