It is very rare to find top jazz musician who does not read. However‚ there are some of the best Jazz musicians do not read‚ for example Buddy Rich and Bix Beiderbecke. Although not being able to read music means nothing about the person’s musical ability and ear-trained musicians are still trained musicians‚ but they do face problems. Buddy Rich (1917-1987)‚ was one of the greatest legendary Jazz drummer and band leader. According to his Biography‚ he began to play drums when he was 18 months
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and listening to the jazz and swing rhythms of one of the best musicians of the 20th century‚ Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong is easily recognized by simply listening to his infamous raspy voice and legendary‚ creative skill on the trumpet. All Armstrong had to do to play beautifully was to play one note. Louis Armstrong had a strong influence in music. His forte in jazz‚ ragtime‚ and swing was solo performing and improvisation. First‚ his dedication to music influenced jazz music and then later
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hosted major jazz clubs during the swing and the bebop era. Minton’s Playhouse a Harlem jazz club that saw the emergence of bebop and hosted artists such as Dizzy Gillespie‚ Charlie Christian. the house band included Thelonious Monk on piano‚ Joe Guy on trumpet‚ Nick Fenton on bass‚ and Kenny Clarke on drums. Billy Strayhorn famous for his collaboration with Duke Ellington. Billy Berg’s jazz club in Hollywood. Lionel Hampton one of the first to use the vibraphone in jazz. Part of Benny
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groundbreaking jazz musicians and composers of the 1950s and 1960s. The virtuoso bassist gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s working with such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong‚ Duke Ellington‚ Charlie Parker‚ Art Tatum‚ and many others. His compositions pushed harmonic barriers‚ combining Western-European classical styles with African-American roots music. While examining his career is valuable from musical standpoint‚ his career also provides a powerful view of the attitudes of African-American jazz musicians
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On April 25‚ 1917 in Newport News Virginia‚ proud mother‚ Temperance‚ gave birth to her first little girl‚ who was soon to become one of the most accomplished jazz singers of all time (Verve Music Group). Tempie and Ella’s father William‚ bound together by common-law marriage‚ separated soon after she was born. Her mother then moved the two of them to Yonkers‚ NY where eventually they started a family with Joseph Da Silva‚ Tempie’s long-term boyfriend. Ella soon became a big sister when Francis was
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and the emotion behind the words are what helped makes jazz music so unique. Some of the lyrics that he sings‚ such as “I’m white… inside… but‚ that don’t help my case…” helped give Jazz expressivity as well as shows how Jazz could be very blue. Louis’ voice while singing this particular song comes off as sad or down. There seems to be a lot of emotion and pain behind his words. This is some of the expression in Jazz music that helped to set Jazz apart from most other music‚ which at the time was more
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be attributed to the early Jazz and Blues and Swing of the 1900’s. In the following paragraphs we are going to briefly touch on a few of the major events that occurred during the time period from 1900 to 1940. A weekend that everyone enjoys is a weekend spent at the movie theatre‚ with a big tub of popcorn‚ a cold refreshing coke‚ and a hot date. But we must ask ourselves‚ would we even have these movies if it weren’t for the first talking movie The Jazz Singer. The Jazz Singer was produced in 1927
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life and works go hand in hand‚ with each one influencing and giving insight to the other. One of the greatest trumpet players in jazz‚ Clifford Brown‚ lived a short but successful life. Clifford Brown gained the respect and admiration of his peers‚ and his works continue to be appreciated by listeners today. His longtime friend and bandmate Max Roach pioneered modern jazz drumming and is featured on almost all of Clifford Brown’s classic recordings. Clifford Brown’s composition “Sandu” off of his 1955
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middle child of two brothers‚ Olikoye and Beko‚ who went on to become prestigious medical doctors in their fields. Some say that this was somewhat of the motive behind Kuti’s first intentions to be a doctor. Fela was inspired by different genres from Jazz and Funk to Salsa and Calypso with Juju. From these different styles and realms of music he constructed and engineered a unique style of his own that would forever change the history of African music‚ which was named Afrobeat.He died on August 2‚ 1997
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inexpressible. Nothing compares. My sophomore year I was given a choice: Either continue in the solo classical piano I had played my whole life‚ or join jazz band and put effort into learning a new style of music. I chose jazz. The comping‚ sight-reading‚ and working with a group of people made jazz crazily different from classical. I loved it. I would listen to jazz for hours to discover how to make the keys sing like Count Basie and Oscar Peterson.
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