The Fifties and New Jazz Substyles

Social & Historical Events

Cold War (Soviet Union)

Korean War

McCarthy Hearings

New Substyles

Hard Bop

Cool Jazz

Counterpoint (polyphonic)

Funky or Soul Jazz

Gospel Jazz

Third-Stream Music

Modal Jazz

Developed from Bebop

Developed from / Reaction against Bebop

Speed

Intensity

Power

Complex Compositions

Slower Tempos

Less Emotion

Rhythm & Blues

Cool Stylists

Overdubbing

LP (Long-Playing Record

Miles Davis

Middle Register

Virtuosic Bravura

Space / rest between phrases

Jazz on the West Coast

Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ)

Third-Stream Music

Dave Brubeck

Stan Getz

Heavy-handed & "Unswinging"

Piano / Composer

Commercially successful

Tenor saxophone

Distinctive tone

Bossa Nova

Brazilian Rhythms

"West Coast Jazz"

Principles of Cool Jazz

Subdued dynamics from drummer

Unusual combinations of instruments

Stan Kenton

Third-Stream Music

European Classical Music Instruments

French Horn, Cello

Compositional Structures

Counterpoint

Three Piano Stylists

George Shearing (Blind)

Locked-Hands

Block-Chord Style

Piano

Erroll Garner

Oscar Peterson

Self-Taught

Did not read music

Vocalists

Back Phrasing

Ella Fitzgerald

Scat Singing

Wore tuxedos

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers

Drummer

Plagal Cadence

Shuffle

Church Cadence

Amen Cadence

Horace Silver (Piano)

Fixed Introductions

Written Shout Choruses

Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet

Clifford Brown (Trumpet)

Max Roach (Drummer)

Sonny Rollins (Tenor Saxophone)

Charles Mingus (Bassist & Composer)

Flawless Technique

Harmon Mute

Modal Jazz