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Modern Jazz
essay
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The image you see is the jazz master, pianist Bill Evans. This image can be found at www.allaboutjazz.com.

The music you hear is "Waltz for Debby," performed by Bill Evans and his Trio.
From the album, "The Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debby."

 

 

 

What is this essay about?

The Big Bands of the 1940s
Vocalists of the 1940s
The New Music of the 1940s
Bebop
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Birth of the Cool
Hard and Cool Bop
Into the 1960s
Fusion Jazz
Since the 1980s

 

 

 Who are some of the people
in this essay?

Woody Herman
Anita O'Day
Dizzy Gillespie
Sonny Rollins
Stan Getz
June Christy
Miles Davis
Bill Evans
Lenny Tristano
Sarah Vaughan
Dave Brubeck
Lee Konitz
John Coltrane
Paul Desmond
Stan Kenton
Charlie Parker
Horace Silver
Jaco Pastorius
Thelonious Monk
Ornette Coleman
Charles Mingus
Wynton Marsalis

 

 

 

What music is in this essay?

Apple Honey
Four Brothers
Early Autumn
Peanut Vendor
Honeysuckle Rose
Midnight Sun
A Taste of Honey
'Round Midnight
Subconscious Lee
Shaw 'Nuff
Kim
Boplicity
Blue Rondo a la Turk
Take Five
Love Me or Leave Me
Jeru
The Kicker
Giant Steps
So What
Blue 7
Waltz For Debby, Take 1
Misterioso
Countdown
Congeniality
A Love Supreme, Part 1
G.W.
Glad To Be Unhappy
Pithecanthropus Erectus
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
The Chicken
Stardust
Body and Soul

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