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One of the most creative piano players of all times. •→ Essential recordings ⇐ ⇐ Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser – a 1988 documentary produced by Clint Eastwood, Bruce Ricker, and directed/co-produced by Charlotte Zwerin; it features live performances by Monk and his group, and posthumous interviews with friends and family. The film was created when […]
¤ Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker was born to Charles and Addie Parker, and raised in Kansas City, Kansas until he was seven years old, when his family moved to the culturally thriving Kansas City, Missouri. He began to play the baritone horn in high school, and later switched to the alto saxophone. […]
«The Sound of Jazz» is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programmes featuring jazz to air on American network television. The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York […]
◊ Swing to Bop ↓ [1987]
An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s by Ira Gitler
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This indispensable book brings us face to face with some of the most memorable figures in jazz history and charts the rise and development of […]
Those who wrote and played it cultivated an attitude, a style and a language that came to epitomise the meaning of a word that is now so liberally used.
“Cool” Jazz refers to modern jazz that tends to be softer and easier to follow–Mark Gridley
“Cool” also has affiliation with “West Coast” […]
∇ ‘Paid in full’ ⇓ [Eric B. & Rakim, 1987]
Credited as a benchmark album of golden age hip hop. Rakim‘s rapping, which pioneered the use of internal rhymes in hip hop, set a higher standard of lyricism in the genre and served as a template for future rappers. […]
Documentary series (in four parts) on the origins and development of the Blues, with archive footage of performances denoting landmarks in the blues scene. ↓ By King Rollo (1999).
# 2 – In this part ↓ we take a close look at the early legends of blues from the 1920s and 1930s.
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When Howlin’ Wolf [1910-1976] made his trademark entrance the audience went wild. He took the stage crawling on all tours, a fierce Black animal, loosing the ferocious howl that gave him his name. The energy level was enormous, a combination of excitement, fear and fascination that thrilled deep.
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Sam ‘Lightnin’ Hopkins [1912-1982] was known as “the Godfather of Texas Blues.” As a songwriter and storyteller, he was both prolific and original. As a gutarist and lyricist, he had the uncanny ability to improvise words and music simultaneously. As a poet and performer, Hopkins is remembered as one of blues most accomplished […]
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