Introduction to Popular Music in America
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Chapter 8: Big Bands and the Swing Years
1. When was the Swing Era?
2. What is a riff?
3. Match the descriptions on the left to the names on the right. Some names will match to more than one description, so indicate all associations.
|played with Henderson’s band at one time | | |
|considered one of America’s great composers | |Paul Whiteman |
|“King of Swing” | |Louis Armstrong |
|led the greatest of the Kansas City bands | |Don Redman |
|his band used classical elements as well as jazz | |Glenn Miller |
|his band was based in the Cotton Club | |Benny Goodman |
|led the first band to integrate | |Count Basie |
|led the most commercially successful band | |Artie Shaw |
|led the first successful white band | |Duke Ellington |
|his main instrument was clarinet | |Fletcher Henderson |
|his main instrument was trombone | |Tommy Dorsey |
|his main instrument was saxophone | |Woody Herman |
|his main instrument was trumpet | | |
|his main instrument was piano | | |
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