Chapter 8 Listening quiz

KoKo 

• Artist: Charlie Parker

• played: Alto Saxophone

• composer: Charlie Parker

• Form: 64 bar popular song, AABA

• Style: Bebop 

• terms: bebop, comping, octaves, walking bass, tritone, fast tempo

Now’s The Time

• Artist: charlie parker quartet 

• played: Alto Saxophone

• composer: charlie parker

• form: 12 bar blues

• style: bebop

Tempus fugue it 

• Artist: Bud Powell

• played: piano

• composer: Bud Powell

• form: 32 bar ABAA

• Style: Bebop

• Terms: fast tempo, octaves

Salt Peanuts

• Artist: Dizzy Gillespie

• Played: Trumpet 

• Composer: Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clark

• Form: 32 bar AABA

• Style: Bebop

• Terms: hi hat, flatted 5th/tritone, walking bass, dropping bombs 

Don’t Explain

• Artist: Dexter Gordon

• Played: Tenor Saxophone 

• Composer: Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.

• Form: 32 bar AABA

• Style: Ballad

• Terms: grace notes, ghosted 

Kansas City

• Artist: Jay McShann

• Played: Piano and vocalist

• Composer: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

• Form: 12-bar blues

• Style: Swing Jump/Jump Blues 

• Terms: Walking bass