Transcript Black and Tan Fantasy 3

Black and Tan
Fantasy 3
Duke Ellington
Learning Objectives
 To learn some jazz vocabulary
 To study the instrumentation and structure of the Black & Tan
Fantasy
Line-up
 Duke Ellington: Piano
 Bubber Miley & Louis
Metcalf: Trumpet
 Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton:
Trombone
 Otto Hardwick, Rudy
Jackson & Harry Carney:
Saxophones
 Fred Guy: Banjo
 Wellman Braud: Bass
 Sonny Greer: Drums
Vocabulary
 Changes
 The chord pattern
 Head
 The main harmonised theme
 Chorus
 One complete statement of the changes
 Break
 An unaccompanied solo
 Frontline
 Solo instruments: tpt, sax, trb
 Rhythm Section
 Accompanying instruments: piano, banjo,
bass, drums
 Reeds
 Tpts, Saxes & Trb (i.e. all ww/brass)
Instrumentation/Structure
Section
Frontline
Rhythm Section
1-12
Chorus 1
Head-Intro
Head based on The Holy
City in muted tpt (Miley)
& trb. Some pitch
bending
Accented on-beat
chords. Off-beat piano
chords 4,8,10. Cymbal
crash at end
13-28
Interlude
Sax melody with vibrato
& lots of glissando
Low reed chords. Offbeat damped cymbal
crashes
29-52
Choruses 2
&3
Trumpet solo. Long held
note (how long?). Use of
slide, growls, wah-wah
with plunger mute &
blue notes (find some)
Crotchet chords. Piano
solo overlaps end of
trumpet solo
Instrumentation/Structure 2
Section
Frontline
Rhythm Section
53-64
Chorus 4
Piano solo in stride style
Silent, i.e. this is a break
and very florid RH. Use of
wide range of piano
65-76
Chorus 5
Trombone solo with
plunger & straight mute
in high tessitura with
glissandi, growls & horse
whinny
Simple crotchet chords
77-86
Chorus 6
Trumpet solo using trills,
repeated notes, slides &
growls. How many notes
does he use?
As before + sax at 84
Instrumentation/Structure 3
Section
Frontline
Rhythm Section
87-90
Tpt/Trb in 6ths play the
funeral march
Low sax chords have
repeating cadence
(which type?). Off-beat
cymbal crashes
Structure Summary
 Head arrangement i.e. the chord sequence of the head is
used as the basis for the following solos
 Often the head is repeated tutti at the end
 The head is a 12-bar blues in Bb major/minor
 Why is 13-28 not a head?
 Comment on the structure of the final chorus
Compare and contrast
 Structure
 Ellington
 Shostakovich Prelude
 Holborne Pavane