Music #42 - Jazz W.I.P.

Swing Styles in Transition

The jazz enthusiasm was then booming. A great many jazz musicians became famous. For musicians, jobs were relatively plentiful for both soloists and section members. Jazz styles (swing as well as piano, as below) became richer.

Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax)

* Body & Soul

Benny Goodman (clarinet) and Teddy Wilson (piano) 
* Body & Soul

Roy Eldridge (trumpet)

* After You've Gone

* Let Me Off Uptown

Notice that Eldridge was the only black in this big band called Gene Krupa Orchestra.

Mary Lou Williams

* Roll Em  - A jazz pianist and composer, she wrote this blues for Benny Goodman.