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It was the first time a “White” band had hired a black musician to perform onstage with an orchestra. Goodman used the same arrangements that the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra used. The band became one of the most well-known Swing bands. From 1943, Henderson quit Goodman’s group until 1947 when he returned to Goodman as an arranger. In ...
10. Juni 2020 · Fletcher Henderson, p, a, dir: Russell Smith, Joe Smith, Rex Stewart, t / Benny Morton, tb / Buster Bailey, Don Redman, cl, ss, as / Coleman Hawkins, cl, ts ...
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Although the Swing Era was dominated by big bands, there were a few important small groups as well, including the Benny Goodman Trio, Quartet, and Sextet (Benny also had a big band). 8. Listen to recordings of Swing Era jazz:
11. Juni 2018 · “ Fletcher Henderson ’ s reputation for over-orchestrated jazz and blues, ” wrote Ted Vincent in Living Blues, “ has to be seen in light of the understandable attempt to display structure … as can be seen in the complex introductions and breaks in the classic blues that was the product of Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Rosa Henderson, Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, and the other recorded singers ...
3. Okt. 2020 · The low point came when he was hired by Fletcher Henderson in the spring of 1934, replacing Coleman Hawkins, whose stentorian tenor saxophone stylings had been a prominent feature of Henderson’s band for years. Young’s entire approach to the tenor saxophone was antithetical to Hawkins’s, and his employment with Henderson was short lived and exasperating. (Young requested a letter from ...
9. Okt. 2009 · This was the future, and indeed Hawkins said it himself in the early 40s, when he told a friend that small groups were the future of jazz. Yet, back in the '20s, Hawkins may have been an important builder of the big band era, as the orchestra with which he was most associated at the time was that of Fletcher Henderson, the great swing arranger (for Benny Goodman).
8. März 2021 · Fletcher Henderson’s drummer, Walter Johnson, moves the ground beat from the bass/snare combination to the bass/hi-hat combination on Radio Rhythm and Low Down on the Bayou. Basie’s drummer Jo Jones adopted this method and is usually given the credit for this important innovation which became necessary to quiet the drums for a small group.
