Jazz · · ImprOVisation
2~
Jazz Rhythm and . the Improvised Line By John Mehegan
Preface by Harold Arlen AMSCO '~" -
t'uBLISHING COMPANY
JAZZ RHYTHM AND THE IMPROVISED LINE
JAZZ RHYTHM AND THE IMPROVISED LINE Jazz Improvisation II John Mehegan
Watson-Guptill Publications/New York
. ~ Amsco Publications New York/London/Sydney
To Doris" Carey, and GretclLen
Copyright @ 1962 by Watson-Guptill Publications First published 1962 in New York by Watson-Guptill Publications, a division of Billboard Publications, Inc., 1515 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10036 Exclusive distributors to the Music Trade Music Sales Corporation 24 E. 22 Street New York, N.V. 10010 Music Sales Limited 8/9 Frith Street London W1V 5TZ Music Sales Pty Limited 27 Clarendon Street Artarmon Sydney NSW 2064 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-13525 ISBN 0-8230-2572-1 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or used In any form or by any means-graphic; electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping, or information storage and retrieval systems-without written permission of the publisher.
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CONTENTS PREFACE by Harold Arlen INTRODUCTION
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SECTION I - JAZZ RHYTHM Lesson Lesson Lesson Lesson
1 - General 2 - Tempo 3 - Melodic Time Values 4 - Harmonic Time Values
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NEW ORLEANS "Dippermouth Blues" "Mandy Lee Blues" "High Society"
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CHICAGO "Singin' the Blues Till My Daddy Comes Home" "Sweet Sue-Just You" "Dixieland One Step" "I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" "Jazz Me Blues"
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SWING "Oh Lady Be Good" "Just You, Just Me" "Tea for Two" "Whispering"
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PROGRESSIVE "I Can't Get Started" "Night in Tunisia" "Lady Bird" ("Half Nelson") "Bernie's Tune" Lesson 5 - Syncopation
SECTION
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TIlE IMPROVISED LINE (1923-1958)
PART I-NEW ORLEANS ""Gin House Blues" - Bessie Smith "High SOCiety" - Johnny Dodds ""Dippermouth Blues" - Joe Oliver "West End Blues" - Louis Armstrong
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"M uggles" - Louis Armstrong "Basin Street Blues" - Louis Armstrong PART 2 - CHICAGO "Sweet Sue - Just You" - Bix Beiderbecke "Singin' the Blues Till My Daddy Comes Home" Bix Beiderbecke "Original Dixieland One-Step" - Miff Mole "There'll Be Some Changes Made" - Frank Teschemacher "I'm Coming Virginia" - Bix Beiderbecke "Jazz Me Blues" - Bix Beiderbecke PART 3 - SWING "Mter You've Gone" - Roy Eldridge "Sweet Sue - Just You" - Teddy Wilson "Aunt Hagar's Blues" - Art Tatum "Soft Winds" - Benny Goodman "Crazy Rhythm" - Coleman Hawkins and Bennyearter PART 4-EARLY PROGRESSIVE "Just You, Just Me" - Lester Young "I Can't Get Started" - Dizzy Gillespie "Lady Bird" ("Half Nelson") - Miles Davis "Nice Work 1£ You Can Get It" - Bud Powell "Cherokee" ("Ko Ko") - Charlie Parker "Just Friends" - Charlie Parker PART 5-LATE PROGRESSIVE "Lover Man" - Lee Konitz "All the Things You Are" - Chet Baker "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" - Stan Getz "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You"-Cli£ford Brown "Opus De Funk" - Horace Silver "I've Got the World on a String" - Oscar Peterson
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PREFACE The reader's first thought upon scanning this might well be: "Why was a song writer asked to write this preface?" Well now, if I may quote John Mehegan's inscription to me in his brilliant first volume of JAZZ IMPROVISATION "To Harold Arlen, whose tunes are a source of inspiration to all jazz men" - it would seem that there is some contingent area where song writers and jazz musicians meet to draw from a common source. Perhaps this wellspring is the blues, which, I am told, finds its home in some of my music. I am pleased to discover that at times my music may act as an emissary in the fascinating conversation which occurs between the jazz musician and his audience. Yes, I'm human enough to take pride in his inscription, but more than that it reveals the absolute truth about the collaboration of composers and improvisors. One may improvise to his heart's content, but the listener cannot fully appreciate the magic of the stylists and their improvisations unless they take flight around a theme or melody with which the listener is already familiar. Only then is their work understood, and all their flights take on a new meaning when they have a base, or perhaps I should say "bass," to depart from and come home to. It was an improvisation of a traditional vamp that was responsible for my first hit, "Get Happy." That melody has been the base for many original inventions, and I bow to the superb talents of the men in this volume who have collaborated (although they may not know it) with many a song writer in keeping their songs interestingly alive. Let no one who thinks he knoW~-«1lything about jazz improvisation or the various piano styles that have evolved through the years slough off this volume as something to rest in a dusty archive. Jazz is distinguished by its urgent vitality, and it seems to me that the author has captured this special quality of jazz by chOOSing the individualists - the innovators; for in every generation there are those who follow and the blessed few who lead. It is quite unusual to find one so devoted, knowledgeable, and unstinting as John Mehegan in his efforts to bring musical order to this most driving, unique, and universal art form so lovingly shared by so many.
Harold Arlen New York City
1962
INTRODUCTION Volume II of Jazz Improvisation deals with the schematic history of two important facets of jazz: 1. Rhythm 2. The improvised line It is in the areas of rhythm that the jazzman has achieved his most magnificent expression; it is in the improvised line that he has given this rhythm vitality and mea:ping. As the jazz musician calls forth his resources of imagination, technique, and taste to generate that elusive quality called swing, he also learns that the sum total of the resources he deals with eventually are transformed into the common denominator of all jazz rhythm. Volume I of Jazz Improvisation explored the tonal aspects of this problem. The present volume deals first with the rhythmic genesis of improvisation, and second with reproductions of outstanding recordings created by jazz musicians over the past thirty-five years. Various schematic outlines trace the evolution of jazz rhythm, harmony, and the improvised line. The subject of jazz rhythm has been of major concern to all jazzmen throughout the history of the art form. Jazzmen usually refer to jazz rhythm in all its manifestations as time. Time encompasses all of the aspects of tempo, beat, pulse, and, above all, the elusive element called swing. For one jazzman to acknowledge that another jazzman swings is to confer the highest accolade. What is swing? Tempo may be metronomically determined; pulse and meter rest within the notation of a composition; but the swing or lack of swing of a performance is very. difficult to evaluate objectively. The performance of a Bach Fugue, a Strauss waltz, a Sousa march, or a rhythm and blues recording - each can be said to swing within its own context. The problem of evaluating the swing of a jazz performance lies in recognizing the multiple levels of pulsation which must converge in the performance to create swing. MELODIC SWING: The presence or absence of swing in an improvised line is determined by the following factors: 1. Relationship of improvisi~g units (eighth, sixteenth, thirty-second notes) to the basic beat. 2. Punctuation in relation to stresses within the bar. 3. Punctuation in relation to the bar-line.
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4. Constant transitions from unit to unit (eighth, sixteenth, eighthnote triplet to thirty-second, etc.) to sustain melodic interest. S. Direction changes within a phrase in order to avoid one-directional runs. " 6. Accent placements capable of falling at any point of opposition to the basic pulse. 7. Interesting interval textures employing all units of the interval span from the minor second t-o the major ninth. 8. . Constant tonal transitions from release (modal) to tension (nonmodal) or the opposite transition (tension to release). The resulting line, by constantly alternating between these two factors, will avoid the oppressive monotony of total release (modal) or total tension (non-modal). It is well to remember that the ear (like all sensory organs) functions on a premise of Opposition, i.e. release is non-tension, tension is non-release. One can only exist effectively by the presence of the other. 9. Constant transitions between ·tile basic quallty 'tones of a chord (root, third, fifth, and seventh) and the ornamental tones (ninth, eleventh, and thirteenth). 10. Use of sequence, retrograde motion, diminution, and augmentation to enhance musical order. 11. Use of dynamiCS in order to clearly establish the rise and fall of musical sentences. 12. Contrasting touch or tonal timbres in order to achieve an emotional palette. ((
HARMONIC SWING: The swing of a harmonic progression or chord chart can hardly be underestimated, since it is the transmission belt of any jazz performance. Harmonic swing is essentially based upon the procession of patterns appearing in a tune. (See Volume I, Lesson 62, 63, 64). These circles of fifths, diatonic and chromatic patterns have all evolved from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic traditions and represent a distillation of the harmonic deSigns most conducive to a propelling beat. A badly organized chord chart may quite easily dispel the effectiveness of a jazz performance that might otherwise (melodically and rhythmically) possess the necessary qualifications of swing. The circle of fifllis, of course, takes precedence over either diatonic or chromatic deSigns in creating harmonic swing. The reason for this lies in a fundamental fact of all tonality namely that the basic cadence design of the circle of fifths (II - V - I) is the most effective means of establishing harmonic tension, which demands
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an inevitable resolution. Orderly diatonic and chromatic patterns act primarily as connective material joining the circle of fifths. Chromatic harmonic designs usually possess the tension of inevitable resolution more than diatonic patterns and are often employed as "substitute" structures for the circle of fifths: For instance: Circle pattern: III - VIx - II - V - I Chromatic substitute: III - bIIIx - II - bIIx - I The subject of "substitute" chords is one that consumes the interest of many immature jazz musicians, who seem to feel that the acquisition of a few "substitute" chords will automatically transform them into developed performers. The term "substitute" as used by these people actually means the correct chords for a jazz chart, as opposed to the incorrect chords often appearing in sheet music or numerous "fake" books. This whole .idea is, of course, an illusory one that only at best can "patch up" an otherwise faltering array of resources. The only authentic "substitute" chord is the chromatic substitute for the circle of fifths (bIIIx for VIx), the so-called "augmented fourth substitute." A correct chord cannot under any circumstances be considered a "substitute" for an incorrect chord. RHYTHMIC SWING: Music theorists have usually centered their interest upon the rhythmic aspects of jazz, since they have quite correctly established that the jazzman has not been an innovator in the areas of harmony and melody. In the realm of · voicing existing harmonic materials, jazz pianists have been singularly inventive (i.e. Tatum, Wilson, Powell, and Shearing). But for the most part jazzmen have been content to borrow their tonal resources from such diverse areas as Lutheran hymns and Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps As indicated in the introductory notes to Volume I, the rhythmic engine found in all jazz, regardless of period or style, is a form of florid counterpoint involving three levels of time. Each level represents one of the three basic elements of all music:
j-
melodic time
J-
harmonic time
J - rhythmiC time
As indicated in Volume I and further explored in the present volume, the melodic and harmonic units both employ a number of variables ranging on the melodic level from .d on the harmonic level
J to} ...
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J
from to 0-0--00 It is in the creative use of these variables that the ordinary harmonic and rhythmic resoltrces of jazz are transformed into the sensuality, the lyricism, the pathos, and the savagery of the art form. Probably the most representative point of view of the serious musician toward the question of jazz rhythm has been expressed by Igor Stravinsky· • Responding to an inquiry by Robert Craft concerning his attitude toward jazz, Stravinsky expressed an admiration tinged with affection for the virtuosity 9f jazz musicians. He also pOinted out that jazz is by far the finest form of popular musical culture in America today. One curious comment of Stravinsky's which seemed to reveal his attitude toward jazz rhythm, was his statement that jazz rhythm did not "really exist" since it possessed neither "proportion" nor "relaxation:' Actually, jazz rhythm falls into two basic segments: j,
SUPERSTRUCTURE (melodic and harmonic units and their variables) SUBSTRATUM (basic pulse or beat) Tnte, the basic pulse or beat, by definition, is without "proportion" or "relaxation;" however, the superstructure of melodic and harmonic variables is, by definition, constantly subject to the identical concepts of "proportion" and "relaxation" that prevail in serious music. The fact that these levels of "proportion" and "relaxation" are not always maintained · is part of the relentless diScipline of the art form, which, as in all art forms, takes its toll of faltering heros. This can never in any way repudiate the absolutes (relative to style and period) established by such master figures as Armstrong, Beiderbecke, Hawkins, Goodman, Tatum, Parker and Powell. This brings us to the second section of this present volume dealing with a schematic history of the improvised line. , The final and most severe commitment of the jazz musician is to "blow a line" on the changes of a tune. This line should represent an imaginative design built upon the rhythmic, harmonic, and melodic inflections implicit in the composition. Volume II will document some of the greatest lines played in the thirty-five years from 1923 to 1958. Each period produces its own monumental achievements of the improvised line, which in time become a pOint of departure for succeeding generations. For convenience, it is well to use the following period breakdown. -Igor StraVinsky and Robert Craft, Conversations with Igor Stravill.sky (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., 1959).
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ARCHAIC: 1875-1915 gospel songs work songs hollers medicine shows minstrels ragtime blues
Bunny Berigan Vic Dickenson Benny Goodman Benny Carter Johnny Hodges Coleman Hawkins Chu Berry Ben Webster Harry Carney NE\V ORLEANS: 1915-1925 Charlie Christian Louis Armstrong Django Reinhardt King Oliver Red Norvo Nick LaRocca Hershel Evans Jelly Roll Morton EARLY PROGRESSIVES: 1940-1948 Kid Ory Bud Powell Honore Dutrey Dizzy Gillespie Leon Rapallo Miles Davis Johnny Dodds Bill Harris Jimmie Noone Charlie Parker Bessie Smith J. J. Johnson CHICAGO: NEW YORK: 1925-1935 Stan Hasselgard Earl Hines Lester Young Serge Chaloff James P. Johnson Fats Waller LATER PROGRESSIVES: 1948-1958 Bix Beiderbecke Horace Silver Miff Mole Oscar Peterson Jack Teagarden Hampton Hawes Frank Teschemacher Chet Baker Pee M'tRussell Clifford Brown Bud Freeman Bob Brookmeyer Eddie Lang Lee Konitz Jimmy Harrison John Coltrane Tommy Ladnier Gerry Mulligan Tal Farlow SWING: 1935-1940 George Shearing _ Art Tatum Stan Getz Teddy Wilson Roy Eldridge Milt Jackson Instruments represented in the above outline include trumpet; piano; trombone; alto, tenor, and baritone saxophones; clarinet; xylophone; Vibraphone; and the human voice. Instruments auxiliary to the improvised line (bass, drums, etc.) and those upon which no major developments have occurred (Bute, organ, etc.) have been omitted.
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That this list of the melodic giants of jazz is incomplete is immediately obvious to even the casual reader. Most people naturally feel that anyone they like is very good and a candidate for the jazz Valhalla, but the exigencies of history are fortunately a little more demanding, primarily because in retrospect the contribution is distilled from the performance. The average listener is rightfully concerned with the immediate performance and has little patience or interest in the eventual, dry summingup. The author is solely responsible for the arbitrary selections herein, and he feels that the reader rightfully deserves some explanation of the pitfalls, whimSies, and, above all, prejudices of the author. First, it is believed in this quarter that the lyrical line abounding in sensitive melodies and harmonic inflection, in addition to that elusive element swing, is the most demanding, most rare, and most important element in jazz. Respectfully excluded are all types of styles based upon slurs, growls, wa-waing, honking, or slap-tongue. Furthermore, styles employing in an essential way the use of plungers,haU-valve, mutes, or hats expressing some degree of bathos, onomatopoea, or some such figures of musical speech, have been omitted on the grounds of being either too specifiC or too topical. Many melodic instruments upon which jazz can be played have been ignored on the basic grounds that no major achievement has been initially presented on such instruments and also on the further basis that just as there are major and minor figures in jazz, so there are major and minor instruments, and major figures tend to play major instruments probably because they offer a wider spectrum of sound and emotion. In the labyrinthian maze of the jazz discography, which had its inception in 1921 and has flourished into a multi-million dollar industry, the historian faces a tremendous task of ferreting out some continuity of development in the art form. Who are the major figures, the minor figures, the innovators, the consolidators, the creators, the contributors, the popularizers, the recreators? What is the mainstream; which are the tributaries? Where are the lines of influence? For one thing, the lines of influence crisscross from one instrument to another: Louis Armstrong to Earl Hines; Benny Carter to Teddy Wilson; Art Tatum to Charlie Parker; Charlie Parker to Bud Powell; Horace Silver to Chet Baker. Actually, new, fresh, completely original ideas in any art form are extremely rare. In a sense, the entire history of jazz could probably be summed up with three names: Armstrong, Hawkins, and Parker. But this would telescope the entire history of jazz to a dusty litany of unrelated «g'Iants" • With the spate of reissues in recent years, precious 78's and even cylinders and piano rolls have been faithfully re-recorded on LP's which re14
moves living moments of jazz history from archives and collections, making them available for the general public. Many apocryphal figures come to mind who could never be recorded and whose art remains a legend Buddy Bolden, Porter King, Emmet Hardy, and Tony Jackson. Others like Freddie Keppard, Bunk Johnson, Alphonse Picou, and Larry Shields, who were recorded long after their prime, remain shadowy figures of a dim past. Still other tragic figures like Leon Rappalo, Joe Smith, Bix Beiderbecke, Hershal Evans, Fats Navarro, Clifford Brown, and Wardell Gray were stilled by permanent illness or untimely death. Important contributors or consolidators like Henry "Red" Allen, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Shavers, Buck Clayton, Harry Edison, Lucky Thompson, Orner Simeon, Zoot Sims, Sonny Stitt, Jess Stacy, Bobby Hackett, Shorty Rogers, John Lewis, Frankie Newton, Joe Sullivan, and Mary Lou Williams have been excluded due to the exigencies of space. Although it is a truism that a creator is seldom if ever excelled by one of his diSciples, the very term "creator" is open to question. By definition a creator must transcend (Parker, Mole, Armstrong), consolidate (Peterson, Wilson, Noone), alter (Silver, Davis, Konitz), or even demolish (Powell, Young, Eldridge) previous levels of expression. Each creator does not arbitrarily choose the role to be followed; rather this role is assigned by history. At the same time no creator alone can make his achievement; he is constantly aided by figures of probably less stature who often pOint the way toward a new imaginative level. From this point of view, the sum total of these minor figures is extremely important and refutes the myth of the solitary "cultural hero." To assume that the best of jazz has been captured on records is, of course, ridiculous; and the painful remembrance which we all have felt of past, lost. moments only pOints up the inescapable silence of history. Like any art form, jazz displays an inevitable dialectic toward more comprehenSive modes of expression - but it is also well to keep in mind that any invidious comparisons in which one period (either the earliest or the latest) is chosen as an absolute of expression in distinction to another period, or all other periods, is to miss completely the intrinsic worth of every period. It must be remembered that each line chosen is a fair representation of the finest conception for that particular period, and in no way is to be deemed a series of progreSSive steps from bad to good or inept to skilled. The obvious extension and refinement of skills and techniques must be thought of as representative of a comparable progressive extension of feeling and thinking on the part of the successive generation of people who listened to this music.
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H a King Oliver chorus seems archaic and limited to a modem listener, it is well to remember that Charlie Parker would have appeared as incomprehensible emotionally and intellectually to the audiences atChleago's Lincoln Gardens in 1928. This is the natural evolution of any art form, and if the art form possesses an intrinsic worth, eac~ period should retain some permanent value relative to all periods besides its absolute value to its own particular space-time. In other words, Armstrong's "Potato Head Blues" should and does possess a universality for all periods. This universality will probably never completely recapture the excitement of the moment of creation, but some permanent verity must always reside in Louis' achievement. Here, then, is a book which permanently records the evolution of the improvised line and the history of jazz rhythm with the hope that future generations may find here knowledge to aid them in their efforts toward continuing and deepening the jazz art. .
JOHN-MEHEGAN
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SECTION
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Jazz Rhythm LESSON
1. General
All jazz involves three levels of time (rhythmic pulsation) played simultaneously against each other. It is the constant conflict of these three time levels and their superimpositions which results in the endless tension present in jazz. The idea of rhythmic "counterpoint" is, of course, present in all music (Western and Eastern), so that this fact alone would not account for the unique qualities associated with jazz. However, jazz deals almost exclusively with a specific relationship of time values which immediately distinguishes it from a large segment of other musical forms. This specific relationship of time values can best be expressed through their application to melody, harmony, and rhythm. As a general statement, it can be said that all jazz from 1900 to the present day has employed the following ratio of time values: 1. A quarter-note pulse. the rhythmic unit, representing the rhythmic center of gravity of any jazz performance. 2. A slower set of time values representing the harmonic unit (half...note) . 3. A-tftticker set of time values representing the melodic unit (eighthnote). In Lesson 34 of Volume I, we learned that the melodic unit employs variables ranging from eighth-note to thirty-second-note. This range was incomplete and was established for study purposes. The following outline illustrates the variables for the three basic units which have been employed through the years from New Orleans polyphony to modem jazz. ELEMENT
VARIABLES
UNIT
Melodic
eighth-note
0,
J, J,
Harmonic.
half-note
J,
0,
Rhythmic
quarter-note
OQ,
none
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'3'
'3'
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00-0-0
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In the above outline, dotted values are assumed to be included; syncopation will be discussed in a later lesson. As we trace the history of jazz, we find that the rhythmic unit has
seldom if ever varied through the course of some sixty years. We will also discover in.this and succeeding lessons that the harmonic and melodic variables have gradually expanded through the years from the complex to the more complex. It is also apparent that the rhythmic «assignments" for certain jazz
instruments· have drastically changed -- some -to the point of altering the role of the instrument from one level of time to another; INSTRUMENT
BEFORE
NOW
Piano
rhythmic
harmonic
Bass
harmonic
rhythmic
Guitar
rhythmic
melodic ana/.,9r rhythmic
Drums
rhythmic
melodic and/or rhythmic
RHYTHMIC SUPERIMPOSITION
As the range of variables has increased on the melodic and harmonic levels, so also has the superimposition of these units and their variables, one level over another. The idea of rhythmic superimposition has always existed in jazz and can even be found in examples of archaic folk idioms. For instance:
Fig. 1.
Melodic Superimposition
J J J J J J J J
BarmoD1c UD1t
II
Rhythmlc UD1t
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V
4 4
Fig. 2. 3
3
3
3
Melodic Superimposition
J J J JJ J J J JJ JJ
Harmonic Unit
n
12 8
v
Rhythmic Unit
These functional superimpositions have existed in jazz and pre-jazz for probably 75 years. The first example is common to nearly all boogiewoogie; the second is common to archaic folk guitar and remains the rhythmic staple of rock and roll. Sometimes the superimposed factor is the rhythmic unit (quarternote), which may appear on either the melodic level (especially Armstrong and Beiderbecke) Fig. 3; or on the harmonic level (especially TatumWilson swing bass) Fig. 4. Fig. 3.
Rhythmic Superimposition
J.
Melodic Unit_ Harmonic Unit
n
v
t
- Rhythmic Unit
In Fig. 3 the rhythmic superimposition over the melodic unit was employed by Armstrong and Beiderb~cke to build the rhythmiC tension later to be released into the eighth-note melodic unit. It is of course apparent that the major superimpositions in rhythmic units have been melodic over ·harmonic (Fig. 1 and 2) and in relation to 19
the piano the gradual transition from a rhythmic to a harmonic and finally, a melodic instrument. Melodic over rhythmic has played a major role in the emergence of modem drumming (e.g. the drum solo). The necessary "static" value of the harmonic unit has resulted in few displacements to the other levels. Fig. 5 is a broad outline of the essential displacements of each level. Fig. 4. Melodic UDlt
J J J J J J J J
Rhythmic Superimposition
J
J
BarmoDlc UDlt
n
V
J
Rbythm1c UDlt
Fig. 5. Superimposition Chart Melodic over harmonic: Boogie-woogie (Fig. 1) 12/8 time (rock and roll) (Fig. 2) Modem solo piano Locked hands New Orleans clarinet obligato Left hand arpeggiation Banjo Melodic over rhythmic: Wood block or cymbal Drum solo Rhythmic over melodic: New Orleans - Chicago "ride out" (Fig. 3) Rhythmic over harmonic: Guitar Ragtime Swing bass "Walking" bass lines ErroIl Gamer (left hand "strumming" in quarter-note units)
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(Swing Bas.)
t 4 4
The device of superimposition of one level over another raises the question as to what is a melodic, harmonic, or rhythmic instrument. Although each instrument in a jazz group (except the drum) is concerned with harmonic materials, there actually is no such thing as a harmonic instrument in jazz (the exception might be the New Orleans trombone). In each case the harmonic materials are transformed into melodic or rhythmic elements. In essence, all factors ultimately emerge as rhythmic. The follOWing designations indicate the roles of the basic jazz instruments in the history of jazz: NelD Orleans: Melodic: cornet (1) Melodic-Harmonic: clarinet comet (2) banjo· Harmonic: trombone Rhythmic-Harmonic: piano tuba-bass Rhythmic: drums
-The banjo represents a curious anomaly of factors: It is essentially a "harmonic" instrument it utilizes "melodic" units)J, yet it is traditionay considered a component of the "rhythmic" section ~
d'
Chicagot: M~lodic: trumpet Melo
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tThe term "Chicago" refers to the small polyphonic ensembles existing from 1924 to 1932. The New York scene of the "'20's" is generally one of experimentation with resources destined to become the large ensemble structure of the "'30's." The unique development of the Ellington band is beyond the scope of this book.
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Swing: Melodic: brass or reeds Melodic-Harmonic: brass or reeds Rhythmic-Harmonic: piano guitar bass Rhythmic: drums Progressive: Melodic: saxophone-trumpet unison Melodic-Harmonic: piano Rhythmic-Harmonic: bass Rhythmic: drums
At no time should this material be interpreted as indicating a general progress from "bad" to "good" (as some believe) or "good" to "bad" (as others believe). Each style portrays emotions and feelings in context to its particular space-time. Armstrong's "West End -Mues" is as valid as Parker's "Koko," and Beiderbecke's "Singin' the Blues'~~is comparable to either of the previously mentioned performances. Each represents a milestone of achievement in context to a particular period, style, and point of view. SUMMARY: Jazz is an improvised indigenous American folk music employing eighth-, half-, and quarter-note rhythmic units moving through a diatonic system of harmony in 4/4 time. LESSON
2. Tempo
Tempo in jazz has always been a primary consideration for the performer in choosing the pulsation best suited for "swing" and urgency. However, tempo has often been affected by factors not directly connected with rhythm, such as individual virtuosity. A performer naturally chooses a tempo which will allow him to achieve his ideas with clarity and precision. In this case, a tempo might be considered "too slow" if the performer felt unable to create the necessary "ideas" to fill the large spatial areas created by a "slow" tempo. On the other hand, a tempo would probably be considered "too fast" if the performer's ability with the eighth-note unit, the sine qua non, were over-taxed. Two other factors extraneous to the performer come into play in determining tempo:
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1. Social function 2. Prevailing harmonic materials Social functions such as the New Orleans funerals and weddings, also prevailing dance styles (Charleston, Lindy, etc.), may determine to a large extent the permissible tempo range. Prevailing harmonic materials (the chord chart) also affect tempo. If a chord chart employs long sustained harmonic units (c:>ooo ), a certain pulsation rate must be maintained in order to achieve any urgency. On the other hand, the use of quick harmonic units ( tJ tJ ~ ~ ) would neceslSarily mean some moderation in tempo in oraer for the perfo~er to ·'realize"· each chord.
J J.I
The following outline illustrates the history of tempo in jazz from the early Twenties to the present day. In each case the metronome marking (mm) refers to the rhythmiC unit (quarter-note). These estimates are based on arbitrary samplings and indicate only the general trends.
New Orleans Groups Average- rom -
J
(1920-1928 ) -.-:. 166.7
=
Tempo span
104 -
Aver:rge mm -
J
Tempo span -
J=
= 179 108 --'-
J=
264
(1924-1940 )
New York Swing Bands Average rom -
J
= 213
Tempo span -
J
-
Progressive Groups
Tempo span -
248
(1924-1930)
Chicago Groups
Average mm -
J=
80-J =324 (1942-1960 )
J J
= =
184.5
44-
J =360
Many conclusions can be drawn from the above outline:
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Tempo averages gradually increased until the Progressive period when a noticeable decline occurred. There were many reasons for this decline in the Forties. a) More complex harmonic materials b) Growing emphasis on mood and formal structure c) A probing of the "slow sound barrier" (below mm; -= 1(0) to hitherto unheard areas (rom ~ - 44) d) General abandonment of the eighth-note as the sole improvising unit with an accompanying exploration of the sixteenth-note triplet and thirty-second-note at slower tempi; trend toward introspection e) The "fast sound barrier" ( ~ -= 3(0) has maintained to some extent, but the average drops because of the slow tempi. (Note: the fastest recorded solo known to the author is "Indiana" by Oscar Peterson (~- 360 ) Contrary to popular opinion, Chicago jazz was not much faster than New Orleans jazz; the tradition from Chicago to Swiftg is much more accelerated. The tempo spans of the New Orleans and:-Ghicago groups are fairly similar. The explanation of the "fast" Chicago myth may lie in the fact that the levels of mUSiCianship in the Chicago groups were uneven and the slower efforts have not withstood the ravages of time, whereas the "enthusiastic" quicker tempi have survived. · This dictum would of course exclude Beiderbecke, Trumbauer, Lang, and "Miff' Mole. It is doubtful if the modem tempo span of ;.., 44-360 can be broadened. Below mm~ -44, "swing" becomes questionable; above mm ~ -360 would seem to tax human limitation and probably also the possibilities of "swing."
LESSON
3. Melodic Time Values
As previously indicated, the melodic instruments (trumpet, clarinet, saxophone) have from the beginning enjoyed the most freedom in terms of rhythmic units (eighth-note - thirty-second-note). The following outline illustrates the over-all development of the melodic time unit in the improvised line: UNIT RANGE
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POLYPHONY In jazz, the ternl polyphony usually refers to the superimposing (see Lesson 1) of the melodic unit over the harmonic unit to form a countermelody, obligato, or ornamentation to the melodic voices or melody. The classic prototype of this device is, of course, the clarinet obligato found in the New Orleans ensembles: ________________________________ Cornet 1 --------------__________________ Cornet 2 (obligato) --_-------------- _______________ Clarinet obligato In general, the superimposed melodic unit in New Orleans polyphony is of a quicker value than the prevailing melodic unit. This would be true of both the comet 2 obligato and the clarinet obligato.
CHICAGO POLYPHONY
Chicago polyphony is more florid than its New Orleans antecedent and is usually held up to question for its disorderly ebullience. This is a judgment beyond the scope of this text, although it should be noted that the rampant individualism of the Chicago ensembles was an inevitable re~ult of the expanding concepts .of melody, harmony, and rhythm. Also, it should be remembered that the art form had to move toward more person.iI ar~as of expression and eventually escape from the prison of New Orleans' rOf~alism. Armstrong himself, in the "Hot Five" and "Hot Seven" recordings, was a leading figure in this movement.
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NEW ORLEANS
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The appearance of the snare drum in both categories is to account for the qUicker values (press-rolls, etc.) and the rhythmic pulse of quarternotes. The accented quarter-notes on beats 2 and 4 will be treated in the section dealing with syncopation.
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t
CHICAGO
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SWING Melodic
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PROGRESSIVE
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The major developments indicated by this outline are as follows: NEW ORLEANS TO CHICAGO:
1. The abandonment by the trombone of the only pure harmonic role in jazz and its emergence as a melodic-harmonic instrument. 2. The introduction of the saxophone as a major jazz instrument. 3. The emergence of the piano as a major melodic-harmonic instrument.
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4. Abandonment of the wood-block; introduction of both the "ride" cymbal and the Low-Boy cymbal. S. Partial abandonment of group polyphony and emergence of the hero-improvisor. CHICAGO TO SWING
1. Development of brass and reed sections playing in ensemble. 2. Quarter-note unit adopted by bass (Wellman Braud). 3. Introduction of the Hi-Hat cymbal. 4. Introduction of the melodic-rhythmic figure on the "ride" cymbal and the Hi-Hat cymbal. S. Abandonment of the banjo; introduction of the guitar. 6. Introduction of accented 2 and 4 beats on Hi-Hat cymbal and "ride" cymbal. SWING TO PROGRESSIVE
1. Return to small-group polyphony with homophonic ( unison) innovations. 2. Development of melodic-harmonic role of the piano. 3. Emergence of the bass as the sole rhythmiC instrument. Appearance of the bass as an important solo instrument. 4. Melodic-rhythmic innovations of drums which ceased to be the primary rhythmic instrument.
LESSON
4. Harmonic Time Values
The history of jazz hannony concerns the dynamiC changes effected on three levels: 1. The rhythmic procession of the chord qualities. 2. The expanding quality system joined with an equivalent expanding chromaticism. 3. The gradual abandonment of an inversion system based on the biad in favor of a root-position seventh-chord concept.
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The following bass lines are representative charts of the New Orleans. Chicago. Swing. and Progressive periods. T indicates a triad (root, third, fifth. ) NEW ORLEANS
"Dippermouth Blues"
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"Mandy Lee Blues"
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VI 2 Vlx I I1x V / I VIx I I1x V / I T 1/
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CHICAGO
"Singing The Blues" pick-up
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"I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate"
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I WISH I COULD SHIMMY LIKE MY SISTER KATE-Armand Used by special permission of copyright owner Jerry Vogel Music Company, Inc., New York 86, N. Y.
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JAZZ ME BLUESCopyright 1921 by Edward B. Marks Music Corporation Renewed and assigned to Edward B. Marks Music Corporation Used by permission.
SWING
"Oh, Lady Be Good" 4.
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OH, LADY BE GOODCopyright 1924 by New World Music Corporation Used by permission.
"Just You, Just Me" 4.
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JUST YOU, JUST ME - Lyric by Raymond Klages - Music by Jesse Greer © Copyright 1929-Copyright Renewal 1957 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., New York, N. Y. All rights controlled by Robbins Music Corporation, New York. Used by permission.
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"Tea For Two" (Ab)
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"Whispering'"
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WHISPERING - Words and Music by John Schonberger, Richard Coburn. Vincent Rose @ Copyright 1920-Copyright Renewal 1948 Miller Music Corporation, New York, N. ~. Used by permission.
PROGRESSNE
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THE NEW ORLEANS-CHICAGO TRANSITION
1. Abandonment of the triadic system in favor of seventh chord concepts. This meant a transition from a harmonic system composed of the follOwing factors: to one composed of: maior triad maior added sixth chord minor triad dominant seventh diminished triad minor seventh dominant seventh diminished seventh The hill-diminished chord appeared for the first time in this transition but was sparingly employed only in the second inversion. 2. A strong development toward the use of inversions can be explained by an emerging modal scale and arpeggio ·concept increasingly employed by tuba and bass players. 3. A general abandonment of the basic 0 - 0 New Orleans Chicago himnonic unit in addiharmonic unit in favor of the basic 0 tion to the occasional use of the emerging harmonic unit. .
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4. Abandonment of the IIx (the New Orleans preparation for V) in favor of the natural diatonic U (minor). S. Chicago use of III and IIIx usually not present in New Orleans style. 6. Some expanding use of keys. The C, G, F, Bb, Eb spectrum of New Orleans jazz was extended to Ab, Db, and D in the Chicago period.
THE CHICAGO-SWING TRANSITION 1. The emergence of chromatic harmony in the extended use of such non-diatonic factors .as bVIIx, bVm, bV4>, bUIx. 2. Partial disappearance of the x : inversion. All root pOSition dominants prepared by the minor or half-diminished chord a perfect fifth above. Initial use of the ~ inversion. 3. Initial appearance of the major seventh chord and the root-position half-diminished chord - the final emergence of the sixty chord system. 4. Appearance of modulation in the jazz bass line. S. Elementary twelve key facili~. 6. Consolidation of the
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7. Appearance of the professional songwriter, a specialized craftsman challenging the performing cliches of the jazz musician. THE SWING-PROGRESSIVE TRANSITION 1. Appearance of advanced twelve key facility. 2. Further exploration of the
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3. Initial exploration of the minor scale-tone seventh chords (see Lesson 65, Volume I). 4. Full development of the half-diminished (the sensual seventh) chord (see Lesson 4). 5. Total disappearance of the triadic inversion accompanied by a general adoption of the circle of fifths. 6. Appearance of bIIx (modem variant of the Neapolitan Sixth) as a substitute chord for V. 7. Expanding vertical concepts of harmony utilizing polytonal structures. 8. Exploration of the
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Post-bop explorations of non-diatonic and asymmetrical resources have not in general been consolidated into any permanent achievement justifying inclusion here. This is not to dismiss these endeavors, but simply to state a general position of this text to deal only with enduring diatonic development~ conceived in 4/4 time.
LESSON
5. Syncopation
Jazz syncopation may be sub-divided into the following categories: 1. Simple syncopation involving accent only. 2. Compound syncopation involving notation (tied notes and rest values) and accent.
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The syncopated unit here is the UP BEAT ACCENT (Fig. 1), the hallmark of all jazz; the universal catalyst identifying this music in all its rhythmic, sensual, ethnic, and psychological implications. This syncopation has at times been implied (New Orleans), explicit (Chicago, Swing), or concealed (Progressive), but its presence has never and probably, as long as there is jazz, will never decline. Its essence is quite simple - the constant interruption of the eternal symmetry of one, the beginning of melody, harmony, and rhythm.
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This is a familiar device employed by all jazz musicians. The accented sub-divisions of the eighth-note and the sixteenth-note are the usual areas of this technique. The thirty-second-note is usually treated .as an uninterruptedflorid design to effect a contrast with the interrupted eighth- and sixteenth-note.
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TRIPLE 8/8 TIME Fig. 5 illustrates a normal duple procession of eighth-notes. Fig. 6 illustrates these tones played with an internal accent of three. This design is most effective when the accented tone appears above the two unaccented tones (Fig. 7).
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SECTION II The improvised line (1923-1958)
NEW ORLEANS "Gin House Blues": Bessie Smith Columbia CL 1036 Troy-Henderson "High Society": Johnny Dodds Folkways FP 57 Joe Oliver "Dippermouth Blues": Joe Oliver Riverside RLP 12-122 Armstrong-Oliver
"West End Blues": Louis Armstrong Columbia CL 853 Joe Oliver "Muggles" : Louis Armstrong Columbia CL 853 Armstrong-Hines "Basin Street Blues": Louis Armstrong Columbia CL 852 Spencer Williams
CHICAGO "Sweet Sue": Bix Beiderbecke Columbia CL 509 Victor Young "Singin' The Blues": Bix.. .Beiderbecke Col~ia CL 845 Robinson-Conrad "Original Dixieland One Step": Miff Mole Folkways FP 67 Nick LaRocca SWING "Mter You've Gone": Roy Eldridge Okeh 6278 Klenner
"There'll Be Some Changes Made": Frank Teschemacher Folkways FP 65 Overstreet <'I'm Comin' Virginia": Bix Beiderbecke Columbia CL 845 Heywood-Cook "Jazz Me Blues": Bix Beiderbecke Folkways FP 65 T. Delaney "Soft Winds" (blues in Ab): Benny Goodman Columbia CL 1036 Benny Goodman 59
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"Sweet Sue": Teddy Wilson Victor LPM 1226 Victor Young "Aunt Hager's Blues~: Art Tatum .Capitol T 216 W. C. Handy
"Crazy Rhythm": Benny Carter-Coleman Hawkins Victor EP 447-0167 Meyer and Kahn
EARLY PROGRESSIVE ""Just You, Just Me": Lester Young Keynote 603B J. Greer eel Can't Get Started": Dizzy Gillespie Columbia CL 1036 Ira Gershwin, Vernon Duke "Half-Nelson" ("Lady Bird"): Miles Davis Savoy MG 12009 "Tadd" Dameron
"Nice Work IT You Can Get It": Bud Powell Roost RLP 401 Geot8e Gershwin "Koko'l ("Cherokee"): Charlie Parker Savoy 12079 Ray Noble "Just Friends": Charlie Parker Clet 675 Lewis-Klenner
LATE PROGRESSIVE "Lover Man": Lee Konitz Pacific Jazz LP-2 Davis-Ramirez-Sherman "All The Things You Are": Chet Baker Pacific Jazz PJ 1206 Jerome Kern "Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams": Stan Getz New Jazz 8214 Barris-Koehler-Moll
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"Ghost Of A Chance": Clifford Brown Emarcy MG 36008 Crosby-Washington-Young "Opus De Funk": Horace Silver Blue Note 1520 Horace Silver "I've Got The World On A String": Oscar Peterson Verve 8268 Harold Arlen
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The Jazz Improvisation Series
1. Tonal and Rhythmic Principles
By John .Mehegan Preface by Leonard Bernstein
The fundamental musical concepts used by every great jazz musician from Buddy Bolden to Dizzy Gillespie. Here for students, professional and amateur musicians, and serious jazz enthusiasts are more than 70 lessons that define and clearly systematize the basic principles of jazz-using more than 60 jazz standards as examples: "Laura," "Body and Soul," "Spring is Here," "Stella by St?lrlight," "Autumn in New York," "Round Midnight," and others by such leading composers as Gershwin, Rodgers, Porter, Ellington and Kern. "A highly important and valuable publication,"-Leonard Bernstein in the preface. "A great book ."-Dave Brubeck. "Fulfills a desperate need."-Oscar Peterson. "A most valuable volume ."-Andre Previn. "The finest organization of jazz material that I have seen." -Bill Evans .
2. Jazz Rhythm and the Improvised Line
Preface by Harold Arlen
A brilliant analysis and schematic history of these two supremely important facets of jazz. Many figured bass lines and solos are given for dozens of well·known tunes of all periods-"High Society," "Oh, Daddy Be Good," "Just You, Just Me," "I Can't Get Started," "Night in Tunisia," "Bernie's Tune" and others-as well as 29 transcriptions of performances recorded from 1923 to 1958 by such artists as Bessie Smith , Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Roy Eldridge, Art Tatum, Bud Powell , Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilles . , Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Horace Silver. "John Mehegan in this book continues the high standards of jazz teaching he has set previously in a field that needs these standards so badly."-Nat Hentoff.
3. Swing and Early Progressive Piano Styles
Preface by Horace Silver
An analysis of the great piano styles of 1936 to 1950, a period of creative ferment which saw the culmination of the rag·time tradition and its destruction and replacement by the innovations of the "bop" era . This volume examines the stylistic structure of over fifty major performances by the five greatest jazz pianists of the periodTeddy Wilson, Art Tatum , Bud Powell, George Shearing, Horace Silver~giving in unprecedented detail their extraordinary improvisations on the basic songs of the jazz repertoire. "Brings to the aspiring jazz musician a helping hand that will put him on the right track. " -Horace Silver in the preface.
4. Contemporary Piano Styles A rich, instructive survey of the history of jazz piano from 1950 to the present with clear and systematic analyses of the styles of such leading figures as Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans , George Shearing, Ahmad Jamal, Horace Silver, Red Garland, Cecil Taylor and many others. Abundant illustrations of left hand voicings, right hand modes, solo piano, comping, turn arounds, modern funky piano , harmonic distortions , modal fourths , minor blues, and modal fragments enable the student to apply modern devices to his personal style .
John Meheaan, jazz pianist, teacher and critic, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and first
played the piano at tne age of five. His distinguished career as a jazz educator began in 1945, when he became Teddy Wilson's assistant at the Metropolitan Music School in New York. The following year, he was appointed head of the school's jazz department. In 1947, Mr. Mehegan was named jazz instructor at the Juilliard School of Music. He taught privately for over 25 years. He also taught at the Yale School of Music. Mr. Mehegan's unmatched contribution to the literature of jazz includes not only his major series on jazz improvisation, but a unique series of jazz instruction books for elementary and secondary school students, entitled The Jazz Pianist. From 1957 to 1960, he was jazz critic for The New York Herald Tribune. He was a contributor to such magazines as Downbeat, Metronome, and The Saturday Review, and a reviewer for Jazz magazine. >ISBN 0-8230-2572-1
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