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East St. Louis Toodle-oo
Duke Ellington- jungle style, nasty sounding
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God Bless The Child
Billie Holiday-scooping notes
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Good Enough To Keep
Benny Goodman Sextet-vibraphone
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He's Funny That Way
Billie Holiday/Lester Young-sax and vocals
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I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
Tommy Dorsey-trombone with lots of vibrato
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In A Mellow Tone
Duke Ellington-fancy piano intro
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In The Mood
Glenn Miller-sax + clarinet have the melody
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It Don't Mean A Thing
Duke/Ivie Anderson-listen for the title in the lyrics
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Jumpin' At The Woodside
Count Basie-starts with piano ostinato (quarter notes up and down the keyboard)
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King Porter Stomp
Benny Goodman-starts with trumpet solo
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Koko
Duke Ellington-jungle drums, low bari sax and basoon
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Lester Leaps In
- Count Basie-simple piano fills between horn ostinato (H H | Q EE Q Q | W)
- H= half note
- Q=quarter note
- E=eighth note
- W=whole note
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Rose Room
Benny Goodman Sextet-clarinets and vibes, song from the main menu of the video in class
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Sing, Sing, Sing
Benny Goodman-Gene Krupa drum solo intro
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Take The A Train
Billy Strayhon/Duke Ellington
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A Tisket A Tasket
Ella Fitzgerald/Chick Webb-listen to lyrics
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Begin The Beguine
Artie Shaw-low register clarinet, lyrical
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Body and Soul
Coleman Hawkins-lyrical piano intro, sax solo
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Taxi War Dance
Count Basie-piano ostinato calls the band (EE EE EE EE | EE EE EE EE | 2% | ascending on the keyboard)
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Count Basie's Rhythm Section
- Guitar: Freddie Green
- Bass: Walter Page
- Drums: Jo Jones
- Piano: Basie (Duh!)
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Guitar player for Benny Goodman
Charlie Christian
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Famous sax player for Count Basie
Lester Young
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Short drummer, in constant back pain, led band at the Savoy Ballroom
Chick Webb
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Clarinet band leaders
Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw
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Sax player that played up and down the registers of the instrument (vertical), used harmonies a lot
Coleman Hawkins
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Trumpet player called "Little Jazz"
Roy Eldridge
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First Lady of Swing
Ella Fitzgerald
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Singer that had a rough childhood
Billie Holiday
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Bandleader that used a baton and had his band dancing on stage
Jimmy Lunsford
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Who heard Count Basie on the radio and drove all the way to Kansas City to see him?
John Hammond
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Trombone bandleaders
Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey
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Benny Goodman broke the color barrier when he played onstage with a black pianist named
Teddy Wilson
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Arranger and musical soulmate for Duke Ellington
Billy Strayhorn
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Who was the bandleader that hired Ella Fitzgerald?
Chick Webb
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What was Coleman Hawkins know as?
The Bean
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When did swing start dying?
1945-'47
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Newport, RI 1956
Duke Ellington revives swing by releasing a swing album and playing his old swing charts at the Newport Jazz Festival
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Syncopation of the Swing Era can be traced back to
Louis Armstrong
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Arranger for Benny Goodman
Fletcher Henderson (through John Hammond)
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Sweet band:
Commercial band:
Hot band:
- Paul Whiteman type stuff
- Mix of sweet and hot stuff
- Really exciting jazz that pushed the envelope
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Rupublican band
Glenn Miller
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Count Basie was born in
New Jersey
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Logo of a band hanging on the music stand
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