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May 23, 2024 · Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
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The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which...
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- Eubie Blake
James Hubert "Eubie" Blake (February 7, 1887 – February 12,...
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Jazz musicians, besides playing renditions of the melodies,...
- List of Jazz Genres
Free jazz musicians make use of free improvisation to alter,...
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Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to...
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2 days ago · Louis Armstrong. m. Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed " Satchmo ", " Satch ", and " Pops ", [2] was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several eras in the history of jazz. [3]
May 20, 2024 · Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.) is an American tenor saxophonist, composer, dramatist, teacher, and pioneer of the free jazz movement, known not only for his creative improvisation and colourful sound but also for his Afrocentric approach to music.
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May 22, 2024 · There’s an expression in jazz: “You gotta be able to go inside the house before you can go outside.” Meaning, before you play “free” — without harmonic or other formal strictures — you need to know how to play chord changes and the blues.
1 day ago · This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
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May 18, 2024 · The term “Free Jazz” is a broad umbrella that embraces a variety of styles. To complicate definitional matters, a second term also came into wide use in the ’60s: the “New Thing.” The lines between “Free Jazz” and the “New Thing” were fluid.
2 days ago · Guy came of age when large-scale jazz composition was a significant activity in England (typified perhaps by Mike Westbrook, Graham Collier and Kenny Wheeler), at the same time that Guy was active in free improvisation with John Stevens, Derek Bailey, Paul Rutherford and Evan Parker.
