2-Music-History-Jazz

Handy WC

He lived 1873 to 1958 and composed blues.

Laine G

He lived 1873 to 1966 and played Dixieland.

Perez M

He lived 1871 to 1946 and played Dixieland.

Bolden B

He lived 1877 to 1931 and played Dixieland, New Orleans, and blues.

Ory K

He lived 1886 to 1973 and played Dixieland and New Orleans Revival: New Orleans Tailgate Trombonists.

Morton J

He lived 1890 to 1941 and played Chicago and New Orleans Revival: Red Hot Peppers.

La Rocca N

He lived 1889 to 1961 and played in Dixieland Jazz Band.

Whiteman P music

He lived 1890 to 1967 and played Swing and Big Band.

Dodds J

He lived 1892 to 1940 and played Modern.

Johnson Bu

He lived 1889 to 1949 and played Dixieland and New Orleans Revival.

McPartland J

He lived 1907 to 1991 and played Chicago.

Noone J

He lived 1895 to 1944 and played Chicago.

Oliver J

He lived 1901 to 1971 and played Dixieland and Chicago.

Pollack B

He lived 1903 to 1963 and played Chicago.

Yancey J

He lived 1898 to 1951 and played Boogie Woogie and Blues.

Hodes A

He lived 1904 to 1993 and played Boogie Woogie.

Johnson Bl

He lived 1897 to 1945 and played bottleneck or slide guitar in Big Band.

Johnson Ja music

He lived 1894 to 1955 and played Big Band.

Blake E

He lived 1887 to 1983 and played Ragtime.

Memphis Five

Big Band.

Waller Fa

He lived 1904 to 1943 and played Big Band and Swing.

Armstrong L

He lived 1901 to 1971 and played Chicago, Swing, and New Orleans Revival.

Lewis Me

He lived 1905 to 1964 and played Boogie Woogie and Blues.

Hines E

He lived 1903 to 1983 and played Chicago and Swing.

Young Le

He lived 1909 to 1959 and played Swing.

Keppard K

He lived 1889 to 1933 and played Dixieland and Chicago.

Smith Bes

She lived 1894 to 1937 and played Big Band and blues.

Williams Cl

He lived 1898 to 1965 and used plunger mute for Duke Ellington's Big Band.

Smith Willie

He lived 1910 to 1967 and played Modern and stride.

Bechet S

He lived 1897 to 1959 and played New Orleans Revival.

Beiderbecke B

He lived 1903 to 1931 and played Chicago and Swing.

Harrison Ji

He lived 1900 to 1931 and played Modern.

Carter B

He lived 1907 to 2003 and played Modern.

Condon E

He lived 1905 to 1973 and played Chicago.

Hughes Sp

He lived 1908 to 1987 and played Modern.

Mole M

He lived 1898 to 1961 and played Big Band.

Napoleon P

He lived 1901 to 1990 and played Big Band.

Nichols R

He lived 1905 to 1965 and played Big Band.

Sullivan J

He lived 1906 to 1971 and played Swing.

Tatum A

He lived 1909 to 1956 and played Big Band and Swing.

Watters L

He lived 1911 to 1989 and played Swing.

Wells D

He lived 1909 to 1985 and played Swing.

Wilson T

He lived 1912 to 1986 and played Swing.

Krupa G

He lived 1909 to 1973 and played Chicago and Swing.

Webb Ch

He lived 1909 to 1939 and played Swing.

Goodman B

He lived 1909 to 1986 and played Swing.

Hill T

He lived 1909 to 1978 and played Modern.

Johnson R

He lived 1911 to 1938 and was the "father of blues".

Lunceford J

He lived 1902 to 1947 and played Big Band.

Basie W

He lived 1904 to 1984 and played Big Band.

Shaw A

He lived 1910 to 2004 and played Big Band.

Miller Gl

He lived 1904 to 1944 and played Big Band.

Hampton L

He lived 1908 to 2002 and played Swing and Big Band.

Hawkins C

He lived 1904 to 1969 and played Big Band and Swing.

O'Connell H

She lived 1920 to 1993 and sang with Bob Eberly for bandleader Jimmy Dorsey, in Swing.

Roppolo L

He lived 1902 to 1943 and played Chicago.

Henderson F

He lived 1897 to 1952 and played Big Band.

Hodges J

He lived 1906 to 1970 and played Modern.

Rich B

He lived 1917 to 1987 and played Modern.

Eldridge R

He lived 1911 to 1989 and played Swing.

Kenton S

He lived 1912 to 1979 and played Progressive.

Gillespie Diz

He lived 1917 to 1993 and played Bebop.

Parker Charlie

He lived 1920 to 1955 and played Bebop.

Monk T

He lived 1917 to 1982 and played Cool.

Mulligan G

He lived 1927 to 1996 and played Cool.

Jackson Mil

He lived 1923 to 1999 and was in the Modern Jazz Quartet and played Modern.

Blakey A

He lived 1919 to 1990 and played Modern.

Clark Kenny

He lived 1914 to 1985 and played Cool.

Evans B

He lived 1929 to 1980 and played Modern.

Heath P

He lived 1923 to 2005, was in played Modern Jazz Quartet, and played Cool.

Konitz L

He lived 1937 to ?. Cool.

Kyle B

He lived 1915 to 1966 and played Modern.

Lewis John music

He lived 1920 to 2001, was in the Modern Jazz Quartet, and played Cool and Modern.

Mingus C

He lived 1922 to 1979. Cool.

Roach M

He lived 1924 to ? and played Modern.

St. Cyr J

He lived 1890 to 1966 and played Modern.

Davis Mil

He lived 1926 to 1991 and played Cool.

Shearing G

He lived 1919 to ? and played Big Band.

Garner E

He lived 1921 to 1977 and played Swing.

Johnson JJ

He lived 1924 to 2001 and worked with Kai Winding [1954].

Winding K

He lived 1922 to 1983 and worked with J. J. Johnson [1954].

Hamilton C

He lived 1921 to ?, formed the Chico Hamilton Quintet [1955], and played Modern.

Cole C

He lived 1910 to 1981 and played Swing.

Brubeck D

He lived 1920 to ? and played Progressive.

Coleman O

He lived 1930 to ? and played New Wave.

Fountain P

He lived 1930 to ? and played Modern.

Shepp A

He lived 1939 to ? and played New Wave.

Williams Co

He lived 1910 to 1985 and played Modern.

Severinsen C

He lived 1927 to 1989 and played Modern.

Getz S

He lived 1927 to 1991 and played Bossa Nova.

Coltrane J

He lived 1926 to 1967 and played New Wave.

Hirt A

He lived 1922 to 1999 and played Modern.

Santos M

He lived 1926 to 2006.

2-Music-History-Jazz-Styles

New Orleans jazz

Originating in New Orleans, jazz developed from blues, spirituals, and African-American work songs. Jazz uses African rhythms and melodies, British ballads, and folk songs. Brass bands and minstrel bands contributed to jazz. Rampart Street, Franklin Street, Basin Street, Congo Square, and Perdido Street are in New Orleans' Storyville section.

Dixieland

It started in Storyville and on Bourbon Street and featured brass instruments. It improvised from marches, quadrilles, ragtime, and blues. Name comes from the Original Dixieland Jass Band of 1917. It migrated to Chicago and New York.

Chicago jazz

Style evolved from New Orleans style jazz, used harmony in improvisation, and included Benny Goodman, Thomas Waller, and Bix Beiderbecke. It migrated to New York in 1930's.

Swing music

It was music to dance to.

Big Band

Large bands played jazz in the Swing Era.

New Orleans Revival

White musicians, such as clarinetist George Lewis with Burgundy Street Blues [1946], rediscovered Dixieland.

Bebop

It is fast and uses harmonics. It started with Coleman Hawkins [1939] and included Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Thelonious Monk.

Progressive jazz

Named by Stan Kenton, it was on the West Coast and was experimental and dissonant.

Cool

Miles Davis was leader.

Modern Jazz

It incorporates classical music and is very complex and/or fast, such as by the Modern Jazz Quartet: John Lewis, Milt Jackson, Percy Heath, and Connie Kay.

New Wave

It was free form and included John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, McCoy Tyner, Albert Ayler, Jimmy Garrison, Elvin Jones, and Pharoah Sanders.

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