Jazz Fundamentals

Greg Polanik CoordinatorCorina Iukovici Co-Coordinator

Academy for Lifelong LearningCape Cod Community College

Spring 2015

Chapter 9Post Bop

There is no such thingas a wrong note

Art Tatum

Post Bop

• 1963 - 1970

• Not really a new ‘Style’

• Combines elements from Hard Bop + Modal + Free Jazz

• Musicians blended these styles

• Transitioned seamless between them

• Amount of each varied with players

1963 - 1969

• Medgar Evers & JFK Assassinated

• Birmingham Church Bombing, 4 girls

• Civil Rights Act, Mississippi murders

• Poll Tax, Freedom Summer, SDS

• Peace Prize for King, British Invasion

• Malcom X, Selma, Watts Riots

• King & RFK Assassinated, Woodstock

Art is self expressionIf you are expressing

someone else's personality,that is not art

Bennie Wallace

Post Bop

• Hard Bop roots, but not as driving

• Tempo & meter more free

• Rhythmic independence of drummer

• Harmony chordal, modal or free

• Forms flexible, structured or free

• Solos harmonic or free

• Music melds previous styles

Important Post Bop Players

• Miles DavisTrumpet, Band Leader

• 1963, George Coleman (tenor sax)

• Second Great Quintet 1964-1968:Wayne Shorter (tenor sax)Herbie Hancock (piano)Ron Carter (bass)Tony Williams (drums)

Well if I could play like Wynton,

I wouldn't play like Wynton

Chet Baker

Post Bop Songs

• Miles Davis

Stella By StarlightAll BluesFootprintsThe SorcererRiot

Important Post Bop Players

• Chick CoreaPiano

• Played with Latin musicians early

• First albums 1966, 1968

• Joined Miles Quintet 1968

• Involved with Fusion, Avant-Garde

• Incorporated Spanish influences

Important Post Bop Players

• Herbie HancockPiano

• First album 1962

• Miles Quintet 1964-1968

• Helped develop the fluid style

• Combines classical & modal harmony

• Fusion and on to long career

Art is whatever makes youproud to be human

LeRoi Jones

Post Bop Songs

• Chick Corea

WindowsSteps / What Was

• Herbie Hancock

Dolphin DanceThe Eye of the Hurricane

Important Post Bop Players

• Eric DolphyAlto Saxophone, Flute, Bass Clarinet

• Bebop roots

• 20th century Classical influence

• Early 60s: Mingus, Coltrane, Nelson

• First albums 1960, 1961

• 1964 Out To Lunch

Important Post Bop Players

• Archie SheppTenor Sax

• Free Jazz roots

• Militant through 60s & 70s

• 1971 began college teaching career

• African-American Studies / Music

• Explored African, blues, spirituals

Post Bop Songs

• Eric Dolphy

Jitterbug WaltzGod Bless The Child Billie

• Archie Shepp

Along Came BettyBlue Train

Coltrane,you can't play everything at once!

Miles Davis

Important Post Bop Players

• John ColtraneTenor Saxophone

• Spirituality, playing is a religious act

• Adds elements of Free Jazz

• Exploratory, towards chromaticism

• Multiphonics, shifting rhythms

• Described as ‘Blowing Snakes’

You just have to playlike you're dying

with the motherf***er

Elvin Joneson playing with Coltrane

Post Bop Songs

• John Coltrane

AlabamaI Want To Talk About You Mr BAcknowledgement - A.L.S. part 1Resolution - A.L.S. part 1Naima

Important Post Bop Players

• Sonny RollinsTenor Saxophone

1962 The Bridge, after sabbaticalThen Latin, Avant-Garde, Standards

• Charles MingusBass, Band Leader, Composer

1963 The Black Saint…, 1964 DolphyDeveloped ALS mid 70s

Hard Bop Songs

• Sonny Rollins

There Will Never Be Another YouFour

• Charles Mingus

So Long EricMeditations on Integration 1:36:10

When people believe in boundaries,they become part of them

Don Cherry