Jazz Firsts

Front 1

First Jazz Recording

Back 1

O.D.J.B. Livery Stable Blues

Hint 1

1917

Front 2

First classic blues recording

Back 2

Mamie Smith, "Crazy Blues"

Hint 2

1920

Front 3

First recording by a black band

Back 3

Kid Orys Sunshine Orchestra, "Orys Creole Trombone"/"Society Blues"

Hint 3

1921

Front 4

___ and ____ record for the first time in New York

Back 4

Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith record for the first time

Hint 4

1923

Front 5

First mixed recording session

Back 5

N.O.R.K. & Jelly Roll Morton, "Mr. Jelly Lord", "London blues", and others

Hint 5

1923

Front 6

King Oliver's first recording was in what year

Back 6

1923

Front 7

Washingtonians made their first recordings (Ellington in NY)

Back 7

1924

Front 8

First recordings made by Louis Armstrong as a leader (Hot 5)

Back 8

1925

Front 9

First scat recording

Back 9

Louis Armstrong, "Heebie Jeebies"

Hint 9

1925

Front 10

First recordings by the Red Hot Peppers (Jelly Roll)

Back 10

1926

Front 11

The first boogie woogie recording

Back 11

Meade Lux Lewis, "Honky Tonk Train"

Hint 11

1927

Front 12

First recordings of the Benny Good and Jimmy Lunceford

Back 12

1934

Front 13

First gold record ever

Back 13

Glenn Miller: "Chattanooga Choo-Choo"

Hint 13

1942

Front 14

First electric (aplified) jazz guitar solo

Back 14

Floyd Smith, "Floyd's Guitar Blues"

Hint 14

1939

Front 15

First jazz ensemble on fild

Back 15

ODJB in The Good For Nothing

Hint 15

1917

Front 16

First published ragtime composition

Back 16

William Krell, "mississipi rag"

Hint 16

1897

Front 17

First published rag by a black composer

Back 17

Thomas Million Turpin, "The HArlem Rag"

Hint 17

1897

Front 18

First important interracial jazz group

Back 18

Benny Goodman/Teddy Wilson/Gene Krupa

Front 19

First modern jazz bass player

Back 19

Jimmy Blanton

Front 20

First modern Jazz guitarist

Back 20

Charlie Christian

Front 21

The first center of jazz

Back 21

New Orleans

Front 22

The first composer to set the pattern of brass against reeds

Back 22

Fletcher Henderson

Front 23

The first black band with a regularly sponsored series

Back 23

Don Redman

Front 24

The first band to use five saxophones

Back 24

Benny Carter

Front 25

The first jazz musician to be nominated for a pulitzer prize

Back 25

Duke Ellington

Front 26

The first black vocalist with a major white orchestra

Back 26

Billie Holiday with Artie Shaw

Hint 26

1938

Front 27

The first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert (Year?)

Back 27

1943

Front 28

The king of swing

Back 28

Benny Goodman

Front 29

King of Jazz

Back 29

Paul Whiteman

Front 30

Empress of the blues

Back 30

Bessie Smith

Front 31

Beginning of the Swing Era

Back 31

Benny Goodman, Palomar Ballroom (1935)

Front 32

The two ragtime operas

Back 32

Treemonisha and A Guest of Honor, both by Scott Joplin

Front 33

Year of the Birth of the Cool album by Miles Davis

Back 33

1949