Jazz: From the Congo to the Metropolitan

African alto American arrangements artistic banjo bass became Benny Carter Benny Goodman big bands Billy Bix Beiderbecke Blues boogie-woogie Chicago Chicagoans clarinet clarinetist Coleman Hawkins colored Congo Square Cootie Williams cornet Cotton Pickers Creole critics dance Dixieland Dixieland Jazz Band drummer drums Duke Ellington Eddie ensembles Europe Fletcher Henderson Frank French genius George Brunies guitar Harlem Harry James heard hot jazz important inspiration instruments Jack Teagarden Jazzmen Jelly Roll Johnny Johnny Hodges Johnson King Bolden King Oliver later listened Louis Armstrong Louis Mitchell Lunceford melody Miff Mole Negro orchestra Original Dixieland Jazz Orleans Rhythm Kings Paul Whiteman Pee Wee Russell pianist piano played ragtime Rappolo records Red Nichols rhythmic saxophone Sedric Sidney Bechet singers small band Smith solo soloist songs stars Stomp Street style swing talent Teddy Wilson tenor tion Tommy tradition trombone trumpet tunes white bands Willie York young