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Art Blakey was not only the leader of the Jazz Messengers for 35 years and one of jazz's greatest and most explosive drummers but he was also [more]
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California Here I Come: I'm Gonna Stomp Mr. Henry Lee; That's a Serious Thing; Home Cooking; Madame Dynamite; The [more]
I like them (the vibes) because it's mellow and I'm a regular drummer, but I found something I could play some music on, see, and that was the vibes. I can play some beautiful music on the vibes, play some melody. -Lionel Hampton
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Drum Stomp: China Stomp (Chinatown); I Know That You Know; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Drum Stomp (Crazy [more]
Gene was the beginning and the end of all jazz drummers. -Buddy Rich
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Drummin' Man: Grandfather's Clock; I Know That You Know; Fare Thee Well, Annie Laurie; Wire Brush Stomp; Nagasaki; [more]
There is no such thing as a wrong note. -Art Tatum
To call Art Tatum the piano god is not an overstatement. Tatum's technique was so phenomenal, his speed often so blinding and his harmonic ideas so [more]
Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. -Ella Fitzgerald
Everyone loved Ella Fitzgerald. Her music was consistently full of joy, it was always obvious that she loved singing, her voice gave the impression that it [more]
Teddy Wilson was the definitive swing pianist. He streamlined the stride styles of James P. Johnson and Fats Waller and [more]
When one thinks of the great big bands of the swing era, such names as Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey and Harry [more]
Earl Hines earned the title of the first modern jazz pianist because he was the first major jazz pianist to stop continually [more]
Ben Webster was considered one of the big three of tenor-saxophonists from the time he first emerged in the early 1930s until the rise of [more]
Cab Calloway was one of the most popular performers of the 1930s. Best known for his call and response singing on Minnie the Moocher and for [more]
The main period of Artie Shaw's musical career, 1936-54, was not even two decades long. However during that era, he permanently established himself as one of [more]
Benny Goodman deserved to be known as "The King of Swing®." Although he did not invent swing music, nor was his band the first to play it [more]
"If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice." —Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman deserved to be known as "The King of Swing®." Although he did not invent swing music, nor was his band the first to play it [more]
I just play music - and I try to make it swing. -Count Basie
When the Swing Era was at its prime during 1937-42, there were hundreds of worthy big bands, and the biggest names for many were Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Artie [more]
It's hard to decide where jazz starts or stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends - where the boundary lies between classical and jazz. I feel there is no boundary. -Duke Ellington
When the Swing Era was at its prime during 1937-42, there were hundreds of worthy big bands, and the biggest names for many were Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, [more]
When Jack Teagarden emerged on the New York jazz scene in 1928, his playing was considered a revelation.
Although Miff Mole and Jimmy [more]
"Django was a genius, always ahead of his time. Guitarists were terrified of him, and there were some who were not sorry to see him gone." —Stephane Grappelli
Guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stephane Grappelli were not only arguably the first important European jazz musicians, but they were among [more]
Originality's the thing. You can wave tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original. -Lester Young
When Lester Young first emerged in the early-to-mid 1930s, his light tone on the tenor was considered revolutionary for it sounded radically different [more]
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