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The life of Art Tatum and his importance in the history of jazz
Lobanova, Elena ; SLAVÍČEK, Jiří (advisor) ; Kristian, Vítek (referee)
This bachelor's thesis reviews the life and works of jazz pianist Art Tatum, the importance of his work for generations in the past 40s and 50s until now. His musical life and history of Jazz in 30s and 40s are stressed in the thesis. The core of the diploma is describing Tatum's development like a person, and emergence of his individual style playing the piano. The core of the thesis simultaneously analyses the record of composition by the great pianist Fatts Waller ?Ain't Misbehavin'? in Tatum's interpretation. The author of this thesis support his findings with his own compositional approach to the matter.
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Metamorphoses of Paul Motian's music during his career
Tengler, Jakub ; SLAVÍK, Jiří (advisor) ; ŠOLTIS, Daniel (referee)
This thesis focuses on the personality of drummer, percusionist and composer Paul Motian. Paul Motian is increasingly called as one of the best drummers in all jazz history. The goal of the thesis is to depict his artistic life, ability for charakterisation of some different periods of his music career and understanding his musical thinking. The thesis also contains a transcriptions from several periods and an analysis and comparison of selected recordings.
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WORK OF ERWIN SCHULHOFF INFLUENCED BY JAZZ
Kabrna, Ondřej ; RŮŽIČKA, Karel (advisor) ; HONZÁK, Jaromír (referee)
The masters thesis focuses on the work of Erwin Schulhoff influenced by jazz and contemporary popular music, describing all of his works since 1914 until his death. The author studied all of the available work, including autographs. He presents results of his research with plenty of sheet music illustration, interpreting each composition in the context of Czech and international music. In the last chapters he introduces his own transformations of Schullhofs composition.
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PERSONALITY AND MUSIC OF AHMAD JAMAL, ANALYSIS OF HIS APPROACH TO JAZZ PIANO TRIO
Šupák, Michal ; RŮŽIČKA, Karel (advisor) ; Růžička, Jiří (referee)
This thesis covers the personality of Ahmad Jamal, jazz pianist, who in fifties set the fundaments of modern jazz especially in the field of jazz trio by his original minimal style and unconventional approach to arrangements. Among others Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley or Keith Jarret was deeply influenced by his work. By making transcriptions and analysis of three pieces form legendary album Live at The Pershing: But Not For Me from 1958, author aims to get reader acquainted with Jamal's style of playing, his compositional and arranging techniques within piano trio and to define elements which made his work essential for later development in this field.
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Double Bass As A Solo Instrument In Jazz
Tichý, Petr ; HONZÁK, Jaromír (advisor) ; Novotný, Marek (referee)
This thesis maps the historical development of double-bass playing, and the expression techniques employed therein, from accompaniment in early jazz bands to solo performances. Among others, the thesis describes the circumstances of and the reasons behind the creation of the first double-bass solo album, which was recorded by Barre Phillips in December 1968.
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THE HISTORY OF THE CZECH JAZZ PIANO
Kabrna, Ondřej ; RŮŽIČKA, Karel (advisor) ; Růžička, Jiří (referee)
The bachelor thesis illustrates the oldest period of jazz in Bohemia with a detailled description of work, life and recordings of the Czech jazz piano players until 1968. The whole period is divided into five parts describing situation in music generally, mentioning important bands and performers, and finally confronts Czech piano players with world jazz music. Everything is documented with analysis of recordings and different piano styles.
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Structural elements on music of Miles Davis
Rajnošek, Bharata ; SLOVÁČEK, Antonín (advisor) ; KOP, František (referee)
The thesis "Structural elements on music of Miles Davis" deals with the transformation of the jazz paradigm, briefly touches several crucial moments in the precipitous life of the aforementioned jazz giant and tries to capture at least a few subjectively important moments in his life. The thesis also defines what jazz music means to its author, in brief also author's basic musical preferences. This relates also to his endeavour to grasp the jazz personality phenomenon and within this context also the personality of Miles Davis. The author tries to understand the uniqueness of Davis' contribution and influence on music in general. In a surprising conclusion the beginning of Davis' jazz-rock period emerges as the most important one. The author sees there a fundamental peak - the transformation of the very essence of jazz interpretation - a change in the approach to jazz song themes as the head of the whole composition. The song theme is replaced by a single motive or a phrase. This leads to a shift of live interpretation possibilities and also the most important shift in the development of the jazz paradigm and method of working with structural elements.
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Currently the most prominent trumpet artists
Doležal, Jakub ; REJLEK, Vladimír (advisor) ; ROUČEK, Jaroslav (referee)
Bachelor thesis Currently the most prominent trumpet artists is dedicated to the main trumpet personalities of the current musical scene across classical music, jazz and orchestral playing. Mainly deals with the biographies, existing achievements and current work of selected players. For each artist are also listed brands and types of trumpets, which they are playing. If it is possible, there are listed types of mouthpieces too. There are also mentioned representatives of old and young generation of trumpet players. Thesis is divided into four chapters. First chapter deals with personalities who make specially solo interpretation of classical music. Second chapter deals with famous jazz trumpet players. Next chapter of this thesis is dedicated to personalities who are famous classical and at the same time jazz players. In the last chapter there are mentioned famous orchestral players.
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Multigenre pieces for flute composed by Mike Mower
Juričová, Jana ; VÁLEK, Jiří (advisor) ; KOUTNÍK, Štěpán (referee)
The bachelor's thesis follows the life of Mike Mower, a British flutist and a multigenre composer, and analyses his pieces written for the flute. Mower's work is strongly influenced by popular music, therefore, the author included a larger chapter about the history of the flute as a fully fledged instrument used in jazz music. Moreover, this chapter covers also various jazz genres and important jazz musicians. In the second part, the author examines Mower's concertos for flute (concertos, sonatas, suites, solo pieces).
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Metroklub dance-orchestra
ŠULISTOVÁ, Hana
This thesis is separeted into two parts. First deals with progress of Czech modern pop music and jazz from 40th till present with focus on swing music. Second part is devotes to the Metroklub dance-orchestra, its history and progress from WW II till present. This part focuses also on tranformation under the repertoire, public activity and also on individual members of this band.
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