Name: Fábio Santos W. de M.

Due Date_______________

Listening Guide Form

Jazz History I: Traditional Jazz

Artist Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra (w Louis Armstrong) Title Copenhagen

Personnel (musicians, arrangers, composers) composed by Charlie Davis. Fletcher Henderson,

pia., arr., dir: Elmer Chambers, Howard Scott, t / Louis Armstrong, c / Charlie Green, tb / Buster
Bailey, cl, as / Don Redman, cl, as / Coleman Hawkins, cl, ts / Charlie Dixon, bj / Ralph Escudero,
bb / drums

Meter Form Tempo Groove Style

4/4 ABA 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
Piano, trumpet, clarinet, bone, alto sax, tenor sax, banjo, double bass and
drums

Type of ensemble?
Big Band

What is the intro like?

It starts with the trumpet and the metals doing a melodic tutti line then the banjo enters with the
rhythm to catch the A of the piece, but before the main theme starts the Big Band makes a break
with the same melodic line played by the trumpet on the begining, but now played by the clarinet.

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

The Clarinet, yes. The others are orchestra tuttis or solos.

Order of solos:
Trumpet, bone.

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

No.

What is the ending like? (Does it use a Coda?)

It finish with a little coda with the tutti of the big band doing a intense rhythmic break different from
the other breaks.