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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