Month: September 2014

Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of Dr. John the Night Tripper

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From the Top, hosted by Christopher O'Riley is public radio's preeminent showcase for America’s best young musicians. They also contain the marriage record of their parents, Dr. A CV (Curriculm Vitae - "course of life") provides more extensive documentation of a person's experience in a format comparable to that of a résumé and may extend for many pages. How did you decide where to place the music, especially when it came to the water landing?

One Long Tune: The Life and Music of Lenny Breau

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For instance, we talk about how some musician was "influenced" by music they grew up with, even if sometimes that influence consists of outright stealing and/or barely remixing a classic. Her father was a guitarist and her mother a piano teacher and organist. Order or listen at Amazon.com Nineteen compositions gorgeously sung. By 1964, the group had dissolved, and Davis formed a new quintet, featuring pianist Herbie Hancock.

The Memory of All That

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Dixon remembers noticing D’Lugoff and Baraka, as well as cellist Charlotte Moorman. The syncopation and synthesis of African and European classical music gave birth to ragtime jazz, a variety of innovative rhythms that brought about an era of phenomenal music, which is still popular today. Evan Hodges recently relocated to Georgia and is the bass faculty at a bilingual associates college: Instituto Canzion, as well as a coach for a weekly jazz combo at a private high school.

Last Miles: The Music Of Miles Davis, 1980-1991. (Popular

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It's likely when you think of contemporary jazz and smooth jazz, these are the top artists that come to mind. Music came easily to young Tatum and he picked up everything by ear, drawing inspiration from Fats Waller and James P. I also choose not to break with the meaningful traditions in black music because the catalyst and strength of Ameirca's music continues to come by way of contributions from the hearts and lives of black people."

The Duke Ellington Reader

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Honestly, drugs are drugs and everybody uses them. The $3,000 prize funds a commission to write a new work for premiere at the following year’s showcase concert by the BMI/New York Jazz Orchestra, a 17-piece modern repertory ensemble featuring leading New York-based musicians. In 1938 she won a singing contest at Harlem's Apollo Theatre and was subsequently featured with big bands led by Noble Nissle, Edgar Hayes, Cab Calloway, and Cootie Williams, with whom she recorded in 1945.

The Jazz Life of Dr. Billy Taylor

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Rudd recalls that by mid-April, meetings consisted of him, Dixon, and two or three other people. This means that, in order to get paid your royalties, all writers on a song must be a member of the same rights organisation. The harmonic material of many standard tunes consists of nothing more than variations of turnarounds. I think it's up to musicians to sell themself. French modern music - Pulenc was a member of the group of "Six" in Paris. However, she began to sing more often after the pianist and trombonist Cliff Smalls joined the band.

The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music

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The first scholarly journal devoted to women and gender, Women and Music: A Journal of Gender and Culture, was established in 1997 under the aegis of The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM); it has since become an independent journal edited by Suzanne Cusick (University of Nebraska Press). Orlando Lopez Vergara was a bassist who was born in 1933 and died in 2009. His compositions include 32 piano sonatas, 15 string quartets, 5 concertos, and nine symphonies.

Blue Melody: Tim Buckley Remembered

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He helped popularize the music of the French Creole speakers of Louisiana,... John William Coltrane, also called “Trane” was born on the 23rd of September in 1926 and died on 17th of July in 1967. The valve trombone was developed around 1828 and gained wide use in bands, but little use in orchestras. in German) was a concentration camp located in Czechoslovakia that was created by Hitler as a "model camp" to mislead the world about conditions within the camps and ghettos.

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album

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However, besides them there are other great classical composers of the Renaissance who were the first to express their personal lyrical drama in music. Marcus lost his sight by age five and was self taught on the piano, well almost. Cellist Filip Tomic (Photo: news.vn) … [Read more...] The screening of documentary Copenhagen Dreams by director Max Kestner, plus 3 short films by Martin De Thurah was held at at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi o n July 20.

Duke Ellington, Jazz Composer

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In more advanced uses, MIDI information can to indicate the starting and stopping points of a song or the metric position within a song. I compared Corley's subtle interpretation with Helen Walker-Hill's more dynamic performance on "Kaleidoscope: Music by African-American Women" (Leonarda Productions, 1995) and decided: I enjoy them both for different reasons. Hughes was a much-respected drummer's drummer, who was described (by Billboard Magazine) as 'surely the most technically-brilliant drummer of the early rock era'.