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14 Cards in this Set
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bessie smith
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blues singer
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Jelly Roll Morton
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-one of first to write down his jazz
-claims to have invented jazz. |
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King Oliver
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-Armstrong's Mentor
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Duke Ellington
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-upper middle class DC- nickname duke from elegance.
-Considered himsefl a composer -cjam blues, it dont mean a thing, echos of harlem. -wanted to control what was heard and how the piece was remembered- tihs was not common in jazz especially early jazz. |
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Paul Whiteman
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-king of jazz w orchestra
-orchestrate jazz to make it respectable and accepted -couldn't hire blacks -educated in classical music- heard jazz in san fran an dhad money to explore jazz via hiring Gershwin. -commissioned George Gershmin(spl) to write Rhapsody in Blue. -jazz with strings -white violinist "there aint no man worth the salt of my tears". |
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New Orlenas
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-creole, carribiean, black african
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Chicago
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-oppurtunities not in NO.
-river cruises to and from NO. -midwest RR stop point |
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New York
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-media center
-harlem=draw for blacks, firendly places and good music. |
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Recordings
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-new at the time
-no room for drums in studio. |
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Improvisation
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-16 bar blues gave time for each instrument to introduce self.
-muscicians would quote one another in improv to show that listened to each other. |
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Louis Armstrong
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-i cover the waterfront
-famous NO trumpet player -thought he was a great singer- even though he sounds like he gargles razor blades. -invented modern time- the syncoptation & swing improv. -goal was to be a master at improv. -from 'battle field' New Orleans -blew a horn for his delivery job |
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Fletcher Henderson
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-entrepreneurial, started a band
-famous arranger of bands. "sugar foot stomp" -with groups as big as his Jazz was written more "hotter than ell" |
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Frankie Trumbauer
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singing the blues til my daddy comes him
river boat shiffle |
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Bix Beiderbacke
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-hired by Frankie Trumbauer
-first of famous white guys -major substance abuse problems -many thought just as good if not better than armstrong on trumpet -people outisde jazz tried to make it a racial issue -musicians did not care. |
