“So What” by Miles Davis: a proposal for analysis of idiomatic improvisation

The article discusses a proposal for analysis of improvised solos from the example of the composer and jazz trumpeter Miles Dewey Davis Jr (1926-1991) in “So What”. This theme integrates the anthological album KindOf Blue (1958). From the critical review of the concepts of Russell (1959) and discuss...

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Main Author: Tiné, Paulo José de Siqueira
Format: Online
Language:Portuguese
Published: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2013
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Online Access:https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/muspop/article/view/12968
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Summary:The article discusses a proposal for analysis of improvised solos from the example of the composer and jazz trumpeter Miles Dewey Davis Jr (1926-1991) in “So What”. This theme integrates the anthological album KindOf Blue (1958). From the critical review of the concepts of Russell (1959) and discussion of modalism in the genre of the period titled as “cool jazz”, are applied reduction processes in that improvised solo.
ISSN:2316-7858