Name: Fábio Santos W. de M.

Due Date_______________

Listening Guide Form

Jazz History I: Traditional Jazz

Artist Duke Ellington____________ Title East St.Louis Toodle-Oo

Personnel (musicians, arrangers, composers) Duke Ellington and His Orchestra Members
(1958) Jimmy Woode: Double Bass, Willie Cook: Trumpet, Clark Terry: Trumpet, Harry Carney:
Clarinet/Sax, Quentin Jackson: Bone, Britt Woodman: Bone, John Sanders: Bone, Sam Woodyard:
Drums, Jimmy Hamilton: Clarinet/Sax, Russell Procope: Sax, Billy Strayhorn: Piano, Paul Gon-
salves: Sax, Johnny Hodges: Sax. Composers: Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley.

Meter Form Tempo Groove Style

4/4 ABABA Slow New Orleans Traditional
Moderate Chicago Style
Fast Ragtime
Extremely Fast Blues
Harmony ___________ Stride
Relaxed, Not Complex Boogie Woogie
Slow moving Texture Early Swing
Modal Vertical (Homophonic Big Band
Tense, Complex harmonic) Swing Combo
Uses IV to I cadence Horizontal (Polyphonic
Folk, V to IV cadence melodic)
Fast Chord Progressions
Cyclical Both

Instrumentation
Drums, 2-Trumpet, 1-Bone, 3-Sax, Piano, Banjo and Tuba

Type of ensemble?
Jazz Big Band typical from the early swing

What is the intro like?

It starts with chord progression of the A part on a cycle until it goes to a break and the trumpet
starts the A theme.

Who has the melody? Always? Any special effects used?

The trumpet, but on the second B it is a tutti melody, then it returns to the tumpet again to finish the
song. Sordine on the trumpet

Order of solos:
Sax, Trumpet, clarinet.

Is there any trading of solos? If so, what instruments are trading?

No.
What is the ending like? (Does it use a Coda?)
The trumpet does the A theme again and it ends on it.