In the world of jazz

Olga Tiurina, 751

1913 – 1915Southern States of the USANew Orleans

The saxophone trumpetPianoDouble bassDrums

1920 – New-Orleans-style + Dixieland

1930 – swing jazz = big band jazz1940 – “bebop”

1970 – jazz fusion

Instrumentalists Scott Joplin (1868–1917) Charles “Buddy” Bolden (1877–

1931) Duke Ellington (1899–1974) Louis Armstrong (1901–71) Earl Hines (1903–83) Fats Waller (1904–43) Count Basie (1904–84) Stéphane Grappelli (1908–97) Benny Goodman (1909–86) Art Tatum (1909–56) Dizzy Gillespie (1917–93) Charlie Parker (1920–55) Charles Mingus (1922–79) Oscar Peterson (1925–2007) Miles Davis (1926–91) John Coltrane (1926–67) Gerry Mulligan (1927-1996) Wynton Marsalis (born 1961)

Vocalists Louis Armstrong (1901–

71) Billie Holiday (1915–59) Ella Fitzgerald (1917–96) Dinah Washington (1924-

63) Sarah Vaughan (1924–90) June Christy (1925-1990) Nina Simone (1933-2003)

September 23, 1930 in Albany, Georgia

Saint Augustine School of the Blind and Deaf

Mother’s Death

Traveling around the country with musicians

1950s – gained a big band

1960s – arrested for drug possession

1970s – remained in the shadow

1980s – was in the public eye

1992 – President Bill Clinton awarded the National Medal of Arts

Exemplar to modern musicians