... Armstrong was in his teens he got into trouble and had to go to the Waif's home, which was a school for boys. He joined the band here and learned to play the cornet, although he was taught incorrectly and ruined his lips. He never learned to read music either. When Louis was ... . When Louis was offered the jobs, jazz was already developing however; it was not very popular yet. When Louis started to play in his own band and people began to listen to his music, jazz began to get popular across America. James Lincoln Collier suggests a few books to read to learn ... is more important than...

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... , hookers, and gamblers, of random violence and enigmatic jolts of good fortune." (Bergreen P. 75) Soon after he began playing, Armstrong was made leader of the band. This is when Louis began to come into his own as a performer. His personality was born, he wasn't just a musician, he was a true entertainer ... on the riverboats, what he was waiting for arrived. He received an invitation from King Oliver to join his band in Chicago. Louis soon became a great asset to King Olivers' band. King Oliver took Louis and molded him into the next great trumpet player. Louis and Joe complimented ea...

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... she was able to cope with his death was to focus on her flourishing career, so she decided to go on tour with The Count Basie Band. Traveling, as well as touring conditions were extremely horrible for Billie and the other bandmates because of the lack of stability. In other words, the ... members of The Count Basie Band experienced a tremendous amount of racism, they had to travel from one city to the next sometimes having to take loans to even eat and find ... a place to stay while traveling to different cities. But despite the harsh conditions that she experienced traveling with an al...

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... such as differences in the ethnicity of the musicians and the artists that influenced the bands. "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" was recorded in February 1917 by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The band features Nick LaRocca on cornet, Larry Shields on Clarinet, Eddie Edwards on trombone, Henry Ragas on piano, and ... The instrument featured are the piano, trombone, trumpet, two cornets, bass, and drums. Two of the more obvious differences in the band are the woman piano player and all band members being of african-american descent. The most obvious differences in the songs are the form (th...

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... such as differences in the ethnicity of the musicians and the artists that influenced the bands. "Dixie Jazz Band One-Step" was recorded in February 1917 by The Original Dixieland Jazz Band. The band features Nick LaRocca on cornet, Larry Shields on Clarinet, Eddie Edwards on trombone, Henry Ragas on piano, and ... The instrument featured are the piano, trombone, trumpet, two cornets, bass, and drums. Two of the more obvious differences in the band are the woman piano player and all band members being of african-american descent. The most obvious differences in the songs are the form (th...

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... it include; Fletcher Henderson, Count Basie, and Bennie Goodman. Bennie Goodman, however, also was a leader for Big Bands. The sound of Big Band was derived from the arrangements of Paul Whiteman, who toned down the dense polyrhythms and raw sounds in order to "civilize- it for a white ... adding more dissonance. This type of symphonic jazz would also go on to influence twentieth century American symphonic music. After the heyday of Big Band arrangement, Bebop emerged in New York City in the late 1940s. Centered around Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gilespie, Thelonious Monk, and Bud Powell, .....

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... moved to New York and began to play in Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra for 13 months. In 1925 he returned to Chicago and joined his wife's band at the Dreamland. He recorded his first Hot Five records that same year. These were the first records he made under his own name. In 1925 ... Louis began Okeh Record's dates with his Hot Five band featuring Johnny Dodds on clarinet, Kid Ory on trombone, Johnny St. Cyr on banjo, and his wife Lillian on piano. On November 12, 1925 Louis ... use to doing occasionally. This was the first recorded example of what became known as "scat singing." In 192...

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... moved to Chicago to work with his mentor he ment his second wife Lil Hardin. Lil Hardin was a pianist for a jazz band (Armstrong2 2). His wife at the time a large influence in his life convinced him into moving to New York. This was to join the Fletcher ... their music (Armstrong1 2). Many years later Louis returned back in Chicago and he began recording a series of music. "He made a series of small band recordings that rank among the masterpieces of jazz"(Cook 723). The names used for the recordings were the Hot Five and Hot Seven. "They showed his ... twentieth century as well as an e...

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... musical organizations as an in demand musician but he could never stay long with one band. "He couldn't stay long in one band too long because he was too eccentric and too temperamental, and he was a one-man band himself", said by bandleader George Morrison whom Morton played for in Denver. Morton really wanted ... year later to record eleven more, which were very popular and influential. Late in 1926, Morton formed the band Red Hot Pepper, a group of seven New Orleans jazz musicians familiar with his style and works. His band featured some of the best sidemen like Kid Ory, Barney Bigard...

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... was becoming one of the most famous night clubs in the country. These daily broadcasts gave the Cotton Club and Ellington national reputation. By 1929, the band's name was widely known. Ellington liked all the attention and continued to play. He did not care what he played, as long as his audiences ... constantly reiterated statement. Ellington had no intent to play over the radio but as the chance came, he realized it would help increase the popularity of the band. Ellington was composing his music for the people. He wrote it to persuade, influence, entertain, disturb, amuse, and excite ...

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... for the music he played which was called jazz music. Still today he is known for his music and being one of the pioneer's of jazz and big band. In The Beginning Louis was born in the Storyville District of New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 4, 1901. He always celebrated his birthday on July 4, ... free time he would listen bands at clubs like the Come Clean Dance Hall, Funky Butt Hall, and Mahogany Hall, in Storyville. Louie's favorite band was the Kid Ory Band because Joe "King" Oliver was his mentor. By 1917 Louis was playing in different groups at dive bars in New Orleans" Storyville ...

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... ." After meeting Brooks and learning a few tricks from him, Duke began to play in small cafes and other venues such as clubs around town with the band he had started the Duke's Serenaders. It was when Duke was just months short of his high school graduation that he married Edna Tompson, moved into a ... that he had bought, and dropped out of high school. In order to pay for things Duke became the booking agent of his own band which enabled him to place the band in the best locations without the heavy fees. On March 11th, 1919 his son Mercer Kennedy Ellington was born. In 1923 Duke and .....

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... by his playing and entertaining, scheduled a recording session for Fats with the company. Fats' band was known as Fats Waller and his Rhythm'. Waller was also the mentor of Count' Basie, one of the great band leaders of the swing era along with Duke' Ellington. Everybody wanted to play for either Baise ... Fats Waller, Basie, was loved by the public. Even though Count' wasn't one of the greatest piano players, his band as a whole was one of the best sources of entertainment in big band era and early 1900's. Jazz musicians in this time were known to be huge drugs addicts. Most experienced...

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... was being established in America, it was an exciting era of development and change. Swing is the jazz style that came about in the early nineteen-thirties and emphasized big band. It spilled into the late nineteen-forty's and then remained popular in recordings, film, and television music. Most swing-style groups had at least 10 musicians and featured at least ... that was rhythmically undeniable. For these reasons, the musical period of the nineteen-thirties and the nineteen-forties has been called the swing era and big-band era. Two of the more famous Swing Band leaders were Tommy Dor...

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... audiences liked it. Ellington had no intent to play over the radio but as the chance came, he realized it would help increase the popularity of the band. Ellington was composing his music for the people. He wrote it to persuade, influence, entertain, disturb, amuse, and excite the people, which it certainly ... all musicians must deal with in order to be successful. Yet at the same time, Ellington had a willingness to endure disorder and without it the band would not have played with the looseness needed to play simple jazz. Ellington often broke rules in order to reach new heights. The...

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... play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument at the time, he enjoyed listening to "The Hot Style Band", and his favorite musician was Joe King Oliver, who acted as the Louis" father and teacher. Joe King Oliver gave Louis his first cornet, and in ... trumpet player, but he also had a deep raspy voice that no other singer had. In 1931, he moved back to New Orleans, to form his own band. Louis hired Joe Glaser as his manager, and Joe took care of everything, leaving Louis to focus on his music. They hired the musicians from Joe King ......

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... play the cornet, which got him into the music business. Although Louis didn't have an instrument at the time, he enjoyed listening to "The Hot Style Band", and his favorite musician was Joe King Oliver, who acted as the Louis" father and teacher. Joe King Oliver gave Louis his first cornet, and in ... trumpet player, but he also had a deep raspy voice that no other singer had. In 1931, he moved back to New Orleans, to form his own band. Louis hired Joe Glaser as his manager, and Joe took care of everything, leaving Louis to focus on his music. They hired the musicians from Joe King ......

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... a slave in Virginia and hard work was nothing new to her mother. Sally Fagan never married Billie's father Clarence Holiday. He was a guitar player in a band with Fletcher Henderson, and because of this gig he abandoned the family to become a performer. Too young to know the difference, her mother left her with any member ... did not go so well (Gyurko). However it was very clear that she would be a star. Two years later she met up with a pick-up band led by Teddy Wilson and they immediately clicked. During 1935 -1942 she would record some of her finest records of her career. It was als...

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... , field hollers, Negro spirituals, gospel songs, ragtime, and blues. (Morrison 48) Alexander 2 Jazz started about 1910. Jazz made it's first appearance on records in 1917 by the original Dixieland Jazz Band. The same year other mucians cut records such as New Orleanians Sidney Bechet and Jellyroll Morton, and the blues singer Bessie Smith a native of Memphis Tennessee.(Morrison 49) The first ... Big Jazz Band came about 1923. It was called King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Within Oliver's Band many musicians came to surface like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie...

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... New Orleans by mainly those of Afro-American descent. Early exponents of this dance music were Jelly Roll Martin (a blues player) and Scott Joplin (ragtime). The terms "Jazz" and "Jazz Band" first surfaced in the year 1900. Some say this occurred in New Orleans, although similar music was played at the same time in other places. The most prominent exponents of ... I, Jazz music had evolved and was aided by the development of the recording industry. The small dance band ensemble grew into the larger orchestra known as the "Big Band". The music of the Big Bands became known as "Swing." Tw...

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... , was Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. In 1922, Armstrong rode the train from New Orleans to Chicago to join his mentor Joe Oliver and play in the King Oliver Creole Jazz Band. The Creole Jazz Band was busy playing the popular Lincoln Gardens Cafe, which catered to the growing African-American population in Chicago. During this time, Armstrong gained the reputation as a highly talented ... cornet player. In 1923, he was the first jazz musician to be recorded by Gennett Records while playing with the Creole Jazz Band. Okeh Records also recorded the band again before he left for New York in 1924...

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... the rampant racism, which would have gobbled him alive had he been anything less than a model of a man (Louis Armstrong Biography). When Armstrong stated,"The government can go to hell, it's getting so bad a coloured man hasn't got a country," (Louis Armstrong Biography) in reference to the segregation problems going on in Little Rock, Arkansas, he angered many of his fans, a few ... ...

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... and harmonic language of swing. The approach is either a jam session in a swing style with collective improvisation opening or closing the performance; or the horns scored in harmony in a big-band-type arrangement Bebop In the 1940's some Jazz musicians began to break away from swing music and involved a new style of Jazz known as Bebop. The Bebop era represents for ... , however, have remained in full strength such as the saxophone, trumpet, trombone, bass, drums, piano and guitar. The have all been used in big band configuration, with each group of wind instruments forming a different ...

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... Thomas Resnick. Refreshments were served and I believed everybody enjoyed himself or herself. The reason why I attended this event was because I like the trumpet and I played by the trumpet in band, jazz band, and marching band. And I always thought the trombone and trumpet are a great combination. Jazz music I enjoy a lot one of my favorite trumpeters is Dizzy Gillespie who always was good playing solo ... ...

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... sent him away to a home for shooting a pistol. At the home (Jones Home for Colored Waifs) is where he began his first music lessons, and also played in the brass band. He stayed in the Jones home for approximately a year in a half. After leaving the home, Armstrong supported himself by playing with pick-up bands and in clubs with Joe "King ... music out of blues and ragtime. By the 1920's Louis Armstrong was recognized when he left New Orleans to go to Chicago to play in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. After his success with the band, he moved to New York where he had a great impact on the F...

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