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My Dad loves jazz. since the early 30's he has been a fan. Until recently he had a massive collection of 78's form pre war onwards.
He also is a great source of information on the subject and can talk for hours about the different recording sessions and who played what, its fascinating. He is now 85 years old. I keep trying to get him to at least write it all down or maybe record the stuff for posterity, because as I SAY TO HIM ONCE HE IS GONE THE INFORMATION WILL BE LOST FOREVER.
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All About Highschool Jazz Competitions All About High School Jazz Competitions There is nothing more exciting that masses of Jazz lovers all in the same place competing in a competition to showcase...
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All About The Origins Of Jazz Music All About The Origins Of Jazz Music The essence of the sound of Jazz music is so versatile due to the origins from which it first began. In fact, New Orleans,...
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American Influence Of Jazz The American Influence Of Jazz Music The Jazz music sensation began to rub off on other parts of the world which encourages the experimentation of melding their familiar...
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Creating Jazz Music Creating Jazz Music All over the world people have invented their own interpretation of Jazz by creating new music from their soul, yet branching out to expand the capabilities of...
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Pianist, bandleader and composer. His publicity photos claimed he was the 'originator of jazz and stomps', an example of the kind of outrageous and colourful statement frequently associated with this most colourful of jazz characters. Morton was born Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe in New Orleans, and he grew up in that city's creole society.
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Trumpeter and bandleader. Midway between 1910 and 1920, Oliver had established himself as one of the 'kings' of the cornet in his home town of New Orleans. He played in street parades, and with his own small band, gaining a reputation as a master of the use of mutes.
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Singer, bandleader. One of the few non-instrumentalists to front a big band during the swing era, Cab Calloway led the most commercially successful African-American orchestra of the 1930s, his earnings exceeding those of Ellington, Basie and Lunceford. He was also the first really influential male jazz singer, and spawned a host of imitators.
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Trumpeter. Born in abject poverty in New Orleans, Armstrong became the first great soloist in jazz, and the musician who was the single most powerful influence on the music during its first half century. Abandoned by his father, he was brought up by his mother and grandmother in some of the poorest areas of his home town, and he apparently never know his real birth date, preferring to adopt Independence Day 1900 as his birthday.
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Billie Holiday Billie Holiday Billie Holiday was one of the most famous jazz music singers in America. Her real name was Eleanora Fagan. Like most lives of musicians, she had a very bad time growing...
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Singer. The story of Ella Fitzgerald is a classic rags to riches tale, of her ascent from a one-parent family in Yonkers, New York, to headlining at the Savoy with Chick Webb by way of winning a talent contest at the Apollo Theatre and landing her first professional gigs with bandleader Tiny Bradshaw. Once she joined Webb, in 1934, it was not long before she began to break through to a large audience, and eventually had a major hit with A-Tisket, A-Tasket (1938).
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Singer. From the time of her early 1940s hit 'Why Don't You Do Right?' Lee managed to create an individual approach to each and every song. She was born Norma Deloris Egstrom but changed her name to Peggy Lee whilst working as a teenage singer on a local radio station in Fargo, North Dakota.
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Art Blakey Art Blakey The beginning career of jazz music legend Art Blakey was amazing. He took piano lessons at school. When he was in the seventh grade he played music full-time and was leading a...
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Dizzy Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie There is not one person around who knows jazz music that did not hear the name Dizzy Gillespie. Dizzy Gillespie was a composer, singer, jazz trumpet player and...
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His airy, effortless style, with its emphasis on lightly accompanied right-hand melody, was a key element in the transition from swing to bebop, and many modern jazz pianists took Wilson's approach as their starting point. He was raised in Alabama, but got his musical breaks when he and his trombonist brother Gus left home for Detroit, where they joined the territory band of Speed Webb.
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Clarinettist. From his earliest years as a childhood prodigy until well into his seventies, Benny Goodman was the most technically accomplished clarinettist in jazz. His immediately distinctive tone, with a slight rasping edge that gave it an urgent jazzy quality, adorned not only hundreds of his own recordings, but dozens more that he made during his busy early years as a freelance.
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Composer and bandleader. Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington was born in Washington at the end of the nineteenth century during the height of the ragtime era. His piano teacher, the aptly-named Miss Clinkscales, may have disapproved, but at sixteen he had written his own Soda Fountain Rag, the start of a sixty-year career as a composer
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Pianist. A giant of a man in every way, Waller was the outstanding exponent of the Harlem 'stride' style of jazz piano, drawing together the innovations of Willie 'The Lion' Smith and James P. Johnson into a coherent style, and taking it to the boundaries of technical possibility. He was also a major influence on the pianists that followed, including Art Tatum.
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Trombonist. A key figurehead of the New Orleans 'revival' of the 1940s, Ory made his reputation in that city between 1912 and 1919, when he led one of its best-known jazz groups. He is reputed to have adopted most of the technical tricks developed by other pioneer jazz trombonists and absorbed them into his own playing. Certainly, he became famous in California after travelling there in 1919, and he made the first ever discs by an African-American jazz band in Los Angeles in 1921.
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Humphrey Lyttelton excelled at everything that he chose to do. He was a trumpeter, bandleader, calligrapher, cartoonist, writer, journalist and broadcaster. Well, not quite everything. He admitted to being no good at ice-skating, but attributed his lack of success to the failure of anyone to make size 13½ skating boots to suit his feet.
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Jazz Clubs Jazz Clubs Jazz music is appreciated worldwide. If you are ever traveling and are new to some countries, here are where some of the best jazz clubs are located so that every place you go...
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Jazz Dance All About Jazz Dance The Art of Jazz dance is an amalgamation of different styles of dance that began between 1800's, and the middle of the 1900's rooted in African American movement. One...
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Jazz Forbidden Jazz: The Forbidden Music There was a time in history when Jazz the music was banned during World War II when it was considered a plight for freedom against Hitler's Nazi regime due to...
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Jazz Musc Composition Jazz Music Composition Jazz music composition is the work of knowledgeable musicians with the skills to write, and create one of the most memorable masterpieces. Moreover, Jazz...
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Jazz Music Festivals Jazz Music Festivals If you are a jazz music lover, chances are that you go to a festival every year. What you probably didn't know is that there are jazz festivals all over the...
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Jazz Music Schools Jazz Music Schools There are many excellent jazz music schools across the country as well as all over the world. Here is my list of some of the best colleges for young people who...
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Jazz Music Today Jazz Music Today Jazz music has evolved to the point where basic signature of the style has minimized into an influential element. For example, the Jazz music of the 80's electronica...
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Lena Horne Lena Horne: Jazz Legend Lena Horne is one of the most popular African-American jazz legend singers. She was born in 1917 Lena Mary Calhoun Horne in New York City. She performed with the...
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Diana Krall Diana Krall Diana Krall is an accomplished singer, and jazz pianist. Diana was born in British Columbia Canada in 1964. She learned to play piano when she was just four-years-old....
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Lionel Hampton Jazz Musician: Lionel Hampton One great jazz musician was Lionel Hampton. Lionel was a bandleader, actor, jazz vibraphonist and percussionist. He has worked with other famous jazz...
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New York Voices The New York Voices The New York Voices are a vocal jazz group that have learned from other vocal jazz groups such as Take 6, The Manhattan Transfer, Lionel Hampton and have taken...
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The Essence Of Jazz The Essence Of Jazz Music The essence of Jazz music is the ethereal atmosphere of the dimensional harmony created by kaleidoscope of chromatic tones. It is the pulsating back beat...
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The Growth Of Jazz Music The Growth Of Jazz Music In the turn of the century around 1920, many artists made their mark by playing in the discreet underground nightclubs known as "Speakeasies" which...
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The History Of Vocal Jazz The History Of Vocal Jazz Jazz music made its mark in the hearts of Americans ever since the 20th century when people embraced the musicians of the time. However, when the...
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The Magic Of Jazz Singers The Magic of Jazz Singers One of the most beautiful interpreters of song are Jazz...
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The Manhattan Transfer The Manhattan Transfer Anyone who loves jazz music must know about the amazing vocal group The Manhattan Transfer. What some may not know is that the Manhattan Transfer comes...
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The Many Styles Of Jazz Music Part 1 The Many Styles Of Jazz Music Part 1 The essence of the appeal of Jazz music has expanded and became reinvented from the use of elements found in African...
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The Many Styles Of Jazz Music Part 2 The Many Styles Of Jazz Music Part 2 Bebop-The dance elements gradually...
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