Benny Goodman -KING OF SWING
Great Clarinetist - best of Swing Era
Made Swing popular and the Pop Music of the Swing Era
Led various big bands and small groups throughout his life.
FLETCHER HENDERSON 1934- hired as Goodmans chief Arranger after Hendersons
ART TATUM
1909-1956
Virtuoso Pianist- Astounding Technique- was also virtually blind
Envy of jazz and Classical players
Many pianists gave up playing after they heard him
Many pianists refused to play in front of him
Essentially a Swing Player
but so uniq
Chapter Title: 5 Bill Russells American Music
Book Title: Creating Jazz Counterpoint
Book Subtitle: New Orleans, Barbershop Harmony, and the Blues
Book Author(s): Vic Hobson
Published by: University Press of Mississippi, (March 2014)
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Chapter Title: BLACK INTERNATIONALE: Notes on the Chinese Jazz Age
Chapter Author(s): Andrew F. Jones
Book Title: Jazz Planet
Book Editor(s): E. Taylor Atkins
Published by: University Press of Mississippi, (November 2003)
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Chapter Title: BRAZILIAN JAZZ AND FRICTION OF MUSICALITIES
Chapter Author(s): Accio Tadeu de Camargo Piedade
Book Title: Jazz Planet
Book Editor(s): E. Taylor Atkins
Published by: University Press of Mississippi, (November 2003)
Stable URL: http:/www.jsto
CHAPTER 3 The Humor of Jazz
Chapter Author(s): CHARLES HIROSHI GARRETT
Book Title: Jazz/Not Jazz
Book Subtitle: The Music and Its Boundaries
Edition: 1
Book Editor(s): David Ake, Charles Hiroshi Garrett, Daniel Goldmark
Published by: University of Califor
Chapter Title: ONE Being (and Becoming) John Coltrane: Listening for Jazz Subjectivity
Book Title: Jazz Matters
Book Subtitle: Sound, Place, and Time since Bebop
Edition: 1
Book Author(s): David Ake
Published by: University of California Press, (September
Chapter 6 Bedlam from the Decadent West, 19671968
Book Title: Jazz Diplomacy
Book Subtitle: Promoting America in the Cold War Era
Book Author(s): Lisa E. Davenport
Published by: University Press of Mississippi, (July 2009)
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Chapter 1 Battling the Reds
Book Title: Jazz Diplomacy
Book Subtitle: Promoting America in the Cold War Era
Book Author(s): Lisa E. Davenport
Published by: University Press of Mississippi, (July 2009)
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