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Secondary Music : Blues and Jazz

Clip description		Keywords
	Blues in the 21st century Duration: 04:05 A backstage interview with music legend Buddy Guy on the state of the blues in modern America.	media, performance, listeners, playlists, bands

	How Joe Morello joins the Dave Brubeck Quartet Duration: 02:18 The story of how drummer Joe Morello joins the Dave Brubeck Quartet is explained by the musicians themselves.	jazz, Dave Brubeck, Dave Morello, complex time signatures, 5/4, 11/8, 7/4, drummer, drums, pianist, Paul Desmond

	Jazz instruments and composition Duration: 04:54 Jazz trumpet player and composer, Byron Wallen, discusses his approaches to composition.	jazz, composition, timbre, texture, mood

	Jazz pianists Dave Brubeck and Jay McShann perform ‘Mission Ranch Blues’ Duration: 01:32 ‘Mission Ranch Blues’ is performed by Dave Brubeck and Jay McShann watched by Clint Eastwood	blues, music, Brubeck, McShann, piano, improvisation, harmony, jazz, pianist

	Jools Holland and the pianola Duration: 01:35 Musician Jools Holland describes his first experiences of playing blues and boogie-woogie on the pianola.	piano, pianola, player piano, blues, boogie woogie, tempo, dynamics, forte, pianissimo, Gershwin, Fats Waller, James P Johnson

	Profile of jazz pianist Dave Brubeck Duration: 02:19 A brief profile of jazz pianist Dave Brubeck and his quartet.	jazz, Dave Brubeck, Take Five, 5/4 time signature, harmony, Paul Desmond

	Reflections on jazz improvisation Duration: 04:40 A Courtney Pine Quintet performance of 'Hit or Miss' is interspersed with Pine's reflections on the improvisational process in jazz.	improvisation, jazz, classical, ensemble

	Ronnie Scott’s and the development of the British Jazz Scene Duration: 02:51 Archive footage of some of the major influences in jazz playing at Ronnie Scott's jazz club.	jazz, improvisation, music, Ronnie Scott, performance, instruments

	The Maria Fidelis School Gospel choir sing 'O Mary, O Martha' Duration: 02:49 The Maria Fidelis convent school Gospel choir sing an arrangement of the spiritual 'O Mary, O Martha'. Led by conductor Karen Gibson and with piano accompaniment, this performance won the 2010 BBC School Choir of the Year competition.	Gospel, school choir, Maria Fidelis, O Mary O Martha, jazz

	Understanding the blues Duration: 04:46 A blues guitarist demonstrates the building blocks of solo and rhythm blues.	improvise, blues, harmony, scales, pentatonic

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Secondary Music : Blues and Jazz

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