Cool Jazz and Hard Bop
Lesson 4
The 1950’s – Cool Jazz and something called Hard Bop
Reading: Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, Chapters 10 & 11
Listening:In Music Beyond The Textbook CD-4 and Music Beyond The Textbook CD-5
:
Boplicity, by Miles Davis and his Orchestra
Subconscious Lee, by the Lennie Tristano Quintet
Body and Soul, by Gene Norman’s “Just Jazz” featuring Red Norvo and Stan Getz
Django, by the Modern Jazz Quartet
Pent-Up House, by Sonny Rollins
Blue 7, by the Sonny Rollins Quartet
So What, by the Miles Davis Sextet
In the Our Textbook CD-1 Listening Links for CD-2 that accompanies our textbook Jazz Styles: History and Analysis, listen to:
Señor Blues, by the Horace Silver Quintet featuring Hank Mobley and Donald Byrd
Cranky Spanky, by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers featuring Jackie McClean
No Figs, by the Lennie Tristano Ensemble
Blue Rondo a la Turk, by the Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond
Instructor recommendation: try to obtain recordings by The Max Roach/Clifford Brown Quintet, Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan and Art Farmer, and the Dave
Brubeck Quartet recordings Live at Oberlin, and Time Out.
Objectives:
What is cool jazz? How did it develop? What size of ensemble is used to play this style? What were the instruments used in the famous recording known as The Birth of
the Cool? Who was Gil Evans?
What individual players, and ensembles stand out as major contributors to cool? What is hard bop?
How does hard bop compare and contrast with cool? How does hard bop compare and contrast with be-bop? What is the “East Coast” sound vs. the “West Coast sound?”
Preparation:
Do the required reading and listening.
Of interest are: the unique instrumentation and timbres used by Miles Davis and his Orchestra on Boplicity; the entire recording of Subconscious Lee by the Lennie
Tristano Quintet; the hard bop stylings of Sonny Rollins on Pent-Up House, and Blue 7; and the almost “classical” chamber music sounding example by the Modern Jazz
Quartet. Special note: For me, the finest examples of hard bop are anything you can find by the great drummer Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers such as the album
Mosaic.
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