Jazz Final

Front 1

Bessie Smith

Back 1

Classic or Vaudeville Blues

Front 2

John Phillips Sousa

Back 2

Stars and Stripes Forever
Brass Bands

Front 3

Wilbur Sweatman

Back 3

Ragtime to Jazz
"Down Home Blues"

Front 4

piano, new orleans jazz, dead man blues, creole, pimp, pool hall hustler, comedian, claimed to invent jazz

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Jelly Roll Morton

Front 5

brought New Orleans jazz to a kind of pinnacle, used many different objects as mutes, Creole Jazz Band featured Louis Armstrong, "Snake Rag" and "Dippermouth Blues"

Back 5

King Oliver

Front 6

Creole, cornet, considered to be one of the finest trumpeters in New Orleans, prodigious technique, no improv

Back 6

Manual Perez

Front 7

career of 11 years, first important musician in jazz, played loud, had a distinct timbre, "inventer of jazz," alcoholic and schizophrenic

Back 7

Buddy Bolden

Front 8

"The District" of New Orleans
zone of leagalized prostitution

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Storyville

Front 9

once a place used for slave trade, then a place to conserve African music and dance practices

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Congo Square

Front 10

location is important to jazz's development, borders Mississippi, market center, port for shipping, steamboat excursions, exported Jazz

Back 10

The French Quarter

Front 11

cornet player, brought New Orleans Jazz to the rest of the country, de facto leader of Creole Jazz Band

Back 11

Freddie Keppard

Front 12

made first jazz records, popularized New Orleans style and instrumentation, foundation for Dixieland, signaled the break with ragtime, visit to Europe made jazz international

Back 12

Original Dixieland Jazz Band

Front 13

clarinet, born in New Orleans to a musical Creole family, "arguably the first great soloist in jazz history," established the saxophone as a key jazz instrument

Back 13

Sidney Bechet

Front 14

Where was the important location for Jazz in the 1920's?

Back 14

New York

Front 15

pianist, drummer, song writer, San Franciscan, put sax in jazz ensemble

Back 15

Art Hickman

Front 16

San Fransiscan, first pop music superstar of the 1920's, King of Jazz, bandleader, "Changes," played Viola

Back 16

Paul Whiteman

Front 17

most popular singer in the first half of the twentieth century, vaudeville

Back 17

Bing Crosby

Front 18

middle class parents that disdained jazz, Georgian, black bandleader, Roseland Ballroom, his band city-ized Armstrong

Back 18

Fletcher Henderson

Front 19

Copenhagen, big band Jazz in the 1920's, best bandleader of all time

Back 19

Fletcher Henderson

Front 20

Stride pianist, early, one of the only ones of his era that recorded

Back 20

Eubie Blake

Front 21

You've Got to Be Modernistic, stride piano's father, born in New Jersey then moved to New York

Back 21

James P. Johnson

Front 22

From a middle class family born in Washington D.C., encouraged by family, composer, arranger, bandleader, big break happened when he opened at the Cotton Club, did many things for the progression of Jazz

Back 22

Duke Ellington

Front 23

born in New Orleans, raised by proud mother, most important figure in the development of jazz, one of the first great soloists, as a band leader helped emphasize improv, scat singing, "Hotter than That"

Back 23

Louis Armstrong

Front 24

paired with Armstrong, pianist with his own style, "Weather Bird," and "West End Blues"

Back 24

Earl Hines

Front 25

From Iowa, Chicago style, played cornet, originally played the piano, first generation of musicians who learned about jazz music from recordings

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Bix Beiderbecke

Front 26

career spanned five decades of jazz, born in Missouri, played at Kansas City dances, saxophone, "Body and Soul"

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Coleman Hawkins

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"Wrappin it Up" by Fletcher Henderson and his Orchestra, 1923

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Good Example of Swing

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top trumpet player of the Swing Era, disgusted by race inequities when he worked with a White Band

Back 28

Roy Eldridge

Front 29

logical carrier for swing, grew up in slums of chicago with immigrant parents, played clarinet, he had small groups, quartets, and orchestra's "Dinah"

Back 29

Benny Goodman

Front 30

most influential entrereneur and activist of the Swing period, born to a wealthy New York family, hated racial injustice, discovered black folk music and jazz

Back 30

John Hammond

Front 31

Goodman's chief rival, vlarinet, son of Jewish Immigrants, grew up in NY, "Star Dust," had orchestra

Back 31

Artie Shaw

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grew up in Baltimore wealthily, pro basketball player, taste for streets, singer, business man, actor

Back 32

Cab Calloway

Front 33

Denver, black, saxophone, impressive education, his musicians had to adhere to strict standards, had orchestra, "annie Laurie"

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Jimmie Lunceford

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most popular band leader of the 1940s, grew up int he Midwest, had dance band, "In The Mood," served in armed forces and died by accident

Back 34

Glenn Miller

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Big Joe Turner, Pete Johnson

Back 35

Kansas City Swing

Front 36

Denver, bandleader, "Clouds of Joy"

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Andy Kirk

Front 37

inventive pianist, "played heavy like a man," one woman who overcame predjudice to play piano

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Mary Lou Williams

Front 38

famous Kansas City pianist, bandleader, from New Jersey and in a working class family, had orchestra

Back 38

Count Basie

Front 39

Ellington's partener in all of his activity, steadily rose in stature throughout the 50s and 60s, born in Pittsburgh, composer,

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Billy Strayhorn

Front 40

Kansas city born, tenor sax, europe

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Ben Webster

Front 41

tenor sax, military life changed this musician

Back 41

Lester Young

Front 42

european jazz artist, gypsy parents, belgium, guitar

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Django Reinhardt

Front 43

pianist, vocalist, songwriter, born in New York City, expressive, humerous, Christopher Columbus

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Fats Waller

Front 44

From Ohio, legally blind, superhuman virtuostic player, never empraced by the mainstream, piano

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Art Tatum

Front 45

transformed the guitar, Grew up in Oklahoma City, in Benny Goodman's quartet

Back 45

Charlie Christian

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Baltimore, started learning drums at 3, made a star of ella fitzgerald, died at a young age

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Chick Webb

Front 47

singer during swing era, raised in Baltimore, hard childhood until discovery, unlike other swing singers, had a way of making the tune personal

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Billie Holiday

Front 48

raised in New York, orphan, discovered in singing contest, in Chick Webb's band, not good looking, scat singer, girlish voice

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Ella Fitzgerald

Front 49

NYC born, played many instruments, instrumentalist, composer, band leader, social activist,

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Benny Carter

Front 50

changed the way bass was played, started at Tennessee State College, recorded the first bass solos

Back 50

Jimmy Blanton

Front 51

white chicagoan, first drummer to achieve status of a matinee idol.

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Gene Krupa

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Papa Joe, Big Sid, Dave Tough

Back 52

drummers in the Swig Era

Front 53

SC trumpet player, taught himself, intellectual force behind bebop, orchestra, "Manteca," heart and hands of bebop

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Dizzy Gillespie

Front 54

jazz was in the family, native instinct for piano, mentored by Monk, beating by police left him mentally unstable, bebop piano foundation for others to follow

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Bud Powell

Front 55

From Southern Cali, tenor saxophone, lead bebop craze in young Californians, jail, heroin, still one of the finest bebop sax players of his generation

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Dexter Gordon

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son of Uktainian immigrants, grew up in LA, musical and political, JATP

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Norman Granz

Front 57

pianist, blind since birth, white, wanted to carve out his own niche

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Lennie Tristano

Front 58

WEST COAST JAZZ

Back 58

Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Chet Baker