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Benny Goodman’s Vocalists: From Helen Ward to Martha Tilton
During the big band era, nearly every orchestra (swing or sweet) was comprised of male instrumentalists, a male vocalist (who was sometimes one of the horn players), and a female singer. A traveling big band employing a female vocalist became such a natural part of swing orchestras that it was often forgotten that it was a relatively new innovation. In the 1920s, female singers were only utilized by large ensembles for special occasions and were not considered to be part of a band.
Mildred Bailey was the first major singer who worked regularly with a big band. She was hired by Paul Whiteman in 1929 and spent four years with his orchestra although she only recorded a handful of songs during 1931-32 before going out on her own. By then the idea was catching on. Duke Ellington hired Ivie Anderson in 1931, the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra featured Kay Weber during 1934-35, and Blanche Calloway led her own big band.
The brilliant clarinetist Benny Goodman became a professional when he was 12, sat in with Bix Beiderbecke in 1923, and worked with Ben Pollack during 1926-28. He was a highly paid ($300 a week) but bored studio musician during the early years of the Depression. Rather than play anonymously in radio orchestr
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John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, along with Charlie Parker, ushered in the era of Be-Bop in the American jazz tradition. He was born in Cheraw, South Carolina, and was the youngest of nine children. He began playing piano at the age of four and received a music scholarship to the Laurinburg Institute in North Carolina. Most noted for his trademark "swollen cheeks", Gillespie admitted to copying the style of trumpeter Roy Eldridge early in his career. He replaced Eldridge in the 'Teddy Hill' Band after Eldridge's departure. He eventually began experimenting and creating his own style which would eventually come to the attention of Mario Bauza , the Godfather of Afro-Cuban jazz who was then a member of the Cab Calloway Orchestra. Though Calloway disliked Gillespie's style, calling it "Chinese music", he hired him to his band in 1939. Gillespie was later fired after two years when he cut a portion of Calloway's buttocks with a knife after Calloway accused him of throwing spitballs (the two men later became lifelong friends and often retold this story with great relish until both of their deaths). Although noted for his on- and off-stage clowning, Gillespie endured as one of the founding fathers of the Afro-Cuban &/or Latin
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‘I Hailed Him Morgan’
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