Name: Fábio Santos W. de M.

Due Date_______________

Listening Guide Form

Jazz History I: Traditional Jazz

Artist Chick Webb____________ Title Heebie Jeebies

Personnel (musicians, arrangers, composers) Chick Webb (drums), Shelton Hemphill (trumpet),
Louis Bacon (trumpet), Jimmy Harrison (trombone), Benny Carter (alto axophone), Hilton Jefferson
(Saxophone), Elmer Williams (Tenor sax), Don Kirkpatrick (Piano), John Trueheart (Banjo), Elmer
James (Tuba). Composer: written by Boyd Atkins

Meter Form Tempo Groove Style

4/4 It just has one Slow New Orleans Traditional
theme Moderate Chicago Style
Fast Ragtime
Extremely Fast Blues
Harmony ___________ Stride
Relaxed, Not Complex Boogie Woogie
Slow moving Texture Early Swing
Modal Vertical (Homophonic Big Band
Tense, Complex harmonic) Swing Combo
Uses IV to I cadence Horizontal (Polyphonic
Folk, V to IV cadence melodic)
Fast Chord Progressions
Cyclical Both

Instrumentation
Drums, 2-Trumpet, 1-Bone, 3-Sax, Piano, Banjo and Tuba

Type of ensemble?
Jazz Big Band typical from the early swing

What is the intro like?

It starts with the trumpet with the sordine and then the tutti of the big band comes.

Who has the melody? Always? Any special effects used?

The trumpet. Sordine on the trumpet

Order of solos:
trumpet, saxophone, piano, saxophone, bone, trumpet (taking the theme again).

Is there any trading of solos? If so, what instruments are trading?

The solo is made in small sections, so it is: trumpet, saxophone, piano, saxophone, bone

What is the ending like? (Does it use a Coda?)

The trumpet repeats the main theme the last time then it enters on a coda doing a kind of ritardan-
do and playing on the high register, followed by a tutti of the orchestra doing the final chord.