Post-Bop

Question 1

Ornette Coleman

Answer 1

1930-2015
-Composer. alto sax. (te. sax, violin, trumpet)
-Founder of the Free Jazz, wasn’t initially popular
-Coined philosophy “Harmolodics”
-(Roots in R&B, influenced by charlie parker

Question 2

Harmolodics

Answer 2

Musicians improvising together instead of just comping behind a soloist

Question 3

Musicians that Ornette Coleman was “soulmates” with

Answer 3

Don Cherry (trumpet)
Charlie Haden (bass)
Ed Blackwell (drummer)

Question 4

John Coltrane

Answer 4

1926-1967
Tenor sax. (soprano sax) “perhaps one of the best of all time)
-Technique described as “sheets of sound”
-Played with Miles Davis Sextet, left in ‘57 due to heroin addiction
-Led a quartet in the ’60s

Question 5

John Coltrane’s quartet

Answer 5

McCoy Tyner (piano)
Jimmy Garrison (bass)
Elvin Jones (drums)
Coltrane (tenor sax)