Assignment 3

Listen to this excerpt of American jazz trumpet player Dizzy Gillespie playing his own composition Groovin’ High. Pay attention to the bass line. It is a smooth succession of even notes on the bass:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000001CRB/qid=1078166929/sr=2-3/ref=sr_2_3/104-6729694-1547129 (Dizzy)

Now compare the same composition this time performed by Cuban jazz trumpet player Arturo Sandoval. Pay attention to the more rhythmic bass line in this example:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000001TN/qid=1077925588/sr=2-2/ref=sr_2_2/104-6729694-1547129 (Arturo Sandoval)

This last excerpt is an illustration of the fusion between Latin musical concepts and jazz music.

Familiarize yourself with Dizzy Gillespie’s biography in this site:
http://www.cosmopolis.ch/english/cosmo2/dizzy.htm

Do the same with this site containing Arturo Sandoval’s biography:
http://musicbase.h1.ru/PPB/ppb8/Bio_879.htm

Discuss how the different contexts in which these two musicians grew up affected their music and what they have in common.