Take Five - Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck
Basic Facts
● Composer - Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck
● Year - 1959
● Style - Cool Jazz
Characteristics of Cool Jazz
● Reaction to bebop
● Relaxed tempo
● Light tone
● Has elements of classical music
● Little vibrato
● Instrumentation - cello, flute, french horn
● Improvisation - makes use of formal arrangements
Cool Jazz Terminology
● Ostinato - short melodic/rhythmic idea that is repeated
● Vamp - repeated chord progression
● Anacrusis - an upbeat; incomplete bar
● Groove - vamp with a riff
Examples of Cool Jazz Artist
● Paul Desmond
● Dave Brubeck
● Miles Davis
● Gil Evans
Musical Analysis
● Form - head (ABA); song (theme solo theme)
● Key - E flat minor
● Tonality - main theme, minor; second theme, major (C flat maj 7)
● Instrumentation - alto sax, double bass, piano, drums
● Ostinato - introduction played by piano, bass and drums
● Vamp - 2-chord piano vamp
● Anacrusis - played by alto sax into main theme
● Syncopated triplet rhythms create a singing feel
● Blues scale - flattened 3rd and 5th and 7th
● Sequence in the second theme
● Groove - by piano, bass, and drums
● Head played at the beginning and end with theme and solos in between
● Features syncopation
Basic Facts
● Composer - Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck
● Year - 1959
● Style - Cool Jazz
Characteristics of Cool Jazz
● Reaction to bebop
● Relaxed tempo
● Light tone
● Has elements of classical music
● Little vibrato
● Instrumentation - cello, flute, french horn
● Improvisation - makes use of formal arrangements
Cool Jazz Terminology
● Ostinato - short melodic/rhythmic idea that is repeated
● Vamp - repeated chord progression
● Anacrusis - an upbeat; incomplete bar
● Groove - vamp with a riff
Examples of Cool Jazz Artist
● Paul Desmond
● Dave Brubeck
● Miles Davis
● Gil Evans
Musical Analysis
● Form - head (ABA); song (theme solo theme)
● Key - E flat minor
● Tonality - main theme, minor; second theme, major (C flat maj 7)
● Instrumentation - alto sax, double bass, piano, drums
● Ostinato - introduction played by piano, bass and drums
● Vamp - 2-chord piano vamp
● Anacrusis - played by alto sax into main theme
● Syncopated triplet rhythms create a singing feel
● Blues scale - flattened 3rd and 5th and 7th
● Sequence in the second theme
● Groove - by piano, bass, and drums
● Head played at the beginning and end with theme and solos in between
● Features syncopation
