[Dixielandjazz] just a question, help greatly appreciated

[dj outrage]

Robert Ringwald wrote:
> dj outrage djoutrage at freeukisp.co.uk Wrote:
>
>>I am studdying music at university, and for my write up I would like to
>> do
>> an essay on the effect that either duke ellington or paul whiteman had
>> on
>> 20th century popular music, ellington in the way he brought structure to
>> jazz or whiteman in how everything was very tightly arranged etc. What
>> do
>> you guys think,? which would be better, and do you know any good books
>> on
>> either of these figures I could read?
> (snip)
>
> Why not write about both bands, their differences, similarities,
> contrasts, effects on Jazz and popular music of the time?
>
> --Bob Ringwald
>
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Thank you all very much for the help so far! appreciate it a lot.




Pretty much as soon as i posted i thought hey, wouldn't it be great to
write about both bands?


I'm thinking of writing on things like



how both the ellington and whiteman bands helped to link between classical
and jazz, then how whiteman in particular made jazz more "accessable" to
the mainstream by orchestrating it, and bringing in instruments that
hadn't been seen in jazz up to that point.


obviously i'll need to do a lot of research as this will be my grad paper.


Any suggestions?

thank you very much for the help so far guys.