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| | Paul Whiteman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Paul Whiteman was primarily responsible for revolutionizing the dance orchestra and dance music after World War I. Prior to then, dances were played by military bands, string ensembles, or small combinations. | | | Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, which was premiered by Whiteman's Orchestra with Gershwin at the piano in 1924. | | | While today most fans of jazz consider improvisation to be essential to the musical style, Whiteman thought the music could be improved by scoring the best of it. |
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| | Paul Whiteman |
| | Paul Whiteman's Orchestra was the most popular band of the 1920s. | | | Whiteman hired a virtual who's who of White Jazz musicians of the 1920s for his orchestra, such as Red Nichols, Tommy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, and in 1927, Bix Beiderbecke. | | | For the most part Whiteman played commercial dance music and semi-classical works. |
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| | Solid! -- Paul Whiteman |
| | Whiteman continued leading his orchestra into the late 1930s, but by that time his music sounded old-fashioned when compared to the ''modern'' rhythms of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. | | | Born in Denver to a musical family, Whiteman learned violin and viola as a boy, eventually landing a spot in the Denver Symphony Orchestra. | | | Technicalities aside, Paul Whiteman was one of the most important figures in twentieth century American pop music. |
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| | Dismuke's Hit Of The Week |
| | Whiteman's response to the new direction in popular music was to embrace it and he promptly created a unit within his band devoted to the new style. | | | Whiteman called this "band within a band" his "Swing Wing" and it provided him with a means of appealing to the tastes of younger listeners without alienating his existing audience. | | | During the 1920s, Paul Whiteman was the biggest name in popular music. |
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| | Allartist |
| | First performed (and recorded) by Whiteman in New York a year later, these tuneful "characteristic" pieces are arguably, of all Whiteman's symphonic recordings, the most removed in style from that most seminal of all symphonic jazz compositions, Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue. | | | The range of the Whiteman symphonic recordings is eclectic. | | | So frequently was it requested that in April 1927 the Whiteman Orchestra and the composer re-recorded the Rhapsody via the "Orthophonic" electrical process, under the baton of Victor Studios' resident conductor Nat Shilkret (1895-1982). |
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| | Paul Whiteman (28 March 1890 - 29 December 1967) |
| | Whiteman's early records were different from most being issued by Victor, especially in instrumentation--a combination of saxophones, brass instruments, strings (banjo and violin), and percussion. | | | Whiteman's first twelve-inch disc features music from Ponchielli's La Gioconda and, in "Avalon," a melody from Puccini's Tosca (in 1921 Puccini's publisher, Ricordi, actually sued Jerome H. Remick and Co., publisher of "Avalon," for copyright infringement). | | | In the last few years of the acoustic recording era, Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra was the most popular and influential dance music ensemble performing in the United States, and the orchestra remained incredibly popular throughout the 1920s, adapting well to the new electric recording process. |
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| | This is a shame because the music of Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra is amongst the most beautiful in recording history. | | | The influence of Paul Whiteman in popular music culture is enormous. | | | This "symphonic" Jazz concept culminated in a concert at the Aeolian Hall, New York, in February of 1924. |
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| | Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz author Joshua Berrett is interviewed/Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician |
| | Whiteman's vision for jazz on the concert stage | | | Whiteman deserves credit for discovering and recognizing ability or genius in composers whose works would not normally be acceptable to dance bands. | | | It would be fascinating to resurrect the information to correlate movie-goers with those who collected their records and those who danced to their music or just listened to this stuff. |
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| | BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Paul Whiteman |
| | Known in his day as 'The King of Jazz' and the inventor of 'symphonic jazz', the majority of Whiteman's discs are not strictly speaking jazz, but range from syncopated dance music to the ramblings of a giant orchestra that was too large and cumbersome to swing. | | | His disc of Whispering sold exceptionally, and by the mid 1920s, Whiteman was internationally famous as a bandleader. | | | The band's vocal trio included the young Bing Crosby, whose career was kick-started by his stint with Pops, as Whiteman was affectionately known. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/jazz/profiles/paul_whiteman.shtml
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| | Paul Whiteman, a Broadcast Pioneer |
| | Whiteman was the network's Vice-President in charge of music. | | | The young Charlie Gracie (remember this is recorded some five years before Gracie made it into the big time when recording his classic "Butterfly") sings "Rock The Joint" accompanied by Paul Whiteman´s Orchestra and it was recorded live on July 14, 1952 for ABC TV. | | | The first Philadelphia TV personality to host a network television show spotlighting area teenagers was bandleader-turned-disc jockey Paul Whiteman. |
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| | PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Paul Whiteman |
| | Paul Whiteman played viola in the Denver Symphony Orchestra from 1907 and in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1914. | | | For his first extended concert tour of the USA, Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin to write Rhapsody in Blue, which, as part of Whiteman's concert called An Experiment in Modern Music, was performed with the composer as soloist in Aeolian Hall in New York in 1924. | | | During World War I he led a 40-piece navy band, playing march tunes by day and show music by night. |
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| | Whiteman may have been the King of the Jazz Age, but Armstrong sits forever on the throne of the music itself, unassailable. | | | And while Whiteman, from a privileged Colorado family, lacked Armstrong’s dramatic rags-to-riches career story, the two shared several, perhaps unexpected, influences: Enrico Caruso and other opera singers, John Phillip Sousa, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, even the sweet sounds of Guy Lombardo. | | | And Whiteman also ruled the charts in trend-setting dance band sides, records full of hot solos and peppy arrangements like “Mississippi Mud,” “Oh, You Have No Idea!,” “Hot Lips,” “San,” “Wang Wang Blues.” Great stuff. |
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| | American BigBands - Page 3 "W" Bands |
| | Another interesting photo is one of the early Whiteman Bands, with still another of his 1919 Band,--how very young he looks, - holding his violin. | | | Here (digitally re-engineered) is Whiteman's 1923 orchestra playing "I'll Build A Stairway to Paradise", a George Gershwin tune, with the lyric by B. | | | After 3 years as pianist with Paul, he became the bands full time arranger/composer. |
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| | Paul Whiteman : Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Pearl) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect |
| | paul whiteman and his orchestra (pearl) - album credits | | | paul whiteman and his orchestra (pearl) - album reviews | | | This import disc, containing 21 tracks and running nearly 70 minutes, commemorates the 100th anniversary of Paul Whiteman's birth by combining Columbia and Victor sides recorded from Whiteman's early days of bandleading up to just before the birth of the Swing Era. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Greatest Hits [Best of]: Music |
| | Whiteman is best known today as the man who gave Bing Crosby (then with the Rhythm Boys) his first big break, but the songs on this album don't feature Bing, just joyous Whiteman orchestral music. | | | It's part of the exoticism that is a defining characteristic of Whiteman's music, from the Asian touches of "Japanese Sandman" to his adaptation of Rimsky-Korsakov's "Song of India." "Hot Lips," for instance, may take its buzz-muted trumpet sound from jazz, but this music from 1922 is thoroughly composed. | | | Amazingly, Whiteman's music has held up beautifully through the years and the musicianship displayed here is excellent. |
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| | Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra |
| | Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra was the most popular band of the 1920s and represented the apex of jazz to the general public. | | | Paul Whiteman greatly enriched American music by commissioning George Gershwin to write Rhapsody In Blue which became his orchestra's signature tune. | | | The title of "The King Of Jazz" which Whiteman was billed as seems somewhat politically incorrect these days, but in the 1920s he dominated the scene and hired the best White hot musicians like Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Jack Teagarden and many more to play in his band. |
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| | Classical Net Review - Paul Whiteman - Sweet and Low Down |
| | Naxos Nostalgia has released four discs of Whiteman's recordings from the 1920s; this is the third volume of discs devoted to his Orchestra, and there is already a "Volume 1" devoted to his Dance Band. | | | The music on this CD shows that Whiteman's taste was shaped in no small part by his mother – a classical vocalist in his native Denver – and by his father, who played a leading role in music education in Denver. | | | Also, it is good to remember that Whiteman's orchestra and arrangers included musicians who were equally grounded in classical music: Ferde (here, "Ferdie") Grofé and William Grant Still. |
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| | eBay - paul whiteman ..., Records, CDs items on eBay.com |
| | Paul Whiteman Plays George Gershwin LP Decca RARE | | | Paul Whiteman The Very Best Of Bix Beiderbecke 2 CD Set | | | COLUMBIA (POTATO HEAD) 1445 PAUL WHITEMAN 78 RPM |
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| | Barnes & Noble.com Music - Artist Bio |
| | In the 1970s, Dick Sudhalter for a time organized and led "the New Paul Whiteman Orchestra" which recorded a couple of fine recreation records. | | | After Beiderbecke left the band in 1929 and Whiteman filmed the erratic but fascinating movie The King of Jazz in 1930, the Depression forced the bandleader to cut back on his personnel (which at one time included two pianos, tuba, bass sax, string bass, banjo, and guitar in its rhythm section). | | | His superior dance band used some of the most technically skilled musicians of the era in a versatile show that included everything from pop tunes and waltzes to semi-classical works and jazz. |
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| | Paul Whiteman |
| | Whiteman's firsthand experiences with acoustic and electric recording techniques in the 1920s. | | | The following was from band leader Paul Whiteman's 1948 book on record collecting, "Records for the Millions," published by Hermitage Press, Inc., in New York City. | | | G.F. I can remember as though it were yesterday the first time we recorded |
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| | Dismuke's Hit Of The Week |
| | When the Paul Whiteman left Victor for Columbia in 1928, Columbia introduced a special label for his band's recordings. | | | Among the dozens of sides recorded during the band's final months at Victor were remakes of several of Whiteman's early hits using the vastly superior electrical recording technology that had been introduced in 1925. | | | Here are two different recordings by the Paul Whiteman Orchestra of the same composition. |
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| | Center for Jazz Arts Latest News |
| | During his lifetime, Whiteman's music not only reached its audience through concert performances and studio recordings, but also through the development of modern radio broadcast. | | | Throughout a decades-long series of milestones in American musical history, Paul Whiteman remained one of the most internationally recognized figures in the world. | | | In a 1944 interview, Whiteman would state, "Radio is a brand new medium for music. |
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| | Paul Whiteman MP3 Downloads - Paul Whiteman Music Downloads - Paul Whiteman Music Videos |
| | ASV's Whiteman compilation covers the years 1920-36, which means that it partly overlaps with Collectors' Choice's 20-song RCA-Victor compilation of Whiteman's work. | | | What makes this disc worth owning is that while many of the songs overlap, these are not the same tracks in many instances -- several are later re-recordings (Whiteman was already re-cutting his hits in the middle and late 1920s, with the advent of electrical recording). | | | So one needn't be a Whiteman completist to enjoy this disc. |
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| | Footlight.com > Whiteman, Paul |
| | Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra: Say It With Music | | | Paul Whiteman, "The King of Jazz" & His Orchestra perform 41 original mono recordings 1920-1936, including 21 "Number One Hits!" | | | Of the 22 tunes here, 21 were #1 hits, and the one that wasn’t, 'Rhapsody in Blue,' is Whiteman’s famous recording with George Gershwin on piano and Ferde Grofe’s arrangement. |
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| | GM 3048 - Happy Feet: A Tribute to Paul Whiteman |
| | A favorite target of jazz writers has been the use of violins, for this is where the real betrayal of jazz is alleged to have occurred. | | | What is especially remarkable about this intrumentation is that it allows an arranger, if he so chooses, to cover virtually the entire six-octave range of our modern orchestra as it developed in the late 19th-century -- from the lowest notes of the tuba and bass up to the highest register of the violins and piccolos. | | | GM 3048 - Happy Feet: A Tribute to Paul Whiteman |
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| | Bright Lights Film Journal The King of Jazz |
| | It was the first of more than 20 number-one hits that the band would record in the twenties. | | | His band was one of the most successful in history – their first hit, "Whispering," sold two million copies in 1920, about one for every record player in the country. | | | As the music swells, the piano lid opens, to reveal the entire Whiteman band! |
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| | PlaybillArts: Features: The King of Jazz |
| | Audiences of all ages will learn about the music of Paul Whiteman, the "King of Jazz," in real time with Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. | | | During the 1940s and 1950s, Whiteman's orchestra evolved as he worked as musical director for the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). | | | Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrates the music of Paul Whiteman. |
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| | Civic and Cultural Studies |
| | Even though Armstrong and Whiteman came from opposite sides of the tracks and inhabited what were seemingly separate worlds, their careers indicate significant overlap and reciprocity. | | | They are revealed as the cultural bookends holding together all of the popular music in the years that they dominated and crucial to the study of jazz and "The American Century." | | | As the Brooklyn rap duo Gang Starr's "Jazz Thing" once put it, "The real mystery is how music history created Paul Whiteman or any other white man." |
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| | Whiteman, Paul on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Paul WhitemanBandleader Paul Whiteman was known for his popularization of jazz among the white mainstream during the 1920s and 30s, it was often said that his music lacked the emotional aspect so vital to the life of the form. | | | Whiteman played viola in the Denver Symphony Orchestra and in 1915 joined the San Francisco Symphony. | | | Divine Browns and the Mighty Whiteman: Exotic Primitivism and the Baudin Voyage to Tasmania in 1802. |
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| | Music By Paul Whiteman |
| | Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra - Paul Whiteman And His Orchestra - Say It With Music - Audio CD | | | No, it isn't free, but thanks to our wholesale buying power you can enjoy huge discounts on almost all of our wide range of CDs, karaoke discs, sheet music and accessories. | | | Piano Sheet Music - 4 matches for "Paul Whiteman" |
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| | HyperMusic -- History of Jazz: Henderson and Whiteman |
| | The Paul Whiteman big band was very large and even included a string section. | | | was commissioned by Paul Whiteman for performance by his big band. | | | However in contrast to Henderson's band, Whiteman's band was larger and his arrangements more symphonic and showy. |
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| | James A. Michener Art Museum: Bucks County Artists |
| | Whiteman also worked with his friend St. John Terrell, director of the Lambertville Music Circus, conducting "A Night of George Gershwin" in 1960. | | | His father apprenticed him to the violin at age seven. | | | Paul Whiteman included many young jazz artists in his bands such as Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Bix Beinderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Henry Bussee, Ferde Grofe, and Frank Trumbauer. |
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| | Blue Pages: Paul Whiteman, etc. |
| | --As Paul WYNN (Note that some copies use the original Benny BELL recordings) c. |
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| | Book about Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman forces jazz enthusiasts to find out more about these superb talents |
| | Author Berret, a professor of music at Mercy College does a fine job on both jazzmen, explaining the demise of the Whiteman style and the ascendency of Armstrong. | | | room, at which point the boy broke his violin to smithereens, resulting in a punishment of mowing the Whiteman lawn without pay for two years resulting in Whiteman's lifelong revulsion at the smell of new-mown grass. | | | He was the son of Denver, Colorado, musicians and had an awful time getting along with his father, Wilberforce Whiteman, who ran the music program for the Denver Public schools. |
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| | All Through the Night - Paul Whiteman Sheet Music Download |
| | View All songs from this artist: Paul Whiteman | | | All Through the Night - Paul Whiteman Sheet Music Download | | | By taking an action to download a file, you are agreeing to the terms of the current Solero® Music Viewer LICENSE AGREEMENT |
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| | MSN Encarta - Paul Whiteman |
| | Whiteman organized his own band in 1919 and through it became the leading exponent of symphonic jazz, a “sweet,” mellow music played from written scores and hence differing markedly from “hot,” improvised jazz. | | | Paul Whiteman (1891-1967), American bandleader, known as the king of jazz. | | | During World War I he conducted a military band. |
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| | James A. Michener Art Museum: Bucks County Artists |
| | Paul Whiteman Presents, later titled Paul Whiteman's Teen Club, first broadcast, 1943 | | | George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, also titled Maxwell House Coffee Time, first broadcast, 1931- 1940s | | | Paul Whiteman's orchestra was featured in the films: |
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| | Carnegie Hall Concert, December 25, 1938 by Paul Whiteman : MusicOutfitter |
| | Carnegie Hall Concert, December 25, 1938 by Paul Whiteman : MusicOutfitter | | | Album Notes - Carnegie Hall Concert, December 25, 1938 by Paul Whiteman | | | Personnel: Paul Whiteman; The Dorsey Brothers, Joe Venuti, Louis Armstrong, Mildred Bailey, Red Norvo, Bing Crosby, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan.Additional guest personnel: Bing Crosby; Mildred Bailey. |
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| | American Music Teacher: Louis Armstrong & Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz |
| | American Music Teacher: Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz | | | Whiteman was well ahead of his time, hiring black musicians and fiercely defending them when it was not politically correct to do so. | | | The book traces Armstrong's career from his days with Fletcher Henderson's band to his final years with his recordings of "Hello Dolly! |
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| | Paul Whiteman and Orchestra |
| | Find where Paul Whiteman and Orchestra is credited alongside another name | | | Members have included Paul Whiteman, Edward Platt, Charlie Gaylord... | | | Discuss this person with other users on IMDb message board for Paul Whiteman and Orchestra |
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| | Sound of the Movies by Bing Crosby |
| | I Like to Do Things for You - Paul & The Rhythm Boys, Paul Whiteman | | | So the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together - Paul Whiteman | | | A Bench in the Park - Paul Whiteman |
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| | The King of Jazz (1930) |
| | Plot Summary: This revue presents its numbers around the orchestra leader Paul Whiteman, besides that it shows in... | | | User Comments: American show business in 1930 (more) |
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| | VARIATIONS Sound Recording bae8066 |
| | Paul Whiteman at Aeolian Hall -- Washington, DC : The Smithsonian Collection ; p1981. | | | We Have No Bananas (Introducing "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" (Van Alstyne-Williams)] |
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