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Some Jazz Terms
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A weled jargon that disturbs the ear with its sometimes' outlandish sound and strange word" combinations has been growing up jeekly in America during the past 20 years along with the development of one of the country's newest "industries—the jazz orchestra,
There are probably few languages, the saxophones and trombones.; clubs, weddings, or tea dances, in peculiar to one trade that are as Sometimes they're together, some- the absence of a steady position.
ttle known to the general public times the horn section plays as this itinerant tongue and even figure and is abruptly answered by
Drums, fewer that are kept alive so largely the trombones.
plano, by word-of-mouth transmission. guitar and bass hold them up with
a lifting beat, steady and deadly.
MUSIC HATH CHARMS
In direct contrast to the talk and signs one hears and sees along the rails, both of which are recorded precisely in rule books, probably no authentic dictionary of jazz terms
has been complied and such word lists as have been made are kept by obscure collectors.
Jazz musicians themselves are
generally not industrious enough to gather together any dictionary of their own slang" and are so reticent when strangers are about that the Inquisitive observer can pick up little.
"Many words In the jargon, of Jazz" have originated in speech | stimulated suddenly by music and by incidents characteristic of the Ilfe led by members of
dance orchestras.
Yes Sir." Jazz musicians. on hear- ing a soloist of exceptional ability,
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While Jazz musicians have been adding new expressions and word combinatons to their spoken language, other equally unique phrases and words have been com- ing into use in the writing of ar rangements of popular songs Ios orchestra.
Jazz
arrangements are called "specials" and "stocks." The for- mer are orchestrations made by 'n member of a band for that band
A deafening flare tears at the enrs. The entire band crashes to that Through chords a finale. beat with the on-beat of the four four rhythm a cymbal clashes on every off-beat. The chords race with the cymbal. Watchers, try-only. ing to keep up with the music, lean forward, swaying in rhythm. The tempo quickens. On. on it races. Crash! The
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GIVING IT THE LIP SMEAR Sometimes, however, a band will cymbal employ a special arranger outside of the personnel of the orchestra' The best way to understand jazz | to dress" up sangs in individua
is to language
"Stocks" hear it spoken. style.
are sterotyped Listen to a musician who has orchestrations written by an ar- come to hear Goodman and is des- ¡ ranger employed by a large music cribing to a friend the number house and published by the thou-TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY. that has just ended
ever
'Way up"
sands for use by bands all over the country.
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THAT WHEN
"They really swung that tune. Thus an extraordinary athletic
On the first trumpet part .cf b You are at Home
feat may stir a fan say excitedly. Played it way up too.
means very fast.) Did Goodman | Jazz arrangement, one may see the "Boy, on Boy! Was that good !' can get the
'get ott (swing) on that words "p smear" written above a second chorus! And I'm telling whole note. The player noting drop everything but the "yes, sir" you that band's got 'lift (buoyancy this will move his Ips in such a of rhythm). They all cut their manner as to slur the note from spirited
stuk right off (read the music its original position, down a frno- quickly and accurately). That ton of a tone, and then back up man's marvelous on lead alto to the written note. (ärst saxophone). Ja notice the cow bells (small bells with a" dull sound used by drummers)? Won- der who the new man, is 'on box' (playing the piano)?
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NONE COULD. WISH MORE From the first time when this phrase was spoken spontaneously at some forgotten performance of Jazz music it has. developed into
one of the best-known expressions
Let us change this scene to
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A recent development in
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Later on in the
the second trumpet player may scr arrangement.
the words "take 18" written across
the lines just before the begin ning of a chorus,
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More superstitions persist in Spain than in any other European land.
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Thus, it is still firmly maintain- ed that if the mistress of an inn is of a nagg'ng disposition, the wine will soon ferment. ***
HE IS TO PLAY A SOLO
where five
bands This tells him he is to play o Jazz are holding a battle of music. solo. The phrase is synonymous music-the sudden growth to po- Louie. Armstrong. one of the with "ad th." In the two bara
A Lew drops of wine squeezed pularity of what is called "swing" greatest of all jazz trumpet play preceding his solo the entire and music has been the first means ers, is leading his band through may join in holding a long cherd wine head"—that is, the ability, into a baby's mouth give him the of bringing the language of Jazz "Dinah." Negro musicians have for eight beats, as a send-off for when he is a man, to indulge to the range of-the public's given to the language of jazz some the soloist. On every part this the utmost without getting drunk. hearing and understanding. And : Its most astounding words as note may have "are" written in order to comprehend jazz ter- we shall see by listening to Louie above it. Or these may be a little
O will not keep sweet if there minology thoroughly the word while be exhorts his musicians.
is a sour-tempered person in the jagged line running up to the "swing" and its associations must
house; nor must 11 touch cork" or "Lightly. lightly (softly) now. head of the note at a 45-dexreet will become rancid. be understood because the langu- age of "swing" Is. primarily the Careful, Folks, these cats (musi-angle.
clans) goin' ta-get-away (swing), The direction "in hat" oreu ap-. language of jazz.
Yeah. man! (approving something pears on trombone and trumpet "Swing" is a rythmic feeling
just played). Boy. that really parts. Many jazz bands have tin aroused by listening to jazz play-sends me (gives me a feeling of darbles on stands placed before ers who can. "swing." The word swing), C'mon Gate' (jazz term each member of the brass section almost deñes definition. Perhaps for a member of a band) less hear and "in hat" tells the player to the best way to find out what it
some o' that plano."
mute his fhstrument by putting means is to hear a good "swing" band, such.
its bell inside one of these derbies, as Benny Goodman
Among other types of mutes 's the and his orchestra.
"plunger mute," which is made of rubber and is shaped like a small, round cap.
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HOW BENNY DOES IT
Let us take a look at Benny and
bis band while they are playing a public dance hall. The melody of "Allee Blue Gown" lis the big room, softly and familiar- ly, for the band is reading the chorus as it was written by the composer. Benny's directing. He holds his clarinet, at his side. waiting for the chorus to end.
music
In direct contrast to this "swing" 19 what is known) as "straight" or "sweet" music, which may be described 23 popular music played very precisely from a plain arrangement" in which the melody and harmony of a song are rendered exactly as written by the composer.
BILL JONES IS ON PIANO
GOOPHUS AND FOUNTAIN PEN
This explains why in Spain one sees that al casks of oil bave wooden stoppers covered linen.
with
No girl will freckle if her mother has taken the precaution, when she was a baby, to smear her face regularly with all
It is not so long ago that the custom was general in Spain of " timing the bolling of eggs by say- ing paternosters. The rule was two for a lightly boiled egg three for a hard-boiled.
playing By alternately placin a plunger mute over the bell of the instrument and removing it. & sound is produced that re- sembles a baby crying.
Blues Number: Blow, swing tune Ride: To swing.
One who studies the language of Jazz will sooner or later come across two expressions that are as extraordinary as any that occur There are many words and ex-
in this unique jargon-"goophus" Both words pressions in the vernacular of Jazz and fountain pen." musicians that have little to do denote jazz instruments which with the art of "swinging" and seldom appear in public, The last notes of the melody reare used to denote ordinary activi. A "goophus" looks like a small solve into an interlude of eight tires in the lives of all jazz musi-saxophone with a tiny piano key-Nanny: Tone that flutters rapidly bars. The key changes subtly and clans.
board on one side. The keys are back and forth over a range of Thus, to "make a date" means to round and about the size of a in the saxophonea. Benny begins make a record. To "get a spot"
two or three notes. dime, The player lays this to play, and the notes of the
secure an engagement to strange device on his knees and Rhythm: Percussion section of a clarinet weave an obligato which is to
the tone by blowing
jazz band." (Flano, drums, guitar keeps to the melody just enough play in a hotel, a night club or makes
and bass), on a radio programme. A "stick" through a rubber tube that ex- so that the tune is not obscured.
1s,a clarinet. When Jazz musi tends from the smaller end of Benny is improvising, making up clans get together for a talk they the "goopbus" into his mouth. By new little melodies and phrases
"have a few laughs," A leader pressing on the two-octave key- around "Alice Blue Gown," and he speaking of a member of his band board while blowing, somewhat is "swinging."
the melody starts again, quietly.
He closes his chorus with an im- doesn't say "Joe Schultz is play-te a harmonica
The "fountala pen2 is a six-inch aginative figure, A trumpet soloing the plano now in my orchea-
tra"-he Kaya "I've got Joe clarinet with holes instead of keys. follows after this same fashion.
It produces a thin, harsh, reedy Then the band, swings into the Schultz op plano." last chorus.
· BITING OFF THE MELODY
If you hear a musician say that tone. Rumour has it that the he likes being "house man" at a "fountain pen" was invented by'a radio station you will know that New York saxophone player and The first trumpet bites off the he enjoys being regularly employ that there are only two in exis- melody! But it is not the com-jea by, that station as a staff must-tence. poser's melody. Notes have short-clan.
ened, others lengthened. Extra IN THE PIT OR CLUBBING phrases and notes have been atted
OTHER JAZZ TERMS
Break: Short solo passage with-
neatly into spaces where originally He may have worked previously out background.
a note was held. The three trum-kapit band" which is an or- Heel Alto: Saxophone playing the pets and three trombones / sound chestre that plays regularly at a third part harmony, together, though now and then vaudeville House, for stage shows Brushes: Metal whisk brooms the trombones fill in with ad at a movie theatre, or with a ditional figures when the trumpets musical comedy. Or he may have aze resting or holding notes, been "clubbing for the last few Corn: Jazz played in the style of
Buddenly the comets go out / months. If so, he has been taking 15 years ago. Low, intricate rhythms throb from what work is avaliable) at country. Wah-Wah; Style oftrumpet
used by drummers.
Release: Most popular songs are divided into four sections. A-A- B-A. "B" is the release, or mid- dle part. Straight man: A feltable maletan
who doesn't "swing.
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Jam Session:
Informal musical gathering where musicians play any tune that somes into their heads with complete freedom of expresion.
stop Chorus: Chorus in which the
orchestra plays only one note In every one or two measures while #soloist is performing. Often. ased as a background for a tap dance.
Bet: Group of numbers played st
a" dance,
What's Up: What number do
play next?SE
Jazz Fiddle: Violin with a round, metal sound box.---From the "Christian Science Monitor."
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