It is often experienced as both cause and effect, action and reaction, and it can be used as both hex and counterhex, poison and antidote, pain and relief. Scat singing, 12bar blues format, marks the time when armstrong comes back from new york. This recording was made when the king oliver band was in residence on the south side of chicago, and is an outstanding example of the new orleans style as it was practiced in chicago. Scott joplins the entertainer as played by jimmie arnold on his rainbow ride album by stergios loustas jimmie arnold was one of my favourite banjo players and scott joplin was undoubtedly the most important of the composers who defined the ragtime idiom, which was popularized in the 1890s and 1910s. Improvisation in jazz if you are reading this article, probably you have already asked yourself how to improvise in jazz. Syncopation puts stress on the strong beats in a song. The list starts with general books of the blues essential reading, followed by blues artists in alphabetical order, interjected with blues books on particular themes. A few key differences do exist between these two genres, however, and these were outlined by ortiz walton in 1972 as part of his text, music. West end blues provides an opportunity to get better acquainted with armstrongs solo style. Stride piano was a more complex variation of ragtime. Ragtime dixieland dance band big band quartets free stuff whats new charts store dixieland charts king oliver dixieland dippermouth blues dippermouth blues sku. At this point in our study of the blues, now its time to introduce the blues scale. With greater speed than ragtime piano, stride combines lefthand accompaniment of altering bass notes and chords with tugging right hand that seems to pull at the lefthand rhythm to impart swing.
If you would like to learn how to play this blues solo, you are welcome to check out a video. Essay on ragtime and blues influence on jazz 77 words. Musically traces out the whole great migration and how musicians were traveling back and forth from one city to another. Jan 10, 2014 in both louis armstrongs 1938 recreation of king olivers 1923 dippermouth blues solo, and ella fitzgeralds 1945 recreation of illinois jacquets 1942 flying home solo, we can see one jazz masters deep admiration for anothers achievement expressed through a deeply imaginative revision of the earlier solo. Out on the plains, down near santa fe i met a cowboy ridin the range one day and as he jogged along. May 06, 2014 dippermouth blues by le dancing pepa swing band, released 06 may 2014. Check out dippermouth blues by various artists on amazon music. The blues takes many forms it is variously a feeling, a mood, a nameless threat, a person, a lover, a boss man, a mob, and, of course, the devil himself. All musicians who are hooked on pentatonic scale fear jazz, because this style has many harmonic variations, far from the tonal songs that the virtuous pentamusician are used to. More info about the book not to be confused with a book of the same title by m mann, improvising blues piano was written for the intermediate pianist and contains over 60 pieces including wellknown standards such as aint no sunshine, bags groove, blue monk, got my mojo workin, honky tonk train blues, how long blues, pine tops boogie woogie, st louis blues. Lets summarize what you can use in the chords of blues first, fourth and fifth degrees, all of them nonaltered dominants. Melodically, it is a good idea to check out the blues scale as a basis for improvisation.
This is partly because dippermouth, in the songs title, was. Although there are other formal paradigms of the blues, such as 8bar or 16bar, this course focuses on different incarnations of the 12bar blues. Unavailable per item here is a transcription of king olivers creole jazz band ca. Study 307 music 2040 study guide 2010 11 schiller flashcards from studyblue on studyblue. The history and development of jazz unit 1 flashcards.
This book presents three of the greatest ragtime blues guitar players from the 1920s1940s. The blues is an american art form and the most important musical form in jazz. Early jazz or dixieland developed in the early 20th century 1900 1928 1. Essay on ragtime and blues influence on jazz 77 words 6 pages ara cho ethno 50a 803672412 october 14, 2011 seeing ragtime and blues as parents of jazz jazz is a music genre that has complex characteristics and history of development and thus many musicians and scholars face troubles in defining what jazz is. Instead were gonna offer some practical advice and tips to help you focus on some essential blues piano improvisation practice. Dippermouth blues by jazz trumpet and jazz standards muggsy spaniers ragtime band on amazon music. King oliver s piece dippermouth blues, in particular, exhibits the characteristic collective improvisation that defines the new orleans style.
Print and download in pdf or midi dippermouth blues. Dippermouth blues sheet music for piano, clarinet, guitar. Today were covering what many would consider the second most basic lesson, and an excellent practice sandbox before you move on to more complicated techniques the 12 bar blues and blues scale combo. It is most often attributed to joe king oliver, though some have argued that louis armstrong was in fact the composer. Instrumentation the usual instrumentation of a dixieland band was and still is trumpet or cornet, clarinet, trombone, piano, string bass or tuba, drums, and banjo. Improvisation introduced a different concept of musician. The red hot peppers were the band of jelly roll morton. If you are a beginner in the subject and by accident you fell in this topic, read the basic topic about blues before anything well, if it is not the case, and you have been following the website, so you have learned that the dominant chord v7 allows us to use many interesting resources in improvisation. Improvising blues piano by tim richards book with cd. Worlds largest sheet music selection search advanced search. For many students, when starting out with blues improvisation, its very easy to get locked inside the notes of the blues scale and never deviate away from 6 tones. It also provides an essential foundation for learning to improvise in other styles such as popular music and jazz.
While i have added youtube links for some of the examples in this post, a number of the most crucial examples are not available there. Blues derived from and was largely played by southern black. Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts. They favored firstposition chords but produced incredible textures and rhythms from these easy lefthand fingerings. The gradual development from pure negro music to the type that became popularly known as ragtime can be traced in a line from the influence and diffusion of african styles and techniques to american negro style, to a diffused negroamerican style. After studying many subjects, here we are coming back to the world of blues.
The history and development of jazz unit 1 flashcards quizlet. Jul 05, 2007 this is some piano improvisation that i did for those of you who like the blues. In both louis armstrongs 1938 recreation of king olivers 1923 dippermouth blues solo, and ella fitzgeralds 1945 recreation of illinois jacquets 1942 flying home solo, we can see one jazz masters deep admiration for anothers achievement expressed through a deeply imaginative revision of the earlier solo. This is some piano improvisation that i did for those of you who like the blues. After a four bar introduction, this piece is in 12bar blues form. So, if the musical piece starts in the a chord, next chords will be fourth d and fifth e chords. You can hear the collective improvisation as well as the bluesy solo style of oliver. And for g as the starting chord, the following chords would be c and d. Dippermouth blues music decathlon by prezi user on prezi. Finally the actual song dippermouth blues 1923 joe king oliver dippermouth blues has fusion of new orleans and chicago chicago effect cleanly executed introduction stoptime choruses short staccato chord on downbeat jonny dodds plays the rest of the measure by himself. Dippermouth blues by king oliver song 8 flashcards. Oxford university press usa publishes scholarly works in all academic disciplines, bibles, music, childrens books, business books, dictionaries, reference books, journals, text books and more. Once students have their chords and strum pattern figured out, they will record their 12 bar blues pattern. Unlike a normal major or minor scale, the basic version of this focuses on just 6 notes of the scale, taking the key of the song and using the minor pentatonic 1flat 345flat 7, then adding the diminished 5th into the mix.
King as a standard example of how to write the blues. The harmony of blues music mainly focuses on the first, fourth and fifth chords of a combination. A pianist starting this book should have an elementary musicreading proficiency level 2 to 3 in a method series. With the advent of bop, improvisation assumed great importance. Melodic minor scale one fifth above diminished scale one semitone above dominant diminished scale whole tone scale. More info about the book not to be confused with a book of the same title by m mann, improvising blues piano was written for the intermediate pianist and contains over 60 pieces including wellknown standards such as aint no sunshine, bags groove, blue monk, got my mojo workin, honky tonk train blues, how long blues, pine tops boogie woogie, st louis blues, etc along with pieces by the. Dippermouth blues by various artists on amazon music. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. All musicians who are hooked on pentatonic scale fear jazz, because this style has many harmonic variations, far from the tonal.
Blues piano improvisation advice and tips play blues. When all students are finished, they will then write their own blues lyrics to accompany their 12 bar blues. Start studying the history and development of jazz unit 1. Dippermouth blues out on the plains, down near santa fe i met a cowboy ridin the range one day and as he jogged along, i heard him singin a most peculiar cowboy song it was a ditty, he learned in the city comma ti yi yi yeah, comma ti yippity yi yeah now get along, get hip, little dogies. Louis armstrong was the first great jazz solo improviser, and he has one of the most distinctive solo styles. Early jazz was improvised, using ragtime and blues as a loose structure. Dippermouth blues today is the birthday of the great jazz pioneer joe king oliver 18811938, a cornet player and trumpeter often considered a sort of link in the chain between the legendary buddy bolden and louis armstrong. A while back we took a look at the most basic lesson in guitar improvisation. Dippermouth blues is a song first recorded by king olivers creole jazz band for gennett records in april 1923 and for okeh records in june of that same year. It developed during the late nineteenth century in buenos aires, argentina c. Two of the elements that define jazz are improvisation and actualization. Because of improvisation, blues and jazz music were emphasizing the persona of the player to a degree unheard of among opera singers or classical violinists. Ragtime and blues are fundamentally different in some ways, but they do have elements in common, syncopation in particular. Blind john boone euday bowman brun campbell les copeland w.
Check out dippermouth blues by jazz trumpet and jazz standards muggsy spaniers ragtime band on amazon music. It was influenced by work songs and field hollers, minstrel show music, ragtime, church music, and the folk and popular music of the white population. Trying to pin down the key differences between ragtime and jazz music can be a confusing process. Improvising blues piano covers all styles from the 1920s to the present, from the early boogie pioneers via swing, gospel, jumpjive, new orleans, chicago and kansas city schools, to the more sophisticated jazz and funky blues of the current scene. This is exactly similar to the standard relative chord combinations. Lead sheet black and blue lead sheet blueberry hills lead sheet blues my naughty sweetie gives to me lead sheet blues my naughty sweetie gives to me piccolo, flute, clarinet, 2 alto saxs, 2 tenor saxs, baryton sax, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, piano, banjo, bass, drums. Free sheet music for piano, guitar, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, tuba, percussion. Improvisation is a major part of blues music, regardless of instrument. Each could sing the blues or play a dance instrumental. Dippermouth blues by jazz trumpet and jazz standards muggsy. In jazz, improvisation is often used when players take solos. Dippermouth blues by jazz trumpet and jazz standards.
The musician of written music is, mainly, the composer, whereas the musician of improvised music is, mainly, the player. Dippermouth blues by le dancing pepa swing band, released 06 may 2014. There are considerable differences between early jazz blues, swing blues, bebop blues, modal blues, and post bop blues. Improvising blues piano the basic principles of blues.
One simple form and yet the blues is played in jazz, rock, pop, country, and, well the blues. Improvisation is composing on the spot, when a singer or instrumentalist invents melodies and lines over a chord progression played by rhythm section instruments piano, guitar, double bass and accompanied by drums. There are many fine books on the blues, so i thought i would share with you my recommendations. The usual instrumentation of a dixieland band was and still is trumpet or cornet, clarinet, trombone, piano, string bass or tuba, drums, and banjo or guitar. Blues developed in the southern united states after the american civil war 186165. Dixieland developed in the early 20th century 1900 1928. Unavailable per item here is a transcription of king oliver. In many cases, musicians tend to view improvisation as. In many cases, musicians tend to view improvisation as a very difficult aspect of playing this style of music.
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