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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Fletcher Henderson |
 | | Fletcher Henderson was the brother of Horace Henderson and led the most important of the pioneering big bands, which helped to set the pattern for most later big jazz bands playing arranged music. | | | Henderson's band was no different from the thousands of dance bands that were springing up across the USA in response to the vogue for social dancing. | | | At the outset, Henderson's group was an ordinary dance band, not a jazz band, though its music was inflected with the "raggy" rhythms that had been popular for some time. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson's orchestra was at the vanguard of the jazz scene in New York, helping to develop a stylistic vocabulary for big bands at two crucial points: when such bands began to form, and, later, just before big band swing became the popular music of its day. | | | Henderson's band was the talk of the town among musicians. | | | Fletcher Henderson - selected, annotated bibliography Allen, W. Hendersonia. |
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| | HENDERSON, Fletcher : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music |
| | Henderson himself went broke, disbanded and sold a bundle of charts to Benny Goodman, who touched off the Swing Era or Big Band Era (which see) '35 and had hits with all of them. | | | HENDERSON, Fletcher : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music | | | All 65 tracks on which Louis Armstrong played were on a three- CD set on Jazz Oracle, transferred by John R. Davis; another CD on Timeless is a clever distillation of these, editing them to provide an overview of how jazz phraseology was being radically changed. |
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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Swing Music: Overview |
| | Don Redman altered his arrangements for Henderson's band to reflect the more rhythmically adventurous soloing of Armstrong, and the style of music they produced influenced many big bands to follow. | | | Today, neoswing bands have revived interest in big band music, but the music hasn't captured the attention of the nation as it did six decades ago. | | | Goodman's band performed many Henderson songs and arrangements, and Goodman credited the source for his material. |
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| | American BigBands - Page 4 "H" Bands |
| | Fletcher joined Benny Goodman when his own orchestra disbanded and, at that time, he contributed many of the scores that his own band had been playing in the 1920's, and so this 'block passages' technique was also apparent in Benny's charts. | | | Fletcher's joining the Goodman band was a notable occasion; it was the first time that a 'White' band hired a 'Black' man to work on stage with the orchestra. | | | It was Henderson (or possibly Don Redman, or both) who took the freewheeling New Orleans Jazz sound of trumpet and trombone and clarinet front line and incorporated it into the big band by making each instrument the lead of a 4-man section. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson |
| | Fletcher Henderson led the most commercially successful of the African-American Jazz bands of the 1920s. | | | Coleman Hawkins played saxophone in the band and is generally considered to be the first great saxophonist in Jazz. | | | This was the first time that a "White" band hired a "Black" musician to appear on stage with an orchestra. |
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| | BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Fletcher Henderson |
| | Although Henderson could be vague in person (accentuated by the effects of a car accident) his writing was tight and polished, and the best discs by his band are a perfect match of slick precision in performance with well-crafted arrangements. | | | Henderson was not a natural blues player - he knew more about Haydn and Mozart - but he taught himself the craft, and went on from directing and arranging bands in the recording studio to leading his own group at the Roseland Ballroom. | | | His own writing became the template for Benny Goodman's successful big band of the 1930s, which produced the most popular music of the swing era. |
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| | Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Fletcher Henderson |
| | Henderson is credited with being the first jazzman to organize a big band. | | | From 1920-1924, he was with the Harry Pace/W.C. Handy Music Company where he worked as a song demonstrator. | | | They played regularly at various clubs and ballrooms in New York, and toured widely, recording a great deal. |
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| | Jass.com: Fletcher Henderson |
| | Armstrong's skill as a trumpeter and improviser challenged the rest of Fletcher's musicians for the year he was with the band, in the process raising the level of jazz to beyond anything they had played previously. | | | Henderson formed his first orchestra in 1923, which performed at the Cotton Club, a white owned club featuring black musicians. | | | This was accomplished by including pop tunes in the repertoire while leaving room for improvisation, thus moving the emphasis toward that of a dance band. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson |
| | Georgia-born Henderson grew up listening to the blues of Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, and the big bands he led in New York beginning in 1923 swung with a rootsy, bluesy feel - a feel absent from tighter ragtime and dance bands. | | | Henderson's orchestra pointed the way toward famous big bands of the 1930s - which played tight compositions containing wide-open spaces for extended solos. | | | But despite its musical literacy, the band lent its own interpretation to songs, stamping them as their own with improvised solos by star players. |
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| | Boston.com / A&E / Books / Illuminating biography fit for a big band 'King' |
| | Henderson moved to New York with dreams of a career in science, but opportunities in music were more abundant. | | | In a home filled with classical and church music, all three of the Henderson children (Fletcher was the oldest) were taught to read music and play piano. | | | In 1920, record companies were eager for "race records," recordings by black musicians intended for black audiences. |
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| | Drop Me Off in Harlem |
| | Henderson's Orchestra competed in the Savoy Ballroom's Battle of the Bands. | | | He was recording manager at Pace Phonograph Company. | | | The solos may have sounded improvised, but in fact their every note had been carefully scored. |
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| | RollingStone.com: Fletcher Henderson Music, Biography, Influences, Followers, Related Projects, Contemporaries |
| | Henderson's real strength lay in his arrangements (and those of equals such as Benny Carter), which balanced a propulsive rhythmic foundation with complex flourishes and plenty of room for the band to move around in. | | | If you ever need a jolt of pure joy, listen to Henderson's recordings from the '30s, when his band distilled happiness into music. | | | Acres of monumental musicians played with Henderson's band -- Louis Armstrong, Ben Webster, Roy Eldridge -- and together they helped change popular music. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson Orchestra |
| | Henderson put together another version of the band, but things were never the same and the band never resumed the level of popularity that it had enjoyed throughout the 1920s. | | | In 1929 the band travelled to Philadelphia to play the music in a musical revue called Horseshoes. | | | During rehearsals for the show a dispute over White musicians' role in the production fractured the band and half of the orchestra quit. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson @ Soundbug |
| | Although the band was very popular, Henderson had little success managing the band. | | | Since he needed new charts every week for the show, his friend John Hammond suggested that he purchase some Jazz charts from Henderson. | | | In 1934, Goodman's Orchestra was selected as a house band for the "Let's Dance" radio program. |
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| | Amazon.com: Music: Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Fletcher Henderson |
| | This album introduced me to a wonderful bandleader and his wonderful music, and it will not be my last Fletcher Henderson album. | | | This album is packed with wonderful music, including 2 vocals (not sung by Henderson though, of course). | | | This is a great cd which has some of his hottest songs such as Shanghai Shuffle from 1924 (featuring a young cornetist who went by the name of Louis Armstrong) This cd features some of the greatest swing of the jazz age and it proves that Fletcher Henderson should be as popular as Duke Ellington. |
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| | G21 POWERSSOUND - "Fletcher Henderson" |
| | Arbors Records (bless their collective souls) has just released one of the most inviting albums of year 2000. | | | As Firestone writes, its rare that the release of an album can be labeled an event. | | | By the 1920s, Henderson led perhaps the most interesting band in jazz. |
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| | As an arranger, Fletcher left his most lasting mark, the one which touched the greatest number of listeners and exerted the greatest influence on his peers. | | | In 1921, Henderson became musical director of Pace Phonograph Corp.'s Black Swan label, acting both as producer and house pianist. | | | The Henderson archive is located at Tulane University, New Orleans, La. Fletcher Henderson, Jr.'s band always functioned as a dance orchestra. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson |
| | Henderson learned to play the piano from his mother who was a classical piano teacher. | | | His knowledge in music theory, and his ability to read music fluently helpled him to succeed in blues. | | | As the big band era started to simmer, Fletcher Henderson distinguished himself as one of the best arrangers and big band leaders. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson, the originator (from jazz) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Although large aggregations had begun to appear in the late teens, these were dance orchestras playing the popular songs and novelty pieces of the day, with nary a smattering of jazz. | | | While classical and rock music have often borrowed features of... | | | Phonograph label for the Vocalion recording of “Naughty Man” by Fletcher Henderson and … |
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| | St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Fletcher Henderson |
| | Typical Henderson arrangements can be heard on recordings of "King Porter Stomp" and "Sometimes I'm Happy" by the Goodman band. | | | His style of big band jazz featured the reeds pitted against the brass section as well as highly rhythmic passages of ensemble chords by the entire band. | | | As a bandleader, composer, and arranger, Fletcher Henderson was one of the definers and shapers of jazz music in the swing era of the 1940s and 1950s. |
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| | WFUV 90.7 "The Big Broadcast" Playlist |
| | Fletcher Henderson Orch, "The Stampede," Jazz Arranger (Columbia CD) ** 8. | | | This week's themes: Songs & Orchestra of Ted Fio Rito * Orchestra of Fletcher Henderson ** Songs and Orchestra of Ray Noble *** 8pm Hour: 1. | | | Fletcher Henderson Orch, "Wrappin It Up," Tidal Wave (Decca CD) ** 6. |
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| | World Book Fletcher Henderson |
| | He took up music after moving to New York City in 1920. | | | Some influential African American musicians of the big band era: | | | Henderson's band was prominent from 1924 until 1938 but never achieved the fame critics believe it deserved. |
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| | CMT.com : Horace Henderson : Biography |
| | He briefly led another band, worked with Vernon Andrade, was back with Henderson in 1936, and then had yet another orchestra in 1937-1940 that was based in Chicago. | | | However, Horace Henderson, who led recording sessions with his brother's sidemen in 1933 and his own big band in 1940 (plus obscure small-group dates in 1945 and 1951, and a 1954 broadcast with his orchestra released by IAJRC decades later), was more valuable as a contributor of arrangements to other bands. | | | He began studying piano when he was 14 and attended Atlanta University and Wilberforce College, leading his own student band at the latter (the Collegians), which in time became the Horace Henderson Orchestra and, in 1928, the Dixie Stompers. |
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| | The Bebop Shop Fletcher Henderson |
| | Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra: Wild Party (CD: Hep) | | | Fletcher Henderson: Blue Rhythm (CD: Naxos Jazz Legends) |
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| | Bob Wilber and the Tuxedo Big Band Fletcher Henderson's Unrecorded Arrangements for Benny Goodman |
| | With the exceptions of “Bojangles,” Neil Moret’s “Song of the Wanderer,” Antonin Dvorak’s “Humoresque” and the Dixieland staple “Milenburg Joys,” the songs were adapted by Henderson from the Great American Songbook, the sturdy bedrock on which every Swing Era band rested. | | | Make no mistake, these charts are by no means “modern”; they are typical of the period in which they were written, the mid—’30s to late ’40s when Goodman’s orchestra was at the height of its popularity. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Fletcher Henderson |
| | Henderson, Fletcher (1897-1952), American jazz musician, who pioneered in combining strict orchestral arrangement with free improvisation. | | | Henderson, Fletcher : fellow band members of Fletcher Henderson: Webster, Ben | | | Search for books about your topic, "Fletcher Henderson" |
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| | Henderson, Fletcher on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The hallmarks of his arrangements include two- and four-bar repetitions, bursting section choruses, and solo showcasing. | | | During the 1920s and 30s, Henderson led superbly dynamic jazz orchestras. | | | Short of funds after coming to New York City in 1920 to study graduate chemistry, he took a job with W. Handy's music company. |
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| | VH1.com : Fletcher Henderson : Artist Main |
| | Sign up now to receive every bit of juicy, up-to-the-minute news, album release info and much more delivered straight to your inbox! | | | Fletcher Henderson was very important to early jazz as leader of the first great jazz big band, as an arranger and composer in the 1930s, and as a masterful talent scout. | | | Between 1923-1939, quite an all-star cast of top young black jazz musicians passed through his orchestra, including trumpeters Louis... |
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| | FLETCHER HENDERSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA -- October 16, 1925 |
| | Within weeks, he will launch his own recording combo, and never again "play second fiddle" in anyone's band. | | | During his year with one of the top bands in America's largest city, Armstrong built his own reputation as the most exciting horn player in the country. | | | FLETCHER HENDERSON AND HIS ORCHESTRA -- October 16, 1925 |
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| | Taking up from where Fletcher Henderson left |
| | The "Hi-De-Ho" man mesmerized audiences with his wild jazz, flip-flopping hair, big smile, warm vocals, and excellent big bands he fronted beginning at Harlem's Cotton Club in the 1930s. | | | He flew off to London during the mid-1930s to become a staff songsmith and arranger for the BBC dance orchestra, eventually having a tremendous influence on the jazz of Western Europe. | | | Saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, Carter has played a part in nearly every phase of jazz's development. |
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| | Down Beat Magazine |
| | I don't think Smack was recording then, because we never made a record of it. | | | I remember writing an arrangement of 'Singin' In The Rain' for Fletcher Henderson when that song was popular. | | | I can remember you, a grown man, playing with Fletcher Henderson when I was still a child, says some swing-era veteran. |
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| | jazz: Fletcher Henderson |
| | The Father Of The Big Band 1925 / 1937 | | | A Study In Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story (4CD) $36.99 | | | Fletcher Henderson and the Blues Singers, V.1 1921-23 |
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| | Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra Posters: "Fletcher Henderson" print and 1 more. |
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| | Sun Ra Bibliography / Allan Chase |
| | Allen, Walter C. Hendersonia: The Music of Fletcher Henderson and his Musicians. | | | Sudhalter, Richard M. Interesting tribute to Henderson by Sun Ra. | | | Sun Ra Notes of jacket of Sun Ra, Super-Sonic Jazz. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson Discography @ Soundbug |
| | Fletcher Henderson CDs, click on image for order information. | | | Manufacturer: Timeless Nl Buy The Harmony and Vocalion Sessions, Vol. | | | Manufacturer: Timeless Nl Buy Fletcher Henderson and Louis Armstrong |
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| | Fletcher Henderson - KA4BPR |
| | In turn, Dothan, AL has become to be known by the ham community as "Fletcherville". | | | Dothan, AL Fletcher has been a long time member of the Maritime Mobile Service Net. |
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| | Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra Posters |
| | Pocket Movies Posters & Prints Shop > Music > Blues & Jazz > Fletcher Henderson & His Orchestra | | | PocketMovies.net comes together with art.com to bring you the best in movie posters and prints. |
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| | Shock Records - FLETCHER HENDERSON |
| | Click Here for a list of all releases available by FLETCHER HENDERSON through Shock Records | | | Things To Do For updates, when available, on FLETCHER HENDERSON click here | | | Post a message to the FLETCHER HENDERSON Noticeboard |
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