Category: Jazz

Nina Simone: The Biography

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Some venues like the Lincoln and Pennsylvania were noted for crowds that preferred big band swing. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker “For me, music and life are all about style. “I'll play it first and tell you what it is later. "If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing." “If you’re on a team, you’re on the team, but you’re in the band. Gilbert notes that as the notion of a canon of jazz is developing, the “achievements of the past” may be become "…privileged over the idiosyncratic creativity...” and innovation of current artists.

Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan

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They're especially noted for great music videos with creative and original effects. She eventually dropped out of high school in order to immerse herself into music. I was performing standards from a book all the time, but I wasn't . Is it necessary to be a musician or to know music technically in order to write about it or use it in poetry and fiction? We can also add to this the huge influence Indian film music is having on Western music today.

A Fine Kind of Madness

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One of the great things about milestones – such as Erwin Helfer's 80th birthday, which was officially celebrated back in January but we joyfully mark with his latest festival appearance – is that they shine a light on extraordinary artists we sometimes take for granted. The son of a sharecropper, his version of “Georgia On My Mind” was proclaimed the state song of Georgia in 1979, only a decade and change from the days of Jim Crow. Musical Type: Folk and topical songs (peace, possibility, hope); may be sung solo or choral; Hymns (including one re The Mountain UU retreat in South Carolina).

Oscar: The Life and Music of Oscar Peterson

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He studied at the RAM (1953-7) and with Boulez in Paris (1957-9), though his public career as a composer had begun before this. Peter Power" on MPS for a woeful example of the almost insurmountable technical problems the musician must face.) I have recently encountered a recording which features Clare Fischer playing a pipe organ specially modified by Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer which offers the organist faster sound throughput. The best-known of the numerous female poets of sacred song in the 1850s and 60s were Fanny Crosby, Phoebe Cary, and Mary Dana Shindler.

Chicago Jazz and Then Some: As Told by One of the Original

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While in Spain, Aaron also studied electronic dance music with international DJ Encanti. The overall failure of the third stream concept to engage the interest of more than a small number of major jazz soloists also suggests the possibility of an underlying incompatibility between jazz improvisation and organized classical music. Sure, you can run them off a laptop or smartphone charger, but a hefty USB battery may work as well. Morton published "Jelly Roll Blues" in 1915, the first jazz work in print.

For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That

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With the rise of the middle class, more people wanted access to music performances and music education. But in classical music, one composer can learn from an older composer by looking at and analyzing the music that the previous composer wrote down. If you need information on people from Cannonball Adderly and Louis Armstrong to Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, and on to Ethel Waters and Lester Young - - then don't miss visiting the eduScapes companion webpage, Biographies of Jazz Musicians.

What Did I Do?: The Unauthorized Autobiography Larry Rivers

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With people like Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Blind Boy Fullerm, the association with the blues and blind musicians became so close that people started adopting the “blind” moniker when they weren’t actually visually impaired. George Shernit, CJO Librarian and Personnel Manager, Baritone Saxophone Baritone saxophonist George Shernit has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra and the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. One of the great things about milestones – such as Erwin Helfer's 80th birthday, which was officially celebrated back in January but we joyfully mark with his latest festival appearance – is that they shine a light on extraordinary artists we sometimes take for granted.

Stan Kenton: The Early Years, 1941-1947

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For us hardcore Stevie Ray Vaughan fans, there's a great live version of "Riviera Paradise" on here. Went into films in the 1950's and provided a wide variety of characterizations in over 50 films until his death in 1986. He has released many albums over the years and is passionate about jazz and classical music. It includes�Pete's bio, photos, and information on how to purchase available CDs, sheet music, and BE OF GOOD CHEER: Memories of Harmonica Legend Pete Pedersen: the new biography by his longtime companion and lyricist, Jaine Rodack."

Jazz Conversations

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In this classic example of early Bennett, the organist uses extremely tight voicings with emphasis on the percussion stops, giving a biting edge to his solo. The prestigious music festival was created by the Union of Composers of Russia and Tatarstan in 1993. EXHIBITION Manzi Art … [Read more...] (VOV) - Fast-emerging French drummer Anne Paceo is bringing her jazz music sensation hit Yokai known widely in the jazz world for its brilliant merging of the sounds of Catalonia, Brazil and Africa to the Vietnam stage.

Gene Krupa: The Pictorial Life of a Jazz Legend, Book & CD

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His songs became popular through musical stage productions and through the sales of his sheet music back in the early 1900s. Gillespie and Chano Pozo, a Cuban musician, created a new form of Latin jazz called CuBop. He can play in a wide variety of musical genres, but is perhaps most notable for his jazz-fusion, funk, and Latin music playing. When we think of women in jazz, we automatically think of singers, but there have been a number of female instrumentalists dating all the way back to the early 1920s.