• Frank Johnson, Bands & Orchestras
• The Luca Troupe (touring family of musicians)
• Elizabeth T. Greenfield, (The "Black Swan) European concert music
• Signor Cornmeali, Street vendor turned minstrel

• Joseph W. Postlewaite, published his dances, marches, and piano music
• Henry "Juba" Lane, "the greatest dancer known" (changing African American image abroad, dispelling minstrel stereotypes)
• William Appo and Robert C. Johnson, Antebellum Sacred Music Concerts
• Henry Brown, dramatic troupe at The African Grove (Bleeker & Mercer, NYC), Shakespeare, music

• Scott Joplin (Father of Ragtime)
• Buddy Bolden — The first star improviser (Father of Jazz)
• W. C. Handy (Father of the Blues)

• James Reese Europe - Symphonic Rag
• Jelly Roll Morton - Ragtime Band (the 12/16 swing feeling)
• Joe "King" Oliver - Dixieland Jazz
• Blind Lemon Jefferson - Rural Blues

• Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson - Big Bands
• Fats Waller-Virtuoso Stride (movies,theater)
• Louis Armstrong-jazz combo (star soloist)
• Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith - Classic Blues

• Count Basie (Swing Master), Jimmy Lunceford (precision) - Swing Bands
• Art Tatum (master of Swing keyboard virtuosity)
• Mary Lou Williams - Symphonic Jazz
• Gene Krupa - Drum Showmanship
• Billie"Lady Day" Holiday (lyrical expressive style) - Urban Blues
• Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young - Age of the Sax Masters

• Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Christian, - Bebop, Afro-Latin, etc.
• Stan Kenton - Third Stream Big Band {fusion}
• Buddy Collette, Lennie Tristano, etc. - Third Stream
• Ella Fitzgerald (scat) - Mistress of Vocal Virtuosity
• Louis Jordan - Rhythm and Blues

• Miles Davis, Wes Montgomery, Gil Evans - Cool, Modal Jazz
• John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk - Hard Bop
• Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor - Free Jazz
• Sun Ra (Afrocentric), Teo Macero (third stream) - Electronics Incorporated
• The Modern Jazz Quartet - Democratic Jazz Combo, Image

• The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Albert Ayler, Eric Dolphy - liberation of sound
• Miles Davis - Jazz/Rock {fusion}
• Antonio Carlos Jobim (Brazilian influence)
• Horace Silver (quartal harhony), Cannonball Adderley-Jazz Funk {fusion}
• Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson - Symphonic Jazz Fission
• AACM, BAG, (JCOA) - Improvising Artists Collectives

• Herbie Hancock, Ramsey Lewis, Chic Corea, Scott LaFaro, Oliver Lake {Neo?}
• Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers, Marion Brown, Archie Shepp {Neo?}
• World Saxophone Quartet, Andrew Hill, Joe Henderson {Evolution of tradition}
• Hubert Laws, Don Ellis, Eddie Jefferson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Mango Santamaria {Neo?}

• Wynton and Branford Marsalis, James Newton, Dave Murray {Neo-Neoclassicism}
• Stanley Clarke, Kent Jordan, Amina Claudine Myers, Take Six {Cross-over}

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Music 80E: History of "Jazz"
Posted 11/27/2002