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Year 9 Music All That Jazz
Formative Listening Task
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Track Name
Maple Leaf
Rag
Listen to the musical excerpts played by your teacher. Each track is from a different
decade from the Jazz Era (1920s – 1970’s). Can you identify which decade each track
was recorded in?
For each track, try and identify what style of jazz you think it is, and as many of the
musical features of the piece as possible.
Date
Musical Features (and artist, if you know who it is)
Piano solo, It is very upbeat, The musical form of this piece is called rag
time,
Composer is Scott Joplin and was made in 1899
It is in four four time and has one flat in the key signature
Some of
These Days
The composer is Sophie Tucker and was published in 1910
It is performed by a band, which has the instruments- Piano, trombone
bass and normal, some percussion and a clarinet
It is very upbeat and light
Sing Sing Sing
Composer is Luis Prima and was made in 1936
The type of Jazz that it is Swing or big band
Instruments- Trumpets, drums, trombone, clarinet, Saxophones and
tenor saxophones, piano, guitar, bass
The Groove
Merchant
Composers are Thad Jones and Mel Luis and was made in 1968
Instruments- Piano, Drums, Saxophones, Trumpets, Trombones, Clarinet,
Double Bass,
Most instruments get a solo throughout the piece
The type of Jazz maybe swing
Ornithology
Created by Charlie Parker in 1946
The Instruments in are, Saxophone, Trumpets, Drums, Piano, Double Bass
I think that the type of Jazz is swing
Giant Steps
The artist is John Colrane, and was published in 1960
The type of Jazz is Hard Bop
The instrumentation in this piece is, Saxophone, Piano, Drums
It has a big Saxophone solo
Miles Davis
Live
Composer is Miles Davis at a live performance
Instruments, Guitar, Saxophone, Drums, Percussion, Clarinet, Piano or
Keyboard, Trumpets, Bongos.
The Music is really Distorted and is a different genera of Jazz
Research Task – “Jazz Boffin”
No doubt you’d enjoy investigating the jazz era a little more. Focusing, if possible, on your
instrument or voice, try and identify four recordings from different jazz styles.
Track Name /
Artist
That Old
Feeling by
Lew Brown
and Sammy
Fain
Date
Musical Features
1
9
6
0
It is called Mainstream Jazz
The Little bit that I listened to it, it only had and cello and double bass
The Cello was plucking instead of bowing
There were a lot of flattened notes in the cello part
It goes at a rather steady tempo
The cellist only plays on the lower strings
Alice Blue
Gown by Ray
Brown’s
ensemble
1
9
6
0
The cello has one of the main features
It’s not really the typical jazz song the you would be used to
It doesn’t have the brass instrumental solos. It is kind of based around
the cello solo
It doesn’t go at a very fast tempo.
It gives the cello ample amount of time to make full sound out of the
notes that he is plucking
To get the fullness of the notes, the cellist is only playing on the lower
strings
The interesting use of the vibrato in his solos. It is a quick but distorted
vibrato
Almost like
being in love
Ray Brown
1
9
6
0
In most of his pieces it is a slow tempo. Not the regular type of Jazz
tempo
The composer has done this so the cello can get its full potential
The double bass and cello often play together and play crochets through
the piece
The brass instruments don’t play a lot or loudly when the cello is on
This song has the band revolving mostly around the cello and whenever
the cello plays the rest of the band either don’t play or they play really
softly
But Beautiful
By Ray Brown
1
9
6
0
Another Jazz Cello song
This song is soft not like most Jazz songs
It is not upbeat, unlike most Jazz music
The instruments in this piece are- Cello, Double Bass, Drums, Clarinet and
a trumpet
The Cello is played on the “D” string most of the time
The “D” string is the main string which is used in this piece and all of Ray
Brown’s pieces. He has done this because it