Jazz History & Styles Outline (9/24/91)

Ragtime, marching band music, blues, stomps, joys, and other African- & European-derived musics of the 19th century all were played and listened to in turn of the century New Orleans…

–> New Orleans jazz
. Buddy Bolden, 1900-7 (no phonograph cylinders survive)
. King Oliver & His Creole Jazz Band (w/ Louis Armstrong), 1923-4
. Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers, 1926-7
. Sidney Bechet & His Feetwarmers, 1932-41

–> Swing (small group)
. Louis Armstrong (w/ His Hot Five & Seven, Earl Hines), 1925-9
. Bix Beiderbecke (w/ Frank Trumbauer), 1927-8
. Coleman Hawkins (w/ Benny Carter, Red Allen), 1937-43, 57
. Teddy Wilson (w/ Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Roy Eldridge), 1935-41
. Lester Young (w/ KC Five & Six, Jones-Smith, Billie Holiday), 1936-44

–> Swing (big band)
. Fletcher Henderson (w/ Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Walter Johnson), 1932-4
–> Benny Goodman, 1935-8
. Duke Ellington (w/ Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Blanton, Ben Webster), 1927-42
. Jimmie Lunceford (w/ Willie Smith, Sy Oliver), 1934-41
. Count Basie (w/ Lester Young, Buck Clayton, Jo Jones), 1936-41

–> Bebop
. Charlie Parker (w/ Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach), 1945-53
. Dizzy Gillespie (w/ Kenny Clarke, Milt Jackson), 1945-50s
. Thelonious Monk (w/ Art Blakey, Milt Jackson, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane), 1947-59
. Overshadowed: Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, …
. Big band adaptation: Woody Herman, 1945-8

–> Cool variants of bebop [continuing the Bix Beiderbecke / Lester Young “cool” stream]
. Lennie Tristano (w/ Lee Konitz), 1946-55
. Miles Davis Nonet (w/ Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz), 1949-50
. Stan Getz (w/ Woody Herman, J.J. Johnson, Eddie Sauter, Chick Corea), 1947-67
. Modern Jazz Quartet (John Lewis, Milt Jackson), 1952-60
. Orchestral: Gil Evans (incl. w/ Miles Davis 1957-9), George Russell

–> Hard variants of bebop
. Art Blakey Jazz Messengers (w/ Horace Silver) 1954-5, (w/ Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter) 1959-61, (w/ Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter) 1961-4
. Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet, 1954-6
. Miles Davis Quintets (w/ Coltrane) 1955-9, (w/ Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter) 1965-8
. Sonny Rollins, 1955-8
. John Coltrane, 1956-9

–> Modal jazz
. Miles Davis (w/ John Coltrane, Bill Evans), 1959
. Bill Evans Trio (w/ Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian), 1959-61
. John Coltrane Quartet (w/ McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones), 1960-5

–> Free jazz
. Charles Mingus (w/ Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin), 1957-62
. Ornette Coleman (w/ Don Cherry, Charlie Haden), 1959-61
. Cecil Taylor, 1962-74
. John Coltrane (w/ Pharaoh Sanders), 1965-7
. Sun Ra (w/ John Gilmore), 1965-80

–> Fusion: jazz/rock, jazz/funk
. Miles Davis, 1969-75
–> John McLaughlin/Mahavishnu
–> Chick Corea/Return to Forever
–> Herbie Hancock
–> Weather Report (Wayne Shorter, Joe Zawinul)
. Ornette Coleman, 1976-
–> Ronald Shannon Jackson
–> James Blood Ulmer
–> Sonny Sharrock

Jazz piano styles and vocal styles are not represented, because they have heritages and lines of descent that are distinct from group styles. See TOUCHSTONES > Jazz.