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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

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