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King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1920, Calendar
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band 1920, Calendar



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Classical Music Terms

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Jazz: A History of America's Music
Jazz:
A History of America's Music

The History of Jazz
The History
of Jazz

Jazz 101
Jazz 101

Jazz Baby
Jazz Baby

The Sound that Jazz Makes
The Sound that Jazz Makes

Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Jazz: A Film
by Ken Burns



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Visit
Deborah Brown's
Jazz Site

(The connection to Creative Process? Frank Szasz' drawing of Deborah is used on the cover of her “My One and Only Love” and our love and respect for Deborah's parents Al and Ann.)


Jazz Music and Musicians Posters, Art Prints & Charts
for the music, performing arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers and studios.


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Jazz Icarus Fine Art Print by Henri Matisse
Jazz Icarus
Art Print

Matisse

Jazz, born in New Orleans in the 1890s, came from improvising the Blues, marching band music and Ragtime together.

Showcased are the Golden Age of Jazz series by photographer William Gottlieb (1917 – 2006) who is known for his sensitive, dignified depictions of jazz greats. Gottlieb developed an interest in Jazz music while listening to a friend’s records while recovering from a spell of food poisoning. Gottlieb documented Jazz’s Golden Era for numerous publications, including the Washington Post and Downbeat. For 10 years he took more than 1,600 photos of jazz legends, including Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong.





Jazz Instruments Poster
Jazz Instruments Poster


“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.” Charles Mingus




The Golden Age of Jazz - Louis Armstrong Fine Art Print
The Golden Age of Jazz -
Louis Armstrong
Art Print

Louis Armstrong
b. 8-4-1901; New Orleans, LA
d. 7-6-1971

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Bix Beiderbecke, DVD
Bix Beiderbecke, DVD

Bix Beiderbecke
b. 3-10-1903; Davenport, IA
d. 8-6-1931; NY (alcoholism)

Cornetist, pianist, and composer Bix Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz cornetists of the 1920s. His unique style, probably due to learning to play “by ear”, lead to what was called “cool jazz”.

FYI - The novel and movie, “Young Man with a Horn”, are loosely based on the life of Beiderbecke.


Dave Brubeck Trio, Poster
Dave Brubeck Trio, Poster

Dave Brubeck
b. 12-6-1920; Concord, CA
d. 12-5-2012; Norwalk, CT

Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck is considered to be one of the foremost exponents of progressive jazz.


Benny Carter - Jazz Giant
Benny Carter -
Jazz Giant

Benny Carter
b. 8-4-1907; New York
d. 7-12-2001; Los Angeles

Benny Carter, who was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as a Jazz Master (1986) and National Medal of Arts recipient in 2000, also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987 and a Grammy Award in 1994. Carter, who received piano lesson from his mother, was largely self taught, playing the saxophone, clarinet, and trumpet; he was also a composer, arranger, and a bandleader.


Nat King Cole, Photo
Nat King Cole,
Photo

Nat “King” Cole
b. 3-17-1919; Montgomery, AL
d. 2-15-1965; California

The Very Best of Nat King Cole, CD


Miles Davis, Poster
Miles Davis,
Poster

Miles Davis
b. 5-26-1926; Alton, IL
d. 9-28-1991; California

Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis


Tommy Dorsey, Jazz Musician, Photographic Print
Tommy Dorsey,
Jazz Musician, Photographic Print

Brothers Tommy (1905-1956) and Jimmy Dorsey (1904 -1957) were jazz musicians and band leaders.


Billy Eckstine, photo
Billy Eckstine, photo

Billy Eckstine
b. 7-8-1914; Pittsburgh, PA
d. 3-8-1993; California

Billy Eckstine was noted for his baritone voice and as a style setter.

Billy Eckstein, Verve Jazz Masters 22, CD


The Golden Age of Jazz - Duke Ellington Fine Art Print
The Golden Age of Jazz - Duke Ellington
Art Print

Duke Ellington
b. 4-29-1899, Washington, DC
d. 5-24-1974

Edward Kennedy Ellington is one of the most sophisticated and important composers and pianists the United States has ever produced. ...

The Duke Ellington Orchestra (which over the years included many of America's greatest jazzmen) charmed audiences all over the world for more than 50 years. Songs he wrote, including “Mood Indigo”, “Sophisticated Lady”, and “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't got That Swing)”, became jazz standards. ... more Stars of the Harlem Renaissance posters

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The Golden Age of Jazz - Ella Fitzgerald Fine Art Print
The Golden Age of Jazz - Ella Fitzgerald
Art Print

Ella Fitzgerald
b. 4-25-1918; Newport News, VA
d. 6-16-1996, Beverly Hills, CA

• more Ella Fitzgerald posters
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Stan Getz, Serenity, Audio CD
Stan Getz, Serenity,
Audio CD

Stan Getz
née Stanley Gayetsky
b. 2-2-1927; Philadelphia, PA
d. 6-6-1991; Malibu, CA

Stan Getz was a noted Jazz saxophonist who introduced the Brazilian Bossa Nova sound to the US in the 1960s.


The Golden Age of Jazz - Dizzy Gillespie Fine Art Print
The Golden Age of Jazz - Dizzy on 52nd St.
Art Print

Dizzy Gillespie
b. 10-21-1917; Cheraw, SC
d. 1-6-1993

Dizzy : The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie by Don Maggin


Benny Goodman Orchestra at the Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1936, Art Print
Benny Goodman Orchestra at the Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1936,
Art Print

Benny Goodman
b. 5-30-1909; Chicago, IL
d. 6-13-1986

Jazz and swing musician, clarinetist and bandleader Benny Goodman was known as the “King of Swing”.

Goodman also integrated his group in the 1930s, hiring musicians like Teddy Wilson, Lionel Hampton, and Charlie Christian.

Benny Goodman at Amazon


Lionel Hampton Jazz Legend Autographed Custom Display
Lionel Hampton Jazz Legend Autographed Custom Display

Lionel Hampton
b. 4-20-1908; Louisville, KY
d. 8-21-2002, NYC

Lionel Hampton was a jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. He said of Benny Goodman, “As far as I'm concerned, what he did in those days — and they were hard days in 1937 — made it possible for Negroes to have their chance in baseball and other fields.”

FYI ~ the vibraphone is a percussion instrument, similar to a zylophone, marimba, and glockenspiel.


Coleman Hawkins Poster
Coleman Hawkins -
Poster

Coleman Hawkins
b. 11-21-1904; St. Joseph, MO
d. 5-19-1969; NY

Coleman Hawkins played the tenor saxophone and is “most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, ... a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.”


Woody Herman
Woody Herman

Woody Herman
b. 5-16-1913; Milwaukee, WI
d. 10-29-1987

Jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and singer, Woody Herman was one of the most popular big band leaders of the 1930s and 40s.


Earl Hines and His Grand Terrace Orchestra at the Pearl Theatre, Pennsylvania, 1929, Photographic Print
Earl Hines and His Grand Terrace Orchestra at the Pearl Theatre, Pennsylvania, 1929,
Photographic Print

Earl “Fatha” Hines
b. 12-28-1903; Duquesne, Pennsylvania
d. 4-22-1983; Oakland, CA

Earl Hines was, according to Ken Burns, “one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz”.

The Hines Band, the most broadcast band in America in the 1930s, was based at the Grand Terrace, which was controlled by Chicago mobster Al Capone.


The Golden Age of Jazz - Billie Holiday Fine Art Print
The Golden Age of Jazz - Billie Holiday
Art Print

Billie Hollday
b. 4-7-1915; Philadelphia, PA
d. 7-17-1959


Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis
b. 10-18-1961; New Orleans, LA


The Golden Age of Jazz - Howard McGhee & Miles Davis Fine Art Print
The Golden Age of Jazz - Howard McGhee & Miles Davis Fine Art Print

Howard McGhee
b. 3-6-1918; Tulsa, OK (raised in Detroit)
d. 7-17-1987; NYC

Howard McGhee was a Jazz trumpeter best remembered for his fast finger work and high notes.


Charles Mingus Recording Live at the Jazz Workshop, San Francisco, Art Print
Charles Mingus
Recording Live at
the Jazz Workshop,
San Francisco,
Art Print

Charles Mingus
b. 4-22-1922; Nogales, Arizona
d. 1-5-1979; Cuernavaca, Mexico


Thelonious Monk, Art Print
Thelonious Monk,
Art Print

Thelonious Monk
b. 10-10-1917; Rocky Mount, NC
d. 2-17-1982

Thelonious Monk was a jazz pianist and composer known for his improvisational style.

piano posters
Thelonious Monk - Greatest Hits CD


The Golden Age of Jazz - Charlie Parker Fine Art Print
The Golden Age of Jazz
Charlie Parker
Art Print

Charlie Parker
b. 8-29-1920; Kansas City, KS
d. 3-12-1955

• more Charlie Parker posters


Frank Sinatra, Art Print
Frank Sinatra,
Art Print

Frank Sinatra
b. 12-12-1915; Hoboken, NJ
d. 5-14-1998; Los Angeles, CA


Art Tatum on Piano, Esquire Jam Session, Photographic Print
Art Tatum on Piano, Esquire Jam Session, Photographic Print

Art Tatum
b. 10-13-1909; Toledo, OH
d. 11-5-1956; Los Angeles, CA

Pianist Art Tatum, considered one the greatest jazz pianist of all time, began losing his sight as an infant.


Nancy Wilson, photo
Nancy Wilson,
photo

Nancy Wilson, photo
b. 2-20-1937; Chillicothe, Ohio

Three time Grammy Award winning jazz and blues singer Nancy Wilson calls herself a song stylist.

The Very Best of Nancy Wilson: The Capitol Recordings 1960-1976


Queens Culture Map Poster
Queens Culture Map Poster

Queens Jazz Trail Guide Poster Map

New York City’s borough of Queens has been the residence of choice for hundreds of the music’s leading players. The Queens Jazz Trail map shows the different neighborhoods and sites that are part of Queens hidden jazz history.

Includes • Cannonball Adderly • Louis Armstrong • Addisleigh Park • Mildred Bailey • Count Basie • Tony Bennett • Bix Beiderbecke • James Brown • John Coltrane • Corona • Roy Eldridge • Ella Fitzgerald • Flushing Cemetery • Dizzy Gillespie • Benny Goodman • Jimmy Heath • Woody Herman • Milt Hinton • Billie Holiday • Lena Horne • Milt Jackson • Illinois Jacquet • Scott Joplin • Glenn Miller • Charlie Mingus • Clark Terry • Fats Waller • Ben Webster • Lester Young

• more Culture Maps posters
• more maps


Jazz Instruments Poster
Jazz Instruments Poster

“Jazz is neither specific repertoire nor academic exercise ... but a way of life.” (Lester Bowie)

Jazz instruments: bass, banjo, saxophone, trumpet, guitar, drums, trombone, clarinet and piano; labeled in English, French, Spanish, German.

Robert Johnson, Ida Cox, Benny Carter.

• music instrument posters


Jazz Family Tree Poster
Jazz Family Tree Poster

Jazz Family Tree - from the earliest years to modern times - 920 artists and band entries with 83 signatures.


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