History of jazz music
The Blues is a style of music that was created from African Americans. When there came over to the United States and worked a slaves in the plantations in the early 1900's. It is a form of...
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In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to...
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Jazz dance originated in the 1800's with the African Americans who were brought over to America on the slave ships. And it was, you know, an expression of their emotion and their physicality....
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Today, August 29, one of the most influential jazz soloists and composers, Charles Parker, Jr. was born in 1920 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. Considered among the greatest musical innovators of the...
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A.B. Spellman: One other question for Gunther. Gunther, you've done a lot of musicology, and jazz has needed more musicology. I mean study that is deeper than criticism but that really goes in...
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Okay, so here is where it gets really fun. You've come all the way from medieval music and ballad and love songs, and you've gone through the seventies, and now you're here...
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Legacy Recordings Week in Music May 26 -- June 1 May 26 1926, Born on this day, Miles Davis, an iconic musician and composer who was a major influence on 20th Century music. Not only a key figure in...
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ILLUSTRATED LESSONS HISTORY OF MUSIC More than 50000 Years Ago... Born of Music ANCIENT TIMES First seven notes of musical scale Development of Eastern tradition: Japanese Hougaku, Chinese Opera,...
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IN THE EARLY 1900S, AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN THE SOUTHERN UNITED STATES CREATED A SOUND THAT CAME TO BE CALLED THE BLUES. DERIVED FROM SPIRITUAL CHANTS AND WORK SONGS IN THE FIELDS, BLUES MUSIC NOWADAYS...
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A.B. Spellman: But, I will ask you one more question. Those tours you made for the State Department back in the 50's during the time when there was a lot of civil rights - when the Civil...
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