Princeton High School Bands
151 Moore Street, Princeton New Jersey 08540
(609) 806-4280 Ext. 3091
Resources
(in random order)
For students who need to transpose their music
Where studio band and jazz ensemble members purchase their uniforms
The History Of Jazz
(the melting pot of sound)
"Anyone who understands jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's whats so simple about it" - Yogi Berra
"New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born." —Wynton Marsalis
 "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know" - Louis Armstrong
"By it's very nature, no one person can ever be the center of jazz" - Ken Burns
 "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing" - Duke Ellington
Other Great Jazz Sites
Selected Jazz Artists By Decade
1900s
Scott Joplin
Jelly Roll Morton
W.C. Handy
1920s
Bessie Smith
Cab Calloway
Duke Ellington
Count Basie
Louis Armstrong
1930s
Benny Goodman
Lionel Hampton
Gene Krupa
Tommy Dorsey
1940s
Dizzy Gillespie
Thelonius Monk
Charlie Parker
Glenn Miller
1950s
Miles Davis
Art Blakey
Chet Baker
Gerry Mulligan
1960s
Ornette Coleman
John Coltrane
Miles Davis
Cecil Taylor
1970s
Herbie Hancock
Brecker Brothers
Chick Corea
John McLaughlin
1980s
US3
David Sanborn
Tom Scott
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