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Jazz Origins & History 1600s through 1860, 10 million Africans with diverse musical tr Music of Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria 1700s, British North American slaves worked in agriculture Founded in 1718, in French New Orleans, free blacks created Cre 1890s, primary inventors of early jazz: combining the conventio 1830s, "Jump Jim Crow" minstrel shows, ridiculing black people 1871 concert tour of Jubilee Singers of Fisk University First exposure of white America to spirituals and work songs of Parades, funeral marches Spirituals Slave work songs 1900s, riverboats and the sale of sheet music (mostly to women) Ragtime Scott Joplin Jelly Roll Morton, piano Ma Rainey, vocalist Blues W.C. Handy, bandleader WWI, Harlem bandleader Jim Europe and his band were part of the Jazz music celebrated in their return home victory parades 1920s Bessie Smith, "Empress of the Blues Prohibition fueled popularity of Harlem nightclubs Duke Ellington's big band Swing Music Be-bop and rebellion against followers of white swing. Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk Dizzy Gillespie Bud Powell Kenny Clarke Max Roach Ray Brown Beat Generation East Coast Hard Bop: jazz+blues West Coast mellow jazz 1954 debut Newport Jazz Festival Boogie Woogie rhythm & blues Rock & Roll Soul Jazz from the Black Power movement Free Jazz country music Avant Garde jazz, linking old forms with new Fusion jazz, with electronics and free form Louis Armstrong Albert Ammons Peter Johnson Count Basie Big Band Music Benny Goodman Lionel Hampton, vibraphone Glenn Miller J.J. Johnson, trombone Funk George Benson, guitar Ramsey Lewis,piano Patrice Rushen, vocalist King Oliver's band Count Basie Irving Berlin Bonerama, trombone combo Modern New Orleans Traditional Dixieland, Preservation Hall Cajun Zydeco Music Beau Soliel Al Hirt Al Green, vocalist Stan Getz, tenor sax Soul Wynton Marsalis, trumpet Aretha Franklin, vocalist Otis Redding, vocalist Modern Blues B.B. King, guitar, vocalist Mahalia Jackson Miles Davis, trumpet Elvis Presley Weather Report Ornette Coleman, sax, etc. John Coltrane, alto sax Buddy Bolden's band Sidney Bechet, clarinet & soprano sax Joshua Redman, sax Roy Hargrove, trumpet Pat Metheney, guitar Art Tatum, piano 1600s 1700s 1800s Early 1900s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s Modern Era Ella Fitzgerald