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Jazz - Pieces
Important Pieces in Jazz and their composers
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Undergraduate 1
04/29/2010

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Written by Scott Joplin in 1899
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Maple Leaf Rag
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Written by W.C. Handy
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Saint Louis Blues
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Recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1917
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Livery Stable Blues
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First Sung in 1920 by Mammie Smith
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Crazy Blues
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Recorded in 1922 by Kid Ory's Spike's Seven Pods of Pepper
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Ory's Creole Trombone
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First ever published Jazz Piece written by Jelly Roll Morton
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Jelly Roll Blues
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Piece most noted Joe "King" Oliver's Solo
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Dippermouth Blues
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Piece performed by Louis Armstrong that helped Popularize Scat
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Heebie Jeebies
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Piece made famous by Beiderbecke and Trumbauer
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Singin the Blues
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Song performed by Ellinton for his Carnegie Hall debut; 45 minutes long
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Black, Brown, Beige
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Written by Ellington specifically for Cootie Williams
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Concerto for Cootie
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Count Basie's theme song
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One O'Clock Jump
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Piece made famous by Fats Waller
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Ain't Misbehavin
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Performed by James P. Johnson; A test piece for jazz pianists
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Carolina Shout
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Thelonious Monk composition made famous by a Miles Davis performance
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Round Midnight
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Piece composed by Thelonious Monk in 1951
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Straight, No Chaser
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Piece composed by Dizzy Gillespie
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A Night in Tunisia
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Piece recorded by Charlie Parker which included Dizzy Gillespie
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Koko (Cherokee)
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Composite album composed by Miles Davis
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Birth of the Cool
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Piece written by Paul Desmond and performed by the Dave Brubeck Quartet
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Take 5
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Piece written by Sonny Rollins in 1955
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St. Thomas
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Two albums collaborated on by both Miles Davis and Gil Evans
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Porgy and Bess/ Sketches of Spain
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Miles Davis album that popularized modal jazz
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Kind of Blues
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Miles Davis album that popularized jazz-rock fusion
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Bitches Brew
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Ornette Coleman album that popularized free jazz
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Free Jazz
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Two of Coltrane's most famous albums
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Giant Steps & A Love Supreme
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Wynton Marsalis piece that won the Putlizer Prize
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Blood on the Fields
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