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Jazz History
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02/11/2009

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Buddy Bolden

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The first Jazz musician /best cornet player from 1895-1906

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Bix Bierderbeck

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Self-taught cornet player/first jazz player admired by both blacks and whites/c-melody saxophonist
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Louis Armstrong

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considered the FIRST JAZZ SOLOIST/influenced many/virtuoso of sax and cornet/ had a "HOT SOUND"/mentored by King Oliver
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W.C. Handy
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FATHER OF THE BLUES/First to write down the blues
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Freddie Keppard
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Top New Orleans Jazz musician/ did not want to be emulated/ never recorded/ played with a napkin
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Joe "King" Oliver
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mentored Armstrong/ leader of the CREOLE JAZZ BAND/ Dippermouth Blues
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Sidney Bechet
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Played Clarinet and Soprano Sax/ one of the first to record/ featured stoptime breaks.
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Frankie Trumbauer

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C-Melody Saxophonist/ "hot jazz soloist"/contributed to Bix's career
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call and response
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an aspect of African music that was quite functional in which a leader would call a phrase and everyone else would respond.
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Austin High Gang
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a white jazz group influenced by the New Orleans style of Jazz who attended Austin High in Chicago, IL
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Lester Young
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Significant TENOR SAXOPHONIST/created a unique sound emulating Frankie Trumbauer/ "PRESIDENT OF THE SAX"
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DON REDMAN
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specialist in arrangements/ arranged material according to families of instruments/sax player
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Fletcher Henderson
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played "sweet jazz"/ band leader, arranger, pianist
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Earl Hines

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Harlem Stride pianist/ imitated Armstrong on piano
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Fats Waller
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protege of James P. Johnson/ singer, entertainer, composer of popular songs in Broadway Shows.
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James P. Johnson
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Harlem Stride Pianist/taught Fats Waller/ accompanied blues singers
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Coleman Hawkins
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Swing-ero tenor saxophonist!!!
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Meade Lux Lewis
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Father of the Boogie Woogie
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Billy Strayhorn
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Duke Ellington's Alter ego/arranger, composer/inspired took the a-train song
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Jimmy Blanton
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key member of Ellington's band/ FATHER OF THE BASS
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Jelly Roll Morton
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FIRST JAZZ COMPOSER and ARRANGER/ Hed Hot Chili Peppers? swing feel
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Ragtime
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Piano imitation of Brass bands/ little improv/LH back and forth--RH syncopated melodies
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Stride Piano
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Lots of improv/swing 8th note/ evolved from ragtime/ RH uses a familiar melody
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Chicago Style Jazz
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ONE soloist at a time/ more saz,tpt, guitar, pno, bass/tuba
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New Orleans Stule Jazz
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began in Storyville/ INSTRUMENTATION: front line: tpt, clar, trom and rhytm: pno, bass, bnj, COLLECTIVE IMPROV
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Boogie-Woogie
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LH-Stationary, RH--improvised riffs or catchy tunes, mostly AAB form
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BIG BAND
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9-18 players, more bass than tuba, three sections bass, rhythm, reeds, more arrangements
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