6. 1920 – New-Orleans-style + Dixieland
1930 – swing jazz = big band jazz
1940 – “bebop”
1970 – jazz fusion
7. Instrumentalists Vocalists
Scott Joplin (1868–1917) Louis Armstrong (1901–71)
Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877–1931)
Duke Ellington (1899–1974)
Billie Holiday (1915–59)
Louis Armstrong (1901–71) Ella Fitzgerald (1917–96)
Earl Hines (1903–83) Dinah Washington (1924-63)
Fats Waller (1904–43) Sarah Vaughan (1924–90)
Count Basie (1904–84)
Stéphane Grappelli (1908–97)
June Christy (1925-1990)
Benny Goodman (1909–86) Nina Simone (1933-2003)
Art Tatum (1909–56)
Dizzy Gillespie (1917–93)
Charlie Parker (1920–55)
Charles Mingus (1922–79)
Oscar Peterson (1925–2007)
Miles Davis (1926–91)
John Coltrane (1926–67)
Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996)
Wynton Marsalis (born 1961)
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10. September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia
Saint Augustine School of the Blind and
Deaf
Mother’s Death
Traveling around the country with musicians
11. 1950s – gained a big band
1960s – arrested for drug possession
1970s – remained in the shadow
1980s – was in the public eye
12. 1992 – President Bill Clinton awarded the
National Medal of Arts
Exemplar to modern
musicians