1. Paul, Whiteman(March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967)
1907 – Performed viola in the Denver symphony orchestra and San
1914 - Performed viola in the San Francisco symphony orchestra.
1918 – Organized a dance band in San Francisco.
1920 – Moved to New Jersey and then settling in New York, his recording of whispering and Japanese sandman sold more than a million copies, it prompted him became the most well-known American band-leader. Also, he starts to using the title “Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra” for his band.
1924 – The debut of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” was performed by Paul’s orchestra in New York as a part of the concert ‘An Experiment in Modern Music’.
1926 – Signed three men in his orchestra, which referred by Paul as the ‘The Rhythm Boys’ lately.
1928 – Signed with Columbia record.
1934 – Paul’s (orchestra) recording version of “Smokes get in your eyes” and “Wagon wheels” hit the top one of billboard chart.
1942 – Whiteman started to record for Capitol Records.
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Whiteman’s contribution to Jazz music is marginal despite his nickname “King of Jazz”. Some scholars who study Jazz history referred him as a big “rip-off “since he constantly copies the idea of fellow composers and musicians. Also, because his dominance in recording industry, he slowed the progress of Jazz music and “almost single-handle destroyed it”. (Scaruffi, 2007). According to the word of music history reviewer Piero Scaruffi, everything “invented” by Whiteman was considered relevant and the others were considered irrelevant.
C. Whiteman is active in public media such as Radio, TV and film. He has several Radio shows at 1930s, including Kraft Music Hall and Paul Whiteman’s Musical varieties. After his semi-retirement of music, he worked as a music director for the ABC Radio Network. In film realm, Whiteman and his orchestra were the stars of King of Jazz, which is a technically innovative movie of late 1929. Whiteman also appeared in film Rhapsody in Blue, and The fabulous
Originally, the group was composed of two quartets and a pianist, a woman named Wells, under the direction of the University musical director, George L. White. In 1871 this small group set out to raise money for the struggling little university (founded in 1866). Over the next decade they had toured most of the northern states, had performed at the White House, toured England and much of Europe and had played for Queen Victoria.
Steve Miller was born October 5, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Steve’s family was very involved with music. His mother was a jazz-influenced singer, and his father was a pathologist that very interested in the world of music. Dr. Miller was friends with many musicians which greatly aided in young Steve’s development in music. One of his father’s friends included Les Paul, who showed Steve some chords on a guitar at the age of five. Les Paul proved to be a very valuable mentor to Steve, and he became a good friend of the family. When Steve was seven his family moved to Dallas, where he was exposed to a different type of artists that usually did not visit Milwaukee. His father took him to see greats such as Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, and Carl Perkins. Steve was particularly drawn to T-Bone Walker, the father of Texas-style electric blues. This proved to be very influential in Steve’s life, and it is evident by the blues-sound that he exhibited in his guitar playing.
...ope, to show his children the many Scandinavian countries. He introduced them to the languages and cultures he learned during his time in school. Upon his return he guest conducted with the New Haven, New Britain, and Hartford Symphonies. Also, he worked on the boards of the New Haven and Hartford Symphonies. Anderson served as manager of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra.
Jazz music of the 1940’s and 1950’s was defined by a history of change since its beginning at the dawn of the 20th century. Almost every decade brought a new flavor to the movement, and by the 1940’s jazz had developed into a mature, complex form of music, with many nuances and avenues for continued change. It is important to trace the early movements in jazz to better understand the innovations of the Bebop and Cool jazz eras of the 40’s and 50’s.
The music of jazz became an important aspect of American culture in the early 20th century. The crisp syncopation of ragtime and the smooth tunes of the blues seeped into American mainstream music through dance halls and saloons and later through ballrooms. Instruments like the piano, trumpet, trombone and clarinet became important and symbolized the “swing-feel” of jazz because of their capability to syncopate and improvise precisely. With the help of the booming recording industry, musical geniuses were discovered and their talent and contributions to the emergence of jazz spread throughout the entire country. Such musicians include composer, arranger and pianist Jelly Roll Morton who heavily influenced the development of early jazz by his unique piano style, his “invention” of musical notation for jazz, and his compositions that have become the core in the jazz repertory. Because the style was new and different and so successful in drawing in large audiences, musicians around the world tried to mimic it. Furthermore, Morton’s masterpieces were the first to show notation for complicated jazz music and thus, formed the basis for standard notation in jazz compositions today.
After high school, from 1927-1934, Louis played throughout New Orleans and recorded more than 70 titles for various labels, and at the age of 24, he took his considerable talents as a trumpet player and bandleader to New York City. It was at around this time that Louis coined the expression "Swing," as well as many others, and once The Louis Prima Band played their version of Big Band inspired, Dixieland Jazz infused "Swing" music at the Famous Door Club, the entire 52nd Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway was dubbed "Swing Street." Thus, a whole new era of music began. Even the "King Of Swing," Benny Goodman wouldn't have near the notoriety without the Prima penned "Sing Sing Sing," which is still considered a Swing Era classic.
As seniors in 1957, they then started writing their own songs in the Everly Brothers' rock and roll style. The famous duo wrote and composed many number 1’s and were one of the most popular groups on the 1960’s. They worked together until the 1970’s when Paul Simon’s began his own solo career. The song “7 O'clock News/Silent Night”, was a great success, and made a statement about the 60’s. The song begins with the group singing the Christmas carol silent night accompanied by a simple piano melody.
Beginning with Goodman’s monumental performance at Palomar Ballroom in Los Angeles, the Swing Era gained immense popularity that helped the jazz genre rise to the forefront of popular music in America in the 1930s to 1950s. Furthermore, Goodman’s performance at Carnegie Hall brought the jazz genre to new peaks as it gained acclaim high-class music. The highly popular music form, along with its newfound recognition as a sophisticated music genre at Carnegie Hall, inspired the next generation of jazz musicians and brought many opportunities for jazz musicians to launch their music careers. In addition, Goodman crossed racial barriers in jazz by making his mixed jazz bands mainstream, which normalized mixed jazz groups and brought together previously segregated musicians. Goodman significantly impacted jazz by popularizing the Swing Era, which launched the careers of future generations of jazz musicians, and by unifying musicians of different ethnic backgrounds through jazz
The word “jazz” is significant to America, and it has many meanings. Jazz could simply be defined as a genre or style of music that originated in America, but it can also be described as a movement which “bounced into the world somewhere about the year 1911…” . This is important because jazz is constantly changing, evolving, adapting, and improvising. By analyzing the creators, critics, and consumers of jazz in the context of cultural, political, and economic issue, I will illustrate the movement from the 1930’s swing era to the birth of bebop and modern jazz.
The Concert Band. New York: Rinehart and Company, Inc., 1946. Print. The. Rhodes, Stephen.
White artists have been taking these genres of music and changing it. They rid the music of its black feel, sound, and color. Jazz is a type of music genre that was created by African Americans in the 1910s. “Yet when jazz gained mainstream popularity in 1917, its face was neither black nor Creole. The first jazz record released to the masses was that of the self-proclaimed ‘Original Dixieland Jazz Band,’ a group of five white musicians” (Ainsley). When jazz grew in popularity, white artist were giving the credit for originating this form of music. When artists talk about taking away the color of genres like jazz and rock-n-roll, this means getting rid of the African Americans sound. “When appropriating black musical forms, white artists such as Paul Whiteman often reshape and redefine the styles to “minimize their association with ‘Blackness’” (Hall qtd. in Ainsley)”. One artist that was known for appropriating African American music was Paul Whiteman. Then another famous musician, Elvis Presley, started doing the same with his music. “In the early 1950s, Sam Phillips—the Sun Records executive who helped Elvis rise to stardom—proclaimed, ‘If I could find a white man who had the Negro sound and the Negro feel, I could make a billion dollars’” (qtd in Ainsley). Popular music artists like Paul Whiteman and Elvis Presley took these genres and made it into own style. They take
Jazz music prospered in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Jazz was created by African Americans to represent pain and suffering and also represented the adversity that racial tension brought. (Scholastic) African American performers like Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie “Bird” Parker came to be recognized for their ability to overcome “race relati...
musicians from his era, he had his roots in New Orleans, Louisiana. Armstrong is widely regarded as one of the greatest jazz musicians of all time.
Through his contribution to early Jazz, he had a direct hand in developing the new field of academic jazz scholarship, although it had been extensively debated on his contribution. None the less, his talent formed a popularity that was surpassed by none, even to the point that once in his career; he was more popular than the Beatles. Undoubtedly, he was the first, if not the only to present Jazz to the public as a form of art. This changed the direction of Jazz to not just leisure listening music, but a teachable and complicated
As it mentioned above, the title itself, draws attention to the world-renowned music created by African Americans in the 1920s’ as well as to the book’s jazz-like narrative structure and themes. Jazz is the best-known artistic creation of Harlem Renaissance. “Jazz is the only pure American creation, which shortly after its birth, became America’s most important cultural export”(Ostendorf, 165). It evolved from the blues