Saxophones are some of the most expressive types of music instruments for playing swing, bebop, hard bop, jazz, free jazz, and electric jazz/rock/funk. Some of the best and most renowned jazz music came from those jazz musicians playing the saxophones who had the most troubled lives. These jazz musicians had such a strong inner drive […]readmore
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 it went without saying as it were. For this music historian, music will forever be […]readmore
The Definitive CD continues with the seventh track, Ornithology, where Charlie Parker’s invention of the two-chorus solo is executed with a precise swiftness. Charlie recorded the eighth track, Yardbird Suite, the eleventh track, Embraceable You, the twelfth track, Scrapple From The Apple and the fifteenth track, Star Eyes with Miles Davis. Hearing Billie Holliday warble […]readmore
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 life and times. (Speaking of which, they’ll also learn where the nickname “Satchmo” came from […]readmore
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 played at Winnipeg’s Roseland Ballroom. Around 1949, regular functions were held at the Roseland Dance […]readmore
Jazz is a form of song that came from the early 1910s, in New Orleans, mainly performed by African Americans that had their new located liberty due to slavery being recently abolished. Unfortunately, it was a while till jazz was acknowledged in the mainstream, as African Americas were battling to locate work as well as […]readmore
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, to the intense, ruthless look for new consistencies and also sonorities from John Coltrane on […]readmore
We believe that jazz is an important bridge between our nation’s identity, our shared history, and our communities and we are committed to stewarding this connection for all audiences.readmore
Blues songs have actually been popular for a very long time as well as there are numerous distinguished artists in the music sector that are responsible for making it in this manner. There are lots of young as well as old people across the world today that are so influenced by this kind of music […]readmore
Blues songs background can be traced all the way back to the nineteenth century. Without a doubt, the earliest category of standard blues music comes directly from a musical method labelled the “country blues”, dating back to around the 1920s. Getting the facts surrounding the oldest origins of blues songs is something a good number […]readmore
