Black American Music

African music Afro-American arrangements art music ballads banjo became began Benny big bands biography appears black American black composers black music black musicians blues boogie woogie born call-and-response career century chapter Charlie Parker Chicago chords Chorus church Clark Terry club concert culture dances Dizzy Gillespie Dodds drummer drums early Ella Fitzgerald Ellington ensemble European evolved Fletcher Henderson folk music Folkways FJ guitar Handy Henderson improvising instruments jam session jazz musicians Jimmy John Joplin Kid Ory listen Louis Armstrong Mahalia Mahalia Jackson melody Miles Davis minstrel show Moten's Music of Black musical style Negro orchestra Orleans ostinato pianist pieces played players popular music ragtime reading for supplementary records are recommended rhythm rhythm-and-blues rhythmic riffs saxophone saxophonist Scott Joplin Side singers singing slavery slaves solo soloist songs sound sticks stride piano Suggested Projects supplementary information concerning swing bands syncopated tempos tion toured trumpet tunes York