研究生英语 课件.ppt

A Jazz Tradition
Unit 4
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Dizzy Gillespie
American jazz trumpet-player, a leading exponent of the "bop" style. After working with various other groups he formed his own in New York in 1944.
Charlie Parker (1920 -1955 )
American jazz saxophonist. In New York he played with some of the greatest name of jazz, including Thelonius Monk and Dizzy Gillespie and became one of the figures of the "be-bop" movement, making some classic recording with Miles Davis in 1945.
Benny Goodman (1909 -1986 )
American ist and jazz musician, who formed his own band in 1933. He was known as the "King of Swing" and his style started a new era in the history of jazz. His skill as a ist was not confined to jazz: Bartok, Hindemith, and Copland all, composed solo works for him, and he also gave distinguished performances of classical works.
Duke Ellington (1899 -1974 )
poser, pianist, and band-leader, the most distinctive and influential figure in the history of jazz. His band established its fame in the early 1930s, and some of its members remained with him for over 30 years. Ellington wrote over positions; his first world-wide ess was Mond Indigo (1930).
Count Basie (1904 -1984 )
American jazz bandleader. He took up the piano at an early age, looking to figures such as "fats" Waller and Willie, "the Lion" Smith for his models, and became famous as leader of his own "big band" from 1935.
Igor Stravinsky (1882 -1971)
Russian-poser. In 1910 he began his travels with Diaghilev's pany, composing for it the ballets The Firebird (1909-1910), Petrushka (1910-1911), and of course, The Rite of Spring (1911 -.1913), which shocked Paris with its angular rhythms and liberal use of dissonance. He was prevented from returning to his native land by the 1917 revolution, but many works of this period have their roots in Russian folk-song, notably another ballet Les Noces (1914-1923). He was fascinated also by the idio