Benny Goodman

the elements of their culture that they could carry with them. Among these elements were music and folktales. Although there were many people who had an influence on jazz and changed the dynamics of the culture and race relationships people like Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong were among the most influential and played a big role in many of the events that helped break the color barriers in jazz. Some of these events included establishing black entertainment markets and…

when Benny Goodman’s band performed at Palmoar Ballroom in Los Angeles. Harrison stated that “what happened in the 1930s was built on the 1920s…and we must go further back to observe that some of the forces shaping 1930s swing were active in the 1920s.” He examined the artists, Goodman, Carter, Sauter, and compared songs with explanations.…

For my own virtual jazz band, I wanted to try and pick jazz musicians who could mend well with a dance or a swing band. Max Roach on drums, Charles Mingus on bass, Benny Goodman on clarinet, Lester Young on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderly on alto sax, Joe “Tricky Sam” Nanton on trombone, Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway as singers, and Duke Ellington on piano and as the bandleader. The group would have the style of early 20th century dance bands and do a live…

Ella Jane Fitzgerald, known as "The First Lady of Song," was perhaps the popular female jazz singer in the United States for over 50 years. Over her career , she won 13 Grammy awards and sold over 40 million albums. Ella was born on April 25, 1917 into a somewhat broken home. Her father left shortly after she was born and her mother moved in with her boyfriend a few years later. While Ella's early childhood years were happy, they took a turn for the worse after her mother died in 1932. Ella's…

Armstrong's effect on Billie Holiday carefully. Holiday was exposed by maker John Hammond while she was auditioned in a Harlem jazz club. Hammond was involved in receiving Holiday taping effort with an up and coming clarinetist and bandleader Benny…

Jazz is a music genre that has characteristic qualities like swing, interaction by a group, slow beats and has its origins in New Orleans. Jazz came into existence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Jazz has a fusion of African, European and American beats and instruments hence making it a unique type of music. During that time, New Orleans was the only place in the “New world” that allowed black people to own drums. This greatly contributes to the rise of Jazz in that they were able to…

like them , there were many people in the 30’s and 40’s that were interested in this type of music. Nowadays people think it's the music that old people listen to, but it's got a sweet rhythm. Jazz was popular before swing, but musicians like Benny Goodman mixed Swing and Jazz. Both genres are part of an important part of time because they were popular during the Holocaust. Here are facts for both Swing and Jazz. First, we will talk about swing music. Swing comes from the term “swing feel”.…

Jazz began in the late 18th century in African-American communities in New Orleans. Soon these vocal tunes made by African-Americans turned into piano songs, and soon enough evolved into the Jazz we know and love today. In modern Jazz, there are pieces that are considered “Jazz Standards”, one major contributor to these standards is the trombone player and Big Band Jazz composer, Glenn Miller. Glenn Miller lived a short yet interesting life, he differed from his competitors and left a dazzling…

Throughout weeks five through eight of our class it has become apparent that the early 1900s experienced a drastic amount of musical and athletic appropriation, which disproportionally affected African Americans. The role of whites in the suppression of black music and sports is substantial, yet blacks have been able to overcome this bigotry to a varying degree. Both articles account for the Euro-American preference of white role models. Almost every white American craved to hear the…

are created as stark symbols to direct your focus to the world he has created. - Haruki Murakami’s short stories cross the boundaries of Japanese culture, and are often surreal. In music, I listen to anything from the sound of jazz greats (Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, big bands) to the heavy beats and amazing vocals of Korean Pop (Crush, Flowsik and Geeks). Finally, my list would be incomplete without my love for radio shows. As a child, I had difficulty falling asleep…