Highly Recommended Listening for this workshop (songs in perentheses are ones we will likely play) Dave Allen Quartet – Real and Imagined, Untold Stories (Momentum, Samba 7, Out of the Trap, Real and Imagined, Sli pping Glimpser) Dave Holland – Extensions (Processional) Pat Metheny – Imaginary Day, Letter From Home Home (Have You Heard) Heard) Brad Mehldau - Art of of the Trio Vol 4 (All the Things You Are, Are, in 7/4) Steve Coleman – Rhythm People (Neutral Zone), The Tao of Mad Phat, Bl ack Science, or any Coleman CD (Listen to these for free at Steve Coleman's website: www.m-base.com www.m-base.com)) .html Furthur recommended listening: Fly – Fly Dave Holland Quintet – Prime Directive, Not For Nothing Ben Monder – Oceana, Excavation Brad Shepik – The Places You Go Drew Gress – Spin n’ Drift Mark Shim – Turbulent Flow Greg Osby - Inner Circle Bela Bartok – 6 String Quartets Vijay Iyer – Historicity Other resources: Creative Rhythmic Concepts for Jazz Improvisation by Ronan Guilfoyle Bruce Arnold's website has free lessons: http://www.arnoldjazz.com/works http://www.ar noldjazz.com/workshop/oddmeters.html hop/oddmeters.html
They include, Brad Mehldau, Jorge Rossy, Chris Cheek, Mark Turner, Joshua Redman, Kurt Rosenwinkle, Marc Miralta, and John Stetch. Harmonically and melodically speaking, jazz music has exhausted its resources because so much has been done with pitch. Accor ding ding to Weidenmueller, “because of the lack of harmonic development in the last 20 years in the language of jazz… because so much has been said already…the alread y…the rhythmic and metric language in the last 20 years has really developed a lot with playing in odd and uneven meters.” This is not to say that new, original melodies are unavailable. However, with the advent of arbitrary scales and free jazz, as well as drawing sources like classical, folk, rock, and even hip hop, the pallets for pitch have all been used.
These devices were also seen in the mid-twentieth century, used by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Lennie Tristano but were not fully full y incorporated into the language and developed further until much later. These devices were also seen in the mid-twentieth century, used by Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, and Lennie Tristano but were not fully full y
incorporated into the language and developed further until much later. Brad Mehldau, drummer Jorge Rossy, and bassist Mario Rossy, on the album When I Fall In Love, recorded in 1993 “It Might As Well Be Spring” Brad Mehldau Trio Introducing (1995) Larry Grenadier 280 bpm “Summertime” Joshua Redman Timeless Tales For Changing Times (1998) Larry Grenadier 298 bpm “All The Things You Are” Brad Mehldau Trio Art Of The Trio Volume 4 (1999) Larry Grenadier 272 bpm “Nardis” Kenny Werner Trio Form and Fanstasy (2001) Johannes Weidenmueller 250 bpm “Alone Together” Brad Mehldau Trio Art Of The Trio Volume 5 (2001) Larry Grenadier 322 bpm “East of the Sun” Joshua Redman Back East (2006) Larry Grenadier 280 bpm
Christian McBride, Miroslav Vitous, Avishai Cohen, Vicente Archer, Ben 42 Street, and others. Dave Holland in particular has a massive body of work in uneven meters where the harmonic rhythm functions in man y different ways.
The accompanying styles of Brad Mehldau, Lionel Loueke, Robert Glasper, and others would lend themselves well to analysis. Drum comping patterns would be relevant as well. Drummers Jorge Rossy, Bill Stewart, and Ari Hoenig are featured on the recordings that this study analyzed, but there are many others who play with incredible fluency in uneven meters such as Brian Blade, Chris Dave, Mark Gu iliana, Nate Smith, and Jeff Ballard. Werner, K. (2001). Form and Fantasy Vol. 1. [Compact Disc]. Pine Knobs, Indiana: Double Time Jazz. Mehldau, B. (1993). New York- Barcelona Crossing. [Compact Disc]. Barcelona, Spain: Fresh Sound/New Talent Records. Mehldau, B. (1995). Introducing Brad Mehldau. [Compact Disc]. New York: Warner Brothers Records. Mehldau, B. (1999). Art of the Trio Vol. 4: Back at the Vanguard. [Compact Disc]. New York: Warner Brothers Records. Mehldau, B. (2001). Art of the Trio Vol. 5. [Compact Disc]. New York: Warner Brothers Records. Morgan, L. (1996) Live at the Lighthouse. [Compact Disc]. New York: Blue Note Records. Redman, J. (1998). Timeless Tales (For Changing Times). [Compact Disc]. New York: Warner Brothers Records. Redman, J. (2007) Back East. [Compact Disc]. New York: Nonsuch Records.
