26/7 Music T3W2L4 2024 Note

Stop chorus - everyone plays the melody at the same time

New Orleans style

• Guitar -> banjo
• Sax -> clarinet
• Trumpet -> cornet

Video

• 1940s
  • Contract with RCA
    • Can record what he wants
    • He produced his own hits every time
• 42 years old when war began
  • Host of weekly radio program which sold war buns
  • Did what he could to contribute
  • Before war, was on tour in Pittsburuh
    • Met pianist Billy Strayhorn - was a drug store clerk and was 21 years old
    • When next met, Strayhorn had written a new song
      • A train - another hit and became Ellington’s theme
    • They became partners even though they were very different as people\