Programme 3: Jazz

Programme Outline

00.00 Jazz presenter link
00.50 Courtney Pine ‘The Jazz Step’
· how performance changes at live venues
· influences: dance, drum and bass, jazz, track based on a classic jazz track by Lee Morgan – ‘The Sidewinder’.
· simple riff
· adding reggae bass line
· the guitar riff
02.35 Based on 12 bar blues
· 3 chord progression
· melody based on blues scale,
· constructing melody, answering the phrase, phrase structure, tag
05.00 relationship between the composer and the performers
· translating to group of performers, getting the drums right, translating drum, responding to what the lead plays, interpreting patterns off a drum machine
· bass, more adventurous feel than on recording, also can have solos
· extra percussionist – more groove
07.50 improvisation,
· creating patterns and extensions to and from the blues scale
· different performance every night
09.00 Jazz presenter link - The Jazz Big Band
09.25 Django Bates Armchair March
· first ideas – simple tune – starting point of the journey
· bass line
· adding percussion
11. 30 title - the idea behind Armchair March
12.00 second melody - variation of the first
12.40 commission for German Radio Big Band
· 21 musicians, something challenging and interesting for everyone to play
· imitation and stretto
· beginning or ending? questioning where this section fits in the music
13.35 constructing the beginning from fragments of the tune, interspersed with improvisations
14.52 build up of the introduction - the main tune.
16.10 improvising
· musicians add their own character to the music.
· deviating from the C major scale, turning it blue, jazzy, adding in between notes
· injection of other ideas and material other musicians, a living experience.
18.10 coda - diminuendo, armchairs marching over the hill