WORLD’S LONGEST SONG The current longest piece of music being recored is Longplayer. It has been recording for the last 11 years. And it is due to end in 2999. Look it up at Longplayer.org The longest recorded piece of music used to be by a noise band called Bull of Heaven‚ "The Chosen Priest and Apostle of Infinite Space." It’s more than 2 months long. They also have other works that are multiple weeks long. They have however bested this with a song that is 50 000 hours in length‚ that’s more
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of the USA History The music of the United States reflects the country’s multi-ethnic population through a diverse array of styles. Among the country’s most internationally-renowned genres are hip hop‚ blues‚ country‚ rhythm and blues‚ jazz‚ barbershop‚ pop‚ techno‚ and rock and roll. After Japan‚ the United States has the world’s second largest music market with a total retail value of 3‚635.2 million dollars in 2010 and its music is heard around the world. Since the beginning of the
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Ragtime‚ Blues and Jazz Whenever we think of classical music‚ Jazz will always came up to our mind and when we talking about Jazz‚ we somehow always relate it to Blues and Ragtime since they are the ones that gave birth to Jazz. The similarities between Ragtime and Blues are that they both came from African American background‚ but they are not related. They are two different style of music The Blues came before Ragtime‚ it was born during the days of slavery and more likely playing as church
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Armstrong is defining what he believes in. He is saying that you or anybody can’t quit. That you stop when you don’t believe in yourself.You stop when you lose hope in yourself to succeed. Louis Armstrong is a “Game Changer” because not only is he changing Jazz‚ but he is also changing how musicians and others think in life. Louis Armstrong was born on August 4‚ 1901 in New Orleans‚Louisiana. Armstrong raised in the place named ¨The Battlefield¨ located in one of the poorest parts of Louisiana. Shortly after
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was just starting to explore the free jazz scene and Ivo’s albums inevitably occupied a prominent place in my discography. Since then‚ I became an avid follower of his work and have to say it’s inevitably rewarding and challenging to listen to such a relentless explorer with a limitless vision. Thus‚ it’s no surprise that he keeps creating compulsively as one of the most resplendent voices of the modern free jazz panorama. In this particular live recording‚ which I had the
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Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll or rock ’n’ roll) is a genre of popular music that originated and evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s‚[1][2] primarily from a combination of African American blues‚ country‚ jazz‚[3] and gospel music.[4] Though elements of rock and roll can be heard in country records of the 1930s‚[3] and in blues records from the 1920s‚[5] rock and roll did not acquire its name until the 1950s.[6][7] The term "rock and roll" now has at least
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The lady that sings the blues was known as Billie Holiday or Lady Day to many. Billie Holiday was the greatest female jazz singer in American history. Billie started out as a young girl who‚ like her idols of Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong turned whatever material she was given into a piece of art of her own. Billie Holiday stated “I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That’s all I know.” Billie Holiday sang as if she knew her music had so much emotional
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as to call hip hop "the living blues."[19] Jazz‚ which developed from the blues and other African-American and European musical traditions and originated around the beginning of the 20th century‚ has also influenced hip hop and has been cited as a precursor of hip hop. Not just jazz music and lyrics but also jazz poetry. According to John Sobol‚ the jazz musician and poet who wrote Digitopia Blues‚ rap "bears a striking resemblance to the evolution of jazz both stylistically and formally."[21] One
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purpose‚ and instinctive intent. Even with Harmon’s active drum chops catching our attention‚ the unpretentious “Waiting” feels smooth and gentle‚ making room for Paul Simon’s “America”‚ the only cover of the recording. Tuneful sax melodies and assertive guitar strokes imbued of American folk and jazz idioms help to color a canvas whose origins are rooted in the pop/rock genre.
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figures in the history of this instrument include jazz musician Charlie Christian‚ who in the late 1930s was one of the first to play the amplified guitar as a solo instrument; Other instruments commonly used in rock music include the electric bass guitar keyboard instruments such as the electric piano‚ organ‚ and synthesizer; and the drum set‚ an Instruments that play important roles in certain rock-music genres include the saxophone—prominent in jazz-rock and soul music—and a wide assortment of traditional
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