THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

7 Fletcher Henderson 7 in 1924 when Henderson hired the young trumpeter Louis Armstrong. At about the same time, the band’s musi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Bessie Smith (b. April 15, 1898?, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S.—d. Sept. 26, 1937, ...

7 Bessie Smith 7 frustrations and hopes of a whole generation of black Americans. She died from injuries sustained in a road acc ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 and by playing in New York nightclubs. His most impor- tant job in this perio ...

7 George Gershwin 7 In this photo, circa 1925, the popular American composer George Gershwin, sits at a piano ready to play. Get ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 was poorly received and was removed from the show after one performance. Band ...

7 George Gershwin 7 Rhythm,” “Oh, Lady Be Good,” “Sweet and Low-Down,” “Someone to Watch over Me,” “Strike Up the Band,” “The Ma ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 returns, rondo-like, to the themes of the first. Although not as well receive ...

7 George Gershwin 7 most enduring and respected Broadway work, Porgy and Bess, was lukewarmly received upon its premiere in 1935 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Duke Ellington (b. April 29, 1899, Washington, D.C., U.S.—d. May 24, 1974, Ne ...

7 Duke Ellington 7 Carney, alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, and clarinetist Barney Bigard—were themselves important jazz artists. ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 This 1958 photo catches the legendary big band leader and jazz pianist, Duke ...

7 Duke Ellington 7 television production; Such Sweet Thunder (1957), impres- sions of William Shakespeare’s scenes and character ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 in later years, offering swinging solos with angular melodies. An elegant man ...

7 Kurt Weill 7 opera and the reputations of the composer and librettist. Weill’s music for it was in turn harsh, mordant, jazzy, ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 remained popular. Weill’s Concerto for violin, woodwinds, double bass, and pe ...

7 Aaron Copland 7 during which he was strongly influenced by Igor Stravinsky’s neoclassicism, turning toward an abstract style h ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 American composer Aaron Copland created a large volume of work build- ing on ...

7 Aaron Copland 7 For the better part of four decades, as composer (of operas, ballets, orchestral music, band music, chamber mu ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 cornet. Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band was the apex of the early, contrapuntal New ...