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Thinking in Jazz

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by Berliner, Paul F.


  “Tenderly,” 258

  Tension, harmonic. See Extension (harmonic)

  Tension and release, 198, 258; harmonic, 63, 74, 81, 84, 86, 162–63, 174, 183, 197, 201–2, 211–12, 215, 223, 226, 250–51, 678, 711, 791n.9; melodic, 68, 172, 207, 257–58, 264, 266–67; melodic–harmonic, 660; rhythm section instruments and, 316–19, 328–29, 335, 340, 353–54, 356, 359, 365, 372–75, 379, 675, 691, 808n.10, 815n.26; rhythmic, 148, 153–54, 156, 188–89, 198, 245, 267, 327–29. See also Dissonance; Inside Playing; Musical saves; Outside playing; Structural markers

  Terry, Clark, 122, 127, 232, 257

  Tertian harmony, 91

  Texture, 72, 125, 131–33, 233, 236, 285, 291, 315–16, 326, 334–36, 345, 354–55, 362–63, 371, 377, 387, 404–5, 409, 424, 500–501, 633, 676, 691, 709, 712, 812n.39; effects of performance venue on, 450

  Theme, 63, 91, 196, 215, 231, 263, 318, 335, 777n.18, 794n.3, 796n.13, 806n.3, 814n.22; term as used by jazz players, 794n.2. See also Melody, playing off of; Motivic development

  “There Will Never Be Another You,” 78

  Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns (Slonimsky), 167, 790n.32

  Third ear, 207, 243

  Third Stream jazz, 292

  “Tickle Toe,” 796n.12

  Timbre: accompaniments and, 315, 318, 324, 326, 328; arrangements and, 296–97; African music and, 147–48; evaluation and, 249, 252, 277, 397; group interplay and, 346, 351, 367, 443; harmony and, 63; humor and, 257; influence of the voice, 181–82; instruments and, 107, 144–45; memory and, 230; model solos and, 97, 108; musical personality, 125–27, 134–36, 139–41, 491; recordings, 106; rendering compositions and, 67–68, 231; sound systems and, 451; transposition of patterns and, 116; varying the solo line and, 156, 187, 261–62, 267, 307, 470, 776nn.8–9, 783n.22, 806n.45. See also Sound (group); Sound (personal)

  Time-feel(ing), 139, 147, 150–52, 316, 318, 326, 337, 356, 361, 367, 373, 407; group interplay changes in, 627, 676

  Time-keeping, 44, 127, 133, 135, 150, 316, 326, 328–29, 334, 349–50, 353, 373, 375–76, 406, 617, 619, 624–27, 728

  Timing, 71, 93, 97, 115, 154, 157, 177–78, 189, 349–52; group interplay problems in, 380–82, 395–96, 402–3, 412. See also Beat; Displacement (rhythmic); Groove

  Timmons, Bobby, 307, 385

  “Tiny’s Tempo,” 239

  Tirro, Frank, 4, 779n.38

  Toasts, 500

  Tomlinson, Gary, 13

  Tom-tom drums, 106, 134–35, 324, 327, 811n.11, 813n.7

  Tone row, 313

  Tonic (or resolution) function, 74, 81

  Touch, 125, 139, 150, 178, 283, 342

  Tough, Dave, 792n.12

  “Tours of Manhattan,” 302, 312

  Trade magazines, 37, 483. See also Down Beat; Metronome

  Trading phrases, 51, 111, 188, 257, 293–94, 310, 330, 437, 467, 668–72, 814n.20. See Call and response patterns; Imitating ideas

  Trane. See Coltrane, John

  Transcriptions, music: analysis of, 104–5, 128, 141, 238, 252; interpretation of group interplay and, 507–11; limitations of, 98, 112, 158, 792n.17; as representations of accompaniments, 321; as representations of arrangements, 290, 304, 808n.19; as representations of solos, 97–98, 121, 784n.30, 785n.2; as representations of tunes, 66, 808n.19; research methodology and, 11–12, 507–11

  Transformation, musical: group interplay and, 495–96; of harmonic structures, 84–92, 248, 679, 728, 792n.18; of model musical personality traits, 138–44; of theoretical materials, 161–69, 175, 216, 790n.32, 793n.19; of traditional musical materials, 280; of tunes, 65–71, 171–73, 223–25, 292, 303; of various structures into ideas, 182–83, 208; of vocabulary patterns, 10, 12, 102, 138–44, 173–74, 177, 184–91, 193–98, 205–6, 208–16, 237, 240, 263, 323, 327–28, 369–71, 622, 796n.10, 801n.19. See also Arrangements; Embellishment; Improvisation, precomposition and; Group interplay; Variation

  Transposition, 66, 82–85, 97, 106, 110, 115–16, 141, 144–45, 170, 173–74, 177, 194, 212, 228, 264, 290, 292–93, 323, 380, 521, 527

  Trap set, 324, 325. See also Drum set performance

  Tremolo, 107, 128–29, 132, 140, 235

  Tritone interval, 164, 194, 789n.24

  Tristano, Lennie, 46, 152, 224, 227, 246, 281, 338, 340, 436, 803n.3, 823n.9

  Trombone, 38, 46, 72, 140, 190–91, 291, 294

  Trumbauer, Frankie, 140, 781n.9

  Trumpet/trumpeters, 28, 43–44, 50, 57, 70–71, 106, 108, 114–15, 117–18, 123, 126, 135–37, 139–40, 191, 208–10, 216, 257, 260, 278–79, 281, 297, 794n.28

  Trumpet piano style, 132, 140

  Truncation, transformational device, 186–87

  Tuba, 130, 325, 444, 810n.1

  Tunes. See Compositions

  “Tune-Up,” 104

  Turnaround, 79, 85, 236, 328, 330, 380, 463, 811n.18. See also Chord insertions; Chord substitutions; Turnback

  Turnback, 85, 321, 398. See also Chord insertion; Chord substitutions; Turnaround

  Turning the beat around, 188, 374, 380–82, 412. See also Displacement

  Turrentine, Stanley, 368

  Turrentine, Tommy, 22, 37, 43–44, 52, 73, 84, 102, 103, 125, 138–39, 146, 154–57, 161, 164, 174, 176–77, 211, 217, 248, 258–60, 266–67, 276, 277, 281, 290, 291, 293, 296, 301–2, 312, 326, 342, 359, 361, 368, 375, 405–6, 458, 469, 472, 781n.9

  “Tuxedo Junction,” 98, 103

  Two chorus player, 270

  Tyner, McCoy, 133, 163, 224, 274, 275, 299, 334, 335, 338, 354, 355, 368, 376, 631

  Universality, 488–92, 498

  Universities, 35, 55–57

  Urbaniak, Michael, 373

  Vamp patterns, 297, 344, 354, 399, 442, 501, 653

  Vamp tunes. See Modal jazz

  Variation: bass accompaniment and, 316, 318, 323–24, 428–29; the body and, 208–16; drum accompaniment and, 326–28, 344, 366, 627; harmonic structures and, 84–92, 109; inadvertent variants, 83, 141, 215, 230, 245; jazz vocabulary and, 102–3, 113, 141–45, 166, 168, 179, 186–89, 194–96, 207, 215–16, 220–21, 237–38, 263–64, 268, 271, 321, 327, 336, 357, 593, 594; lyrics and, 470; memory and, 230; piano accompaniment and, 332–33, 629; solos and, 107, 235, 237–38, 241; tunes and, 65–68, 69–71, 171–72, 231, 294–95, 478, 591, 710, 711, 777n.17. See also Improvisation, precomposition and

  Vauchant, Leo, 784n.30

  Vaudeville, 46, 461, 820n.23

  Vaughan, Sarah, 125, 126, 130, 139, 284, 385, 445, 460, 504

  Vehicles, 63–64, 70. See Compositions; Repertory

  Venuti, Joe, 772n.9

  Verbalizing mind, 207–8, 798n.31. See also Inner dialogue

  Verse, 293–95, 775n.3

  Vertical concept, 128, 134, 184, 197, 250, 277, 279, 317, 333, 729

  Vibes (vibrations), 449, 452–53, 469, 819n.17

  Vibrato, 67, 69, 107, 125, 132, 139, 204, 216, 261, 277, 279, 284, 297, 303, 322

  Vibraphone, 37, 293, 811n.23

  Videorecordings, 169, 770nn.11, 13

  Village Gate, 209

  Village Vanguard, 387, 453, 456, 457, 469, 470, 819n.17

  Vincent, Clearance “Little Dad,” 811n.23

  Vinson, Eddie, 280

  Violence, jazz and, 430, 466, 818n.8

  Virtuosity, 96, 125, 143–44, 186, 217, 227, 236, 239, 250, 282, 284, 332, 340, 454–55, 460, 469, 780n.47, 792n.17; recording technology and, 473. See also Musical saves

  Visualizing mind, 217

  Visual representations of music, 28, 38, 55, 64, 66, 71–75, 81, 87–88, 92–93, 97–98, 104–5, 108–10, 112–14, 150–54, 159–69, 171, 175–76, 178–80, 184, 201, 206, 220, 255, 304, 389, 403, 784n.32, 789n.22. See also Dreams; Metaphors for aspects of improvisation; Method books; Music theory and analysis; Notation; Scores, written music as; Thblature representations of music; Transcriptions

  Vocabulary. See Jazz vocabulary

  Vocalese, 40, 99–101, 141, 267

  Vocalizations, 92; instrumental, 108, 126–27, 140, 228, 266–67, 278–79

/>   Voicings. See Chord voicings

  Waits, Freddie, 344

  Walker, T. Bone, 771n.6

  Walking bass, 131, 183, 297–98, 316, 319–20, 336, 344, 349–53, 365, 398, 408, 430, 434. See also Bass lines; Bass performance

  Waller, Fats, 124, 132

  Walton, Cedar, 118

  Waltz, 91, 364–65

  “Waltzing the Blues,” 91

  Wang, Richard, 775n.2, 807n.54

  Ware, Wilbur, 47, 260, 381, 426

  “Warming Up a Riff.” 78

  Washington, Kenny, 24, 50, 65, 106, 108, 109, 124, 177, 224, 293–95, 298–99, 308–9, 311, 322, 331, 340, 367, 410, 423–24, 438, 443, 461, 469

  Waterman, Richard, 4, 789n.19

  Webb, Chick, 308

  Webster, Ben, 163

  Webster, Freddie, 118, 261

  Wells, Dicky, 299, 312

  Wertico, Paul, 134–35, 151, 191, 202, 245, 253, 352, 358, 359, 393, 394, 403, 427, 445, 455, 463, 482, 502–3

  Western classical music, 24–27, 32, 34, 39, 55, 58, 71, 73, 103, 107, 111, 116–18, 122, 131, 141, 143, 167–68, 209, 252, 261–62, 266, 303, 313, 324, 417, 437, 442, 464, 488, 501, 771n.4, 773n.16, 778n.22, 786n.15, 792n.18, 794nn.2–3. See also Music theory and analysis

  Western style jazz, 122

  Wettling, George, 822n.37

  “What Is This Thing Called Love?” 812n.30

  “What Love,” 257

  “When.” 796n.12

  “When Lights Are Low,” 88

  “When the Saints Go Marching In.” 463

  Whetsol, Artie, 257

  Whistling, 95, 110

  Whiteman, Paul, 122, 123

  Whiteside, Abby, 117

  Whitley, Abe, 38

  Whitsell, Dick, 179

  Whole–tone scale, 161–62, 280

  Williams, Buster, 25, 31, 40–41, 47, 76, 107, 108, 182, 201, 218, 267, 268, 276, 319–20, 322, 340, 348, 350, 353–54, 356, 370, 373, 379, 390, 392, 422, 426, 445, 446, 468, 813n.3; musical development of, 25, 31

  Williams, Charlie, 76

  Williams, Cootie, 88

  Williams, Joe, 504

  Williams, Leroy, 44, 47, 58, 129, 139, 219, 299, 345, 350–52, 358, 363, 370, 381–83, 393, 399, 401, 403, 413, 414, 418, 426

  Williams, Martin, 769n.6

  Williams, Mary Lou, 281

  Williams, Tony, 124, 134, 135, 330, 332, 341, 366, 407, 420, 422, 617, 622, 627, 676, 788n.10

  Williams, Vea, 22, 24, 27, 139, 284, 360, 384, 404, 458, 459–61; musical development of, 22, 24, 27

  Wilmer, Valerie, 821n.29

  Wilson, Gerald, 49, 290–91

  Wilson, Nancy, 304

  Wilson, Olly, 467

  Wilson, Shadow, 124

  Wilson, Teddy, 123, 132

  Winter, Paul, 487

  Witmer, Robert, 778n.23, 781n.9, 802n.28, 820n.23

  “W. K. Blues:” 591–92

  Wolverines, 290

  Woodshedding, 54, 115

  Workman, Reggie, 607

  Workshops, 10, 41, 56–57, 74, 109–10, 112, 164, 177, 199, 248–49

  World music, jazz and, 34, 68–69, 92, 94, 147–48, 153, 204, 224–25, 233, 254, 292, 297–98, 324, 344, 349, 419–20, 489–91, 500––501

  World Stage, 42

  “Yamekraw,” 796n.12

  “Yeah Man,” 781n.9

  YeIlowjackets, 445

  “You Are My Everything.” 309

  “You Don’t Know What Love Is.” 195

  “You Go to My Head,” 65

  Young, Lamont, 176–77

  Young,Lester, 13, 70, 121, 125, 128–29, 139–40, 153, 172, 201, 236, 247, 252, 253, 255, 268, 269, 275, 311, 312, 771n.3, 776n.8, 777n.18, 782n.17, 783n.22, 785nn.2, 10, 787n.37, 788n.1, 791nn.7, 9, 794n.28, 796n.12, 797n.19, 799n.4, 800nn.6, 12, 803n.3, 812n.36, 814n.25, 815n.38, 817nn.5, 9

  “You Srepped out of a Dream:” 159

  Zeitlin, Denny, 470, 818n.7, 819nn.13, 16

 

 

 


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