History of Jazz
Part A – Students are reminded to click on the Lesson 5 Essay Questions Dropbox to provide their responses to these questions and submit them for grading.
PART A – History of Jazz – Lesson 5 Essay Questions
35 points each
1. Compare and contrast Coltrane’s approach on up-tempo songs versus ballads. Listen and describe with what you hear in the following two recordings of the classic John Coltrane Quartet:
“Too Young To Go Steady” – The John Coltrane Quartet from the album “Ballads”
Giant Steps – The John Coltrane Quartet
2. Explain the term “sheets of sound”. What song(s) made this technique famous?
3. List the elements of the “Sweeping Sound” or “The Sweep” that evolved in Coltrane’s music in the 60s.
4. John Coltrane’s Quartet contained some of the finest players in Modern Jazz–McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. Click below to listen and view two television performances of this amazing quartet playing one of Coltrane’s songs, “Impressions”. In the first one from 1963, describe the piano playing of the great McCoy Tyner in this recording–what musical contributions does he perform? What musical function is his left hand doing? What musical function is his right hand doing?
Impressions – The John Coltrane Quartet perform “Impressions” on Ralph J. Gleason’s ‘Jazz Casual’ television show from September 15, 1963.
In the second one from 1961, describe the music activity you see and hear. What mood is conveyed in this performance? What impressions to you have of each of these amazing musicians–Elvin Jones on the drums; Jimmy Garrison on the bass, John Coltrane on the tenor saxophone, Eric Dolphy on the alto saxophone, and McCoy Tyner on the piano.
The John Coltrane Quartet (featuring Eric Dolphy) performing “Impressions” at Sudwestfunk TV Studio, Baden-Baden, West Germany on November 24, 1961.
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