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Test 1 Flashcards

1
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Robert Johnson

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  • Blues Legend
  • guitar and vocals
  • “Crossroad Blues”
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W.C. Handy

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  • Father of the Blues
  • first to write blues and blues forms down
  • “Memphis Blues”
  • “St. Louis Blues” *
  • formed his own publishing company
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John Philip Sousa

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  • Brass band leader
  • military March style
  • always played on the quarter note to match marching
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Stephen Foster

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  • minstrel performer

- the father of American music

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James Bland

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The worlds greatest minstrel man

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Ragtime

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  • piano players imitate the sound of a brass band
  • LH: goes back and forth
  • RH: plays syncopated melodies
  • mostly resembles brass band form
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Scott Joplin

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  • piano and composer
  • ragtime
  • “Maple Leaf Rag”
  • composed and produced “Treemonisha” - an opera with ragtime incorporated into it
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Buddy Bolden

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  • the first jazz musician

- trumpet and cornet

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Bunk Johnson

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  • active in New Orleans
  • cornet
  • lost his teeth and was unable to play until he got them fixed
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Buddy Petit

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  • cornet
  • revered as one of the greatest New Orleans cornet players
  • led bands
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Freddie Kepperd

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  • cornet
  • top player in New Orleans
  • didn’t record because he didn’t want to give away his tricks
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Joe “King” Oliver

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  • cornet and band leader
  • mentored Louis Armstrong
  • excelled in improvisation
  • master of tonal manipulation and the use of mutes
  • led Creole Jazz Band
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Johnny Dods

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  • clarinet
  • edgy tone with fast vibrato
  • played wonderful countermelodies
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Jimmy Noone

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  • clarinet
  • dark warm sound
  • Creole style
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Sidney Bechet

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  • clarinet and soprano sax
  • highly regarded in early jazz
  • one of the first important soloists to appear
  • big sound, wide vibrato, played with imagination
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Kid Ory

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  • trombone

- toured and recorded during the 1940s Dixieland Revival

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Henore Dutrey

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  • trombone
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Baby Dodds

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Drums

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Zutty Singleton

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  • drums
  • military style of rudimentary drumming
  • used brushes and the hi hat
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Original Dixieland Jass Band

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  • white New Orleans musicians who learned to play jazz by imitating black players there
  • were a big success in Chicago
  • “Livery Stable Blues” and “Original Dixie Jazz One Step”
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Stride Piano

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  • LH: goes back and forth creating an oom-pah effect
  • RH: plays the melody
  • swing eighth notes are a general part of the rhythmic feel
  • walking up and down the keys is common
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James P. Johnson

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  • piano
  • stride style
  • Father of Stride Piano
  • “Carolina Shout”
  • influenced Duke Ellington
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Willie “The Lion” Smith

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  • piano

- stride style

24
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Charles “Luckyeth” Roberts

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  • piano
  • stride style
  • “Pork and Beans”
25
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Fats Waller

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  • piano and organ
  • stride style
  • protege of James P. Johnson
26
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Boogie Woogie (Honky Tonk)

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  • specifically piano style
  • LH: stationary repetitive pattern
  • RH: improvised blues riffs
  • mostly AAB blues form used
27
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Meade “Lux” Lewis

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  • piano
  • father of boogie woogie
  • “Honky Tonk Train Blues”
28
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Pete Johnson

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  • piano (boogie woogie)

- “Climbin’ and Screamin’ “

29
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Jimmy Yancey

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  • piano (boogie woogie)
  • “State Street Special”
  • inducted into the Rock n Roll hall of fame
30
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Louis Armstrong

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  • cornet, trumpet and singer
  • joined Joe “King” Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band
  • his bands: Hot Five, Hot Seven, All Stars
  • first great jazz soloist
  • double time, increased upper range, hot sound, fast vibrato
  • good sense of swing, SCAT vocals
  • influenced people to play trumpet instead of cornet
  • vocals: “Hello Dolly” and “What a Wonderful World”
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Earl Hines

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  • piano
  • trumpet influenced his style
  • right hand: single note melodies, octaves to imitate Armstrong’s hot sound, octave tremolo to imitate vibrato
  • “West End Blues”
32
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Bix Beiderbecke

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  • cornet
  • mostly self taught
  • unorthodox system of fingerings gave him a unique sound
  • joined the band the Wolverines
  • great white jazz soloist - very impressive
  • teamed up with Frankie Trumbauer
  • played in Paul Whiteman’s orchestra
33
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Paul Whiteman

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Band leader

- “Changes”

34
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Austin High Gang

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  • white musicians excited about jazz in Chicago

- one member: Bud Freeman (sax)

35
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Jelly Roll Morton

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  • piano
  • first jazz composer/arranger
  • his band was the Red Hot Peppers
  • inspired Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus
36
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Ma Rainey

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  • singer
  • mother of the blues
  • recorded with the Paramount label
37
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Bessie Smith

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  • singer
  • Empress of the blues
  • became a TOBA star - live theater booking agency
38
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Blind Lemon Jefferson

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  • blues
  • guitar player and singer
  • made recordings with the Paramount Label
39
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“O Berta Berta”

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  • Leroy Miller and Group of Prisoners
40
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“St. Louis Blues”

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  • Bessie Smith

- 1925

41
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“Maple Leaf Rag” (ragtime)

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Scott Joplin

- 1916

42
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“Maple leaf rag” (swing - jazzy)

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Jelly Roll Morton

- 1938

43
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“Crossroad Blues”

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Robert Johnson

- 1937

44
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“Jelly Bean Blues”

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Ma Rainey

- 1924

45
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“Broadway Hit Melody”

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James Reese Europe

- 1919

46
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“Dixie Jazz Band One Step”

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Original Dixie Jass Band

- 1917

47
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“Dippermouth Blues”

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King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band

- 1923

48
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“Hotter than That”

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Hot Five

- 1927

49
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“West End Blues”

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Hot Five

- 1928

50
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“Black Bottom Stomp”

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Red Hot Peppers

- 1926

51
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“River Boat Shuffle”

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Bix Beiderbecke/ Frankie Trumbauer Orchestra

- 1927

52
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“Carolina Shout”

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James P. Johnson

- 1921

53
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“Handful of Keys”

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Fats Waller

- 1929

54
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“Honky Tonk Train Blues”

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Meade Lux Lewis

- 1937

55
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“Boogie Woogie”

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Pete Johnson

- 1938

56
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“Changes”

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Paul Whiteman Orchestra

- 1927

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