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Dexter Gordan
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-Bebop player with deep tone and melodic style
-"Index" in 1947 with Fats Navrro |
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Glen Miller
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-most popular big band leader
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Charlie Parker
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-saxophonist known for contributing most to B-Bop style
-"Leap Frog" in 1950 with Dizzy Gillespie |
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Stan Getz
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-tenor saxophonist known for light, fluffy tone...cool jazz
-"It Never Entered My Mind" in 1957 |
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Ella Fitzgerald
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-jazz vocalist known for scat singing
-"Flying Home" 1945 |
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Dizzy Gillespie
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-most influential cool jazz trumpet player known for composition
-"Leap Frog" in 1950 with Charlie Parker |
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Lionel Basie
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-swing era band leader known for hard swing style
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Billie Holiday
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-most influential singer associated with jazz
-"Back In Your Own Backyard" in 1939 with L:ester Young |
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Lester Young
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-melodic & smooth tenor saxophonist...melodic and smooth
-"Back In Your Own Backyard" in 1939 with Billie Holiday -"Taxi War Dance" in 1939 with Count Basie |
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Art Tatum
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-swing era piano player known for complexity and virtuosity
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Thelonious Monk
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-Bebop pianist known for unorthodox and dissonant style of playing
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Coleman Hawkins
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-1st important tenor saxophonist known for harmonic bass improvisation
-"Body & Soul" in 1939 |
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Duke Ellington
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-swing era band leader known for creative prolific arrangements
-"Harlem Airshaft" in 1940 |
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Lionel Hampton
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-vibraphonist who played with Benny Goodman
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Roy Eldridge
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-most advanced trumpet soloist during swing era
-"Sittin' In" in 1938 with Chu Berry |
