Jazz Notes

by David W. Maves

©1999

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This online monograph will be a compilation of notes added to from time to time. They are here in order that my (Jazz History) students may use (or complain about) them. Gradually they may evolve into something more useful and/or printable. Until then WYSIWYG.

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  MAVES'  OUTSTANDING JAZZ CHART (PDF FILE-ONE PAGE-downloadable)

 

 

 MAVES' TERMS TO LEARN/MEMORIZE/UNDERSTAND

  • Dixieland
  • New Orleans Style
  • Chicago Style
  • Boogie Woogie
  • Stride
  • Be Bop
  • Hard Bop
  • Cool-Hard Bop
  • Funky
  • Fusion
  • Free Jazz
  • West Coast Cool
  • Swing
  • 3rd Stream
  • Progressive
  • Ragtime
  • Table

1. Pianists to know:

  • Bud Powell
  • Count Basie
  • Earl Garner
  • Thelonious Monk
  • Teddy Wilson
  • John Lewis
  • Art Tatum
  • Cecil Taylor
  • Mead "Lux" Lewis
  • Duke Ellington
  • "Jelly Roll" Morton
  • Tadd Dameron
  • Scott Joplin
  • Horace Silver
  • James P. Johnson
  • Earl Hines
  • Lennie Tristano
  • Stan Kenton

2. Bassists to know:

  • Walter Page
  • Charles Mingus
  • Slam Stewart
  • Ron Carter

3. Saxophonists to know:

  • Charlie Parker
  • Lester Young
  • John Coltrane
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Stan Getz
  • Lee Konitz
  • Sidney Bichet
  • Frankie Trumbauer
  • Ornette Coleman

4. Trumpetists (cornetists) to know:

  • Roy Eldridge
  • Bix Beiderbecke
  • Theodore "Fats" Navarro
  • Miles Davis
  • Clifford Brown
  • Louis Armstrong
  • Cootie Williams
  • Chet Baker
  • King Oliver
  • Wynton Marsalis

5. Guitarists to know:

  • Lonnie Johnson
  • Charlie Christian
  • Freddie Green
  • Django Reinhart
  • Wes Montgomery
 
Outstanding Jazz Links
 
 

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