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The Evolution of Modern Jazz


Shadorne's thread "Outstanding Examples of Musicianship" inspired me to begin this thread. While Shadorne stated that all genre's were welcome, I felt that me and another jazz aficionado were beginning to dominate that thread. Shadorne is a "Rocker", bless his heart. This community functions best when like minded people engage in common dialogue.

The title explains this thread. We will use "youtube" the same as in Shardone's thread to illustrate our examples, and now I begin.

In the beginning, there was Charlie "Bird" Parker, and he said "Let there Be Bop" and thus it began. While walking down the street, Bird ran into John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, who had similar ideas, so they "Bopped" down the street together; Bird on alto sax and Diz on trumpet. My first illustration of this new music is "Bloomdido" with Bird and Diz. We should cover "Be Bop" in depth before we go to the next phase of this evolution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MCGweQ8Oso&NR=1
orpheus10
foster_9
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Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers

Lee Morgan-Wayne Shorter-Art Blakey
orpheus10 OP
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man, this is so fantastic; Lee Morgan is my favorite on trumpet. "Dat Dere" piano player is too tough, and Blakey, Mr. "Thunderdrums" makes it all come alive. This is almost as good as being there.

"Night In Tunisia" by Lee Morgan is a version with Pepper Adams on baritone sax.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOIgcC0lPkU

This is "Here I Am" by Donald Byrd with Pepper Adams, "One bad jam".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBbph3Umo2A
orpheus10 OP
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Foster, the decade from roughly 59 to 69 was equivalent to a hydrogen "jazz" bomb explosion. There was so much "connoisseur" jazz created that I'm still making new discoveries.

Although we're into hard bop, there was another genre on a parallel time track, that is almost forgotten; but not by me. Since we have two genre's in the same time period, we'll have to cover both of those before we go to the next phase.

There is so much music in this period, that we're going to be here for awhile. Rather than even mention the other genre, I'll wait to see how everyone wants to proceed.
qdrone
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Would it be safe to say then that Miles spawned Jazz fusion because of Bitches Brew? He then followed with albums that intergrated these two genres like Agartha,Pangea,Dark Magus,Live Evil,Black Beauty and Live at the Filmore West leaving in his wake a stunned following.
orpheus10 OP
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Qdrone, I don't know the answer to your question, but we can explore your post as a group when we get there. Since fusion came after "hard bop", that will be the next time phase; but we still have another genre to explore in this time frame.
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