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25 Cards in this Set

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St. Louis Blues

Bessie Smith, Blues


-bluesy muted trumpet, slow, woman singing

Buzzard Lope

Bessie Jones, AA Folk Song, Spiritual


-chanting/singing, clapping

Castle House Rag

James Reese Europe, Ragtime


-strings, flute, clarinet, syncopated, sounds like Tom and Jerry music

Dixie Jazz Band

Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Early Jazz, New Orleans


-trombone glissando, fast clarinet, collective improvisation

Dead Man Blues

Jelly Roll Morton, Early Jazz, Blues, New Orleans


-very slow, clarinet and trumpet, high vibrato clarinet solo

Changes

Paul Whiteman, Early Jazz, Fusion


-starts with legato passage, then jazzy trumpet, eventually has male singing

East St. Louis Toodle-oo

Duke Ellington, Early Jazz, Blues


-gloomy sounding, Louis Armstrong vocal-like trumpet solo

Snake Rag

King Oliver, Early Jazz, New Orleans


-extended trombone glissando, collective improvisation with trumpets and clarinets, ascending trombone line

Copenhagen

Fletcher Henderson, Early Jazz, Big Bands


-heavy clarinet and vibrato, that line that ascends and has an even bigger descent, upbeat, lots of heavy tuba

West End Blues

Louis Armstrong, Early Jazz, New York, Blues


-begins with upbeat trumpet solo, then gets slow

Singin' the Blues

Bix Beiderbecke, Early Jazz


-heavy saxophone!

King Porter Stomp

Benny Goodman, Early Jazz


-fast swing, lots of trumpet, very arranged, lots of sax soli

Louis Armstrong

Turned jazz into an art form, popularized individual solos, from New Orleans but eventually made it up to New York

Fletcher Henderson

First important arranger and composer, created sections (brass, saxes, etc.)

Paul Whiteman

Pretty much created jazz fusions, responsible for symphonic jazz

Jelly Roll Morton

First important composer and arranger

Bix Beiderbecke

Played with a more temperate style (less about the attack, more smooth)

Buddy Bolden

First important jazz musician, invented jazz

James P. Johnson

Piano player, arranger, invented stride piano

Coleman Hawkins

Popularized the saxophone (yeah d00d!)

Marching Bands

Instrumentation! (New Orleans, Big Bands)

Ragtime

SYN-CO-PAA-TION (all forms)

AA Folk Songs

Call and Response, Vocals, Blues (all forms but swing)

Blues

Bluesy notes (all forms)

Causes of the Swing Era

Great Depression, Stock Market Crash, WWII