Here’s To Life – Joe Williams
Joe Williams sang “Here’s to Life” on his penultimate album in 1994, which he named after the song, before his death in 1999
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“Music is My Mistress” – Edward Kennedy ‘Duke ‘ Ellington
To this day I will never understand how a gifted lyricist like the late John Lennon omitted or neglected to elaborate, in his profound statements about imagination, a sentiment regarding a world without a powerful force called music. Perhaps he believed
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Blue Skies – Frank Sinatra
The song was composed in 1926 as a last-minute addition to the Rodgers and Hart musical Betsy. Although the show ran for only 39 performances, “Blue Skies” was an instant success, with audiences on opening night demanding 24 encores of
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Meet Louis Armstrong
In this BrainPOP movie on Louis Armstrong, Tim and Moby will acquaint your kids with one of jazz’s most influential musicians. From his humble beginnings in New Orleans to the height of worldwide celebrity, students will learn all about Satchmo’s
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Jazz In Winnipeg
The first jazz bands to play in Canada were often from the US. In his autobiography, Chicago bandleader Eddie Condon refers to a stop in Winnipeg in 1922. In the Winter of 1923, Hollis Peavey’s Jazz Bandits from New York
Top 5 Greatest Cuts From (Maybe) the Greatest Year in the History of Jazz: 1959
While jazz still continues to develop today, it appears hard to visualize any other year, past, existing, or future generating a lot of divergent new styles at once. From the reflective, modal musings of Miles Davis on Kind of Blue,
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Jazz is a Language and Its Practitioners are The Public Speakers
Consider what happens when one finds out to talk English, Oriental or Japanese, as an example. The procedure is the same as when learning jazz. You discover by paying attention as well as getting figures of speech, after that, you
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What is Jazz
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4 Main Approaches for Learning About Blues Guitar
Does your CD collection feature B.B. King’s best hits as well as wall to wall choices from various other greats like John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson, and also Howlin’ Wolf? If so, it sounds like you have actually established a
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