Jazz Styles
Most popular Jazz Style ever?
Swing
Known for playing the trumpet, and singing with a raspy voice.
Louis Armstrong
High Brass, small...Louis and Dizzy play it
Trumpet
Created his own words, played the sax sideways, looked cool doing it.
Lester Young
The fastest, complex, solo driven
Bebop
This Jazz style is sad, and slow?
Blues
Played with huge cheeks and a bent trumpet bell
Dizzy Gillespie
Charlie Parker, and Lester Young play it
Sax
Played with Miles Davis and practiced for 16 hours a day
John Coltrane
Earliest Jazz Style, only piano
Ragtime
This style was popular in the 1920s and 1930s
Dixieland
Loved Chicken, played the sax, died early
Charlie Parker
You hit it
Drums
Swing composer, played the piano, nicknamed "The Duke"
Duke Ellington
Jazz mixed with music from Brazil
Bossa Nova
Jazz played today...borrows from pop, easy to listen to
Smooth Jazz
Played piano, swing composer, nickname "Count"
Count Basie
Provides the low notes, the only stringed instrument in jazz groups
Bass
Played the piano, came up with Ragtime, on of the earliest Jazz musicians
Scott Joplin
A return to dance music Jazz, slow, and mournful.
Soul
A combination of Rock, Modal jazz, and Cuban rhythms
Fusion
Played the trumpet, made several jazz styles popular, played solos like every note mattered
Miles Davis
Black and white notes, most composers play it.
Piano
Known as the "Mother of the Blues", she sings with a lot of sliding in her technique.
Bessie Smith
Mr. Singleton' and Ms. Sanchez' favorite style of Jazz
Swing