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Authors: Tom Piazza

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The Count: Kansas City Big Bands - Count Basie, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk

Benny Goodman

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Fletcher, Earl, Chick, and Cab: 1930s and 1940s Big-Band Recordings of Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Cab Calloway, Chick Webb, Jimmie Lunceford, Gene Krupa, Lionel Hampton

Countless Blues: Small-Group Swing - Kansas City Six, Benny Goodman Trio and Quartet, Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson with Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa's Swing Band, Eddie Condon

Fats Waller

Other Ideas: John Kirby, Muggsy Spanier, Django Reinhardt, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France

Solo Flight. Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet, Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five

Duke Ellington, Part 2

Chasin' the Bird
The development of bebop and why it sounded different from what came before. Bebop small-group styles of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, et al.

No Room for Squares: More Discussion of the Bebop Aesthetic

Rhythm in a Riff: Bebop-influenced Big Bands - Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton

Dameronia: Composer-Arranger Tadd Dameron

Boplicity: Bebop Begins Mutating, Birth of the Cool and Other Early Recordings of Miles Davis

East Coast, West Coast; Hot and Cool: Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Early Hard-Bop Recordings

Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey and Horace Silver