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	Paul Whiteman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Whiteman commissioned George Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue, which was premiered by Whiteman's Orchestra with Gershwin at the piano in 1924.
		Paul Whiteman was primarily responsible for revolutionizing the dance orchestra and dance music after World War I. Prior to then, dances were played by military bands, string ensembles, or small combinations.
		Paul Whiteman died at the age of 77 in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Whiteman (652 words)

	Paul Whiteman
		The Paul Whiteman Orchestra rarely played what is considered real Jazz today, despite having some of the great White Jazz soloists of the 1920s in his band.
		Whiteman hired a virtual who's who of White Jazz musicians of the 1920s for his orchestra, such as Red Nichols, Tommy Dorsey, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, and in 1927, Bix Beiderbecke.
		Whiteman paid his musicians the highest salaries in the business and was generally well liked by them.
	www.redhotjazz.com /whiteman.html (403 words)

	Paul Whiteman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Whiteman (March 28, 1890 - December 29, 1967) was a popular United States orchestral leader.
		While today most fans of jazz consider improvization to be essential to the musical style, Whiteman thought the improvisation of early jazz was sloppy and uncouth, and thought the music could be improved by eliminating improvisation except in small amounts in certain parts of elaborate arrangements.
		Whiteman seems to have some appreciation of jazz musicians, since he hired many of the best white jazz men for his band, including Bix Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Steve Brown, Gussie Mueller, Jack Teagarden, and Bunny Berigan.
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	Solid! -- Paul Whiteman
		Whiteman alumni include such luminaries as Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Jack Teagarden, Charlie Teagarden, Bix Beiderbecke, Bunny Berigan, Bing Crosby, Mildred Bailey, and Johnny Mercer.
		His was the first orchestra to popularize arrangements, the first to use full reed and brass sections, the first to play in vaudeville, the first to travel to Europe, the first to use a female singer (Bailey), and the first to use a vocal trio (the Rhythm Boys).
		Whiteman continued leading his orchestra into the late 1930s, but by that time his music sounded old-fashioned when compared to the ''modern'' rhythms of Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey.
	www.parabrisas.com /d_whitemanp.html (483 words)

	Allartist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Whiteman was a well-established dance-orchestra director, indeed already a Broadway success story - and a significant proponent of "symphonic jazz" - when, in 1926, in Jazz, a statement of purpose co-written with M.M. McBride, first outlined his ideas regarding this new orchestral development.
		In this experimentation, Whiteman was inestimably aided by the New York-born pianist (and ex-Los Angeles Symphony viola-player) Ferde Grofé (1892-1972).
		Grofé was principal arranger with the Whiteman organisation from 1920 to 1927.
	www.naxos.com /scripts/Artists_gallery/other_artists.asp?artist_name=Whiteman_Paul&artisttype=nostalgia (735 words)

	Dismuke's Hit Of The Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whiteman was forced to slash the size of his organization by over 30 percent and imposed significant pay cuts on those who remained.
		Whiteman's response to the new direction in popular music was to embrace it and he promptly created a unit within his band devoted to the new style.
		Whiteman called this "band within a band" his "Swing Wing" and it provided him with a means of appealing to the tastes of younger listeners without alienating his existing audience.
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	Whiteman, Paul on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Divine Browns and the Mighty Whiteman: Exotic Primitivism and the Baudin Voyage to Tasmania in 1802.
		Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Paul WhitemanBandleader Paul Whiteman was known for his popularization of jazz among the white mainstream during the 1920s and 30s, it was often said that his music lacked the emotional aspect so vital to the life of the form.
		Paul Revere unveils noncan DI targeted at new markets.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/w/whiteman.asp (390 words)

	This Weeks Guest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra was the most popular band of the 1920s and represented the apex of jazz to the general public.
		Paul Whiteman being the most popular Jazz band leader of the Jazz Age is blamed for the racism in America that denied African-American musicians the credit that they deserved in the history of Jazz.
		Whiteman is also criticized for not hiring African-American musicians to play in his band, but this argument ignores the commercial realities of the period.
	great-song-stylists-uk.com /Paulwhiteman/Paulwhiteman.htm (387 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Paul Whiteman
		Paul Whiteman played viola in the Denver Symphony Orchestra from 1907 and in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1914.
		While jazz purists accused him of diluting the character of early jazz for commercial purposes, less biased observers applauded the high polish and versatility of his orchestras, which had to be as comfortable in the concert hall as at a college dance.
		Whiteman's musical memorabilia, including his large library of more than 3000 arrangements, were bequeathed to Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where they now form the Whiteman Collection.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_whiteman_paul.htm (411 words)

	Paul Whiteman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The climax for Whiteman seems to be the Universal opus, "The King of Jazz" in 1930.
		It should be mentioned that Paul Whiteman never really retired from the music scene, yet it is fair to say that he lived in a state semi-retirement in the 1960s until his death in 1967 from heart-failure.
		This is a shame because the music of Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra is amongst the most beautiful in recording history.
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	Louis Armstrong and Paul Whiteman: Two Kings of Jazz author Joshua Berrett is interviewed/Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician
		Whiteman was a casualty of a socialist agenda coupled with the heightened fl consciousness emerging during and directly after World War II.
		Whiteman deserves credit for discovering and recognizing ability or genius in composers whose works would not normally be acceptable to dance bands.
		And the relative neglect of Whiteman has not simply been a symptom of a predominantly African-American jazz perspective shaped by the ideologies of the late 1930s or the changes wrought by the civil rights movement of the 1950s and beyond.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /mainHTML.cfm?page=berrett.html (5485 words)

	Paul Whiteman (28 March 1890 - 29 December 1967) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whiteman's early records were different from most being issued by Victor, especially in instrumentation--a combination of saxophones, brass instruments, strings (banjo and violin), and percussion.
		Whiteman responded to Newman's objections with counter-arguments, undoubtedly aware that the exchange of opinions, covered in the October 2, 1926 issue of The Literary Digest, was excellent publicity.
		Whiteman's orchestra had been entering Victor studios on a monthly basis since the first session in August 1920, but after it recorded several titles in February 1923, there is a gap of seven months due to a tour of England from March to August.
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		While such arguments can certainly be made, the fact remains that by taking the jazz to the people, Paul Whiteman did more to help its cause than Armstrong or any of his cutting-edge peers were able to do in such a racially backwards time.
		And while Paul Whiteman’s music is marked by flights of great ambition and numerous moments of legitimate jazz, and continues to be loved by many (yours truly included), those looking for jazz's true, undistilled essence will always turn to Louis Armstrong first.
		Whiteman may have been the King of the Jazz Age, but Armstrong sits forever on the throne of the music itself, unassailable.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article_print.php?id=16453 (980 words)

	BBC - Radio 3 Jazz Profiles - Paul Whiteman
		Known in his day as 'The King of Jazz' and the inventor of 'symphonic jazz', the majority of Whiteman's discs are not strictly speaking jazz, but range from syncopated dance music to the ramblings of a giant orchestra that was too large and cumbersome to swing.
		His disc of Whispering sold exceptionally, and by the mid 1920s, Whiteman was internationally famous as a bandleader.
		By the 1950s, Whiteman had decided to concentrate on broadcasting, and led a house band for the ABC network.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio3/jazz/profiles/paul_whiteman.shtml (318 words)

	ipedia.com: Paul Whiteman Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Paul Whiteman was a popular United States orchestral leader.
		In the late 1920s and early 1930s Whiteman was billed as The King of Jazz (see: Jazz royalty), though much of what his band played hasn't been considered "true" jazz by later generations.
		While it is easy to sneer at Whiteman in retrospect, his notions were critically popular and commercially successful at the time, and Whiteman's music was often the fist jazz of any form that some people heard.
	www.ipedia.com /paul_whiteman.html (381 words)

	American BigBands - Page 3 "W" Bands
		The next photo shows Whiteman with future bandleader Bob Crosby, and a few of the men who would later be a part of Bob Crosby's Bob Cats.
		Paul's father, Wilberforce Whiteman, was the Superintendent for Musical Education in the Denver, CO, Public School system.
		He formed the Paul Whiteman Orchestra for the Fairmont hotel in SF., and played dates in and around LA before settling in the Hotel Alexandria in LA at the end of 1919.
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	AllRefer.com - Paul Whiteman (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Paul Whiteman, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Whiteman played viola in the Denver Symphony Orchestra and in 1915 joined the San Francisco Symphony.
		Whiteman encouraged the composition of concert jazz works by establishing the annual Whiteman Award.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/W/Whiteman.html (215 words)

	Amazon.ca: Greatest Hits [Best of]: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Whiteman's biography indicates the bandleader was a nervous wreck going into the recording studios of 1920 to wax these early sides.
		Paul Whiteman is no Jelly Roll Morton but his orchestra was huge in the 1920's, playing every night at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles.
		Whiteman is best known today as the man who gave Bing Crosby (then with the Rhythm Boys) his first big break, but the songs on this album don't feature Bing, just joyous Whiteman orchestral music.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000I9FQ (804 words)

	GM 3048 - Happy Feet: A Tribute to Paul Whiteman
		It is unlikely that anyone in jazz history has been as consistently maligned as Paul Whiteman.
		In its own way the Whiteman sound is as original and as beautiful as that of Duke Ellington's orchestra -- very different, of course, but no less magical, no less inspired.
		What is especially remarkable about this intrumentation is that it allows an arranger, if he so chooses, to cover virtually the entire six-octave range of our modern orchestra as it developed in the late 19th-century -- from the lowest notes of the tuba and bass up to the highest register of the violins and piccolos.
	www.gmrecordings.com /gm3048.htm (228 words)

	MSN Encarta - Paul Whiteman
		Paul Whiteman (1891-1967), American bandleader, known as the king of jazz.
		Born in Denver, Colorado, he joined the Denver Symphony Orchestra as a viola player at age 16.
		Whiteman organized his own band in 1919 and through it became the leading exponent of symphonic jazz, a “sweet,” mellow music played from written scores and hence differing markedly from “hot,” improvised jazz.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560498/Paul_Whiteman.html (141 words)

	Paul Whiteman, a Broadcast Pioneer
		It was called "Paul Whiteman's TV-Teen Club," which was originated by WFIL-TV, Channel 6 in Philadelphia.
		Whiteman handed out samples to his teenage friends while Clark pitched the treats to the viewers at home.
		Paul Whiteman was born on March 28, 1890 in Denver, CO. He started his career playing viola in the Denver Symphony in 1907.
	broadcastpioneers.50megs.com /whiteman.html (616 words)

	HyperMusic -- History of Jazz: Henderson and Whiteman
		Both Henderson's and Whiteman's bands included some of the greatest jazz soloists of all time, including Louis Armstrong, trumpeter Bix Beiderbecke, trombonist Jack Teagarden, clarinetist and saxophonist Jimmy Dorsey, trombonist Tommy Dorsey, and tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins.
		The Paul Whiteman big band was very large and even included a string section.
		Paul Whiteman was on of the first bandleaders to play live on the radio.
	www.hypermusic.ca /jazz/henderson.html (113 words)

	Paul Whiteman : Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Pearl) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Paul Whiteman : Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra (Pearl)
		This import disc, containing 21 tracks and running nearly 70 minutes, commemorates the 100th anniversary of Paul Whiteman's birth by combining Columbia and Victor sides recorded from Whiteman's early days of bandleading up to just before the birth of the Swing Era.
		The set concludes with a medley of some of Whiteman's biggest bits and an abbreviated version of "Rhapsody in Blue." The sound quality is adequate, though it has not been cleaned up to remove surface noise.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,185104,00.html (252 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com Music - Artist Bio
		Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang soon joined up, and many of Whiteman's recordings of 1927-1930 (particularly the ones with Bill Challis arrangements) are among his finest.
		Although his orchestra in the 1930s at times featured Bunny Berigan, Trumbauer, and both Jack and Charlie Teagarden, Whiteman's music was considered old hat by the time of the swing era and he essentially retired (except for special appearances) by the early '40s.
		In the 1970s, Dick Sudhalter for a time organized and led "the New Paul Whiteman Orchestra" which recorded a couple of fine recreation records.
	music.barnesandnoble.com /search/artistbio.asp?ctr=71268 (377 words)

	James A. Michener Art Museum: Bucks County Artists
		Paul Whiteman included many young jazz artists in his bands such as Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Bix Beinderbecke, Jack Teagarden, Henry Bussee, Ferde Grofe, and Frank Trumbauer.
		Paul Whiteman resided at Walking Horse Farm in Lambertville, New Jersey from 1941 to 1961, and then at Great Oaks, which he nicknamed Coda Cottage, in Solebury Township from 1961 to his death in 1967.
		Whiteman also worked with his friend St. John Terrell, director of the Lambertville Music Circus, conducting "A Night of George Gershwin" in 1960.
	www.michenerartmuseum.org /bucksartists/artist.php?artist=294&page=1271 (244 words)

	Paul Whiteman MP3 Downloads - Paul Whiteman Music Downloads - Paul Whiteman Music Videos
		ASV's Whiteman compilation covers the years 1920-36, which means that it partly overlaps with Collectors' Choice's 20-song RCA-Victor compilation of Whiteman's work.
		What makes this disc worth owning is that while many of the songs overlap, these are not the same tracks in many instances -- several are later re-recordings (Whiteman was already re-cutting his hits in the middle and late 1920s, with the advent of electrical recording).
		And there are some non-overlapping numbers -- the Whiteman band's 1925 recording of the "Charleston," "Whiteman Stomp" from 1927, "Darktown Strutters' Ball" featuring Jack Teagarden as singer and trombonist, and a pair of medleys from 1932, "A Night With Paul Whiteman," parts one and two.
	www.mp3.com /albums/194072/summary.html (421 words)

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