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38 Cards in this Set
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Robert Johnson
"Father of the Blues" |
Ramblin' on my Mind
Country Blues guitar |
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3 elements of jazz
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improvisation
swing blues (blue notes) |
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Country Blues
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Male singers
Southern 12 bar blues (3 equal phrases AAB) personal expression |
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City Blues
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Female singers
12 bar format vaudeville/minstrels (had an audience) drama/acting singers played no instruments |
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Bessie Smith
"Empress of the Blues" |
St. Louis Blues
City Blues |
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WC Handy
"Father of the Blues" |
Black Swan Publishing
Composer/Publisher Famous with Bessie Smith |
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Muddy Waters
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Chicago Blues
Electric guitar |
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Ragtime
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similar to jazz but…
no blue notes no improv almost exclusively piano syncopation 16 bar strains |
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Scott Joplin
"Ragtime King of Rag" |
The Entertainer
Maple Leaf Rag |
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Jazz
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mixture of African, Caribbean, and Southern music
Most American music |
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Roaring Twenties
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woman's suffrage
Prohibition jazz is "controversial black music" |
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Buddy Bolden
"The King of New Orleans" |
trumpet/coronet
leader of a 6 piece brass band early pioneer of jazz |
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Dixieland New Orleans Jazz
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trumpet, clarinet, trombone- front line
tuba, banjo, drums- rhythm section flat-four beat |
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collective improvisation
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3 lead instruments improvise conceptual melodies
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Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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1917- first jazz recording
"Dixie Jazz Band One Step" white musicians- "bad copy" of black jazz didn't know how to improvise |
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New Orleans Style Jazz
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ask KT
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Joe "King" Oliver
New Orleans Style |
trumpet
Kid Ory's Band mentored Louis Armstrong moves to Chicago (eventually brings Louis) |
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1917-1925
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banjo emphasizes beats
instruments solo collective improvisation |
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King Oliver
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Dipper Mouth Blues (feat. Louis)
New Orleans Style Jazz Creole Jazz Band (lasts 2 years, Louis) |
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Stride Piano Style Jazz
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comes after Ragtime- similar
improv blue notes faster than ragtime |
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Ferdinand Morton
"Jelly Roll" Morton hustler |
New Orleans Style Jazz
composer, arranger notates jazz solo breaks Black Bottom Stomp |
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Louis Armstrong
"Satchmo" "Pops" |
Kid Ory Band
Creole Jazz Band (Lil Harden piano, Oliver) "Hot Five" "Hot Seven" |
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Louis Armstrong
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West End Blues
Chicago Style Jazz (records under "Hot Five") B-side scat singing |
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Sidney Bechet
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friend/rival of Armstrong
Kid Ory's Band soprano sax, woodwind double helped move jazz to Europe (kicked out twice) |
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Chicago South Side
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Levee District
intermingling of white and black "black and tans" hot place for white youths to see "culture" |
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Chicago North Side
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upper and middle white class
white musicians "jazz-like", imitation social dancing Paul Whiteman |
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Chicago Style Jazz
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more polished- rehearsed
2/4 beat "boom-chuck" bigger size, different instruments string bass, saxophone, piano, trumpet |
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Louis Armstrong's Big Three
(what he brings to Chicago Jazz) |
1. soloist artform
2. connected to blues- foundation 3. rhythm most important- swing |
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Paul Whiteman
"The King of Jazz" |
band leader
Symphonic Jazz fanicifes jazz performed Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" combines jazz and classical |
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Paul Whiteman
Bing Crosby |
Mississippi Mud
Chicago Style jazz |
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Bix Biderbeck
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best white jazz musician
absolute pitch North Side Chicago harmonic extension- intervallic leaps jammed with Armstrong in private |
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Fats Waller
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stride piano
Ain't Misbehavin' Stride Piano Jazz |
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James P. Johnson
"The Father of Stride Piano" |
Stride Piano Jazz
"Carolina Shout" "The Charleston" played for everyone- mayor, prostitutes |
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The Cotton Club
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owned by mob
white audience only- wealthy black bands |
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The Savoy Ballroom
"Home of the Happy Feet" |
integrated audience
white and black bands |
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The Apollo Theater
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venue for young bands
amateur night |
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Marketing Jazz
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phonograph
radio theater gigs |
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race records
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marked records so buyer new the race of the artist
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