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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hard Bop"”.
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Freedom Now!: Four Hard Bop and Avant-Garde Jazz Musicians' Musical Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement, 1958-1964.
<p>In this study, I examined musical recordings from the jazz idiom that relate to events or ideas involved in the Civil Rights Movement during the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s. The study focused on the four following musicians' recordings: Charles Mingus, <em>Fables of Faubus</em>; Sonny …
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Miles Davis: The Road to Modal Jazz
… and definitive changes: the change from hard bop to modal jazz. This shift, although gradual, is best represented by and culminates in Kind of Blue, the first Davis album based on modal style, marking a clear break from hard bop. This thesis explores the motivations and reasons behind the …
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Graduate Recital, Trumpet
… it for the Messengers. Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's composition "Oh By The Way" became a staple of the group's repertoire. I composed "The Jester" and "Das Dat" in the hard bop style of the Jazz Messengers.
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An analysis of selected improvisations by Andrew Hill and the development of progressive jazz piano, 1959-2005
… in mood, developed out of the conventions of hard bop. By the time Hill led his second recording session in 1963 (his first for Blue Note), his playing had developed more fully with the incorporation of a freer approach to melody, harmony and rhythm. His compositions often maintain form and …
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Sidewinder syndrome : improvisational vocabulary and construction of Richard "Blue" Mitchell and Lee Morgan
… The funky style, rooted in the heart of the hard bop period (1955-1965), united jazz, Latin influences, and popular black traditions such as gospel and urban blues. Lee Morgan (1938-1973), composer of "Sidewinder," and Richard "Blue" Mitchell (1930-1979) were two prolific trumpet artists from …