Phil Schaap Discusses Fletcher Henderson
Вставка
- Опубліковано 17 гру 2012
- December 18 marks the birth of big band jazz's first true pioneer, the great Fletcher Henderson. Jazz at Lincoln Center's curator, Phil Schaap, discusses Henderson's life and legacy.
I could listen to Phil dissertate all day
So this is what Schapp looked like. He's right; wish we had more footage/history on Fletcher Henderson. Thanks!!
If i didn't know better, I'd bet all my money that this man was talking off a teleprompter....I'd lose all my money...Phil Schaap is the best
Wow! My family history.
I love and collect Henderson 78, but Phil failed to mention that he was hired by the legendary early Black company Black Swan as musical director in 1921, and also accompanied scores of female blues artists on piano. At the same time, he started up his own orchestra in about 1923. He did as many plain, non-jazz stock arrangements as he recorded Don Redman's jazzed-up tin-pan-alley tunes and some original out-and-out jazz compositions...even prior to hiring Louis Armstrong in 1924. Henderson recorded prolifically on almost every label in business at the time.
Phil. You kindled my interest in FH. He said it all when music and women need to Sweet and Hot. That's how I judge K pop anyway.
hey Phil, do you still wear those trademark red sneakers?
Excellent family history. The only shortcoming in opportunity was the fact that we didn't develop our own schools. He should've had plenty of opportunities but look at what would've been lost. You can't possibly think being a chemistry professor, anywhere, would've been in any way comparable to his creations for and revolutionizing of Jazz which then became the foundation for all American pop and classical music. The idea that "opportunities were lost" because of skin-color paranoia is superficial at best.