... Bernstein, Toscanini and Ormandy. He preformed new orchestral works of Bartok, Stravinsky and Copland. The summer of 1932 saw Benny organize his first band, which starred singer Russ Columbo. In 1933, Goodman accepted an offer by the legendary producer John Hammond to record for Columbia's English market, ... Dance", which ran for about six months. But Goodman was also on the "Camel Caravan" and the "Victor Borge Show", and a biography was written about him in 1939 entitled "The Kingdom of Swing". On Hammond's advice in 1934, Goodman purchased form the struggling bandleader Fletcher Hend...

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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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... 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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... 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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... always a single person who can be credited with the evolution of that sound. From Thelonius Monk, and his bebop, to Dizzy Gillespie's big band, to Miles Davis' cool jazz, or to John Coltrane's free jazz; America's music has been developed and refined countless times through individual experimentation ... first, brought them together, but in the end triggered lives and careers to collapse. Coltrane was invited to play in Dizzy Gillespie's his big band in 49. Gillespie had been a very significant figure in the bebop movement. Bebop was a style of jazz, popular during the late thirties an...

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... teens played the clarinet, but with little interest in it. It was the alto saxophone sound produced by Johnny Hodges playing in the Duke Ellington band on the radio that inspired him to drop the clarinet and begin playing the alto saxophone. Coltrane with the alto saxophone immediately became a competent ... Coltrane attended Ornstein School of Music. Then in 1945, he was drafted into the Navy and sent to Hawaii where he played clarinet in a band called the Melody Makers (keep in mind that military bands were and still are made up of very educated and talented musicians.) Coltrane was s...

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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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... an ensemble who provide the underlying rhythm and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic reference for the rest of the band. It usually have piano, guitar, bass, drum and heard often in big band era. -Riff: is a short, meiodic idea, usually one to two bars in length, that is repeated as ... the core idea of a musical passage. Sometimes, different band sections will trade riffs in a call-and-response format, often over changing harmonies' usually rhythmic and simple, the riff can also provide a ... the duration of a whole note, hence the name. The semiquaver is half of a quave...

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... instruments. After his junior high school teacher chose him to play the bass in a concert Getz realized that he had a gift that the others in the band didn't have. By the age of 15 Getz was working as a professional musician playing the tenor sax, like he was born to play one. He ... Woody Herman. Not only was Jack Teagarden teaching Getz about music and improvising, but he was also teaching him about drinking heavily. Getz was with Herman's band "Second Herd" from 1947 to 1949 he became very popular. He was one of the first members of "The Four Brothers" saxophone section, which include...

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... . Even though Baker received musical education at Glendale Junior High School, he left school at the age of 16 to join the United States Army where and joined the army band. In his transition period, he left the army in 1948 and attended El Camino College in Los Angeles where he studied theory and harmony. But he was dropped out again ... and joined the army again in 1950. The he became a member of the sixth army band at the Presidio in San Francisco. At this point in his life Baker was into Jazz music. He became a huge fan of Miles Davis and soon he was into the ... . He starts his ...

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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 jazz music coming out of the nightclubs. Parker's favorite hangout was the balcony of Club Reno, where the house band was the Count Basie Orchestra. There he would sit and listen to his idol Lester Young playing with the Basie band. Both Parker and Coltrane led their lives around music. They both left home at a young age to pursue music. While ... practiced vigorously. In the summer of 1937, after being totally humiliated at a jam session with Jo Jones, which resulted in a cymbal being thrown at him, Parker took an engagement with a band led by Tommy Douglas at a resort in Eldon Mis...

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... by a teacher named Elwood Buchanan, before his natural talent and flare for improvisation took over. Miles progressed quickly at the trumpet, and played in a band in high school. In 1941, he joined his first professional group as a trumpeter. They were called Eddie Randall's Blue Devils. Many jazz musicians influenced Miles ... Davis. When Billy Eckstine's band played in St Louis, Miles was able to meet some of his hero's like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. They where visiting St. Louis and ... was at the forefront of this new style, along with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie ...

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... which weren't often broadcast in the South further extending his experience and horizons. He continued to practice his sax alone in his room until he was drafted into the Navy band in 1945. He returned to Philadelphia in 1946 after being discharged. At this point in his life Coltrane was totally committed to becoming a professional musician. Coltrane worked a variety of jobs ... through the late forties until in 1947 he joined Eddie Vinson's jazz band, switching reluctantly to play the tenor sax to do so. The group toured extensively, particularly in the South and southwest. It's at thi...

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... introduced me to Jazz and its huge range (while I had a quite narrow idea of what Jazz was) and variety of artists. But let's go back to the tune. A four-musician band plays this piece: we can find the following instruments: drums (Adrian Harpham), organ (Reuben Wilson), guitar (Robin Macatangay), and trumpet. For the moment, and even if I already listened to this ... is used to play the bass loop, the drummer and the guitarist keep on playing the rhythmic part). The whole band plays the given melody for a couple of measures, and we finally reach the end of the introduction with the all...

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... were not often broadcast in the South further extending his experience and horizons. He continued to practice his sax alone in his room until he was drafted into the Navy band in 1945. He returned to Philadelphia in 1946 after being discharged. At this point in his life Coltrane was totally committed to becoming a professional musician. Coltrane worked a variety of jobs ... through the late forties until in 1947 he joined Eddie Vinson's jazz band, switching reluctantly to play the tenor sax to do so. The group toured extensively, particularly in the South and southwest. It is at this po...

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... her knee that jingled when she played. In the forties and fifties, she played in crowded Bourbon Street clubs. Emma eventually formed her own band in 1961, called "Sweet Emma the Bell Gal and Her Dixieland Jazz Band". Some of their most famous songs were "I"m Alone Because I Love You", "Clarinet Marmalade", and "Little Liza Jane". Health problems began to plague Emma in ... ...

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... original song (Alexander). Jazz is distinctively an American form of music. Its history occupies a much smaller span of time. Its origins are found in the early 1900s as some dance band leaders in the southern U.S. began playing music that combined ragtime and blues. Early exponents of this dance music were Jelly Roll Martin and Scott Joplin, who were both blues players ... . 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 ... ...

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... their minds. (American Voice) Louis Armstrong was a famous African American Jazz musician called "Satchma." He had been in many bands like the Creole Jazz Band, Kid Ory's, and many more. Around 1925 he had his own band called Louis Armstrong and his Stompers. By 1929 Louis had become a very big star. On July 6th 1971 the world's greatest Jazz musician died in ... ...

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... their minds. (American Voice) Louis Armstrong was a famous African American Jazz musician called "Satchma." He had been in many bands like the Creole Jazz Band, Kid Ory's, and many more. Around 1925 he had his own band called Louis Armstrong and his Stompers. By 1929 Louis had become a very big star. On July 6th 1971 the world's greatest Jazz musician died in ... ...

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... their minds. (American Voice) Louis Armstrong was a famous African American Jazz musician called "Satchma." He had been in many bands like the Creole Jazz Band, Kid Ory's, and many more. Around 1925 he had his own band called Louis Armstrong and his Stompers. By 1929 Louis had become a very big star. On July 6th 1971 the world's greatest Jazz musician died in ... ...

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... cannot be traced to a specific time or to a specific artist. Some people say that the first signs of pop came from the music band the Beatles. Others believe it started with Millie Vannili and continued with the boy band New Kids on the Block. Pop in the United States has become very popular in the last couple years. Ever since Britney Spears ... ...

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