The History of Jazz (93 page)

Tokyo concert, 265

Baker, Harold “Shorty,” 148

“Bakiff,” 176

Balliett, Whitney, 76, 234
n
19

Bamboula
, 6

Bandana Land
, 116

Bandwagon, The
, 366

banjo, 22, 106, 360

Baquet, George, 55

Baraka, Amiri, 296, 310, 310
n
1

“Barbados,” 211

Barbarin, Paul, 29–30

Barber, Patricia, 375

Barbera, Joe La, 275

Barès, Basile, 6

Barker, Danny, 349, 352

Barnet, Charlie, 238–39

Barron, Kenny, 355

Barthes, Roland, 356

Bartók, Béla, 129, 143

Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 321

Basie, William “Count,” 94, 96, 107, 146, 150–53, 158, 168, 189, 232, 246, 294, 345–46

early life, 152–53

piano style, 150, 153

professional career, 153

“Basie Boogie,” 96

“Basin Street Blues,” 65, 77, 79

bass, 151, 173, 274, 330

Bass, Ralph, 189

bassoon, 360

Batiste, Alvin, 349

Bauer, Billy, 229, 240

Bauzá, Mario, 196, 197, 206

Bayersdorffer, Johnny, 35

“Beale Street Blues,” 18, 79

“Beatin’ the Dog,” 77

bebop, 144

arrival of, on Fifty-second Street, 200

ascendancy of, 253

big bands in, 236–51

birth of, 185–200

harmonic complexity of, 188

harmonic implications of, 188

Hines band and, 198

instrumentation of, 187–88

piano, 216–36

Bechet, Sidney, 5, 34–35, 43–44, 48, 54–57, 65, 82, 104, 113, 127, 159, 254

“Begin the Beguine,” 140

Beiderbecke, Leon Bix, 45, 73, 75, 77–78, 103, 127, 131, 143, 158

Frank Trumbauer and, 81–87

Jazz Age and, 66–71

Beirach, Richie, 276

Belden, Bob, 386

Belford, Joe, 154

Bell, Daniel, 377

bells, 360

Beneath the Underdog
, 302

Benedetti, Dean, 189, 211, 299

Bennett, Tony, 348

Benson, George, 328

Berendt, Joachim, 329, 329
n
14

Berigan, Bunny, 80, 132

Berlin, Irving, 23, 99, 134, 346

Berlin, Isaiah, 357

Berman, Sonny, 240, 241

“Bernie’s Tune,” 264

Bernstein, Leonard, 66, 315

Berry, Leon “Chu,” 80, 102, 158, 161, 162, 197

Berton, Ralph, 86

“Besame Mucho,” 138, 296

“Bethena,” 23

“Better Git It in Your Soul,” 300

“Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” 63, 135

Bigard, Barney, 115, 119–20, 176

big bands

emergence of, 100–110

in modern jazz, 236–51

Swing Era, 136–47

Big Gundown, The
, 365

“Bijou,” 241

bike horn, 360

Billboard
, 138

“Billie’s Blues,” 167

“Billie’s Bounce,” 201

Billy Rose’s Music Hall, 131

“Bird in Igor’s Yard,” 238

“Birdland,” 330, 348

Birth of the Cool
, 230, 257–260, 263, 267, 270

Bishop, Walter, 221

Bitches Brew
, 295, 305, 326–27, 329

Black, Brown and Beige
, 176–78

“Black and Blue,” 95

“Black and Tan Fantasy,” 64, 114, 115

Black Artists’ Group, 358, 364

“Black Beauty,” 120

“Black Bottom Stomp,” 40

Black Code of 1724.
See
Code Noir

Black Codes (From the Underground)
, 350

black Creoles, 32

“Black Jazz,” 136

Black Saint and the Sinner Lady The
, 301

Black Swan (record label), 102

Blade, Brian, 380

Blake, Eubie, 24, 94

Blakey, Art, 224, 234, 286, 288–89, 345, 349, 376

Blanchard, Terence, 291, 354, 376

Blanton, Jimmy, 171–76, 189, 200

Blesh, Rudi, 25

Bley, Carla, 359

Bley, Paul, 163, 313

Bleyer, Archie, 108

“Blood Count,” 172, 182, 293

Blood on the Fields
, 353

Bloom, Jane Ira, 355

“Blue and Broken-Hearted,” 130

“Blue and Sentimental,” 153

“Blue Chopsticks,” 228

Blue Devils, 151–52, 157

Blue Friars, 75

Blue Interlude
, 352

“Blue Light,” 171

Blue Light ‘til Dawn
, 335

“Blue ‘n’ Boogie,” 201

Blue Note, 219, 221–24, 262, 286, 289, 291, 297

blue notes, 12–13

“Blue Rhythm Fantasy,” 196

“Blue Room, The,” 138, 151

Blues and Roots
, 299

Blues and the Abstract Truth The
, 281

“Blue Serge,” 175

“Blues for Alice,” 188

“Blues in E Flat,” 80

“Blue Skies,” 132, 134, 335

“Blues March,” 289

blues music

Bolden, Buddy, 34

characteristic component, 12–13

classic blues, 15–19

country blues, 13–15

“dues paying,” 19

emergence of, 12

guitar use, 15

mythology of, 14

style of, 13

transformation by female vocalists, 16

Blues People
, 310, 310
n
1

“Blues Walk, The,” 287

Blue Train
, 270–71

Bluiett, Hamiet, 360, 364

“Bluing,” 268

Blumenthal, Bob, 282

Bocage, Peter, 34

“Body and Soul,” 63, 158, 162, 192, 193, 210

Bogart, Humphrey, 73

Boland, Francy, 267

Bolden, Buddy, 5, 29, 45, 53, 55, 110, 186, 199, 326

as the father of jazz, 33–37

Bolton, Dupree, 263

Bonano, Sharkey, 35

bongos, 360

“Boogie Woogie” 96, 138

“Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” 96

Book of American Negro Poetry, The
, 116

“Boplicity,” 258

Boss Brass, in Toronto, 248

Bostonians, 157

“Bouncing with Bud,” 219

“Bouncin’ in Rhythm,” 77

Bowie, Lester, 358, 360, 361

Bowles, Paul, 176

“Boyd Meets Stravinsky,” 238

“Boy Meets Horn,” 171

Bradford, Bobby, 316, 360

Braff, Ruby, 347

“Braggin’ in Brass,” 171

Brand, Dollar.
See
Ibrahim, Abdullah Brando, Marlon, 73

brass bands, 31

Braud, Wellman, 173

Braxton, Anthony, 347, 358, 359, 361–62

Brazilian jazz, 387

“Breakfast Feud,” 144

Breathless
, 337

Brecker, Michael, 331–32, 378

Brecker Brothers, The
, 331

“Breeze and I, The,” 138

Breezin
, 337

Breuker, Willem, 347

Bridge, The
, 284

Bridge of Light
, 341

Briggs, Pete, 60

Bright Size Life
, 330–31

“Brilliant Corners,” 224

Broadbent, Alan, 276

Brookmeyer, Bob, 249, 260, 371

Brooks, Duke, 208

Brooks, Michael, 82

Brown, Clifford, 205, 259, 285–87, 350, 373

Brown, Lawrence, 121, 179, 181

Brown, Les, 248

Brown, Ray, 173, 200, 218, 259, 284, 346

Brown, Steve, 83, 85, 173

Brown v. Board of Education
, 309

Brown-Roach Quintet, 286–87

Brubeck, Dave, 232, 235, 345, 362

Bublé, Michael, 375

Buckner, Milt, 233

“Bugle Call Rag,” 172

Burns, Ralph, 239, 240, 242

Burton, Gary, 276

Busse, Henry, 85

Butler, Frank, 263

Butler, Henry, 354

But Not for Me
, 235

Buttercorn Lady
, 339

Butterfield, Billy, 137

Byas, Don, 282

Byrd, Donald, 289

Byron, Don, 367

Caine, Uri, 366–67

“Caldonia,” 241

Caldwell, Happy, 104

Callender, Red, 173

Calloway, Cab, 90, 125, 158, 161, 174, 189, 193, 196, 201, 206, 237

“Camptown Races,” 236

Candoli, Pete, 240

Cantos, The
, 302

Cape Verdean Blues, The
, 291, 292

“Caravan,” 170, 171, 206, 351

Carey, Thomas “Mutt,” 35, 44–45

Carisi, John, 258

Carmichael, Hoagy, 63–64, 69, 131

Carnegie Hall

Benny Goodman concert, 251

Davis Miles concert, 270

Norman Granz concert, 232

performance of Charlie Parker, 207

Sonny Rollins concert, 284

Thelonious Monk concert, 227

Carney, Harry, 119

Carolina Cotton Pickers, the, 148

“Carolina Shout,” 92, 98

“Carolina Stomp,” 105

Carter, Benny, 80, 90–91, 100, 102, 107–10, 118, 124, 132, 140–41, 161–62, 169, 193, 197, 202, 285, 345

Carter, Betty, 64, 348

Carter, James, 378–79

Carter, John, 360

Carter, Regina, 380

Carter, Ron, 304

Casa Loma Orchestra, 124, 136–37

Cash, Johnny, 66

Cassidy, Eva, 374–75

Cathexis
, 275

Catlett, Sid, 145

“Cat’s Corner,” 117

CBS (record label), 354 (
see also
Columbia
and
Sony)

Cecil Taylor Berlin ’88
, 321

Celestial Hawk, The
, 341

Celestin, Oscar “Papa,” 47

“Celia,” 219

“Cell Walk for Celeste,” 319

Central City Sketches
, 109

“Cerulean Skies,” 250

Challis, Bill, 83, 85, 86, 100, 105, 108, 138

Chaloff, Serge, 228, 242, 243

Chambers, Paul, 173, 269

Change of the Century
, 315

“Chant, The,” 40

Chaplin, Charlie, 50

Charles, Ray, 109, 288

Charters, Samuel, 15

“Chase, The,” 204

“Chasin’ the Bird,” 210

“Chattanooga Choo Choo,” 146

Chauvin, Louis, 22

Check and Double Check
, 121