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Fletcher Henderson

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James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson Jr. (December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952) was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music. [1]

84 relations: A Study in Frustration, African Americans, Ajax Records, Alpha Phi Alpha, American Record Corporation, Atlanta, Banner Records, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Bessie Smith, Big band, Black Swan Records, Bluebird Records, Brunswick Records, Buster Bailey, Cameo Records, Charlie Dixon (musician), Charlie Green (musician), Chemistry, Chu Berry, Clark Atlanta University, Club DeLisa, Coleman Hawkins, Columbia Records, Columbia University, Crown Records (1930s label), Cuthbert, Georgia, Decca Records, Diva Records, Dixieland, Doc Cheatham, Don Redman, Duke Ellington, Edison Records, Elmer Chambers, Emerson Records, Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson House, Gin House Blues, GRP Records, Gunther Schuller, Harmony Records, Helen Ward (singer), Horace Henderson, Howard Scott, Isham Jones, Jazz, Joe Smith (musician), John Hammond (producer), Kaiser Marshall, ..., Kansas City metropolitan area, Le Chant du Monde, Legacy Recordings, Let's Dance (radio), Louis Armstrong, McKinney's Cotton Pickers, Melotone Records (US), NBC, New York (state), New York City, Nina Simone, Oriole Records (U.S.), Paramount Records, Pathé Records, Perfect Records, Ralph Escudero, Red Allen, Regal Records (1921), Rex Stewart, Romeo Records, Roseland Ballroom, Roy Eldridge, Scott Yanow, Soft Winds, Stroke, Sun Ra, Swing era, Swing music, Teddy Hill, Times Square, Tommy Ladnier, Velvet Tone Records, Victor Talking Machine Company, Vocalion Records. Expand index (34 more) »

A Study in Frustration

A Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story is a box set compilation surveying studio recordings of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra from 1923 to 1938, released in 1961 on Columbia Records, CXK 85470.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Ajax Records

Ajax Records was a record company and label founded in 1921.

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Alpha Phi Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ) is the first African-American, intercollegiate Greek-lettered fraternity.

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American Record Corporation

American Record Corporation (ARC), also referred to as American Record Company, American Recording Corporation, or (erroneously) as ARC Records, was an American record company.

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Atlanta

Atlanta is the capital city and most populous municipality of the state of Georgia in the United States.

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Banner Records

Banner Records was an American record company and label in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Bessie Smith

Bessie Smith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an American blues singer.

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Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.

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Black Swan Records

Black Swan Records was an American jazz and blues record label founded in 1921 in Harlem, New York.

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Bluebird Records

Bluebird Records was a record label known for its low-cost releases, primarily of blues and jazz in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Brunswick Records

Brunswick Records is an American record label founded in 1916.

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Buster Bailey

William C. "Buster" Bailey (July 19, 1902 – April 12, 1967) was a jazz clarinetist.

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Cameo Records

Cameo Records was an American record label that flourished in the 1920s.

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Charlie Dixon (musician)

Charles Edward "Charlie" Dixon (December 31, 1898, Jersey City, New Jersey - December 6, 1940, New York City) was an American jazz banjoist.

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Charlie Green (musician)

Charlie Green (1893 – November 27, 1935) was an American jazz musician, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and died in New York City.

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Chemistry

Chemistry is the scientific discipline involved with compounds composed of atoms, i.e. elements, and molecules, i.e. combinations of atoms: their composition, structure, properties, behavior and the changes they undergo during a reaction with other compounds.

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Chu Berry

Leon Brown "Chu" Berry (September 13, 1908 – October 30, 1941) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist during the 1930s.

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Clark Atlanta University

Clark Atlanta University is a private, historically black university in Atlanta, in the U.S. state of Georgia.

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Club DeLisa

The Club DeLisa, also written Delisa or De Lisa, at State Street and Garfield Avenue, on the South Side, was an important nightclub and music venue in Chicago.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Columbia University

Columbia University (Columbia; officially Columbia University in the City of New York), established in 1754, is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan, New York City.

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Crown Records (1930s label)

Crown Records was a record company and dime-store label that existed from 1930 to 1933 in New York City.

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Cuthbert, Georgia

Cuthbert is a city in, and the county seat of, Randolph County, Georgia, United States.

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Decca Records

Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.

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Diva Records

Diva Records was an American record label from 1925 to 1932 that sold records through W. T. Grant retail stores.

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Dixieland

Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.

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Doc Cheatham

Adolphus Anthony Cheatham, better known as Doc Cheatham (June 13, 1905 – June 2, 1997), was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and bandleader.

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Don Redman

Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900 – November 30, 1964) was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Edison Records

Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered sound recording and reproduction and was an important player in the early recording industry.

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Elmer Chambers

Dallas Elmer Chambers, also called Frog and Muffle Jaws Chambers (1897, Bayonne, New Jersey - ca. 1952, Jersey City, New Jersey) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Emerson Records

Emerson Records was an American record company and label created by Victor Emerson in 1915.

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Ethel Waters

Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American singer and actress.

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Fletcher Henderson House

The Fletcher Henderson House, also known as Henderson-Burroughs House, in Cuthbert, Georgia was built in 1888.

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Gin House Blues

"Gin House Blues" is the title of two different blues songs, which have become confused over the years.

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GRP Records

GRP Records (Grusin-Rosen Productions) is a jazz record label founded by Dave Grusin and Larry Rosen in 1978.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.

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Harmony Records

Harmony Records was a record label owned by Columbia Records that debuted in 1925.

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Helen Ward (singer)

Helen Ward (September 19, 1913 – April 21, 1998) was an American jazz singer.

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Horace Henderson

Horace W. Henderson (November 22, 1904 – August 29, 1988), the younger brother of Fletcher Henderson, was an American jazz pianist, organist, arranger, and bandleader.

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Howard Scott

Howard Scott (April 1, 1890 – January 1, 1970) was an American engineer and founder of the Technocracy movement.

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Isham Jones

Isham Edgar Jones (January 31, 1894 – October 19, 1956) was an American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Joe Smith (musician)

Joe "Fox" Smith (né Joseph Emory Smith; 28 June 1902 Ripley, Ohio – 2 December 1937 Central Islip, New York) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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John Hammond (producer)

John Henry Hammond II (December 15, 1910 – July 10, 1987) was an American record producer, civil rights activist, and music critic from the 1930s to the early 1980s.

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Kaiser Marshall

Joseph "Kaiser" Marshall (June 11, 1899 in Savannah, Georgia – January 3, 1948 in New York City) was an American jazz drummer.

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Kansas City metropolitan area

The Kansas City metropolitan area is a 15-county metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri, that straddles the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas.

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Le Chant du Monde

Le Chant du monde is the oldest French record label and music publishing house in existence.

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Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.

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Let's Dance (radio)

Let's Dance was a Saturday night radio music program broadcast by NBC in the mid-1930s.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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McKinney's Cotton Pickers

McKinney's Cotton Pickers were an African American jazz band, in Detroit, Michigan, United States, in 1926 by William McKinney, who expanded his Synco Septet to ten pieces.

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Melotone Records (US)

Melotone Records was an American record label founded in 1930.

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NBC

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nina Simone

Nina Simone (born Eunice Kathleen Waymon; February 21, 1933 – April 21, 2003) was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Oriole Records (U.S.)

Oriole Records was an American record label founded in 1921 by McCrory's stores.

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Paramount Records

Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.

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Pathé Records

Pathé Records was a France-based international record company and label and producer of phonographs, active from the 1890s through the 1930s.

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Perfect Records

Perfect Records was a United States-based record label founded in 1922 by Pathé Records to produce cheap 78 rpm discs.

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Ralph Escudero

Rafael "Ralph" Escudero (July 16, 1898 in Manatí, Puerto Rico – April 10, 1970 in Puerto Rico) was a bassist and tubist active on the early American jazz scene.

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Red Allen

Henry James "Red" Allen (January 7, 1908 – April 17, 1967) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist whose style has been claimed to be the first to fully incorporate the innovations of Louis Armstrong.

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Regal Records (1921)

First U.S. Regal Record Regal Records was an American record label owned by the Plaza Music Company that issued recordings from 1921 through 1931.

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Rex Stewart

Rex William Stewart (February 22, 1907 – September 7, 1967) was an American jazz cornetist best remembered for his work with the Duke Ellington orchestra.

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Romeo Records

Romeo Records was an American jazz record label that started in 1926 as a subsidiary of Cameo Records.

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Roseland Ballroom

The Roseland Ballroom was a multipurpose hall, in a converted ice skating rink, with a colorful ballroom dancing pedigree, in New York City's theater district, on West 52nd Street in Manhattan.

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Roy Eldridge

David Roy Eldridge (30 January 1911 – 26 February 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpet player.

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Scott Yanow

Scott Yanow (born October 4, 1954) is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

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Soft Winds

"Soft Winds" is a 1940 jazz standard composed by Benny Goodman, with lyrics by Fred Royal.

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Stroke

A stroke is a medical condition in which poor blood flow to the brain results in cell death.

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Sun Ra

Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, legal name Le Sony'r Ra; May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) was an American jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.

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Swing era

The swing era (also frequently referred to as the "big band era") was the period of time (1935–1946) when big band swing music was the most popular music in the United States.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Teddy Hill

Teddy Hill (December 7, 1909 in Birmingham, Alabama – May 19, 1978 in Cleveland, Ohio) was a big band leader and the manager of Minton's Playhouse, a seminal jazz club in Harlem.

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Times Square

Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment center and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City at the junction of Broadway and Seventh Avenue.

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Tommy Ladnier

Thomas James Ladnier (May 28, 1900 – June 4, 1939) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Velvet Tone Records

Velvet Tone Records was an American record label that was founded by Columbia Records in 1925 and shut down in 1932.

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Victor Talking Machine Company

The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.

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Vocalion Records

For Decca's Vocalion label, see Disques Vogue Vocalion Records is an American record company and label active for many years in the U.S. and the U.K.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson

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