Jazz Appreciation Flashcards

Mid-Term; 10 Important People in Jazz

503158429	Thelonious Monk	Sings: Blue Monk; Uses a starting point and goes crazy from there	0
503158430	Scott Joplin	From Sedalia, Mo; Parents worked on a plantation; Taught himself how to play piano; Discovered by John Stark; Wrote "Maple Leaf Rag"(1899)-was the first sheet music to sell 1 million copies; Died first year there was recorded jazz material; Thought he was like the Eurpean Composers; Composed opera "treemonisha" and "the entertainer"	1
503158431	Jelly Roll Morton	Southern piano player; Wrote and performed "the pearls" and "dead mans blues"; Became famous as a small band leader and hired people to play other instruments so his hands could be freed to do more interesting things	2
503158432	Bessie Smith	Sang "backwater blues"; sang in movie "st. louis blues" where portrayed as a poor person in a bar; Race Records	3
503158433	Louis Armstrong	America's first real music superstar; recognized globally and toured in euorope; Was called "genius" for his work on the trumpet in particular; Wrote "hotter than that"; had the "hot five" and "hot 7" which where his first recognized masterpieces; Rewrote "black and blue" and made it his own, was about how to be black in a white world"	4
503158434	Fletcher Henderson	One of the earliest african amercian band leaders; Young and living in harlem for grad school; started playing piano to make money for school; Was an arranger(takes pre-existing tunes and makes them sound like they're imporvised); Wrote "sugar foot stomp" and "hotter than 'ell"	5
503158435	Count Basie	Had a strip tease; Was popular until he moved to kansas city where he went broke because no one would go to stip club; Started a big band "riffing band"; Wrote through composed music(unique and composed to be different from beginning to end); Built music built on riffs; Wrote "jumpin' on the woodside" and "one o'clock jump"	6
503158436	Glenn Miller	In military; Wrote patriotic music; Peak of fame is only for 3 years(1937-1940); 1940 inlisted and took off and his plane disapeared; Wrote "moonlight serenade" and "american partol"	7
503158437	Benny Goodman	From the westcoast mid-1930s; Had the palomar ballroom in san francisco; Everyone knew him from this so jazz must be a wide spread phenomenon; First to take an integrated jazz band to carnegie hall; Clarient player; One of the biggest big band players; Had a radio show; First to put intregated band on stage; Wrote "king porter stomp" and "sing sing sing"	8
503158438	Charlie Parker	Wrote "embraceable you" and "a night in tunisha"; Was a heroine addict; Bebop era	9