Search results
Japanese jazz. Clockwise from upper left: Jazz composer and pianist Hiromi Uehara, a Jazu Kissa jazz café in Tokyo, trumpet player Taniguchi Mataji in 1948, and Soil & "Pimp" Sessions' double bassist Akita Goldman. Japanese jazz ( Japanese: 日本のジャズ, Nihon no jazu) is jazz played by Japanese musicians, jazz connected to Japan or ...
Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 [2] and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. [3] Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history.
Apr 7, 2024 · Jimmy Smith (1925-2005) There had been electric organists in jazz before Jimmy Smith – like Fats Waller and Wild Bill Davis – but, emerging in 1956, the Pennsylvania-born Hammond B3 virtuoso ...
Western swing. Swing music is a style of jazz that developed in the United States during the late 1920s and early 1930s. It became nationally popular from the mid-1930s. The name derived from its emphasis on the off-beat, or nominally weaker beat.
The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions were primarily felt in the United States, the birthplace of jazz. Originating in New Orleans as mainly sourced from the culture of African Americans, jazz played a significant part in wider ...
King Kolax: King Kolax. King of the Clarinet: Artie Shaw. King of Cool: Dean Martin. King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman. King of the Jazz Guitar: Django Reinhardt. King of the Jukebox: Louis Jordan. King of Swing: Benny Goodman a.k.a. "the Patriarch of the Clarinet", "the Professor", "Swing's Senior Statesman". Klook-Mop or Klook: Kenny Clarke.
Traditionel jazz (dixieland) Louis Armstrong, 1953 [10] I 1947 opløste trompetisten Louis Armstrong således som en af de første sit eget Big Band og dannede en sekstet (tre blæsere og en rytmegruppe) under navnet Louis Armstrong And His All Stars. Spillestilen var en tilbagevenden til den oprindelige dixieland-stil i New Orleans i ...
