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Visit
Deborah Brown's
Jazz Site
(The connection to Creative Process? Frank Szasz' drawing of Deborah is used on the cover of her “My One and Only Love” and our love and respect for Deborah's parents Al and Ann.)
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Jazz Music and Musicians Posters, Art Prints & Charts
for the music, performing arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers and studios.
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music posters > JAZZ < social studies
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Jazz, born in New Orleans in the 1890s, came from improvising the Blues, marching band music and Ragtime together.
Showcased are the Golden Age of Jazz series by photographer William Gottlieb (1917 – 2006) who is known for his sensitive, dignified depictions of jazz greats. Gottlieb developed an interest in Jazz music while listening to a friend’s records while recovering from a spell of food poisoning. Gottlieb documented Jazz’s Golden Era for numerous publications, including the Washington Post and Downbeat. For 10 years he took more than 1,600 photos of jazz legends, including Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong.
“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.” Charles Mingus
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Bix Beiderbecke
b. 3-10-1903; Davenport, IA
d. 8-6-1931; NY (alcoholism)
Cornetist, pianist, and composer Bix Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz cornetists of the 1920s. His unique style, probably due to learning to play “by ear”, lead to what was called “cool jazz”.
FYI - The novel and movie, “Young Man with a Horn”, are loosely based on the life of Beiderbecke.
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Dave Brubeck
b. 12-6-1920; Concord, CA
d. 12-5-2012; Norwalk, CT
Jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck is considered to be one of the foremost exponents of progressive jazz.
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Benny Carter
b. 8-4-1907; New York
d. 7-12-2001; Los Angeles
Benny Carter, who was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as a Jazz Master (1986) and National Medal of Arts recipient in 2000, also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1987 and a Grammy Award in 1994. Carter, who received piano lesson from his mother, was largely self taught, playing the saxophone, clarinet, and trumpet; he was also a composer, arranger, and a bandleader.
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Brothers Tommy (1905-1956) and Jimmy Dorsey (1904 -1957) were jazz musicians and band leaders.
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Duke Ellington
b. 4-29-1899, Washington, DC
d. 5-24-1974
Edward Kennedy Ellington is one of the most sophisticated and important composers and pianists the United States has ever produced. ...
The Duke Ellington Orchestra (which over the years included many of America's greatest jazzmen) charmed audiences all over the world for more than 50 years. Songs he wrote, including “Mood Indigo”, “Sophisticated Lady”, and “It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't got That Swing)”, became jazz standards. ... more Stars of the Harlem Renaissance posters
• more Duke Ellington posters
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Stan Getz
née Stanley Gayetsky
b. 2-2-1927; Philadelphia, PA
d. 6-6-1991; Malibu, CA
Stan Getz was a noted Jazz saxophonist who introduced the Brazilian Bossa Nova sound to the US in the 1960s.
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Lionel Hampton
b. 4-20-1908; Louisville, KY
d. 8-21-2002, NYC
Lionel Hampton was a jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. He said of Benny Goodman, “As far as I'm concerned, what he did in those days — and they were hard days in 1937 — made it possible for Negroes to have their chance in baseball and other fields.”
FYI ~ the vibraphone is a percussion instrument, similar to a zylophone, marimba, and glockenspiel.
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Coleman Hawkins
b. 11-21-1904; St. Joseph, MO
d. 5-19-1969; NY
Coleman Hawkins played the tenor saxophone and is “most strongly associated with the swing music and big band era, ... a role in the development of bebop in the 1940s.”
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Woody Herman
b. 5-16-1913; Milwaukee, WI
d. 10-29-1987
Jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and singer, Woody Herman was one of the most popular big band leaders of the 1930s and 40s.
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Earl “Fatha” Hines
b. 12-28-1903; Duquesne, Pennsylvania
d. 4-22-1983; Oakland, CA
Earl Hines was, according to Ken Burns, “one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz”.
The Hines Band, the most broadcast band in America in the 1930s, was based at the Grand Terrace, which was controlled by Chicago mobster Al Capone.
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Howard McGhee
b. 3-6-1918; Tulsa, OK (raised in Detroit)
d. 7-17-1987; NYC
Howard McGhee was a Jazz trumpeter best remembered for his fast finger work and high notes.
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Charles Mingus
b. 4-22-1922; Nogales, Arizona
d. 1-5-1979; Cuernavaca, Mexico
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Art Tatum
b. 10-13-1909; Toledo, OH
d. 11-5-1956; Los Angeles, CA
Pianist Art Tatum, considered one the greatest jazz pianist of all time, began losing his sight as an infant.
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Queens Jazz Trail Guide Poster Map
New York City’s borough of Queens has been the residence of choice for hundreds of the music’s leading players. The Queens Jazz Trail map shows the different neighborhoods and sites that are part of Queens hidden jazz history.
Includes • Cannonball Adderly • Louis Armstrong • Addisleigh Park • Mildred Bailey • Count Basie • Tony Bennett • Bix Beiderbecke • James Brown • John Coltrane • Corona • Roy Eldridge • Ella Fitzgerald • Flushing Cemetery • Dizzy Gillespie • Benny Goodman • Jimmy Heath • Woody Herman • Milt Hinton • Billie Holiday • Lena Horne • Milt Jackson • Illinois Jacquet • Scott Joplin • Glenn Miller • Charlie Mingus • Clark Terry • Fats Waller • Ben Webster • Lester Young
• more Culture Maps posters
• more maps
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“Jazz is neither specific repertoire nor academic exercise ... but a way of life.” (Lester Bowie)
Jazz instruments: bass, banjo, saxophone, trumpet, guitar, drums, trombone, clarinet and piano; labeled in English, French, Spanish, German.
Robert Johnson, Ida Cox, Benny Carter.
• music instrument posters
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Jazz Family Tree - from the earliest years to modern times - 920 artists and band entries with 83 signatures.
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