This study investigates how different guitarists introduced saxophone-like phrasing into the improvisatory and compositional vocabulary of jazz guitar through their collaborations with saxophonists. This research presents a comparative analysis of phrasing, articulation, and melodic design in solo improvisations. The mixed approach to this study includes analysis of motives, voice leading, articulation, length of phrases, melodic contour, and the execution of bebop vocabulary on the guitar. The findings are based on original transcriptions from significant recordings by guitar-saxophone pairs. These highlight the similarities between and adaptations of musical devices from saxophonists Stan Getz, Jimmy Giuffre, and Joe Lovano into the jazz guitar styles of Jimmy Raney, Jim Hall, and John Scofield. This study supports the argument that the evolution of modern jazz guitar playing is directly connected to the adaptation of saxophone-like phrasing at an improvisatory and compositional level. It also shows that the concept of style in jazz flows between different instruments' lineages. Understanding these findings provides a more complex and accurate concept of the development of style in jazz.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1703322 |
| Date | 05 1900 |
| Creators | Pinilla, Daniel, 1987- |
| Contributors | Mooney, Davy, 1980-, Henry, Warren, Parton, Robert |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | xi, 195 pages : illustrations, music, Text |
| Rights | Public, Pinilla, Daniel, 1987-, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights Reserved. |
| Relation | Recital: April 24, 2017, not yet digitized, Recital: November 9, 2017, not yet digitized, Recital: April 23, 2018, not yet digitized |
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