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1902 in music: Standards: List of pre-1920 jazz standards: ... He later claimed to have invented Jazz in this year by combining Ragtime, Quadrilles and Blues. [1]
Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could retain its essential characteristics when notated. [6] His composition "Jelly Roll Blues", published in 1915, was one of the first published jazz compositions. He also claimed to have invented the genre. [7]
The Oxford Companion to Jazz. Oxford University Press US. ISBN 0-19-518359-2. Knapp, Raymond (2005). The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-11864-7. Koenig, Karl (2002). Jazz in Print (1856-1929): An Anthology of Selected Early Readings in Jazz History. Pendragon Press. ISBN 1-57647 ...
This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. ... Garvin Bushell (1902–1991) Karen ...
Handy was described as "the father of jazz as well as the blues." Fellow blues performer Jelly Roll Morton wrote an open letter to Downbeat magazine fuming that he had invented jazz. [36] After the publication of his autobiography, Handy published a book on African-American musicians, titled Unsung Americans Sung (1944).
The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 1900s, influenced by jazz at large and the individual drummers within it. Jazz required a method of playing percussion different from traditional European styles, one that was easily adaptable to the different rhythms of the new genre, fostering the creation of ...
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Clifford Brown: The Life and Art of the Legendary Jazz Trumpeter. Oxford: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Bushell, Garvin (1902–1991) Bushell, Garvin as told to Mark Tucker. Jazz from the Beginning. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988. Christian, Charlie (1916–1942) Broadbent, Peter.