HISTORICAL CANON

• Swing Era

  • Fletcher Henderson

  • Sy Oliver

  • Benny Carter

  • Glenn Miller

  • Benny Goodman

    • Good for swing dances and for teaching about that era

• Bebop

  • Black rebellion against white appropriation of the swing era

• West Coast - Cool Jazz

  • More white groups

• Hard Bop

• Big Band

  • Duke Ellington

  • Count Basie

    • "Basie 4-part"

  • Sammy Nestico

  • Billy Strayhorn

  • Thad Jones

  • Bob Brookmeyer

  • Stan Kenton

  • Woody Herman

  • Maynard Ferguson

• Contemporary

  • Maria Schneider

  • Darcy James Argue

  • John Clayton (more doable for younger groups)

  • Chuck Owen