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Index:
Influences
West African
Western European
Africans enslaved by Americans
New Orleans
The Blues
The Brass Band
Ragtime
Early Jazz
Buddy Bolden
The Original Dixieland "Jass" Band
The Chicago Scene
King Oliver
Earl Hines
James P. Johnson
Louis Armstrong
Sidney Bech
et
Prohibition
Swing
Big Band Instrumentation
Big Band Arrangements
Instrument Roles
Duke Ellington
Jimmy Blanton
Benny Goodman
Art Tatum
Coleman Hawkins
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Women Singers
Django Rheinhardt
Count Basie
Basie's Comping and Arranging Style
Walter Page
Freddie Green
Joe Jones
Lester Young
The Demise of Swing
Bop
Charlie Parker
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonius Monk
Oscar Pettiford
Charles Mingus
Ray Brown
Kenny Clarke
Earl "Bud" Powell
Dexter Gordon
The popular appeal of Bop
Cool Jazz
Lennie Tristano
Lee Konitz
Stan Kenton
Gerry Mulligan
Dave Brubeck
The popular Appeal of Cool
Hard Bop
Clifford Brown
Art Blakey
Horace Silver
Cannonball Adderley
