Free Jazz Essay Tips

-correct to say free jazz musicians did not stick with regular meters
-experimented with various types of pulse and rhythm
-Ornette coleman example
- you can hear the pulse, but not the time signature. Intensity of repetition
-hard to say what the time signature is
-Improvisation
-sporadic
-there are still solos, people taking turns
-before in bebop, they kept the harmonic framework
-chords remained the same, dictate the solo notes played
-improvisation now can literally press any note that you think will sound good
-form and Jackson polluck analogy
-Bill Dixon
-played trumpet, but doesnt sound like one
-extended technique
-some guild that didnt work because of explosive personalities
-Anthony Braxton
-solo sax
-free, not abrasive
-American Association of creative musicians
-Chicago
-Great Black Music Ancient to Future
-Attributed white trumpeters as what he looked up to
-*look up which trumpeters*

-Art Ensemble of Chicago

-Large Group

-Little instruments (African drums, little pianos)

-theatrics
-facepaint
-poetry
-example: had bursts of no meter
-Lester Bowie was in this
-Roscoe Mitchel
-cerebral vs. emotional
-intellectual music, but at the same time, its also improve (emotional)
-Sun Ra
-Egyptian
-Tribal
-flutes
-Outlandish things, alternate past and future, born on Saturn
-Planet with no white people
-Albert Ayler
-Tenor Sax
-Miles Davis
-Bitches Brew
-Columbia records thing
-didnt sell well initially
-he didnt do it because Columbia told him to
-he did it because he wanted to make it relevant to what ppl were listening to
-Tony Williams
-John McLaughlin Shakti
-Herbie Hancock Watermelon Man
-weird intro air instrument
-Weather Report Wayne shorter played with miles davis
-The four above all played with Miles Davis

How does fusion trouble to concept of genre and reflect the time in which it was
created
-It was not a hybrid of two forms but exists in between genres
-reflects the listeners at the time
-implies a mix of people listened to fusion
-Wynton Marsalis
-Neoclassical. 80s and 90s
-Lincoln Center Jazz head
-Defines a particular era of jazz as popular jazz
-Blames fusion and pop for ruining the true jazz tradition
-Trained in both jazz and classical
-Very outspoken
-Teamed up with powerful intellectuals
-STARTED jazz at Lincoln center
-Has money behind him, through record deals
-Drama
-Not afraid to criticize ppl like Miles Davis
-Ageist, Sexist, Reverse-racist in recruitment
-Frankenstein monster
-Process of decreasing number of new jazz artists of record labels and just
repackaging and rereleasing old records
-Happens at the same time when Marsalis is accused of hiring only young ppl
-Nora Jones
- Jazz vocalist
- Sold records when in 80s and 90s jazz generally stopped selling
- The Bad Plus
- piano, bass, drum trio
- jazz being commercially successful
- adaptation

- US3 - Ensemble
-Makes you Cringe
-Acid Jazz kind of
-Cover of Herbie Hancocks Cantelope Island
- John Zorns Naked City
-Cover of Ornette Colemans Lonely Woman
-the painting at dept store inspired him
-good at juxtaposing
-Loud and Rock
-post 80s pastiche idea
- DIVA Jazz Orchestra
-All Women orchestra
-exists in response to sexism
- Sexism and Homophobia
- how to improve it
-exposing it would help with half the problem
-you still have to change it
- Brad Mehldau
-radiohead song cover
-jazz musician playing rock/pop
-See The Bad Plus
- Ingrid Laubrock and Mary Halvorson - Omg this is the most distracting piece
-extended technique in saxophone
-multiphonics
-Pulse w/out meter
-Greg Tate question
-Women playing virtuosic jazz music
-Vast majority of black musicians arent playing jazz at all
-Answer^
-Melissa Aldana and Cash trio

-Chilean woman
-Won Thelonious Monk award
-Virtuosic in tenor sax in a traditional manner
-What does it mean for jazz to be played by who? International