Using 3 images of each artist and 3 bulleted biographical notes on each image, produce and present to the class a comparison between 2 of the following artists.
Bio material -
- dates
- song title(s)
- locations
- group names
- style of jazz
- innovation
- instrument
- musical partners
- influenced later players . ..
Improvising cats -
Jazz musicians with the highest status in this American art form -
- Jellyroll Morton
- Joe King Oliver
- Louis Armstrong
- Fletcher Henderson
- Charlie Parker
- Edward Duke Ellington
- William Count Basie
- Benny Goodman
- Glenn Miller
- Lionel Hampton
- Charlie Christian
- Charlie Bird Parker
- Dizzy Gillespie
- Thelonius Monk
- Miles Davis
- John Coltrane
- Charles Mingus
- Billie Holiday
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Nat King Cole
- Herbie Hancock
- Wynton Marsalis
- George Gershwin, classical / jazz
- Leonard Bernstein, classical / jazz
For concise biographies, please see the Ken Burns Jazz site.
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