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Jazz and artists
`` Chicago And All That Jazz '' could not be faulted on the choice of artists.
Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.
Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.
The city hosts the annual Harvest Jazz & Blues Festival, attracting regional and international jazz, blues, rock, and world artists.
Tanzania has its own distinct African rumba music, termed muziki wa dansi (" dance music ") where names of artists / groups like Tabora Jazz, Western Jazz Band, Morogoro Jazz, Volcano Jazz, Simba Wanyika, Remmy Ongala, Marijani Shaabani, Ndala Kasheba, NUTA JAZZ, ATOMIC JAZZ, DDC Mlimani Park, Afro 70 & Patrick Balisidya, Sunburst, Tatu Nane and Orchestra Makassy must be mentioned in the history of Tanzanian music.
* June – August 1929: the revue “ Lew Leslie's Black Birds ”, by a troop of a hundred black artists accompanied by the Jazz Plantation Orchestra, is put on at the Moulin Rouge.
As a last-minute replacement for Oscar Moore, Paul played with Nat King Cole and other artists in the inaugural Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles, California, on July 2, 1944.
Native DJs such as Ryota Nozaki ( Jazztronik ), the two brothers Okino Shuya and Okino Yoshihiro of Kyoto Jazz Massive, Toshio Matsuura ( former member of the United Future Organization ) and DJ Shundai Matsuo creator of the popular monthly DJ event, Creole in Beppu, Japan as well as nu-jazz artists, Sleepwalker, GrooveLine, and Soil & " Pimp " Sessions have brought great change to the traditional notions of jazz in Japan.
Zamość hosts the following cultural events: concerts of music performed by the Karol Namysłowski Symphonic Orchestra in Zamość and by Polish artists representing different kinds of music, Zamość Days of Music ( Zamojskie Dni Muzyki ) and International Meetings of Jazz Singers ( Międzynarodowe Spotkania Wokalistów Jazzowych ), which is a tribute to Mieczysław Kosz, a great blind jazz player and composer who used to combine his jazz music with the Polish folk.
Among the artists who have recorded " Tiger Rag " are Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Kid Ory and his Creole Jazz Orchestra, Bix Beiderbecke, Les Paul, Art Tatum, The Mills Brothers in a no.
* Workshop Jazz Records: Motown's jazz subsidiary, active from 1962 to 1964. Notable Workshop Jazz artists included the George Bohannon Trio and Four Tops ( whose recordings for the label went unissued for 30 years ).
In 1979, Kris Kristofferson traveled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival that took place between March 2 – 4, alongside Rita Coolidge, Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, the Trio of Doom, Fania All-Stars, Billy Swan, Bonnie Bramlett, Mike Finnegan, Weather Report, and Billy Joel, plus an array of Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.
Between March 2 – 4, 1979, Weather Report traveled to Havana, Cuba, to participate in the historic Havana Jam festival, a break in mutual Cuban / American political hostilities which saw American artists such as Stephen Stills, the CBS Jazz All-Stars, Bonnie Bramlett, Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge and Billy Joel play alongside Cuban artists such as Irakere, Pacho Alonso, Tata Güines and Orquesta Aragón.
The recent revival of Jamaican Jazz attempts to bring back the sound of early Jamaican music artists of the late 1950s and 60s.
* Kongsberg Jazz Festival-Official website, with lists of artists and concert dates
Several notable artists were signed in the first year including James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, Billy Preston, The Modern Jazz Quartet and The Iveys ( who later became Badfinger ).
Among the artists he recorded and brought to the world's attention were Joe " King " Oliver, Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Memphis Minnie, Roosevelt Sykes, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Bukka White, Washboard Sam, Champion Jack Dupree, Jazz Gillum, Arthur Crudup, Victoria Spivey and Leroy Carr.
* Jazzfusion. tv: The Web's largest open access source for non-commercially-released Classic Jazz Fusion Audio Recordings, circa 1970s – 1980s, curated by Rich Rivkin, featuring works by most of the artists referenced in the above article.
Since its inception in 1960, it has attracted many famous Jazz artists each year to play outdoors.

Jazz and like
Jazz, like sex, is a mystique.
Jazz was an important influence in Alston's work and socila life, representing itself in other works like Jazz ( 1950 ) and Harlem at Night.
Jazz innovator Miles Davis recorded and performed with musicians like Khalil Balakrishna, Bihari Sharma, and Badal Roy in his post-1968 electric ensembles.
The quartet became especially popular with college-age audiences, often performing in college settings like on their ground-breaking 1953 album Jazz at Oberlin at Oberlin College, or on their recordings on the campuses of Ohio University and the University of Michigan, among others.
The trio's 2000 studio recording, entitled " Don't Be Scared Anymore ", received reviews of " This album is like the soundtrack to the world's coolest vacation " from All About Jazz and " Jazz-rock in the truest sense " from Allmusic.
* George McKay ( 2004 ) '" Unsafe things like youth and jazz ": Beaulieu Jazz Festivals ( 1956 – 61 ) and the origins of pop festival culture in Britain '.
From 1982 the Terrassa Jazz Festival is specially outstanding, with guests like Stan Getz, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon, Tete Montoliu, Dizzy Gillespie ...
In the 1990's, the Midwest was at the center of the " Emo " movement, with bands like the Get Up Kids ( Kansas ), Cursive ( Nebraska ), Christie Front Drive ( Colorado ) and Cap ' n Jazz ( Illinois ) blending earlier hardcore punk sounds with a more melodic indie rock sentiment.
Jazz saxophonist Earl Bostic revived his career with instrumentals like " Harlem Nocturne " and " Earl's Rhumboogie ".
Up until the swing era, Jazz had been taken in high regard by the most serious musicians around the world, including classical composers like Stravinsky ; swing on the contrary, with its " dance craze ", ended being regarded as a degeneration towards light entertainment, more of an industry to sell records to the masses than a form of art.
At one their gigs at The Black Lion in 1985, they came to the attention of Pat Fish, the leader of the recording band The Jazz Butcher ; he felt Spacemen 3 were " extraordinary " and " like nothing else ".
Blues music was relatively well known to British Jazz musicians and fans, particularly in the works of figures like female singers Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith and the blues influenced Boogie Woogie of Jelly Roll Morton and Fats Waller.
But by the end of the 1920s, films like The Jazz Singer could be presented with synchronized sound, and critics wondered if the cinema would replace live theatre altogether.
Blaenau Ffestiniog has a strong musical tradition, from the quarrying boom days with the Caban, male voice choirs and brass bands, to the Jazz / Dance bands like " The New Majestics " and the popular rock bands of the 80s and 90s such as Llwybr Llaethog and Anweledig, to more recent bands such as Gai Toms, Frizbee and Gwibdaith Hen Fran.
Hip hop became very much at the service of the rapper and Cash Money and DJ Jazzy Jeff, saddled with B-list rappers like Marvelous and the Fresh Prince, were accorded maybe one track on an album-for example, DJ Jazzy Jeff's " A Touch of Jazz " ( 1987 ) and " Jazzy's in the House " ( 1988 ) and Cash Money's " The Music Maker " ( 1988 ).
One of the eight original WNBA teams, the Utah Starzz ( partially named after the old ABA team, the Utah Stars, but with the zz at the end like the Utah Jazz ) never met the same success as their ( former ) counterpart in the NBA, the Utah Jazz.
The country's best jazz musicians are featured during Jazz à la Martinique, but major worldwide players like Branford Marsalis also perform.
Young Tanzanians organized themselves into dance clubs like the Dar Es Salaam Jazz Band, which was founded in 1932.

Jazz and Louis
The soundtrack album, which featured Louis Armstrong, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, and Carmen McRae was recorded in 1961 ; the musical itself was performed at the 1962 Monterey Jazz Festival.
* April 6 – Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, " Chimes Blues ," with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Beiderbecke's style was very different from that of Louis Armstrong according to The Oxford Companion to Jazz:
A very short listing of notable jazz bands includes King Oliver and his Creole Jazz Band, Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers, Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five, the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, the Benny Goodman Orchestra, the Dizzy Gillespie-Charlie Parker Quintet, the Gerry Mulligan Quartet, the Modern Jazz Quartet, the Miles Davis Quintet, the Jazz Messengers, the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet, the Sun Ra Arkestra, the John Coltrane Quartet, the Bill Evans Trio, Weather Report, the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Herbie Hancock's Headhunters, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Oregon, Return to Forever, the Pat Metheny Group, and the World Saxophone Quartet.
Jazz pioneers Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Paul Whiteman first popularized jazz music among a diverse audience.
Even Louis Armstrong switched over from his more usual cornet to the slide whistle for a chorus on a couple of recordings with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Paul Barbarin's year of birth is often given as 1901, but his brother Louis Barbarin ( born 1902 ) said he was quite sure that Paul was several years older than he was, and Paul Barbarin simply refused to answer the year of his birth in an interview at Tulane's Jazz Archives.
Jazz musician Louis Jordan's song " Salt Pork, W. Va ." was inspired by his time in a Bluefield jail.
He later recorded with other musicians, including a notable session with the 1944 Esquire Jazz All-Stars, which included Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and other jazz greats, at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.
Jazz trumpeter and bandleader Louis Armstrong in 1953.
* Jazz musician John G. Blowers, Jr .; former drummer for Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band.
* Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
Ma Rainey also recorded with Louis Armstrong in addition to touring and recording with the Georgia Jazz Band.
The series was also parodied on The Fast Show, with Jazz Club, hosted by the eccentric ( but quiet ) Louis Balfour ( a play on Bob Harris ).
On a visit to Chicago, Carmichael was introduced by Beiderbecke to Louis Armstrong, who was then playing with King Oliver ’ s Creole Jazz Band, and with whom he would collaborate later.
Gennett is best remembered for the wealth of early jazz talent recorded on the label, including sessions by Jelly Roll Morton, Bix Beiderbecke, The New Orleans Rhythm Kings, " King " Joe Oliver's band with the young Louis Armstrong, Lois Deppe's Serenaders with the young Earl Hines, Hoagy Carmichael, Duke Ellington, The Red Onion Jazz Babies, The State Street Ramblers, Zach Whyte and his Chocolate Beau Brummels, Alphonse Trent and his Orchestra and many others.
*" Stardust " ( played by Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra, 1931 ) The Red Hot Jazz Archive
In 1952, Steiner leased reissue rights to a newly-formed jazz label, Riverside Records, which reissued a substantial number of 10 " and then 12 " LPs by many of the blues singers in the Paramount catalog, as well as instrumental jazz by such Chicago-based notables as Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band ( which included a very young Louis Armstrong ), Johnny Dodds, Muggsy Spanier, and Meade Lux Lewis.
* Jazz and Poetry ( 1964 ) by Louis van Gasteren, Amsterdam.
* Louis Armstrong All Stars: Live in Zurich 18 October 1949: Montreux Jazz Label

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