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Don Redman made significant innovations in the pattern of arrangement in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in the 1920s.
" Aggravatin ' Papa " was composed with lyricist Roy Turk and Addie Britt and was recorded by Alberta Hunter in 1923 with Fletcher Henderson's Dance Orchestra and also by Bessie Smith, Sophie Tucker, Florence Mills, Lucille Hegamin, and Pearl Bailey.
The following year, in 1929 Basie became the pianist with the Bennie Moten band based in Kansas City, inspired by Moten's ambition to raise his band to the level of Duke Ellington's or Fletcher Henderson's.
* Louis Armstrong leaves Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, returns to Chicago, Illinois, and makes his first records under his own name, leading Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five.
" Aggravatin ' Papa " was composed with Roy Turk and Addie Britt and was recorded by Alberta Hunter in 1923 with Fletcher Henderson's Dance Orchestra and also by Bessie Smith and Pearl Bailey.
He also made a series of recordings in late 1931 with Don Redman, and in 1933 he joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra where he stayed until 1934.
Hawkins joined Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra, where he remained until 1934, sometimes doubling on clarinet and bass saxophone.
In his Jazz Masters of the Thirties, Rex Stewart, a member of Fletcher Henderson's band at the time, writes that the Goldkette band's innovative arrangements and strong rhythm made it the best dance band of its day and " the first original white swing band in jazz history ".
In 1927 Don Redman left Fletcher Henderson's orchestra to become the Cotton Pickers ' musical director, and he assembled a band which rivalled Henderson's and Duke Ellington's.
She recorded with Fletcher Henderson's Orchestra for Paramount Records in 1924 – 1925.
Bleyer had written a few hot songs in 1932-34 ( Fletcher Henderson's " Business in F " is a good example ) and had a band that recorded for ARC in 1934 and 1935 ( his records were issued on Vocalion, Melotone, Perfect and Romeo ).
Fletcher Henderson's book contained about as many of Horace's arrangements as of Fletcher's.
In the 1930s and 1940s he played with some of the premier swing bands, including Luis Russell's, Benny Carter's, Red Allen's, and Fletcher Henderson's.
Strayhorn was a great fan of Fletcher Henderson's arrangements.
By March, 1932, he had arrived on the New York music scene, and began his recording career with Fletcher Henderson's band.
Young left the Basie band to replace Hawkins in Fletcher Henderson's orchestra.
In the 1930s Metcalf led his own bands and joined Fletcher Henderson's.

Fletcher and jazz
Fletcher Henderson and His Orchestra, one of the most popular and influential jazz bands of the 1920s, recorded several ODJB compositions:
A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.
* December 18 – Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician ( died 1952 )
James Fletcher Hamilton Henderson, Jr. ( December 18, 1897 – December 29, 1952 ) was an American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer, important in the development of big band jazz and swing music.
Other popular compositions included the jazz standard " Eccentric " (" That Eccentric Rag " from 1912 ), " Jazzola " ( 1919 ), " I Got a New Deal in Love ", " Swing, Mr. Charlie ", " Sapho Rag ", " Two Time Dan ", " Mary Jane " with Andy Razaf, " Beale Street Mama ", " I'll Be in My Dixie Home Again Tomorrow ", " Aggravatin ' Papa ", recorded in 1923 by Bessie Smith and Alberta Hunter with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Florence Mills, Pearl Bailey, and Sophie Tucker, " Palesteena ", the classic " Margie ", " Mary Lou ", " Singin ' the Blues ", " Meet Me in No Special Place ( And I'll Be There at No Particular Time )", recorded by Nat King Cole, and the title song for the movie Portrait of Jennie ( 1948 ).
Brunswick also had an impressive black and white jazz roster including Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington ( usually as The Jungle Band ), King Oliver, Andy Kirk, Red Nichols and others.
Big-band jazz, like that of James Reese Europe and Fletcher Henderson in New York, was also popular on the radio.
Mulligan also performed as a soloist or sideman ( often in festival settings ) with a veritable Who's Who of late 50s jazz artists: Paul Desmond, Duke Ellington, Ben Webster, Johnny Hodges, Jimmy Witherspoon, André Previn, Billie Holiday, Marian McPartland, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk, Fletcher Henderson, Manny Albam, Quincy Jones, Kai Winding, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck.
African Americans were the pioneers of jazz music, through masters such as Jelly Roll Morton, James P. Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Fletcher Henderson, and Duke Ellington.
Her sisters and brothers were all musicians ; Esther, Carol, Fletcher, jazz organist Bruce and film composer Bob Summers.
In addition to the well known compositions of jazz and ragtime composers like Jelly Roll Morton, Fletcher Henderson, and Eubie Blake, the orchestra's repertory includes the work of less well remembered New Orleans Tin Pan Alley composers such as Larry Buck, Joe Verges, Paul Sarebresole and Nick Clesi.
Horace W. Henderson ( November 22, 1904 – August 29, 1988 ), the younger brother of Fletcher Henderson, was an American jazz pianist, organist, arranger, and bandleader.
Armstrong soon moved to Chicago, worked with Fletcher Henderson, Bessie Smith and Clarence Williams and eventually began working as a band leader in 1925, his work setting the stage for the development of swing and the jazz variations to come after.
Swing was a pop-oriented form of jazz, the origins of which can be found as far back as 1923, when Fletcher Henderson began enlarging jazz bands.
He was one of the early jazz trombonists, and the soloist in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra ( joining slightly before Louis Armstrong ).
Among the first major New York jazz musicians was Fletcher Henderson, whose jazz orchestra, first appearing in 1923, helped invent swing music.
" Casa Loma Stomp " recorded by Fletcher Henderson is a set of jazz variations on the song, whose tune is clearly audible in the first few verses and gradually disappears under the increasing complexity of the variations.
The station played jazz and contemporary dance music, including Sophie Tucker, Fletcher Henderson, and Duke Ellington, as well as broadcasting Columbia University football games.
He also listened to orchestral jazz by both the black jazz orchestras then playing regularly in New York — those of Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington — and later became a devoted enthusiast of pianist Art Tatum.

Fletcher and orchestra
In the first, a sophisticated approach to arranging predominated, originally in the work of Don Redman for the Fletcher Henderson band, later in the work of Duke Ellington for his Cotton Club orchestra, and Walter ' Foots ' Thomas for Cab Calloway's, Charlie Spivak and His Orchestra, and Mel Tormé's Mel-Tones.
Nonetheless, the club also helped launch the careers of Fletcher Henderson, who led the first band to play there in the year 1923, and Ellington, whose orchestra was the house band there from December 4, 1927 to June 30, 1931.
( Fletcher Henderson joined the Benny Goodman orchestra as the arranger in the same year.
" Christopher Columbus ", which Berry composed with lyrics by Andy Razaf, was the last important hit recording of the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, recorded in 1936.

Fletcher and first
Castaneda had appeared in the first Mutiny on the Bounty film in 1935, some 27 years before the 1962 remake with Brando as Fletcher Christian.
As fellow black musician Tom Fletcher said, Hogan was the " first to put on paper the kind of rhythm that was being played by non-reading musicians.
In 1940 Fletcher Pratt's Naval War Game was first published.
( Ben Jonson received a royal pension of 100 marks in 1616, causing some historians to identify him as England's first Poet Laureate, even though John Fletcher was more popular ).
* In the Wake of the Bounty ( 1933 ) ( notable as the first film to introduce Errol Flynn to movie audiences, as Fletcher Christian )
Ultimately, the very first of his students, Fletcher Lynd Seagull, becomes a teacher in his own right and Jonathan leaves to teach other flocks.
" Jonathan asks his first student, Fletcher Lynd Seagull, before getting into any further talks.
His first publisher, Appleton, reissued the original ( 1875 ) edition with two new chapters about Sherman ’ s later years added by the journalist W. Fletcher Johnson ( 1891 Johnson edition:
* Fletcher, Banister ; Cruickshank, Dan, Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture, Architectural Press, 20th edition, 1996 ( first published 1896 ).
* Fletcher, Banister ; Cruickshank, Dan, Sir Banister Fletcher's a History of Architecture, Architectural Press, 20th edition, 1996 ( first published 1896 ).
The first known adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew was entitled The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed, a sequel and reply written by John Fletcher around 1611.
Fletcher in the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, TV legend Dick Van Dyke had a villainous role in Matlocks very first regular episode, " The Judge " ( 1986 ).
Seeing the blood dripping on Wales's boot, Fletcher says that he will give Wales the first move, because he " owes him that.
Tufts expanded in the 1930s with the opening of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, the first graduate school of international affairs in the United States and a collaboration with Harvard University.
: Miss Moorehead and Mr. Collins return this evening to their first love, the CBS microphone, to appear in a study in terror by Lucille Fletcher called " The Diary of Sophronia Winters.
In 1696, governor Fletcher authorized purchases of Indian land near the New York border by a number of citizens of Ulster County ; their descendants became the first European settlers of Pike County.
In 2005, Governor Ernie Fletcher appointed Republican Randy Thompson as County Judge Executive-the county's first Republican Judge Executive.
The first birth in Girard was that of Mary Fletcher, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.
A. Fletcher, and the first death that of Mrs. L. Crawford in the spring of 1869.
Governor Fletcher was the first native born governor in Missouri.
The first elected mayor of Fletcher was Robert G. Parrish ( D ), who died in his third term in office, July, 2000.
On his first visit to Gainesville, he sold ten reels of the wire to the Cleaves and Fletcher hardware store – the first spools of barbed wire ever sold in Texas.
Morton was first settled in 1871 by James Fletcher.

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