Johnson Rollography Final 2:4:19.pdf

J. J. is perhaps the most influential trombonist of the 20 th century. Virtually all contemporary tro mbonists -both jazz and classical -are indebted to him for inspiratio n, for taking t he instrument away from cheap type-casting and propelling it to the foreground of musical expression. His exploration into practically every aspect of trombone playing brought about such innovations as:

5 choruses of jazz blues playing, transcribed and analyzed. Blues, bop, riffs, permutations, and pianistic phrases abound. The solo is presented one measure at a time, in-depth. Key of G blues. BE was not know for his blues, but he sure could have been had he kept to this track.

2017

Jazz Education in Research and Practice, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Spring 2021), pp. 76-105 (30 pages), 2021

This study examines the relation between Claude Debussy's harmonic and melodic techniques and those of post-bop jazz pianists through the analysis of selected piano pieces and transcriptions of important recordings that helped establish new aesthetics in jazz during the late fifties and early sixties. Similarities between Debussy's modal techniques and hallmark traits of post-bop jazz harmony are discovered within the contributions that Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and McCoy Tyner made to Miles Davis's and John Coltrane's small groups. The analysis presented in this article is intended to serve as a model on how jazz research can develop into pedagogical tools for jazz educators and performers aspiring to reach new levels of sophistication in their playing.

Ethnomusicology, Vol 64, No. 3, 2020

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An essay detailing the life and works of Francis Johnson, a pioneer African American composer in the antebellum period.

Jazz Perspectives, 2012

Artes. Journal of Musicology

In the early years of the twentieth century, jazz and academic music each followed a distinct path, each exhibiting its own stylistic evolution. Most jazz musicians did not have any formal musical education and those in the academic milieu were, in their turn, neither jazz performers nor jazz composers. With the evolution of the jazz genre and its penetration in the field of the concerto, jazz becomes a credible music and starts enjoying a well-defined and generally accepted value rank in its own right, to the point where classic music performers and composers become open to experimenting fusion with jazz. Piano concertos were initially timid in approaching such fusion and consisted of taking over and stylising some jazz-specific components and integrating them into their own piano concerto language. In the second half of the twentieth century, piano concertos capitalising on this stylistic mix grow more and more natural and elaborate, turning into a field for expression of the most...

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