Chicago and NY Flashcards
who created the Chicago jazz scene
musicians that migrated from NO
why did musicians leave NO
storyville closed in 1917;
The Great Migration;
job opportunity for musicians;
jobs in heavy industry, meat packing, car assembly;
gangsters, speakeasies, glamorous night life
instruments of Chicago Jazz
3 horns and a rhythm section
“Dippermouth Blues”
King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
chicago jazz
Eddie Condon
guitar
chicago jazz
Jack Teagarden
trombone
chicago jazz
The Austin High Gang
chicago jazz
NORK (New Orleans Rhythm Kings)
chicago
Mez Mezzrow
clarinet, sax
chicago
Bix Beiderbecke
trumpet
NY in the 1920s? what was going on?
center of jazz; Harlem Renaissance; Prohibition Era; Jazz Age; Roaring 20s; Ended in Great Depression
Harlem Stride Piano characteristic
left hand: bass
right: improvisation, swinging
Father of harlem stride piano
James P. Johnson
Willie “the lion” Smith
harlem stride piano
Fats Waller
harlem stride piano
Art Tatum
harlem stride piano
Early big bands consisted of:
trumpet section, trombone section, saxophone section, rhythm section
what greatly influenced the swing era?
early big bands
where is Duke Ellington from?
DC
Duke Ellington
piano
NY jazz
what band did Ellington first join
Elmer Snowden Band (The Washingtonians)–>Ellington Band
who was famous for jungle style?
Duke Ellington
house band at Cotton Club?
Elmer Snowden/Washingtonians/Ellington band
Fletcher Henderson
born in GA NY jazz black had a band was an arranger too
who arranged for Benny Goodman?
Fletcher Henderson
King of Jazz
Paul Whiteman
symphonic jazz
Aeolian Hall Concert: who?
Paul Whiteman
who made symphonic jazz?
Paul Whiteman
Who hired Ella Fitzgerald
Chick Webb
Chick Webb
led a big band in harlem
NY jazz
Jimmie Lunceford
NY jazz
audience of Savoy Ballroom
mixed but mostly black
audience of Cotton Club
whites only audience, but had black performers
who built and owned the Renaissance Ballroom and Casino
African Americans
