The birthplace of free reeds seems to have been eastern Asia. There, it is typical to place a small free reed, made of metal or bamboo, into a bamboo tube cut to the appropriate length so that its air column resonates at the reed’s frequency, increasing the volume and allowing the player to allow it to sound ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1968–73) Fronted by charismatic Paul Rodgers, Free was a catalyst in the popular shift from blues-dominated rock to heavy-metal forms. Rodgers left Brown Sugar to form Free with guitarist Paul Kossoff, whose playing on the hit ‘All Right Now’ sealed its popularity in 1970. Not long thereafter, tensions and drug abuse began to weaken the ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1968–71, 1972–73) Comprising Paul Rodgers (vocals), Simon Kirke (drums), Paul Kossoff (guitar) and Andy Fraser (bass), Free made headlines in 1970. After two respected albums, Tons Of Sobs (1968) and Free (1969), had been promoted in Britain and, via a support slot to Eric Clapton’s supergroup Blind Faith, the States, their primal blues ...
, he said, ‘As much as I’ve played those tunes over the years, I still enjoy playing them. And because I know them so well, I’m very free with them. I’m just as free with them as when I’m playing no chords at all. That, to me, is free jazz.’ Personalities | Adrian Belew | ...
Green and Kossoff, based on their shared enthusiasm for the blues. Kossoff saw singer Paul Rodgers singing in the band Brown Sugar, which led to the formation of Free at the height of the British blues boom in 1968. Bassist Andy Fraser, another former Bluesbreaker, was recruited at the suggestion of pioneering blues musician Alexis Korner, ...
Free jazz is seen by many as an avant-garde art form rather than a type of jazz, with its unpredictable rhythm and chord progressions. Evolving out of bebop in the 1940s and 1950s the exponents of free jazz abandoned traditional forms to expand the music’s creative possibilities, challenging mainstream listeners and players alike. The first documented free jazz recordings ...
art on the cornet, including Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. It has continued to be a popular instrument in jazz – and has even been heard in bop and free jazz. Introduction | Brass Instruments Instruments | Flugelhorn | Brass ...
on the first beat of the next phrase. Longer solos can be built up by playing snare-drum rudiments around the kit, developing rhythms already played in the piece and free improvisation. Snare-drum rudiments are developed by splitting them between snare drum, bass drum and tom toms, by adding flams, drags and ruffs, and syncopated accented patterns. ...
combinations of instruments as tone-colour became more important. Miles Davis, the dominant figure of cool jazz, had at various times a nonet, a quintet and a sextet. Free jazz, a highly experimental type of jazz pioneered in the 1960s, often included unusual or bizarre instruments, such as the pocket-sized plastic trumpet of Don Cherry and ...
A small free-reed instrument, the harmonica, or mouth organ, is placed between the lips and moved to and fro to reach the rows of channels which house vibrating reeds, played by blowing into it. The arrival of the Chinese sheng in Europe in the eighteenth century encouraged a great deal of experimentation with free-reed instruments. In 1821 ...
are three pieces for harmonium (1845), and nothing in the chamber-music repertoire exceeds the charm and warmth of Dvořák’s delectable Bagatelles (Op. 47) for two violins, cello and harmonium. Free Reeds The harmonium belongs to the family of ‘free-reed’ instruments that includes not only the accordion and concertina but such ancient instruments as the near-universal jew’s harp and the sheng ...
The pocket-sized instruments known in English as jew’s harps (or in some periods of history trumps, and in French guimbardes), have no connection with Judaism – nor are they harps. A strip of bamboo or metal, in a frame of the same material, is twanged, and the oral cavity acts as an amplifying soundbox whose capacity can ...
cello part. It was rarely given a chance to shine by classical composers, but thanks to jazz the double bass found its voice with a vengeance, and was free to come out of the twilight into the limelight – even helping to kick off rock’n’roll on early Elvis tracks like ‘That’s All Right (Mama)’. Of all the orchestral stringed ...
be placed in to alter the trumpet’s length. Towards the end of the eighteenth century, designs for a keyed trumpet appeared. Operated with one hand, leaving the other free to hold the instrument, there were between four and six keys on a keyed trumpet, which opened up the entire chromatic range. In spite of concerti by such ...
by dancing masters. Various examples survive; they are also known as pochettes (‘pockets’), since they were small enough to be tucked away in the pocket when the master wanted to free his hands in order to demonstrate a few steps. Styles & Forms | Early Baroque | Classical Instruments | Viola | Early Baroque | Classical ...
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