JazzTheAmericanMusic..ppt

Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the US right after the bebop period It began as a movement in the mid-1950s as bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Taylor started Afro-Cuban bands influenced by such Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians as Proponents: Xavier Cugat, Tito Puente and Arturo Sandoval Xavier Cugat(1900 – 1990) “Tico Taco” /watch?v=G8LEnGmnF3o Tito Puente(1923 – 2000) “Oye Como Va” /watch?v=zZQh4IL7unM Brazilian Jazz Brazilian jazz became more popular in the 1960s Brazilian jazz such as bossa nova is derived from samba, with influences from jazz and other 20th century classical and popular music styles Bossa is generally moderately paced, with melodies sung in Portuguese or English. This style was pioneered by Brazilians Joao Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim. The related term jazz-samba describes an adaptation of bossa nova compositions to the jazz idiom by American performers such as Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd. Joao Gilberto(b. 1931) “Desafinado” /watch?v=ZuNEuzMzryA Stan Getz(1927 – 1991) “Bossa Nova Medley” /watch?v=lo1SiVwVqiclist=PL7302F398326C31BB Post Bop Origins and Style Post-bop is a term for a form of small-combo jazz music that evolved in the early-to-mid sixties from earlier bop styles. Generally, the term post-bop is taken to mean jazz from the mid-sixties onward that assimilates influence from hard bop, modal jazz, avant-garde jazz, and free jazz, without necessarily being immediately identifiable as any of the above. By the early seventies, most of the major post-bop artists had moved on to jazz fusion of one form or another. Proponents: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Charles Mingus, Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter(b. 1933) “Fee Fi Fo Fum” /watch?v=hEzAJJfTtBE Herbie Hancock(b. 1940) “Dolphin Dance” from Maiden Voyage /watch?v=iB2Z2DY17yQ Soul Jazz Origins and Style Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which incorporated strong influences from blues, gospel and