Apart Playing: McCoy Tyner and “Bessie's Blues”
2007; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 1; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s1752196307070095
ISSN1752-1971
Autores Tópico(s)Diverse Musicological Studies
ResumoJazz pianist McCoy Tyner's improvisation on the theme “Bessie's Blues,” recorded with the John Coltrane Quartet in 1964, exemplifies the traditional Afrodiasporic performance practice of “apart playing.” A formulation of the art historian Robert Farris Thompson, apart playing occurs whenever individual performers enact different, complementary roles in an ensemble setting. For interpretative purposes, the concept helps to provide a cultural context for certain pitch-based formal devices, such as substitute harmonies and playing “outside” an underlying chord or scale, which Tyner uses in the course of his solo.
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