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1. Who/what were the major musical influences on the artist(s) in question and why? Give specifics and elaborate. Example: Bebop saxophone genius Charlie Parker was greatly influenced by the harddriving blues-drenched Kansas City swing of the 1930s as exemplified by Jay McShann and Count Basie. As well, he garnered technical inspiration from the virtuosity of Jimmie Dorsey, the great saxophonist, and melodic guidance from the smooth and horizontal stylings of Lester Young.
2. What was/were the major musical innovations of the artist. Example: Charlie Parker, who along with Dizzy Gillespie, invented the radical new form of jazz known as bebop, created a muscular synergy of Kansas City Blues, breakneck tempos, complex jagged and dissonant harmony and a powerful and unusual rhythmic sense. These innovations made him the most widely imitated saxophonist the world had known.
3. Who did the artist influence? Example: The list of Charlie “bird” Parker’s disciples encompasses almost all of the jazz world that came after him, including alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt, tenor man Sonny Rollins, the aptly named “little bird” Jimmy Heath, avant gardist Ornette Coleman, and Charles Mingus’ saxophonist Eric Dolphy. Trumpeter Miles Davis’ lean and spare style was a direct reaction to trying to follow the astonishing pyrotechnics of Parker. As bassist Mingus pungently observed: “if charlie parker was a gunslinger, there’d be a whole lot of dead copycats.”
4. Give a context for the socio-economic structure in which the artist lived and worked, with brief biography of his/their formative years and what the conditions were under which the music was created. Example: Charlie Parker, growing up in a profoundly racist country where Blacks lived in defacto apartheid, was acutely aware of the double life he led as a man of genius playing a highly complex and innovative music for an indifferent and even contemptuous mainstream culture.
5. With all of the above, please feel free to include and links to youtube, MP3s, JPGs, etc…to support your research.
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