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Name three musical influences that may have led Miles Davis to experiment with the approach to jazz harmony presented on Milestones and Kind of Blue.

What is the instrumentation of a typical jazz organ trio?

How was this marching band instrumentation modified when the musicians began to play in dance halls and cabarets?

Lester Young’s playing featured… harmonically oriented arpeggiated melodic material and a light, near vibratoless tone. asymmetrical lyrical melodic phrases and a light, near vibratoless tone. harmonically oriented arpeggiated melodic material and a large tone featuring a wide vibrato. asymmetrical lyrical melodic phrases and a large tone featuring a wide vibrato.

What was the Tango Belt?

List three elements present in the music of the Ahmad Jamal Trio that were obvious influences on the 1956 Miles Davis Quintet.

What was the most momentous change that jazz underwent due to the innovations of Armstrong and Bechet?

What technological, social & economic developments allowed ragtime to be the first widespread popular music craze?

List three artists or groups associated with the ECM record label.

What are the two basic types of pieces in the repertoire of the 1956 Miles Davis Quintet?