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"C Jam Blues" is a jazz standard composed in 1942 by Duke Ellington and performed by countless other musicians, such as Dave Grusin, Django Reinhardt, Oscar Peterson, and Charles Mingus. Background. As the title suggests, the piece follows a twelve-bar blues form in the key of C major. The tune is well known for being extremely easy to play ...
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ellington. 101. a beginner’s guide. • One of the greatest composers of the 20thcentury • Composed nearly 2,000 works, including three-minute instrumental pieces, popular songs, large-scale suites, sacred music, film scores, and a nearly finished opera • Developed an extraordinary group of musicians, many of whom stayed with him for over ...
Spotlight Biography: Jazz & Blues. Jazz & Blues. Featured here are three of America's preeminent blues and jazz musicians: Bessie Smith, W.C. Handy, and Duke Ellington. These artists reached backward to their African American roots for inspiration, even as their music touched nearly every aspect of the twentieth-centry culture.
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How the Blues Killed the Blues. During the 1920’s and 1930’s, the blues played a pivotal part in the expression of African Americans’ suffering. Coming off of the emergence of ragtime in the 1920’s, which reflected the creative and material abundance of the Roaring 20’s, blues used ragtime techniques and combined them with swing to ...
The Duke Ellington Orchestra perform “Blues To Be There” live at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. Duke and his orchestra arrived to play at the Newport Jazz Festival at a time when jazz festivals were a fairly new innovation. Ellington’s band was the first and last group to play at the Newport Festival.
Apr 4, 2024 · Pie Eye’s Blues is a slow work out for Duke, Ray Nance on trumpet and a neat tenor workout from Jimmy Hamilton. This piece was heard in the film Anatomy Of A Murder where Ellington scored the soundtrack and appeared as jazz bandleader Pie Eye. This session was most likely recorded at the same time as the film music.
