Vocab updated July 25th
Miles The Autobiography 1-40 10 words June 22nd
NAACP - National association for the advancement of colored people. (pg 5
Pro Black - people who uplift and empower the black race in all aspects. (pg 6)
Metaphysics- a branch of physiology that deals with the first principals of things. This includes abstract concepts such as knowing, substance and cause. (pg 10)
Harlem Rhythms - A radio show that featured primarily black musicians in the 30s and 40s. (pg 15)
Nut House - Another term for a mental hospital. (pg 30)
Sanatorium - A hospital. In this situation, most likely a mental hospital. (pg 32)
Roadhouse Music - A subcategory of music that combines blues and country music. (pg 34)
Honky-Tonk - A bar that provides music of the culture. Mostly found down south filled with country and blues music. (pg 34)
"Bucket of Blood" - Refers to the fights likely to break out in certain clubs. (pg 35)
Jumping - Another term for bopping... or a lively place with an active atmosphere filled with music. (pg 38)
Here is what Roadhouse music sounds like at a honky tonk!
Vocal June 26
Pages read of the Miles Autobiography 40-140
Prejudice (60) - A preconceived opinion about someone that is not based on experience or fact.
Ghetto Mentality (61) - Limiting thinking. Not allowing ones self to be the greater version of themselves because they believe that they are unable.
52nd Street (65) - The main street that the entire music industry was happening on in the 40s' in NY.
Prohibition (68) - forbidding something/ preventing by law... used when they prohibited recording due to drug use.
Ignorant (78) - lacking knowledge or awareness.
Composition (79) - Something pieced together.. typically art. In this case it is a piece of music created by Davis.
Innovative (80) - featuring new methods. Advanced and original.
Dexedrines (81) - also known as speed. Adderol is a common form. In this case it is improperly used by most musicians, along with heroine.
The Street (94) - Relating to 52nd street.
Register (118) - An octave range that an instrument has. Low register, medium and high.
Publishing House (119) - A place that publishes books records and more.
Bandstand (120) - A small version of a stage. More like an elevated platform that the band stands on.
Junkie (136) - Someone that is a frequent heroine user.
Numerology (136)- A mystical belief between numbers and existing events.
Birdland (135) - The name of a very famous jazz bar named after Charlie Parker or "Bird" as he was called.
Broke-Dick dog (133) - A very cool well dressed person.
Blue Demon (137) - The nickname of Miles Davis' car.
Debonair (97) - Confident, stylish and charming.
Uncle Tom (94) - A Black Man who allegedly is obedient and works hard to impress a white man.
Hip (98) - Cool, stylish
Key (93) - A harmonic guideline for music.
Pages read 140- 220
Gardenia (141) - a type of plant that comes from the Bedstraw family.
Acquitted (141) - to free someone from a crime or charge that they have been accused of
Cold Turkey (144) - to quit heroine by simply not doing it at all opposed to weening oneself off the drug.
MJQ (145) - Modern Jazz Quartet.
Chamber Jazz (150) - A genre where small acoustic based ensembles are centerpiece. The music typically has a lot of interplay between instruments.
Bebop (150) - Type of music that can be characterized by fast swing music that used a lot of chromatic notes.
Critics (150) - People who report on famous people that are typically very critical, earning the name "critics"
Trane (155) - The nickname for jazz legend John Coltrane.
Joe Louis (156) - A famous american boxer who Miles idolized. He was the reason that Miles was able to quit Heroine.
John Coltrane (155) - Jazz legend who reshaped jazz in 1959 with Ornett Coleman and Miles Davis.
Charles Mingus (157) - Famous double bass player who played with miles and a few others on the scene in the early years of jazz. known for his large temper.
Hard Bop (158) - A type of bebop that replaced the standard foundations of music with music of blues and latin american influence. can also be used to describe smooth jazz.
Smooth Jazz (159) - an easy listening style of jazz that blends pop music with jazz.
Dizzie Gillespie (163) - Famous trumpeter who miles idolized throughout his career. Known for his wild performances like salt peanuts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvIXzeDLpMw
Prestiege (167) - A record company that Miles recorded a lot with once he kicked his drug habits.
Dope (168) - Another name for heroine.
Cocaine (170) - A refined form of heroine that miles used a lot before getting into heroine.
Reefer (170) - A cigarette that is full of Marijuana. Anther drug that was extremely common on the music scene around this time.
Oleo (177) - A very famous song that used the chord progression of rhythm changes. Named after a fake type of butter on the market at this time.
Sonny Rollins (177) - Famous jazz musician who miles used on a few of his records. Known for his own unique style. He also pushed Trane into greatness.
Kind Of Blue (186) - The most famous album ever written. Defines jazz. Written by Miles in 1959.
All Stars ( 187) - A very common name given to an album or group when the group is "stacked. In other words meaning that the group is full of the best musicians around.
Vocab July 11th
Composition (200) - a musical piece that is put together and arranged for a multi piece band.
Staff (200) - The placeholder of a series of musical notes.
Treble Clef (201) - Reads EGBDF from bottom to top lines and FACE in-between lines. Designed for medium to high register instruments.
Bass Clef (201) - Designed for low register instruments.
Muffler (203) - Something that goes into the end of a trumpet to give it a squeezed tonality.
Pimp (210) - A person who controls prostitutes by setting them up with people and sharing in their earnings.
Improvisation (211) - The act of spontaneously creating lines for soloing.
Teo (230) - The name of Miles' recording engineer for the 60s.
Tape (231) - A new form of media that Miles began to record too. Allowed for his music to be longer than 3 min a track.
Session (231) - A long period of time that is taken up by recording.
Union (233) - A group that protects another group.
Bitches Brew (255) - The last album that Miles released before going silent for a few years. Very technical and featuring Dave Holland.
Miles Smiles (260) - One of the first "out there" albums released by miles next too E.S.P
Tension (263) - A sound or set of sounds that pull on your ear.
Release (263) - The most important part of tension. Allows for the ear to relax after the tension.
A love supreme (300) - Album written by JC. As famous as Miles' Kind of Blue.
Lydian Chromatic Theory (320) - A theory that has to do with making the Lydian Mode the brightest sounding mode. Devised in the 60s and used throughout most of them music at this time.
George Russel (322) - Wrote the Lydian Chromatic Theory.
The Modes (323) - Greek names of Ionia, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. They are scales that relate to different chords.
Mingus Vocab
Personage (18) - A persons type.
Truant (16) - A student who stays away from school without explanation.
complexes (11)- A building full of different peoples own apartments.
crop (4) - Money
abnormal (4) - Un natural.
Jim Crowe (4) - Extremely racist
uttermost (3) - the extreme most.
retreat (3) - A place to go for godly cleansing.
Double bass - Upright bass
tenor trombone - Lower pitched trombone
cello - A smaller version of a double bass
rosin - Helps bow make string noise for cello.
cookie - A type of rosin.
equal temperament - A type of tuning that allows for equal chordal sounds between keys.
Harmonic - A europian scale that is branched off the minor scale
Melodic - A western scale that is branched off the harmonic scale
Dorian - an altered version of the minor scale
Aeolian - The natural minor scale
lydian- like dorian because it is an altered version of the major scale.
Modes - Come from the greeks. They are used in correlation of chords.
Composer - Someone who writes music,
Baton - Used to show tempo and arrangements in classical configurations
waltz - Felt in three.
george russel - A famous theory writer of music.
Avant Guard - A type of free jazz
free jazz- a music where each musician plays things in response to one another
comping - short for accompaniment.
Accapella - music without accompaniment
Accent - a mark used to stress certain parts of a measure
accidental - tension notes used in classical music
allegro - a bright tempo
tempo - the speed of a musical piece
analog - output that is proportional to the imput
annotation - the act of adding notes
articulation - how musical phrases are strewn together
attack - how the note is played
cadence - usually five one
tritone - divides octave in half
counterpoint - chords linked by a single note
one note samba - a very famous song that is used all over
bird - nickname for charlie parker
salt peanut - a song by dizzy that is referenced by miles frequently
chamber music - serious music performed by small group of musicians
Afro - a style of music that is pulled from african heritage
bop - commercially oriented style of music
Cool jazz- jazz that lags behind the beat
rhythmic patterns - best seen in tell me a bedtime story
duple - using two parts of music and made a whole
time signature - the feel of a song
Congo - black tea grown in china
ragtime- music syncopated with melody
melody - the part of a song that you can hum
syncopation - how the beat lines up with the melody
key pattern- how the keys change through jazz
circle of fifths - how different keys relate to one another and resolve.
seventh chord - a triad with an additional seventh added.
scatting- singing dooo and bops
modulate- to change feel tempo or key
blue note - flatted seventh or third
dominant - man three and a dominant seven
funk - state of nervous depression
Dixieland - southerns states that eft the US
altissimo - very high
cootie - the believed germs of another
oaken - an endorsement
reconfirm - to confirm again
Europianizaiton - to re adapt to europian culture
Tonal gravity - Concept constructed by George Russell based off the lydian chromatic concept
Western music - The music that people from the western world listen too
Woodwind- instruments like the clarinet and bassoon
Brass - instruments like the saxophone
Baritone- Low register instrument
Tenor - Medium to low register instrument
Alto - the typical register that we are use to hearing.. middle C on a piano
Flatwound - A type of guitar string typically used in jazz
String tree - something that fender designed in order to keep the guitar string at an appropriate angle across the headstock
headstock - the end of the guitar where the strings are wound around the tuners
A 440 - The standard tuning that most western music uses
A 442 - the tuning that classical music uses.
Pickups - used to amplify the sound of the guitar
the real book - designed at berklee.. a book that housed the heads to many different jazz tunes
Tune - a song without lyrics
song - music with lyrics
standard - a jazz tune used in a movie
discography - the collection of a musicians music
Chord mode - a seven note scale derived from a chord played together
tritone - splits an octave perfectly
quarter inch jack - used on Mingus' bass as an input for his instrument cable
flamenco - a style of bass used when playing with fingers and no pick
bottom end - the characteristic of the bass side of a double bass' tone
shure - a very important microphone company that was invented towards the end of mingus' career
score - a piece of hand written sheet music
staff paper - blank paper with staff lines written in
cleff - the register of written music
ballad - a slow piece with many different chord changes
Augmented - raised by a half step
alteration - raising an interval up or down by a half step
back beats- the 2 and 4 in jazz
Blow - a term used for playing an instrument
break - a passage typical in mingus' music where the soloist plays unaccompanied
Broken time - the way of playing the beat where the one is not specified
chase - two soloists taking 4 bar phrases of improv
Closed voicing - all of the intervals of a chord fall in the same octave
open voicing - all of the intervals of a chord fall in different octaves
Cool - white jazz musicians
crush - on piano, a half step played simultaneously
double time - everything about the time is doubled
double time feel - the quarter note becomes an eighth note
fakebook - the original realbook
frontline - those who are not in the rhythm section
inversion - a chord structured with the first note not being the root note
lay out - not play
lineup - the people in a group
medium - a normal tempo for jazz
monster- a superior player
outro - another term for coda
pedal - when mingus would play a single note over certain chords
pickup - a phrase before the first bar
shed - to practice diligently
NAACP - National association for the advancement of colored people. (pg 5
Pro Black - people who uplift and empower the black race in all aspects. (pg 6)
Metaphysics- a branch of physiology that deals with the first principals of things. This includes abstract concepts such as knowing, substance and cause. (pg 10)
Harlem Rhythms - A radio show that featured primarily black musicians in the 30s and 40s. (pg 15)
Nut House - Another term for a mental hospital. (pg 30)
Sanatorium - A hospital. In this situation, most likely a mental hospital. (pg 32)
Roadhouse Music - A subcategory of music that combines blues and country music. (pg 34)
Honky-Tonk - A bar that provides music of the culture. Mostly found down south filled with country and blues music. (pg 34)
"Bucket of Blood" - Refers to the fights likely to break out in certain clubs. (pg 35)
Jumping - Another term for bopping... or a lively place with an active atmosphere filled with music. (pg 38)
Here is what Roadhouse music sounds like at a honky tonk! Vocal June 26
Pages read of the Miles Autobiography 40-140
Prejudice (60) - A preconceived opinion about someone that is not based on experience or fact.
Ghetto Mentality (61) - Limiting thinking. Not allowing ones self to be the greater version of themselves because they believe that they are unable.
52nd Street (65) - The main street that the entire music industry was happening on in the 40s' in NY.
Prohibition (68) - forbidding something/ preventing by law... used when they prohibited recording due to drug use.
Ignorant (78) - lacking knowledge or awareness.
Composition (79) - Something pieced together.. typically art. In this case it is a piece of music created by Davis.
Innovative (80) - featuring new methods. Advanced and original.
Dexedrines (81) - also known as speed. Adderol is a common form. In this case it is improperly used by most musicians, along with heroine.
The Street (94) - Relating to 52nd street.
Register (118) - An octave range that an instrument has. Low register, medium and high.
Publishing House (119) - A place that publishes books records and more.
Bandstand (120) - A small version of a stage. More like an elevated platform that the band stands on.
Junkie (136) - Someone that is a frequent heroine user.
Numerology (136)- A mystical belief between numbers and existing events.
Birdland (135) - The name of a very famous jazz bar named after Charlie Parker or "Bird" as he was called.
Broke-Dick dog (133) - A very cool well dressed person.
Blue Demon (137) - The nickname of Miles Davis' car.
Debonair (97) - Confident, stylish and charming.
Uncle Tom (94) - A Black Man who allegedly is obedient and works hard to impress a white man.
Hip (98) - Cool, stylish
Key (93) - A harmonic guideline for music.
Pages read 140- 220
Gardenia (141) - a type of plant that comes from the Bedstraw family.
Acquitted (141) - to free someone from a crime or charge that they have been accused of
Cold Turkey (144) - to quit heroine by simply not doing it at all opposed to weening oneself off the drug.
MJQ (145) - Modern Jazz Quartet.
Chamber Jazz (150) - A genre where small acoustic based ensembles are centerpiece. The music typically has a lot of interplay between instruments.
Bebop (150) - Type of music that can be characterized by fast swing music that used a lot of chromatic notes.
Critics (150) - People who report on famous people that are typically very critical, earning the name "critics"
Trane (155) - The nickname for jazz legend John Coltrane.
Joe Louis (156) - A famous american boxer who Miles idolized. He was the reason that Miles was able to quit Heroine.
John Coltrane (155) - Jazz legend who reshaped jazz in 1959 with Ornett Coleman and Miles Davis.
Charles Mingus (157) - Famous double bass player who played with miles and a few others on the scene in the early years of jazz. known for his large temper.
Hard Bop (158) - A type of bebop that replaced the standard foundations of music with music of blues and latin american influence. can also be used to describe smooth jazz.
Smooth Jazz (159) - an easy listening style of jazz that blends pop music with jazz.
Dizzie Gillespie (163) - Famous trumpeter who miles idolized throughout his career. Known for his wild performances like salt peanuts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvIXzeDLpMw
Prestiege (167) - A record company that Miles recorded a lot with once he kicked his drug habits.
Dope (168) - Another name for heroine.
Cocaine (170) - A refined form of heroine that miles used a lot before getting into heroine.
Reefer (170) - A cigarette that is full of Marijuana. Anther drug that was extremely common on the music scene around this time.
Oleo (177) - A very famous song that used the chord progression of rhythm changes. Named after a fake type of butter on the market at this time.
Sonny Rollins (177) - Famous jazz musician who miles used on a few of his records. Known for his own unique style. He also pushed Trane into greatness.
Kind Of Blue (186) - The most famous album ever written. Defines jazz. Written by Miles in 1959.
All Stars ( 187) - A very common name given to an album or group when the group is "stacked. In other words meaning that the group is full of the best musicians around.
Vocab July 11th
Composition (200) - a musical piece that is put together and arranged for a multi piece band.
Staff (200) - The placeholder of a series of musical notes.
Treble Clef (201) - Reads EGBDF from bottom to top lines and FACE in-between lines. Designed for medium to high register instruments.
Bass Clef (201) - Designed for low register instruments.
Muffler (203) - Something that goes into the end of a trumpet to give it a squeezed tonality.
Pimp (210) - A person who controls prostitutes by setting them up with people and sharing in their earnings.
Improvisation (211) - The act of spontaneously creating lines for soloing.
Teo (230) - The name of Miles' recording engineer for the 60s.
Tape (231) - A new form of media that Miles began to record too. Allowed for his music to be longer than 3 min a track.
Session (231) - A long period of time that is taken up by recording.
Union (233) - A group that protects another group.
Bitches Brew (255) - The last album that Miles released before going silent for a few years. Very technical and featuring Dave Holland.
Miles Smiles (260) - One of the first "out there" albums released by miles next too E.S.P
Tension (263) - A sound or set of sounds that pull on your ear.
Release (263) - The most important part of tension. Allows for the ear to relax after the tension.
A love supreme (300) - Album written by JC. As famous as Miles' Kind of Blue.
Lydian Chromatic Theory (320) - A theory that has to do with making the Lydian Mode the brightest sounding mode. Devised in the 60s and used throughout most of them music at this time.
George Russel (322) - Wrote the Lydian Chromatic Theory.
The Modes (323) - Greek names of Ionia, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian and Locrian. They are scales that relate to different chords.
Mingus Vocab
Personage (18) - A persons type.
Truant (16) - A student who stays away from school without explanation.
complexes (11)- A building full of different peoples own apartments.
crop (4) - Money
abnormal (4) - Un natural.
Jim Crowe (4) - Extremely racist
uttermost (3) - the extreme most.
retreat (3) - A place to go for godly cleansing.
Double bass - Upright bass
tenor trombone - Lower pitched trombone
cello - A smaller version of a double bass
rosin - Helps bow make string noise for cello.
cookie - A type of rosin.
equal temperament - A type of tuning that allows for equal chordal sounds between keys.
Harmonic - A europian scale that is branched off the minor scale
Melodic - A western scale that is branched off the harmonic scale
Dorian - an altered version of the minor scale
Aeolian - The natural minor scale
lydian- like dorian because it is an altered version of the major scale.
Modes - Come from the greeks. They are used in correlation of chords.
Composer - Someone who writes music,
Baton - Used to show tempo and arrangements in classical configurations
waltz - Felt in three.
george russel - A famous theory writer of music.
Avant Guard - A type of free jazz
free jazz- a music where each musician plays things in response to one another
comping - short for accompaniment.
Accapella - music without accompaniment
Accent - a mark used to stress certain parts of a measure
accidental - tension notes used in classical music
allegro - a bright tempo
tempo - the speed of a musical piece
analog - output that is proportional to the imput
annotation - the act of adding notes
articulation - how musical phrases are strewn together
attack - how the note is played
cadence - usually five one
tritone - divides octave in half
counterpoint - chords linked by a single note
one note samba - a very famous song that is used all over
bird - nickname for charlie parker
salt peanut - a song by dizzy that is referenced by miles frequently
chamber music - serious music performed by small group of musicians
Afro - a style of music that is pulled from african heritage
bop - commercially oriented style of music
Cool jazz- jazz that lags behind the beat
rhythmic patterns - best seen in tell me a bedtime story
duple - using two parts of music and made a whole
time signature - the feel of a song
Congo - black tea grown in china
ragtime- music syncopated with melody
melody - the part of a song that you can hum
syncopation - how the beat lines up with the melody
key pattern- how the keys change through jazz
circle of fifths - how different keys relate to one another and resolve.
seventh chord - a triad with an additional seventh added.
scatting- singing dooo and bops
modulate- to change feel tempo or key
blue note - flatted seventh or third
dominant - man three and a dominant seven
funk - state of nervous depression
Dixieland - southerns states that eft the US
altissimo - very high
cootie - the believed germs of another
oaken - an endorsement
reconfirm - to confirm again
Europianizaiton - to re adapt to europian culture
Tonal gravity - Concept constructed by George Russell based off the lydian chromatic concept
Western music - The music that people from the western world listen too
Woodwind- instruments like the clarinet and bassoon
Brass - instruments like the saxophone
Baritone- Low register instrument
Tenor - Medium to low register instrument
Alto - the typical register that we are use to hearing.. middle C on a piano
Flatwound - A type of guitar string typically used in jazz
String tree - something that fender designed in order to keep the guitar string at an appropriate angle across the headstock
headstock - the end of the guitar where the strings are wound around the tuners
A 440 - The standard tuning that most western music uses
A 442 - the tuning that classical music uses.
Pickups - used to amplify the sound of the guitar
the real book - designed at berklee.. a book that housed the heads to many different jazz tunes
Tune - a song without lyrics
song - music with lyrics
standard - a jazz tune used in a movie
discography - the collection of a musicians music
Chord mode - a seven note scale derived from a chord played together
tritone - splits an octave perfectly
quarter inch jack - used on Mingus' bass as an input for his instrument cable
flamenco - a style of bass used when playing with fingers and no pick
bottom end - the characteristic of the bass side of a double bass' tone
shure - a very important microphone company that was invented towards the end of mingus' career
score - a piece of hand written sheet music
staff paper - blank paper with staff lines written in
cleff - the register of written music
ballad - a slow piece with many different chord changes
Augmented - raised by a half step
alteration - raising an interval up or down by a half step
back beats- the 2 and 4 in jazz
Blow - a term used for playing an instrument
break - a passage typical in mingus' music where the soloist plays unaccompanied
Broken time - the way of playing the beat where the one is not specified
chase - two soloists taking 4 bar phrases of improv
Closed voicing - all of the intervals of a chord fall in the same octave
open voicing - all of the intervals of a chord fall in different octaves
Cool - white jazz musicians
crush - on piano, a half step played simultaneously
double time - everything about the time is doubled
double time feel - the quarter note becomes an eighth note
fakebook - the original realbook
frontline - those who are not in the rhythm section
inversion - a chord structured with the first note not being the root note
lay out - not play
lineup - the people in a group
medium - a normal tempo for jazz
monster- a superior player
outro - another term for coda
pedal - when mingus would play a single note over certain chords
pickup - a phrase before the first bar
shed - to practice diligently
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