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  New Orleans and the Development of Jazz
.... One of the earliest jazz bands was King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, itself the byproduct of the Original Creole Band and Joe Oliver's New Orleans Jazz Band ....
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Development of Jazz in the US
.... use the year 1895, other prefer 1917, which is the year that the word "jazz" seems to have become popular and that the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the ....
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Forms of Jazz
.... Jazz did not, however, gain wide popular attention until white bands, such as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB), took their versions on tour and ....
(8532 34 )

Modern Jazz
.... of his own band, and he also felt he still had a lot to learn (Cole 87-88). With Davis, Coltrane was introduced to the freedom of modal jazz that used a ....
(2391 10 )

Dixieland & Ragtime
.... Jazz did not, however, gain wide popular attention until white bands, such as the Original Dixieland Jazz Band (ODJB), took their versions on tour and ....
(2360 9 )

Charlie Parker and Jazz
.... background music to social dancing, the thick big band textures built on interlocking brass and reed sections--these trademarks of prewar jazz were set aside ....
(1374 5 )

The Blues as a Musical Genre
.... Lyrical and musical forms became largely standardized in the years before World War II, and singers often worked with jazz band or piano. ....
(1367 5 )

William "Count" Basie
.... emerged as a leader in Kansas City and was a major influence in the formation of the Kansas City style that was "the basis of much of the big-band jazz of the ....
(995 4 )

Langston Hughes
.... Louis Armstrong went from New Orleans to Chicago in 1922 to play with King Oliver's jazz band, and Jelly Roll Morton began arranging the previously spontaneous ....
(1904 8 )

Charlie Parker
.... background music to social dancing, the thick big band textures built on interlocking brass and reed sections--these trademarks of prewar jazz were set aside ....
(1366 5 )

Louis Armstrong
.... It has been claimed that "Basin Street Blues" was one of the recordings of the Hot Five Band that "uncovered further possibilities for jazz improvisation on ....
(1896 8 )

Arrest the Music
.... The unfamiliarity of the band's extensive use of various horns, and the .... vocal accompaniments combined to prevent the new creation, highlife-jazz from achieving ....
(1326 5 )

Max and Dave Fleischer Max and Dave Fleischer started in
.... "I'LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU'RE DEAD YOU RASCAL YOU" This cartoon was also made in 1932, and it begins with a live action shot of the jazz band of Louis Armstrong ....
(2494 10 )

John Coltrane
.... of his own band, and he also felt he still had a lot to learn (Cole 87-88). With Davis, Coltrane was introduced to the freedom of modal jazz that used a ....
(2391 10 )

Debussy, Duke Ellington, John Cage
.... of his era, though he often wrote in "a variety of styles reflecting at various times, the influences of the big band sound, swing, bop, cool jazz, rock and ....
(724 3 )

A Comparison of Two Jazz Styles
.... Miles Davis helped usher in the fusion of jazz and rock in the mid .... Among others Tony Williams formed a rock oriented band called Lifetime (Williams, 1970) with ....
(806 3 )

JAZZ ANECDOTES
.... Rich, so it turned out, was one of the great practical jokers in the jazz field. .... remarked: "If I had to worry about nonsense like that, I wouldn't have a band. ....
(528 2 )

Duke Ellington
.... Duke Ellington became the leader of his own band, and this early group "bore the seeds of greatness that soon germinated to push orchestral jazz beyond its ....
(1688 7 )

The Band "Genesis"
.... once again, people wrote the band off as finished, but it sur vived Hackett's .... and they began to incorporate more R&B (Rhythm & Blues), soul, jazz, and calypso ....
(2584 10 )

Aretha Franklin
.... Country blues, urban blues, New Orleans Jazz, Bebop, big-band jazz, and rhythm and blues, have all influenced each other profoundly. ....
(1798 7 )

Aretha Franklin
.... Country blues, urban blues, New Orleans Jazz, Bebop, big-band jazz, and rhythm and blues, have all influenced each other profoundly. ....
(1786 7 )

Three Essays
.... In scenes of the space cantina, the future looks so natural because there is an alien jazz band, cut-throat type aliens, and even discrimination against the ....
(3272 13 )

The Doors and Peace Frog
.... a talented jazz pianist who has produced a half dozen jazz records under .... financing for upcoming concerts by Peace Frog, the world's premier Doors tribute band. ....
(1321 5 )

Fences by August Wilson
.... He made more money than an entire jazz band. Jelly Roll Morton took in fifteen to eighteen dollars a night" (Stearns, 1956, p. 72). ....
(7383 30 )

Anita O'Day
.... specifically for a jazz singer. Schuller notes that a singer named Jerry Kruger was Krupa's first choice, though she spent only a few months with the band. ....
(3965 16 )

Music in Secondary Schools
.... Studying and performing the complex music forms of American jazz encourage sudents to .... observe their children's activities in isolation or in one band in one ....
(2304 9 )

Miles: The Autobiography
.... awakened by jazz he describes the experience in terms of radical turbulence rather than serene pleasure: "When I heard Diz and Bird in B's band, I said, 'What? ....
(2125 9 )

Blues and Dinah Washington
.... Hampton heard her sing and asked her to join his band. He .... black. In 1955, she made her first appearance at the Newport Jazz Festival. ....
(1613 6 )

History of the Blues There is little exact information a
.... In the next decade, despite the success of Big Band jazz in drawing off much of the audience, the blues maintained a solid following until after the Second ....
(7246 29 )

Smokey Joe's Cafe
.... a cigarette to maximum affect at giving the Café the smokey, jazz-like atmosphere .... The live band is positioned on stage behind screens that are back-lit and at ....
(965 4 )

 
 
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