Who Said It?
“If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn.”
Charlie Parker
This musician created mosaics (collages) as an expression of autobiography.
Louis Armstrong
Improvisation was key to this visual artist’s practice.
Romare Bearden
This musician was the composer for A Love Supreme and had a church built in his name.
John Coltrane
Sun Ra's "Space Is the Place" is an example of this musical and aesthetic movement.
Afrofuturism
“My goal is to live a truly religious life, and express it in my music. My music is a spiritual expression of what I am — my faith, my knowledge, my being.”
John Coltrane
This musician studied Egyptology and applied it to jazz.
Sun Ra
This musician made art to be used to play music.
Wadada Leo Smith
One of the founders of the AACM was named Muhal ________.
Richard Abrams
This piece uses raw emotion of wordless vocals (and drumming by Max Roach) to express protest.
Freedom Now Suite
“If I could have had the chance to make the decision, every man could walk this earth on equal condition, every child could do more than just dream of a star”
Archie Shepp
In class, we learned that this influential male musician was controversial in his treatment of women.
Miles Davis
This musician has had art exhibits of his music scores.
Wadada Leo Smith
This pianist (also a harpist) replaced McCoyTyner in John Coltrane’s group and played a key role in his spiritual development
Alice Coltrane
Many creative musicians didn’t want to be called jazz musicians because:
They felt it was limiting
“Moreover, while moving to create an environment in which the role of "composer" could embrace African-American vernacular musical identities, the articulation of that role challenged any notion of disembodied, autonomous "absolute music.”
George Lewis
This artist was known for staying at the forefront of stylistic innovation, and started his career with Charlie Parker.
Miles Davis
This artist was part of the Harlem Renaissance and call artowrk the improvisatory exploration of options of “divine play.”
Romare Bearden
This artist wrote Fables of Faubus, a protest against segregation in the schools.
Charles Mingus
This Chicago organization had a mission for its members to create original music.
AACM
“To tell stories about one’s life—an indefatigable bent of Armstrong’s—is necessarily to interpret that life, to inquire about what makes it significant.”
Jorge Daniel Veneciano
This musician started with Fletcher Henderson.
Sun Ra
This composer and saxophonist is well-known as a co founder of AACM but many don't know he was also a visual artist.
Roscoe Mitchell
This musician, who wrote “The Shape of Jazz to Come” was one considered one of the most polarizing figures in jazz history.
Ornette Coleman
This group used the slogan: “Great Black Music: Ancient to Future.”
Art Ensemble