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Vor 3 Tagen · Sittin’ In, a new book by Jeff Gold, tells the little-known story of America’s jazz clubs of the 1940s and 1950s. In exclusive interviews, iconic musicians Sonny Rollins and Quincy Jones and...
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Vor 2 Tagen · The rhythm of the 1940s is frantic; life is lived on the edges of tempos, cadences, melodic figures, with the ultimate desire to force others to listen or simply to express the need to be heard. Bebop is an explosion of energy that always respects harmony. In this piece, I attempt to translate this need and my desire to achieve with a string quartet the intensity and brilliance of brass ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
Vor 5 Tagen · Throughout the 30s and 40s, it soared in popularity among jazz clubs in NYC. The club served as a haven for small swing groups and received performances from Sidney Becht, Mary Lou Williams, and...
Vor einem Tag · What we considered “Jazz” in 1925 when Louis Armstrong started to record his Hot Fives & Sevens is wildly different from the bebop that Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie created on 52nd street in the mid 1940s, and the innovations of Miles Davis and John Coltrane 15-20 years later were more dissimilar still. With this music, the journey is the point. And to look at the schedule of this ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The Neo-Swing revival The original Lindy Hop died off as the music changed to Be-Bop and Rock and Roll. An entertainment tax made live big bands expensive and as recorded music became affordable, dance halls became smaller and more crowded, and the style of dancing had to change to accommodate this.
