Transcript Famous African American Jazz Players

Famous African American Jazz
Players (1900’s)
By: Olivia Yates
Duke Ellington
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American composer, pianist, and big band
leader.
Duke Ellington became one of the most
influential artists in the history of recorded
music.
Is largely recognized as one of the
greatest figures in the history of jazz.
Mary Lou Williams
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American jazz pianist,
composer, and
arranger.
Williams wrote
hundreds of
compositions and
arrangements, and
recorded more than
one hundred records.
Charlie Parker
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American jazz
saxophonist and
composer.
Parker, with Louis
Armstrong and Duke
Ellington, is often
considered one of the
most influential of
jazz musicians.
Nat King Cole
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American musician
who first came to
prominence as a
leading jazz pianist.
He owes most of his
popular musical fame
to his soft baritone
voice, which he used
to perform in big
band and jazz genres.
Ray Nance
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An jazz trumpeter,
violinist and singer.
Nance was often featured
on violin and was the
only violin soloist ever
featured in Ellington's
orchestra. He is also one
of the well-known
vocalists from the
Ellington orchestra.
Dizzy Gillespie
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An American jazz
trumpeter,
bandleader, singer,
and composer.
He was a major figure
in the development of
bebop and modern
jazz.
Miles Davis
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Was an American jazz
trumpeter,
bandleader, and
composer.
Widely considered
one of the most
influential jazz
musicians of the 20th
century.
Louis Armstrong
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Was an American jazz
trumpeter and singer
from New Orleans,
Louisiana.
Armstrong was a
influence on jazz,
shifting the music's
focus from collective
groups to solo
performers.
Chris Smith
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Was on of the first
black composer.
He is best
remembered as the
composer of Ballin'
the Jack.”Photographs
from the Golden Age
of Jazz: Faces of Jazz”
Bertha "Chippie" Hill
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An American blues
singer and dancer.
She performed with
Ma Rainey and Louis
Armstrong.
Reference (APA)
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Stokes, W. R. (n.d.). The Faces of Jazz. Retrieved from
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wgfaces.html
Spottswood, R. (n.d.). African American Performers on Early Sound
Recordings, 1892-1916 . Retrieved
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