MU 221 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Bix Beiderbecke, Coleman Hawkins, Duke Ellington
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1: father of stride piano , east coast jazz pianist, born in new jersey, carolina shout : percussive sounds, in uenced fat waller, duke ellington. 1 right hand plays the melody while the left hand plays a single bass note or octave on the strong beat and a chord on the weak beat, developed in harlem during the 1920s, partly from ragtime piano playing. Most in uential trumpeter of 1920s, aside from louis armstrong. Ery, agressive style, unprecedented mastery over trumpet creative, clear, warm, long, sinewy, sometimes brittle and edgy. One of the top trumpet players in the 1930"s. Father of tenor saxophonist harmonic improviser rather than a melodic improviser . Kansas city style : blues, solos, call&response; riffs; section writing; head arrangemen. They would go out and play a gig somewhere and then come back to their home base impeccable sense of timing, early comping.
