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The Count: Kansas City Big Bands - Count Basie, Jay McShann, Andy Kirk
31
Benny Goodman
34
 
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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
36
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
40
Fats Waller
44
Other Ideas: John Kirby, Muggsy Spanier, Django Reinhardt, the Quintet of the Hot Club of France
47
Solo Flight. Charlie Christian with the Benny Goodman Sextet, Artie Shaw's Gramercy Five
48
Duke Ellington, Part 2
51
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.
61
No Room for Squares: More Discussion of the Bebop Aesthetic
65
Rhythm in a Riff: Bebop-influenced Big Bands - Billy Eckstine, Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton
66
Dameronia: Composer-Arranger Tadd Dameron
69
Boplicity: Bebop Begins Mutating, Birth of the Cool and Other Early Recordings of Miles Davis
70
East Coast, West Coast; Hot and Cool: Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Early Hard-Bop Recordings
73
Jazz Messengers: Art Blakey and Horace Silver
75

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