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2Reading Rocks Log #8: Jazz Music
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Teacher:________________________
Capitol Hill Cluster School Winter Reading Incentive Program Dec 2014-March 2015
Read to the BEAT of a great book... and read your way from one music genre to the next.
Reading logs in order: #1 Pop Radio #2 Classical #3 World Music #4 Blues #5 Rock and Roll
#6 Motown #7Country & Folk #8 Jazz #9 Hip Hop
Jazz Music Vocabulary
saxophone!!
trombone! !
trumpet!
piano!
drums! double bass!
clarinet!
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be-bop!
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swing! !
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big band! !
cool jazz
pentatonic scale! !
Ragtime!
improvisation!
scat singing
FUN FACTS about Jazz Music
• Jazz music was born in the United States in New Orleans, Louisiana in the early 1900s.
• Jazz was a blending of music traditions - opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues,
church music, ragtime and echoes of traditional African drumming.
• The drum set was invented by a jazz musician!
• Blues - which evolved from hymns, work songs and field hollers - is the foundation of jazz and was
born in the South as an African-American-derived music form that recognized the pain of lost love
and injustice.
• Louis Armstrong was one of the most influential artists in the history of music and perfected the
improvised jazz solo as we know it, where musicians play individual solos.
• Improvisation is the most defining feature of jazz and means creating or making up music as you go
along. Jazz musicians play from printed music and they also improvise solos.
• Swing is the basic rhythm of jazz - it means being in sync with other people and loving it. Swing as a
jazz style first appeared during the Great Depression. By the mid-30s, swing dancing had become
our national dance and big bands were playing this style of music.
• Orchestra leaders such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, Paul Whiteman and
Benny Goodman led some of the greatest bands of this time. Ellington was a pianist, composer and
bandleader and was one of the creators of the big band sound.
• Bebop was a new style of jazz born in the early 40s and represented a new direction to explore -
fast tempos, intricate melodies and complex harmonies.
• Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonius Monk and Charlie Parker together experimented with jazz and came up
with the bebop sound. Dizzy also introduced Latin American rhythms to modern jazz.
• The 1950s saw a jazz that combined African, Spanish and native Latin American cultures. New York
jazz musicians often teamed up with Cuban jazz performers.
• Jazz-rock fusion developed in the late 60s and early 70s and combined jazz improvisation with rock
rhythms. The 80s saw “smooth jazz” become popular and get good air time on the radio.
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