I . First Jazz First jazz improviser: Louis Armstrong First jazz composer: Jelly Roll Morton First center of jazz: New Orleans First published ragtime composition: William Krell, Mississippi Rag - 1897 First published rag by a black composer: Thomas Million Turpin, The Harlem Rag - 1897 First use of the word "Jazz": Vaudeville team of William and George Demarest of "Our Three Sons" - 1910 First jazz ensemble on film: Orginal Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) in The Good For Nothing - 1917 First interracial jazz group: Benny Goodman Trio (Benny Goodman/Teddy Wilson/Gene Krupa) First modern jazz bass player: Jimmy Blanton First modern jazz guitar player: Charlie Christian First composer to set the standard of setting brass against reeds: Fletcher Henderson First black band with a regularly sponsored series: Don Redman First band to use five saxophones: Benny Carter First jazz musician to be nominated for a Pulitzer Prize: Duke Ellington First black vocalist with a major white jazz orchestra: Billie Holiday with Artie Shaw - 1938 First Jazz at the Philharmonic concert - 1943 First modal composition: Miles Davis, Miles aka Milestones - 1958
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