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Also sung as «Buddy, Can You Spare a Dime?«, is one of the best-known American songs of the Great Depression.
Written in 1931 by lyricist E. Y. «Yip» Harburg and composer Jay Gorney, «Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?» was part of the 1932 musical New Americana; the melody is based on a Russian lullaby […]
Vanessa is an opera in three (originally four) acts by Samuel Barber with an original English libretto by Gian-Carlo Menotti. It was composed in 1956–1957 and was first performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City on January 15, 1958 under the baton of Dimitri Mitropoulos in a production designed by Cecil Beaton and directed by Menotti. Barber revised the opera in 1964, […]
The Tender Land is an opera with music by Aaron Copland (1900-1990) and libretto by Horace Everett, a pseudonym for Erik Johns. The opera tells of a farm family in the Midwest of the United States. Copland was inspired to write this opera after viewing the Depression-era photographs of Walker […]
¤ Einstein on the Beach
«Einstein on the Beach» was an opera written and conducted by the minimalist composer Philip Glass, and directed by Robert Wilson. The opera in its complete form is 5 hours long, and has only been performed three times by the Philip Glass Ensemble. The opera […]
Nicholas Payton
•→ http://nicholaspayton.wordpress.com/←
•→···«Struttin’ With Some Barbeque» ←[w/ Airmen of Note, 2008]
♦ Vitoria/Gasteiz_2002 ↓
Roy Haynes + Nicholas Payton + Dave Kikoski + Kenny Garrett + Christian McBride
♦ Nicholas Payton Trio_[May, 2014] ⇓
w/ Vicente Archer & Adonis […]
¤ James Carter
Born in Detroit, Michigan (January 3, 1969), he learned to play under the tutelage of Donald Washington, becoming a member of his youth jazz ensemble Bird-Trane-Sco-NOW!! On May 31, 1988, at the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts), Carter was a last-minute addition for guest artist Lester Bowie which turned […]
John Coltrane – Sonny Rollins – Pharoah Sanders – Archie Shepp – Joe Lovano John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman ↓ ‘My Only Love’ ⇐(G Wood & R Mellin)
The very thought of you makes my heart sing Like an April breeze on the wings of spring And you appear in […]
¤ Ron Carter
He was named Outstanding Bassist of the Decade by the Detroit News, Jazz Bassist of the Year by Downbeat magazine, and Most Valuable Player by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. In 1993 Ron Carter earned a Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Group, the Miles Davis Tribute […]
«Don’t call me a legend. Call me Miles Davis.»
Trumpeter-bandleader Miles Davis (1926-1991) was a catalyst for the major innovations in post-bop, cool jazz, hard-bop, and jazz-fusion, and his wispy and emotional trumpet tones were some of the most evocative sounds ever heard. He was also one of the most identifiable and […]
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. […]
¤ Count Basie [1904-1984]
Count Basie was among the most important bandleaders of the swing era. With the exception of a brief period in the early ’50s, he led a big band from 1935 until his death almost 50 years later. Basie’s orchestra was characterized by a light, swinging rhythm section that he […]
¤ Gene Krupa has often been considered to be the first drum «soloist.» Drummers usually had been strictly time-keepers or noisemakers, but Krupa interacted with the other musicians and introduced the extended drum solo into jazz. His goal was to support the other musicians while creating his own role within […]
Jazz began to «swing» as musicians began to adopt swing eighths, the string bass, high hat cymbals, and a looser, more rhythmic feeling . . . ⇒
This change occurred gradually starting in the twenties notably with Louis Armstrong, and continued on into the 40’s. A lot of the music that […]
«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 […]
… Melody Gardot – Jane Monheit – Hope Waits – Kate Paradise – Tierney Sutton – Karrin Allyson – Patricia Barber – Madeleine Peyroux – Joni Mitchell …
I love a piano, I love a piano. I love to hear somebody play upon a piano, a grand piano. It simply […]
◊ 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 […]
¤ Geri Allen (1957-2017) was the quintessence of a present-day mainstream jazz pianist. Well-versed in a variety of modern jazz styles from bop to free, Allen steers a middle course in her own music, speaking in a cultivated and moderately distinctive voice, respectful of, but not overly impressed with, the […]
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” […]
Notes and Tones is one of the most controversial, honest, and insightful books ever written about jazz. As a black musician himself, Arthur Taylor was able to ask his subjects hard questions about the role of black artists in a white society. Free to speak their minds, these musicians offer startling insights […]
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