BY GENRE

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• Pre-jazz

  • Origins of jazz, historical context

    • Ring shouts and field hollers (Congo Square)

• The Blues

  • City and Rural

  • Before, in, and after Early Jazz

  • Storytelling

• Early Jazz

  • Pre-swing

  • Four main cities

    • New Orleans

      • Louis Armstrong

      • Jelly Roll Morton

      • King Oliver

      • ODJB (first recordings)

      • Bix Beiderbecke

    • Chicago

      • Bix Beiderbecke

      • Blues groups

    • New York

      • Stride piano, small groups, start of big bands

      • Fats Waller (piano)

      • James P. Johnson (piano)

      • Art Tatum (piano)

      • Roy Eldridge (trumpet)

      • Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax)

        • Body & Soul

      • Sidney Bishe

      • Singers (lots, became more common and led into the swing era)

      • Big Bands ("Dance Bands")

        • Cab Calloway

        • Billy Holiday & Paul Whiteman Orchestra

        • Jimmy Lundsford

        • Duke Ellington

        • Don Redman

        • Chick Webb (Baltimore)

        • Benny Carter

        • Fletcher Henderson

    • Kansas City

      • Very different sound, less melding of classical tradition, stayed truer to the blues and origins (riff based)

      • Artists

        • Count Basie

        • Lester Young

        • Jay McShan

        • Joe Williams (vocalist)

        • Andy Kirk & his twelve clouds of joy

        • Benny Moten

        • Mary Lou Williams and Lil Harden

• Swing / Big Band Era Jazz

  • A shift toward more White musicians and mainstream culture because white audiences started getting more involved, close enough to watch but not be a part of it

  • Artists

    • Benny Goodman (start of the swing era often credited to him)

    • Duke Ellington

    • Cab Calloway

    • Billy Eckstein

    • Jango Reinhardt

    • Tommy and Jimmy Dorsee

    • Louis Jordan

    • Ella Fitzgerald

    • Nat King Cole

• Bebop (very centered in New York)

  • Black musicians took back their music and went underground with it

  • Smaller groups, faster tempos, undanceable styles

  • Artists

    • Charlie Parker (sax)

    • Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet)

    • Bud Powell (piano)

    • Thelonious Monk (piano)

    • Max Roach (drums)

    • Miles Davis (trumpet)

    • Dexter Gordon (tenor)

    • Oscar Peterson

    • JJ Johnson (trombone)

• Cool School / West Coast Jazz

  • White musicians tugged jazz popularity back and softened the Bebop style

  • Tempos were still fast, but the timbres were more mellow

  • Orchestration included more Western Classical tradition

  • Artists

    • Stan Getz

    • Jerry Mulligan

    • Lenny Tristano

    • Dave Brubeck

    • George Shearing

    • Miles Davis

• Hard Bop / Funky Jazz

  • Swing back to the Black tradition

  • Neo-bop, shift back to the blues

  • Artists

    • John Coltrane

• And on and on!

BY INSTRUMENT

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