In 1943, Jimmy Savile launched the world's first DJ dance party by playing jazz records in the upstairs function room of the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds in Otley, England.

" Webb contends that such romantic hits as " Someday My Heart Will Awake " were balanced by " rousing operetta choruses ... and jazz age numbers " while "' Rose of England ' is a stately patriotic piece that stands comparison with Elgar or Walton ".

George Russell, hailed as “ the great pathbreaker ” for encouraging the use of modes by free jazz composers and performers, was a faculty member at the New England Conservatory.

In North East England and South Wales, kazoos play an important role in what are called juvenile jazz bands.

Pegg was born in Brockworth, Gloucestershire, England, the son of Gillian Rosemary ( née Smith ), a former civil servant, and John Henry Beckingham, a jazz musician and keyboard salesman.

A small few, mostly in England, have taken LaRocca on his word, while a much larger segment of jazz historians have dismissed his biased and self-serving statements.

* Original Dixieland Jass Band brings New Orleans jazz to England

The Brand New Heavies are an acid jazz and funk group formed in 1985 in Ealing, a suburb of London, England.

Torres went on to study both jazz and classical music at the Mannes College of Music in New York and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, among other places.

The Canterbury scene ( or Canterbury sound ) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock, avant-garde and jazz musicians, many of whom were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

He also taught jazz composition at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

In 1968, Can formed by two former students of Karlheinz Stockhausen, adding jazz to the mix ( and in that way the krautrock scene can be seen to parallel the emerging Canterbury scene in England at the same time ), while the following year saw Kluster ( later Cluster ) begin recording keyboard-based electronic instrumental music with an emphasis on static drones.

In 1928, he arrived in England and briefly took part in a jazz band before being made redundant due to the 1930s depression.

Formed in 1993 in London, England, Spring Heel Jack began their career exploring drum and bass and jungle, but have since branched out into free improvisation and jazz, collaborating with many acclaimed musicians from Europe and the United States.

In 1969, he relocated to Boston, where he studied jazz and classical guitar as a private student at the Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory in 1970 – 71.

Evan Shaw Parker ( born 5 April 1944, Bristol, England ) is a British free-improvising saxophone player from the European free jazz scene.

Wally Fawkes ( born 1924 in Vancouver, Canada ( left in 1931 for England ) is a British-Canadian jazz clarinetist and, until recently, a satirical cartoonist.

* Jack Wilson ( pianist ) ( 1907 – 2006 ), British jazz pianist from Warwickshire, England

Russell returned to America in 1969, when Gunther Schuller assumed the presidency of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and appointed Russell to teach the Lydian Concept in the newly created jazz studies department, a position he held for many years.

Russell wrote 9 extended pieces after 1984, among them: Timeline for symphonic orchestra, jazz orchestra, chorus, klezmer band and soloists, composed for the New England Conservatory's 125th anniversary ; a re-orchestration of Living Time for Russell's orchestra and additional musicians, commissioned by the Cité de la Musique in Paris in 1994 ; and It's About Time, co-commissioned by The Arts Council of England and the Swedish Concert Bureau in 1995.

The Pop Group are a British post-punk band from Bristol, England, formed in 1978, whose dissonant sound spanned punk, free jazz, funk and dub reggae.

* Divertimento ( 1973 )-for Olivetti machines, 16 singers and jazz drummer ( 1973 ) ( 10 ') Commissioned by Olivetti for the opening of a new training centre at Haslemere, England ( designed by the world-famous architect James Stirling ) as ( a ) part of a ' Venetian ' concert conducted by Cary himself, and ( b ) the sound track of a film.

The fusion of common law and equity in England in the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875 led to the collapse of that distinction, so it became possible to speak of a " lawsuit ".

Other important contemporary musicians from the Highlands include Justin Vali and Sylvestre Randafison, both valiha virtuosos ; the late Rakoto Frah, who could play two sodina simultaneously ; Solo Miral, featuring guitar played in the style of a valiha ; Tarika, a Malagasy fusion band based in England ; Olombelona Ricky, a highly accomplished solo vocalist, and Samoëla, a roots artist whose blunt social and political critiques propelled his group to popularity.

In 1951, Westminster College moved to a purpose-built campus on Harcourt Hill, Oxford, which is noted for its fusion of Oxford quads with a " New England " style of architecture, evident particularly in the large and distinctive chapel.

It Bites are an English progressive rock and pop fusion band, formed in Egremont, Cumbria, England in 1982 and best known for their 1986 single " Calling All The Heroes ", which gained them a Top 10 UK Singles Chart hit.

Prior to King Alfred there had been the Hiberno-Saxon culture, producing in Insular art the fusion of Anglo-Saxon and Celtic techniques and motifs, which had largely ceased in Ireland and Northern England with the Viking invasions.

The Nick Straker Band, from London, England, was a fusion pop music group, led by musician and vocalist Nick Straker, who had a handful of hits on the U. S. Hot Dance Club Play chart.

The Celtic fusion sound mixes traditional tunes from England, Scotland, Ireland and Brittany with original vocal and instrumental songs in the Celtic style.

In eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England, the word identified any land reform movement that sought to redistribute cultivated lands equally.

The emerging Baptist movement in 17th-century England, for example, was a microcosm of the historic debate between Calvinists and Arminians.

Lord John Manners, friend of Disraeli, and leading figure in the Young England movement

Bede's account of the early migrations of the Angles and Saxons to England omits any mention of a movement of those peoples across the channel from Britain to Brittany described by Procopius, who was writing in the sixth century.

Methodists in Britain acquired their own bishops early in the 19th century, after the Methodist movement in Britain formally parted company with the Church of England.

One branch of the ritualistic movement argued that both ' Romanisers ' ( by imitating the Church of Rome ) and their Evangelical opponents ( by imitating Reformed churches ) transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559, ' that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth '.

In England in the late 14th century, there was a political and religious movement known as Lollardy.

* 1844 – The Rochdale Pioneers commence business at their cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement.

According to the famous Theses on Feuerbach ( 1845 ), philosophy had to stop " interpreting " the world in endless metaphysical debates, in order to start " changing " the world, as was being done by the rising workers ' movement observed by Engels in England ( Chartist movement ) and by Marx in France and Germany.

Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement that began in the 17th century and became an organized movement with the emergence around 1730 of the Methodists in England and the Pietists among Lutherans in Germany and Scandinavia.

In England John Wesley led the Methodist movement inside the Church of England.

He corresponded with other antiquarians in New England, where antiquarianism and genealogy were well established, and became a coordinator, booster, and contributor to the growing movement.

During the Commonwealth, Fox had hoped that the movement would become the major church in England.

Following extensive travels around the various American colonies, George Fox returned to England in June 1673 confident that his movement was firmly established there.

Back in England, however, he found his movement sharply divided among provincial Friends ( such as William Rogers, John Wilkinson and John Story ) who resisted establishment of women's meetings and the power of those who resided in or near London.

Indeed, numerous archaeologists and geneticists now dismiss the long-held assumption that the invading Anglo-Saxons wiped out the native Britons in England when they invaded, pointing instead to the possibility of a more limited folk movement bringing a new language and culture which the natives gradually assimilated.

There is a movement in England to create a devolved English Parliament.

The name of the movement derives from deposed Stuart monarch, James II of England | James II and VII

Jacobitism (, ) refers to the political movement in Great Britain and Ireland to restore the Stuart King James II of England and his heirs to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.

* Jacobite, a follower of Jacobitism, the political movement dedicated to the return of the Stuart kings to the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland.

Gerrard Winstanley, who was part of the radical Diggers movement in England, wrote in his 1649 pamphlet, The New Law of Righteousness, that there " shall be no buying or selling, no fairs nor markets, but the whole earth shall be a common treasury for every man ," and " there shall be none Lord over others, but every one shall be a Lord of himself.