9. Better Git It In Your Soul 10. Take Five In previous decades, jazz was widely

9. Better Git It In Your Soul
10. Take Five
In previous decades, jazz was widely popular. Some of the best-known musicians from the 1930s and early-40s were jazz musicians. Once be-bop arrived, though, audiences were kind of turned off to the style. As mentioned earlier, at least some of the motivation(s) behind the cool school and hard-bop was to try to return jazz to a more popular style. But, the goal wasn’t to “dumb down” be-bop, necessarily, but to find ways to take the innovations and make them a bit more approachable. Some of these artists in these new styles got lucky and actually found some mainstream success. Both “Better Git It In Your Soul” (by Charles Mingus [recorded in 1959]) and “Take Five” (by the Dave Brubeck Quartet [recorded in 1959]) were relatively popular with general audiences (not just “jazz fans.”) In fact, “Take Five” is still one of the most recognizable jazz tunes from this period for most people.
Were either of these two tracks familiar to you (before this class)?
Which of these do you like more? Why?
Cite some things that come to mind as you listen to each of these tracks. This could be anything … images, memories, specific groups of people, other music you have heard …