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We’re going old-school studying great jazz artists,
so we keep it old-school - ladies first on it.
Let’s begin with Holiday after the chorus.
With Rap Opera for Kids, history stays hopping.
Jazz: cool grooves so smooth this style demands chops.
Compare and contrast these skilled cats keep it hot:
Davis, Ellington, Holiday, and Hancock.
Similarities and differences make the music hop.
Jazz: cool grooves so smooth this style demands chops.
Compare and contrast these skilled cats keep it hot:
Davis, Ellington, Holiday, and Hancock.
Similarities and differences make the music hop.
Eleanora Holiday, 1915, she was born in Maryland.
She had no proper musical training at all, but she put a lot of feeling into her singing.
She could make the most ordinary song sound exciting.
In her voice lived every emotion - the good and the bad.
Her vocals had a big influence on pop music as well as jazz.
Nicknamed “Lady Day,” she worked with greats like Louis Armstrong.
She died in 1959, but her legend continues on
to Miles Davis, born in 1926 in Illinois.
A bandleader writer soloist.
He played jazz for about forty years, mainly on trumpet throughout his career.
He developed many different types of jazz, especially cool jazz.
He began his career with Charlie Parker’s group.
Many famous cats like Herbie Hancock got their start with him.
Davis passed on in 1991.
Jazz: cool grooves so smooth this style demands chops.
Compare and contrast these skilled cats keep it hot:
Davis, Ellington, Holiday, and Hancock.
Similarities and differences make the music hop.
Jazz: cool grooves so smooth this style demands chops.
Compare and contrast these skilled cats keep it hot:
Davis, Ellington, Holiday, and Hancock.
Similarities and differences make the music hop.
Born 1899 in Washington, DC, composer, bandleader, and pianist, Edward
Kennedy Ellington - bandleader of a jazz orchestra.
He led it from 1923 until 1974.
It’s still around today, the Duke Ellington Orchestra.
“Duke” is what they called Ellington for short.
He played a major role in the Harlem Renaissance as the band leader of the Cotton Club.
A piano player and a true composer, jazz artists didn’t write much, Duke thought
he was supposed to.
He wrote jazz.
He wrote film.
He wrote pop music.
He even wrote and recorded with Pop’s music -
Louis Armstrong and Duke on the record!
He also worked with “Billie” Holiday and many others.
His career lasted fifty years until he died in 1974 at the age of seventy five.
Jazz: cool grooves so smooth this style demands chops.
Compare and contrast these skilled cats keep it hot:
Davis, Ellington, Holiday, and Hancock.
Similarities and differences make the music hop.
Jazz: cool grooves so smooth this style demands chops.
Compare and contrast these skilled cats keep it hot:
Davis, Ellington, Holiday, and Hancock.
Similarities and differences make the music hop.
Herbie Hancock, born in Illinois 1940.
Most jazz artists don’t write much.
He writes plenty.
Plays the piano and electronic keyboards.
Once, he worked with the creator of Star Wars.
The first album he made was such a success that Miles Davis got in touch and asked him
to join his band the Second Great Quintet.
Herbie joined the band, but later on, he left.
Formed his own bands like the Headhunters next.
Herbie’s known for post-bop - a style that he created.
Also, one of the first to mix jazz and electronic music.
Classical music, he was first trained to play.
At age eleven, performed with the Chicago Symphony.
He also writes popular music as well as jazz.
He won an Academy Award in 1986, and as of today, he’s still making great
music.