Listening List for April 14

UPDATED!!!!

Here are the lyrics for April 14, 2026. A lot of instrumental stuff this week so not so many lyrics.

Time to get back to jazz.

Boogie Woogie

Cleo Brown (1935)
Boogie Woogie

Gene Rodgers (1939)
Jukebox Boogie

Fats Waller (1943)
Ain't Misbehavin' (from the film Stormy Weather)

Evolution from Pop to Jazz singing

Duke Ellington / Adelaide Hall (1927)
Creole Love Call

song: More than you know (1929)
(In class we'll just listen to a short section)

Helen Morgan (1929) Torch (nightclub) singer

Ruth Etting (1929) Pop Singer

Mildred Bailey (1936) Pop (proto-)jazz singer

Billie Holiday (1939) Jazz singer

Big Bands

Chick Webb and his Orchestra (vocal by Ella Fitzgerald)
A-tisket a-tasket

Count Basie and his Orchestra (1940)
Lousiana

Duke Ellington (1952)
Satin Doll

Duke Ellington (from the movie Reveille with Beverly, 1943)
Take the A-Train

Lionel Hampton (1942)
Flying Home

Bebop

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1942)
Salt Peanuts

Charlie Parker (1946)
Confirmation

Big Bands and Dance

Cab Calloway and the Nicholas Brothers (1943)
Jumpin' Jive

Whitey's Lindy Hoppers (1941)
from Hellzapoppin

Bonus: Info on the movie Stormy Weather, from which a number of clips are taken.

And the whole(?) movie itself.

(just for fun)
Chicago Steppin' (2010)

See y'all in class!