Famous Jazz Musicians

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Famous Jazz Musicians

• Who Were they?
• What did they contributed to our music culture?
• How did they change the music we listen to?
• How did popular music sound
• when they were performing?

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• What do we see here?

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• The names of famous musicians
• were displayed on the marquees.

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DONT KNOW WHO

• The many popular bands
• would feature a singer.

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• The
• famous
• Ella
• Fitzgerald
• first appeared
• here
• at the
• Apollo
• Theatre.

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• Everybody loved Ella Fitzgerald.

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• Her voice
• captivated
• the hearts
• of her
• audience.
• Her
• scatting
• abilities
• inspired
• many
• musicians.

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Duke Ellington was another famous jazz musician.
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Duke Ellentons Band performed often at Howard
University
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He and his band were very popular.
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• Audiences flocked to hear his band and to dance
  to their music.

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And swing dancing
was the dance to do!!!
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People would go anywhere to hear and dance to the
music they loved.

• This band is
• playing on a
• boat.

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• It was
• Jazz on the River.

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• Benny Goodman was a famous
• band leader,
• clarinetist
• and composer.

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• Here are
• Some More
• Very popular
• Jazz
• performers

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Billie Holiday
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LOUIS ARMSTRONG
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• Cab Calloway

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Count Bassie
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Guy Lombardo

• And his Orchestra

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Nat King Cole

• started out as a pianist,

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then became a famous singer.
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Dizzy Gillespie
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Charlie Parker
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• There are still many original recordings of these
  famous musicians available.
• We will listen to some of their singing and we
  will dance to some of their band music.

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Credits

• Gottlieb, W. P. (1938-1948). Portrait of Duke
  Ellington, Barney Bigard, Ben Webster, Otto Toby
  Hardwick(e), Junior Raglin, and Fred Guy(?),
  Howard Theater(?), Washington, D.C., between 1938
  and 1948. Library of Congress American
  Memory, William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the
  Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (1938-1948). Portrait of Duke
  Ellington, Junior Raglin, Juan Tizol, Barney
  Bigard, Ben Webster, Harry Carney, Rex William
  Stewart, and Sonny Greer, Howard Theater(?),
  Washington, D.C., between 1938 and 1948. Library
  of Congress American Memory, William P.
  Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of
  Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (1946). Portrait of Ella
  Fitzgerald, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov.
  1946. Library of Congress American
  Memory, William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the
  Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (1947). Portrait of Ella
  Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Milt
  (Milton) Jackson, and Timmie Rosenkrantz,
  Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept.
  1947. Library of Congress American
  Memory, William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the
  Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca. 1946). Portrait of Dizzy
  Gillespie, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. June
  1946. Library of Congress American
  Memory, William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the
  Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca. 1946). Portrait of Duke
  Ellington, Cat Anderson, and Sidney De Paris(?),
  Aquarium, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov. 1946. Library
  of Congress American Memory, William P.
  Gottlieb Photographs from the Golden Age of
  Jazz.

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Credits

• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca. 1946). Portrait of Nat King
  Cole, Paramount Theater, New York, N.Y., ca. Nov.
  1946. Library of Congress American
  Memory, William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the
  Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca. 1946). Portrait of Wesley
  Prince, Oscar Moore, and Nat King Cole, Zanzibar,
  New York, N.Y., ca. July 1946. Library of
  Congress American Memory, William P. Gottlieb
  Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca. 1947). Portrait of Dizzy
  Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Carnegie Hall, New
  York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1947. Library of
  Congress American Memory, William P. Gottlieb
  Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca. 1947). Portrait of Dizzy
  Gillespie, Downbeat, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug.
  1947. Library of Congress American
  Memory, William P. Gottlieb Photographs from the
  Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca. 1948). 52nd Street, New
  York, N.Y., ca. 1948. Library of
  Congress American Memory, William P. Gottlieb
  Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz.
• Gottlieb, W. P. (ca.1947). Portrait of Guy
  Lombardo, Starlight Roof, Waldorf-Astoria, New
  York, N.Y., ca. July 1947. Library of
  Congress American Memory, William P. Gottlieb
  Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz.