Columbia University, 126, 427
Columbus, Ohio, 415, 433, 454
Come Back Sweet Papa, 207, 216
Compton, Glover, 59, 171, 286
Condon, Eddie, 33–34, 239, 332, 391, 505
on King Oliver band, 34, 88, 89, 95, 97, 149, 206
on rhythm, 94
Conover, Willis, 200
contests, 5, 8, 98
Charleston, 233, 237, 240
cutting, 83, 102, 105, 110, 112, 159, 173, 191, 203
singing, 151
talent, 118, 158
whistling, 110
Cook, Albert, 103
Cook, Louise, 340, 345–46
Cook, Sherman, 424, 426
Cooke, Sam, 8
Cooper, Ralph, 264
Copenhagen, 44, 431–32
Copenhagen, 143–46, 297, 351, 454, 495
LA’s hot solos in, 144–46
Copyin’ Louis, 365
Corea, Chick, 275
Cornet Chop Suey, 100–101, 102–4, 105–6, 193, 203, 242, 264, 430, 458–59
buglelike introduction of, 111, 112
copyrighting of, 102, 108, 109, 111, 112, 250, 269
as a creative breakthrough, 109, 112
LA’s composing of, 108–12, 193, 263
LA’s solo in, 102, 112, 158, 266
melodic variety in, 111–12
musical form of, 110–11
notated breaks in, 111, 250–51
recording of, 108–9, 110–11, 202–10, 372
Coward, Noel, 237, 258, 371
Cox, Baby, 346
Craven, Luther “Sonny,” 399
Crawford, Joan, 236, 298
Crawley, Wilton, 278
Craze-O-Logy, 239
Crazy Blues, 53, 154, 215
Creamer, Henry, 278
Creath, Charlie, 429
Creation, The (Haydn), 98
Creole Band, 23, 30, 56, 438, 440
blackface minstrel shows of, 26–28, 38, 39
Creoles, 22–24, 104, 197, 275, 379
distinction between Negroes and, 22–23, 46
French patois of, 23, 24, 46
Crisis, 125, 128
“crooning,” 297–98, 398, 403, 405, 453
Crosby, Bing, 151, 239, 400, 403, 404, 411
LA and, 363, 380
Cruze, James, 380
Cullen, Countee, 125
Curl, Langston, 321–22
Cuthbert, Ga., 125–26
Dabney, Ardelle Mitchell, 124
Dabney, Ford, 124
Daily Herald (London), 408–9
Dallas, Tex., 426–27
Damrosch, Frank, 500
dancing, 93, 151
buck and wing, 264
chorus line, 216, 233–34, 243, 337, 339–40, 342–43, 345
contortionist, 171, 342
quick tempos for, 172–73
shimmy, 76, 78
tap, 247–48, 265, 346
team, 170, 171, 182, 203–4, 234, 235, 238, 246–47, 251–52, 264–65
trumpet accompaniment to, 248–49, 249, 251–52
vernacular, 88, 203
see also specific dance styles
Dancing Masters of America, 236
Davis, Charlie, 143–44, 342
Davis, Miles, 105, 365, 401
on LA, 271
Davis, Peter, 5, 418
Davison, Wild Bill, 35, 210, 239, 304–5
De Droit, Johnny, 419
Deep South, 3, 8, 80, 103, 134, 204, 224, 247, 263, 270, 429
bollweevil epidemic in, 13–14
cotton pickers in, 41, 51
floods in, 13
lynchings in, 15
slave plantations of, 4, 23, 26, 27–28, 30, 48, 50, 53, 56, 57, 59, 66, 67, 95, 131, 272, 283, 440, 442, 450
DeFaut, Voltaire, 67–68
De Paris, Sidney, 386
De Pass, Lillian, 110
Depression, Great, 2, 3, 366, 383, 417–18, 442
Desmond, Mrs. Binga, 124
Detroit, Mich., 419, 421–22
Dickerson, Carroll, 222–23, 243, 244, 255, 259, 287, 289–90, 300, 333, 335, 348, 355, 357, 391
Dickerson, Dudley, 379
Diggs, May “Miss Snakehips,” 384
Dill, Augustus Granville, 125
Dinah, 368–69, 371, 411, 413, 431, 432
Dinah (Bechet and Brymn), 344
Dipper Mouth Blues, 58, 61, 101, 109, 143, 301
LA and Oliver as co-composers of, 69, 106, 457, 490
Oliver’s solo on, 64–65, 66, 69, 252, 458, 490, 495
recordings of, 64–65, 90, 95, 149
d’Ippolito, Vic, 151
Dixiana (film), 385
Dixieland, 57, 256
Dixie Stompers, 193
Dixon, Mort, 280
Doctor Jazz, 256
Dodds, Johnny, 20, 37, 59, 69, 92, 116–17, 144, 227, 489
breaks and obbligatos of, 90
funky blues playing of, 20, 64
in Hot Five and Hot Seven, 165, 206–7, 260
on Oliver, 86–87
personality of, 20
Dodds, Warren “Baby,” 20–23, 31, 34–36, 37, 59, 79, 95, 110, 116–17, 141, 389
on collective improvisation, 85
drinking of, 21, 62
in Hot Seven, 260
on LA, 79, 108
percussion instruments of, 62, 88–89
“shimmy beat” and counterrhythms of, 29, 64
solo breaks of, 82
Dodge, Roger Pryor, 249
Dominique, Natty, 232, 243, 256, 356, 430, 504
Don’t Forget to Mess Around When You’re Doing the Charleston, 214, 235, 332, 499
Don’t Jive Me, 359
Dorsey, Jimmy, 239, 280
Dorsey, Thomas A., 51–53, 91, 321, 492
Dorsey, Tommy, 239, 280, 422
Douge, Robert F., 124
Douglas, Aaron, 335
Down by the Levee, 302
Down Hearted Blues, 54
Down Home Blues, 129
Drake, St. Clair, 174, 183
Dreamland Syncopators, 167
drum ensembles, 92–94
in New Orleans, 93
in West Africa, 93–94, 95
Du Bois, W. E. B., 125–28, 235–36, 377, 450, 454
Duhé, Lawrence, 21–22, 223
Lillian Armstrong and, 72–73, 395
Dunn, Johnny, 59, 258–59, 347
DuPont, Floyd, 218
Durante, Jimmy, 338–39
Dutrey, Honoré, 21, 23, 37, 89–90, 148, 207, 223, 260
band of, 116–17
Dvořák, Antonin, 291
dynamic markings, 122
Eagle Band, 20
Earl Hines and His Orchestra, 324, 511
Early, Gerald, 449
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo, 300
Eccentric, 29–30, 36, 63, 83, 171
eccentric acts, 170–72
Eckstine, Billy, 317
Edie, Irene, 278
1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky), 280
Eldridge, Roy, 262, 410, 435
Ellington, Duke, 31, 59, 137, 139, 145, 275, 291, 292, 336–37, 354, 378, 385, 422, 447, 489
LA and, 384
sophisticated style of, 200, 300
Ellington Band, 367, 376, 378, 409, 512
Ellington Orchestra, 346, 380, 385
Ellis, Seger, 358, 400
Ellison, Ralph, 263–64, 426, 462
Emerson Race Records, 138
England, 326
LA’s first trip to, 408–9, 415
Entertainer, The, 111, 266
Erenberg, Lewis, 232, 240–41
Esquire, 268
Etude, 135, 500
Europe, James Reese, 270, 335
Evans, Paul “Stump,” 180, 192
Evening News (Manchester), 165, 166
Everybody Loves My Baby, 151, 157–58
Everybody Step, 134, 135
Every Day’s a Holiday (film), 448
Exactly Like You, 365, 368, 379
, 515
Excelsior Brass Band, 20, 21
Ex-Flame (film), 376, 443
Experiment in Modern Music, 202
Fanning, Mae, 237, 501
Feather, Leonard, 302
Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 389
Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, 124
Ferguson, Jimmy, 278
Ferrer, José, 361
Fetchit, Stepin, 378, 385
Fields, Dorothy, 345, 368
Fifty Hot Choruses for Cornet (Armstrong), 266–67
Filo, 45–46, 47
Fiorito, Ted, 146
Fire in the Flint, The (White), 125
Fireworks, 364
Fisher, Rudolf, 338, 341
Fisk University, 70, 71, 72, 80, 120
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 48, 233, 417
flappers, 9
flatted thirds, 144
Fleischer brothers, 444–46
Fletcher Henderson and His Famous Club Alabam Orchestra, 130, 138
Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, 120–23, 137, 205, 278–79, 335, 437, 489
gradual turn to jazz in, 132, 141–51, 224
LA as third cornet in, 121, 124, 132, 138–41, 496
LA’s solos in, 121, 139, 142–51, 157, 170–71, 456
musicians of, 141–42
recordings of, 121, 138–39, 143–44, 147–51, 193
rehearsals of, 121–22, 142, 335
sections and written arrangements of, 121, 122, 131, 132, 383
touring of, 141, 151
Floyd Campbell’s Orchestra, 291
For No Reason at All in C, 364
Foster, Frankie, 415
Foster, Pops, 56, 58, 60, 157, 248, 284, 311, 361–63, 362
bass playing of, 56, 332, 362
on LA, b, 388
Foster, Stephen, 26, 514
Four Covens, 385
Four or Five Times, 322
Four Sons (film), 298
Fox, Ed, 237
fox trot, 78, 122, 135, 138, 213, 283, 340, 383, 401
Frankie Trumbauer and His Orchestra, 281
Frazier, Josiah, 209–10
“freak music,” 5–6, 21, 36, 69, 109, 156, 278
of King Oliver, 21, 22, 29–30, 58–59, 64–65, 101, 171, 199, 213, 260, 458
use of mutes in, 22, 29, 65, 171, 199
Freeman, Bud, 31, 33, 35, 36, 38, 152, 331, 422, 452
on LA, 49, 239–40, 258, 267, 283, 410, 413, 505–6
Freud, Sigmund, 241, 393
Friars Society Orchestra, 230–31
Froggie Moore, 492, 495
From Monday On, 280, 297, 507
Frost, Arthur Burdette, 442
Gabbard, Krin, 192
Galveston, Tex., 426, 428
Garland, Ed “Montudie,” 88, 103, 311, 489
Garvey, Marcus, 236
Gauguin, Paul, 233
Gellhorn, Martha, 384
Gennett Records, 36, 60–65, 61, 68, 74, 81, 100, 101, 107, 116
Georgia, 40, 60
Georgia Grind, 208, 214
Germany, Nazi, 448
Gershwin, George, 9–10, 58, 119, 135, 291, 300, 336, 349–50, 457
Gershwin, Ira, 200
Giddins, Gary, 350
Gillespie, Dizzy, 28, 137, 348–49, 394, 441
Glaser, Joe, 286
LA’s finances managed by, 100, 237, 388, 501
Glason, Billy, 238
Goddess of Rain, 345–46
Going Home, 291
Go Long Mule, 143, 147, 148, 210
Gonella, Nat, 410
Gonsoulin, Bertha, 20, 73
Goodman, Benny, 33–34, 59, 103, 238, 239, 422
Goodman, Freddy, 239
Good Time Flat Blues, 158, 160
Goofus Five, 218
Graham, Billy, 52
Graham, George, 380
Grant, Ulysses S., 420–21
Gray, Jack, 104
Gray, Mrs. W. T., 104
Great Day (Youmans), 334–35
Greely, Aurora, 379
Green, Charlie, 142, 145, 147, 154, 510
Green, Lil, 326
Greene, Gene, 212
Greer, Sonny, 227
Griffith, D. W., 443
Grofé, Ferde, 122
Guinan, Texas, 245–46
guitars, 49, 72, 88, 93, 284, 412
Gulf of Mexico, 449
Gully Low Blues, 262
Gut Bucket Blues, 40, 48, 161, 204, 218, 283, 314, 436
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, 326–28, 400
Haas, John F., 237
Half-Century Magazine, 75
Hall, Adelaide, 276, 342
Hall, Bert, 335
Hall, John, 385
Hall, Tubby, 59, 73, 237, 308, 413
Hallelujah, 278
Hallelujah (film), 378, 385
Hammond, John, 393
Hampton, Lionel, 194–95, 226, 399
LA and, 380, 382, 383, 402
Handy, W. C., 50–52, 54, 59–60, 64, 126–27, 154, 155
band of, 58, 258
published music of, 50–51, 59, 134, 161–63
Hardin, Dempsey, 71–72, 73, 114, 120, 319
Harker, Brian, 247
Harlem, 122, 126, 128, 141, 142, 146, 166, 171, 231, 337–41
Alhambra in, 220
Amsterdam Club in, 153
Connie’s Inn in, 337, 339–41, 340, 343, 345, 354–55, 414, 419
Cotton Club in, 228, 234, 338, 339, 341, 345
elite social occasions in, 123–25
Lafayette Theater in, 140, 152, 339, 355–57, 410, 435
musical scene of, 126, 152–54
New Manhattan Casino in, 123–24, 140
Rhythm Club in, 140, 153
Savoy Ballroom in, 333, 333, 337
Small’s Paradise in, 149, 163–64
“Striver’s Row” in, 131
white tourism in, 338–41
Harlem Renaissance, 128, 145
Harlem Symphony Orchestra, 166
Harlem Tattler, 297
harmonicas, 93
harmoniums, 161–62
harmony, 149
LA’s command of, 66–67, 198, 253–55, 269–73, 406
barbershop, 26–27, 395, 437
blues and jazz, 5, 66–68, 134, 136, 156
disregard of, 67–68, 73, 86, 95
European, 93, 94
Harper, Leonard, 345
Harris, Charles, 190, 193
Harris, Jimmy, 279, 333
Harris, Joel Chandler, 442
Hart, William, 104
Hawkins, Coleman, 142, 154, 273, 406–7
Haydn, Joseph, 98
Haynes, Elizabeth, 124
Haynes, George F., 124
Heah Me Talkin’ to Ya?, 324, 333, 367, 513
Hearts in Dixie (film), 385
Heebie Jeebies, 174, 190, 203–4, 208, 220–21, 245, 246, 249, 259, 278, 296, 297, 370, 459
scat vocals on, 209, 211–18, 220, 242, 263
Heebie Jeebies (dance), 234
Heebie Jeebies Dance, 216, 218–19, 219
Heebie Jeebies weekly, 170, 182, 186, 190, 204, 214, 217, 235, 244, 497–98
Hello Dolly, 220, 274
Hemingway, Ernest, 37–38
Henderson, Fletcher, Jr., 113, 120–27, 127, 270, 274, 291
blues accompanying of, 129
childhood of, 125–26
classical piano studies of, 126, 131, 179
education of, 125, 126–27, 129, 130
fame of, 126, 149
jazz career of, 126, 129–32, 138, 141–51
LA and, 120, 123, 131, 141, 163, 170–72, 176, 198, 207, 245, 278–79, 309, 351, 355, 430, 458
white orchestras emulated by, 131–32, 139–41, 143, 152, 203
Henderson, Fletcher Hamilton, Sr., 125–26, 127, 129
Henderson, Katherine, 295
Henderson, Mrs. Fletcher, 124
Henderson’s Rainbow Orchestra, 124
Henry, Charles “Sunny,” 97
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sp; Herbert, Victor, 344
heterophony, 4–5, 6, 67
church, 84–87
definition of, 4
Hi De Ho, 218
Higginbotham, J. C., 362, 362, 451
High Society, 32–33, 102, 105, 106, 119, 402, 420, 435, 445
High Society Blues (film), 382
Hill, Alex, 324
Hill, Bertha, 165
Hill, Teddy, 362
Hillare, Andre, 223
Hill, Letha, 78, 337
Hines, Earl, 62, 75, 120, 170, 173, 180, 192, 257, 261, 365, 499
on accompanying, 81
on cabarets, 227, 233–34, 238, 239, 243, 247
conducting of, 184–85, 244, 260, 394
on LA, 234, 246, 249, 251, 259, 302–3
LA and, 222–23, 260–61, 263, 281, 286, 288–89, 292, 302–18, 451–52
piano style of, 171–72, 260–61, 295, 299, 302, 310–17, 325, 508
Hines, Laura, 501
Hinton, Hilda, 41, 43, 46, 183, 196
Hinton, Milton, 40–45, 59, 123, 186, 196, 226, 309, 377, 414, 448
childhood of, 40–43, 183, 196
on LA, 195, 199, 201, 293, 307
Hite, Les, 379, 385, 399, 412, 516
Hitting the High Spots with Louis Armstrong, 382
Hoagy Carmichael and His Pals, 403
Hobson, Homer, 336
Hodeir, André, 252
Hodes, Arthur, 239, 290, 296, 304–5
Hold That Tiger, 184
Holiday, Billie, 298–99, 301, 356, 368, 392, 399–400, 411, 413
Hollywood, Calif., 380, 385
Cocoanut Grove in, 411
Holmes, Charlie, 362, 363, 489, 511–12
Holy City, 63–64, 90, 489
Holy Roller churches, 236
Home, 436
homosexuality, 45
Honeysuckle Rose, 436
Hooper, Louis, 152
Hoover, Herbert, 389
Hopkins, Lightning, 48
Hoskins, Allen (Little Farina), 385
Hoskins, Mr., 49
Hot Chocolates, 341, 345–47, 352–55, 353, 434, 512
Hotter Than That, 282, 284–85, 312, 315, 332, 352, 382, 507
House of Representatives, U.S., 43
Houston, Tex., 426
Howard, Darnell, 74, 496
Howard Normal School, 125–26
How Come, 347
Hudgins, Johnny, 248, 515
Hughes, Howard, 379, 382, 434
Hughes, Langston, 128, 196, 199–200, 297–98, 338, 341
on LA, 203
Hungarian Rhapsodies (Liszt), 314
Hunter, Alberta, 53, 58, 60, 78, 102–3, 154, 158–59, 167, 218, 513
on LA, 63, 70, 114
Hunt in a Black Forest, A (Voelker), 278
Hunton, Addie W., 124
Hurston, Zora Neale, 84, 398, 447, 513
I Ain’t Gonna Play No Second Fiddle, 163, 279
I Can’t Believe That You’re in Love with Me, 367
I Can’t Give You Anything but Love, 329–32, 345, 349, 356–57, 359, 368, 383, 386, 396–97, 460, 511
I Covered the Waterfront, 431
I’d Love to Have Somebody to Love Me, 244
If I Could Be with You (One Hour Tonight), 384, 401–2, 413
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