LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
AMERICAN RENAISSANCE UNIQUELY AMERICAN ART LITERATURE AND CULTURE
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Bessie smith
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Duke ellington
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Aaron Copeland
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Louis Armstrong
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Detailed explanation-1: -Trumpeter & vocalist Louis Armstrong is generally regarded as the inventor of scat singing in jazz. What is this? According to legend, while he was recording “Heebie Jeebies” with his band The Hot Five in 1926, his sheet music fell off the stand during the middle of a take.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jazz pianist Jelly Roll Morton credited Joe Sims of Vicksburg, Mississippi, as the creator of scat around the turn of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-3: -Scat has dim antecedents in the West African practice of assigning fixed syllables to percussion patterns, but the style was made popular by trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong from 1927 on.
Detailed explanation-4: -1. Betty Carter: A Grammy Award–winning artist and National Medal of the Arts recipient, Betty Carter honed her talent as a scat singer with jazz musicians like Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton.