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In jazz, when one instrumentalist or singer is doing a solo, the other ensemble members play accompaniment parts. While fully written-out accompaniment parts are used in large jazz ensembles, such as big bands, in small groups (e.g., jazz quartet, piano trio, organ trio, etc.), the rhythm section members typically improvise their accompaniment parts, an activity called comping.
Gary Giddins stated that the song "set the music world on its ear" and that it was "part of the funky, back to roots movement that Horace Silver, Mingus, and Ray Charles helped, in different ways, to fan". [5] Jon Hendricks later added lyrics, [5] and the subsequent recording by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross made the song even more popular. [6]
Jazz. Jazz is a trademarked design that is featured on disposable cups. [1] The design was introduced in 1992, and is considered an icon of 1990s culture. Jazz has also become a meme and has gained a cult following. Fans have applied the design to various objects, including automobiles, shirts, and shoes.
"So What" is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E ♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. [1]
"Charleston" rhythm, simple rhythm commonly used in comping. [1] Play example ⓘ. In jazz, comping (an abbreviation of accompaniment; [2] or possibly from the verb, to "complement") is the chords, rhythms, and countermelodies that keyboard players (piano or organ), guitar players, or drummers use to support a musician's improvised solo or melody lines.
In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. This next section is most often the repetition of the previous section or the entire piece or song. [1] The turnaround may lead back to this section either harmonically, as a chord progression, or melodically.
Raposo wrote the lyrics to the song with Jon Stone and Bruce Hart. Stone considered the song "a musical masterpiece and a lyrical embarrassment". [2] Raposo enlisted jazz harmonicist Jean "Toots" Thielemans, as well as a mixed choir of children, to record the opening and closing themes. [3]
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the 1940s.