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33 relations: African Americans, Almost Married, Art Tatum, Bebop, Benny Goodman, Beryl Booker, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, Boston Conservatory, Boy! What a Girl!, Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Don Byas, Double bass, Dwight Morrow High School, Englewood, New Jersey, Erroll Garner, Fats Waller, Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy), Hellzapoppin' (film), Jazz, Johnny Guarnieri, Lester Young, Major Holley, Octave, Ray Perry, Red Norvo, Shut Yo' Mouth!, Slim & Slam, Slim Gaillard, The New York Times, Violin.
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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Almost Married
Almost Married is a 1942 American film starring Jane Frazee.
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Art Tatum
Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.
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Bebop
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.
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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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Beryl Booker
Beryl Booker (June 7, 1922 – September 30, 1978) was an American swing pianist of the 1950s.
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Binghamton University
The State University of New York at Binghamton, commonly referred to as Binghamton University or SUNY Binghamton, is a public research university with campuses in Binghamton, Vestal, and Johnson City, New York, United States.
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Binghamton, New York
Binghamton is a city in, and the county seat of, Broome County, New York, United States.
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Boston Conservatory
The Boston Conservatory is a formerly independent performing arts conservatory in the Fenway-Kenmore neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
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Boy! What a Girl!
Boy! What a Girl! is a 1947 race film directed by Arthur H. Leonard and starring Tim Moore, with guest appearances by the Brown Dots, Slam Stewart, Sid Catlett and Gene Krupa.
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Charlie Parker
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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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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Dizzy Gillespie
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.
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Don Byas
Carlos Wesley "Don" Byas (October 21, 1912 – August 24, 1972) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, most associated with bebop.
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Double bass
The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.
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Dwight Morrow High School
Dwight Morrow High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Englewood, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Englewood Public School District.
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Englewood, New Jersey
Englewood is a city located in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
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Erroll Garner
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1923 – January 2, 1977; some sources say b. 1921) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads.
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Fats Waller
Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.
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Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)
"Flat Foot Floogie (with a Floy Floy)" (also "The Flat Foot Floogee") is a 1938 jazz song, written by Slim Gaillard, Slam Stewart, and Bud Green, and performed by Gaillard and Stewart as Slim & Slam.
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Hellzapoppin' (film)
Hellzapoppin is a 1941 Universal Pictures adaptation of the musical of the same name directed by H.C. Potter.
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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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Johnny Guarnieri
John Albert "Johnny" Guarnieri (March 23, 1917 – January 7, 1985) was an American jazz and stride pianist, born in New York City.
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Lester Young
Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.
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Major Holley
Major "Mule" Holley (July 10, 1924 in Detroit, Michigan – October 25, 1990 in Maplewood, New Jersey) was an American jazz upright bassist.
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Octave
In music, an octave (octavus: eighth) or perfect octave is the interval between one musical pitch and another with half or double its frequency.
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Ray Perry
Ray Perry (February 25, 1915 – 1950) was an American jazz violinist and saxophonist.
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Red Norvo
Red Norvo (born Kenneth Norville, March 31, 1908 – April 6, 1999) was one of jazz's early vibraphonists, known as "Mr.
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Shut Yo' Mouth!
Shut Yo' Mouth is a 1981 collaboration album by bassists Major Holley and Slam Stewart, released on PM Records and Delos Records.
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Slim & Slam
Slim & Slam was a musical partnership in the late 1930s and early 1940s consisting of Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (vocals, guitar, vibes and piano) and Leroy Elliott "Slam" Stewart (bass and vocals).
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Slim Gaillard
Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 – February 26, 1991), also known as "McVouty", was an American jazz singer and songwriter who played piano, guitar, vibraphone, and tenor saxophone.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Violin
The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slam_Stewart
