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AN INTERACTIVE HISTORY OF JAZZ: 1718 TO NOW

Generation Saxophone:  1940 - 1960

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Click to hear Machito & Afro-Cubans play "Tanga"

Click to hear Stan Kenton's "The Peanut Vendor"

Click for more info about George Benson

Click to see The Duke Ellington Orchestra's 1941 video of "Take the A Train"

Click for more info about "Take the A Train"

Click to hear excerpt of Ellington's "Black Brown and Beige" live at Carnegie Hall (1944)

Click for more info about "Round Midnight" the song

Click to hear first recording of "Round Midnight", played by The Cootie Williams Orchestra (1944)

Click for more information about "Round Midnight" the film (1986)

Click to hear Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker play "A Night in Tunisia" (1945)

Click here for more info about Keith Jarrett

Click to hear Miles Davis' 1st record, "Little Willie Leaps"

Click to see Hazel Scott perform with Charles Mingus & Rudy Nichols

Click to see video about Hazel Scott

Click for more info about Lennie Tristano

Click to hear Lennie Tristano's "East Thirty Second Street" (1955)

Click for more info about Tony Bennett

Click to hear Tony Bennett's first hit, "Because of You" (1951)

Click to hear The Cal Tjader Trio play Charlie's Quote (1951)

Click to see video of David Sanborn's "Night Music"

Click to hear Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Take Five" (1959)

Click to see Dave Brubeck Quartet play "Take Five" (1961)

Click to hear "So What" from Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" (1959)

Click to see video of Miles Davis playing "So What" (1959)

Click to hear Billie Holiday's last recording "Lady in Satin" (1959)

Click for more info about Billie Holiday's "Lady in Satin" (1958)

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