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Chapter 6:
JAZZ
SONGS
Prior to and during Jazz’s rise to popularity in the 1930s-1960s, jazz and musical theatre “were
codependent idioms worthy of scholarly consideration”
1
, giving rise
to the Great American Songbook,
“an enduring canon of the most important and influential American popular song and jazz standards that
began in the early 20
th
century.”
2
Just as musicals of the modern era may feature elements from popular
song
styles of the last sixty years, they can also feature the influence of different eras of jazz, featuring
elements of Ragtime, Dixieland,
Big Band, Bebop, Cool Jazz, and Jazz Fusion. Composers like Cy
Coleman, Henry Mancini, and Marvin Hamlisch contributed both to the jazz
and musical theatre canon
well into the 1990s, while others like Mel Brooks, Jason Robert Brown,
Marc Shaiman, Matthew Sklar,
and a bevy of orchestrators and arrangers continue to contribute jazz-influenced scores onto the Broadway
stage in this century. Reasons for the inclusion of jazz style within a contemporary
work could be due to
the time period the show takes place in, parody use, character numbers,
background of the character, or
the composer’s whim. The following analysis focuses on material from Catch
Me If You Can (2011) and
Honeymoon in Vegas (2015).
1
Amy Baumgartner, “Gershwin’s Fascinating Rhythm: The Rise
of the Jazz Musical,” (master’s thesis,
Virginia Commonwealth University, 2008), 5-6, https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/684/.
2
“The Great American Songbook Foundation,” accessed September 2, 2020, https://thesongbook.org.
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Table 6.1. “Butter Out of Cream” Duet
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