Listening Session #5 (Tape 2)

Each week, you will engage in a listening session to  become familiar with music from different eras and different jazz genres.

This week, in Part 2 of Tape #2, you will listen to songs 6-10.

Artist Title Instrumentation Notes
Tadd Dameron and Fats Navarro

“Lady Bird”

 

Trumpet, saxophones, piano, bass, drums Spectacular trumpet player and gifted bop composer.
Miles Davis “Boplicity” Trumpet, alto sax, baritone sax, French horn, tuba, piano, bass, drums “Birth of the Cool”  Short solos from Mulligan,  Davis, and Lewis.
Lennie Tristano and Lee Konitz “Sub-conscious Lee” Alto sax, guitar, piano, bass, drums Contrafact for “What Is This Thing Called Love?”
Sarah Vaughan

“All alone”

voice and big band Great pipes!
Thelonious Monk “Criss Cross” alto sax, vibes, piano, bass, drums

thematic composition and

improvisation


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TAPE #2

  1. Benny Goodman Sextet featuring Charlie Christian: I Found a New Baby
  2. Duke Ellington: Cotton Tail
  3. Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: Shaw ‘Nuff
  4. Charlie Parker: Parker’s Mood
  5. Bud Powell Trio: A Night In Tunisia
  6. Tadd Dameron Sextet featuring Fats Navarro: Lady Bird
  7. Miles Davis: Boplicity
  8. Lennie Tristano Quintet featuring Lee Konitz: Subconscious Lee
  9. Sarah Vaughan: All Alone
  10. Thelonious Monk: Criss-Cross
  11. Horace Silver Quintet: Moon Rays
  12. Miles Davis with Gil Evans Orchestra: Summertime
  13. Stan Getz and Gerry Mulligan: That Old Feeling
  14. Charles Mingus Quintet: Haitian Fight Song
  15. Modern Jazz Quartet: Django
  16. Sonny Rollins and Clifford Brown:  Pent-up House