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Jazz Music
Jazz reverberates around the world with its aesthetics in varied environments and many distinctive styles. Jazz has a variety of sub-genres. It is a confluence of African and European music traditions that has integrated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music with its improvisation, blue notes and poly-rhythms. Questions and answers in this category expound the richness of music that is all Jazz.
1,643 Questions
What medical drawback kept Frank Sinatra from enlisting in the army corps during world war ii?
A punctured eardrum he suffered at birth.
Name three prominent female jazz artists and the instrumints they played?
Curiously, the three most prominent female jazz artists are all vocalists. Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holiday, and Sarah Vaughn have all been wildly influential. Not all women in jazz stuck to singing, however, as Lil Hardin Armstrong was both a singer, pianist, composer and bandleader; Carmen McRae was also a singer, pianist and composer; and Dorothy Donogan was a significant piano player.
What was Billie Holiday's husband Joseph Luke Guy's race?
You need to rephrase this question. It does not make sense so cannot be answered.
What country did jazz dance start in?
I do Jazz in Australia I think that you can do jazz anywhere you like I do it at MJ dance studio in Mount Gambier SA 5290 post code< over there! So if you want to come join they take you to a hole new level!
because it is has a fast upbeat which gets te heart pumping. it is also generally happy and most ppl like to feel happy, therefore they enjoy watching or dancing jazz. also it isn't huge on technique as ballet. it is relaxed and fun.
He was just that awesome!! (=
Does free jazz rely on traditional structures and forms?
it depends on who you're looking at. a lot of avant-garde musicians started off using really traditional structures and formats and then got away from that as time went by. the early stuff of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor is only a step away from the hard bop and post bop of the time. a few years later they were totally out there. but harmonically, all those guys kept some sort of traditional structure--for ornette it was the blues; for Cecil it was his "unit structures"--they just coupled them with innovations like harmelodics and free rhythm. but then you have avant-garde guys like Eric Dolphy, who stretched traditional musical structure to the breaking point, or really free guys like Peter Brotzmann and Derek Bailey, who just did away with all that. so you could say it really depends on their backgrounds and what kind of statement they were trying to make.
No one person invented jazz. Jazz Music was created out of exploration of the Afro-Americans with European musical instruments.
Who is a famous jazz singer nowadays?
Bessie Smith
Ella Fitzgerald
Billie Holiday
Sarah Vaughn
Nancy Wilson
Lena Horne
Nina Simone
Etta James (sometimes, although she's more bluesy than jazzy most of the time)
Rosemary Clooney
Diana Krall
June Christy
Natalie Cole
Shirley Horn
Carmen McRae
Peggy Lee
Betty Carter
Nnenna Freelon
Dianne Reeves
How is ragtime jazz different from other types of jazz?
Jazz is a collective word for a whole range of 20th century styles, principally of black American creation which includes jazz related genres like blues or ragtime.
Ragtime however is a composed instrumental genre, primarily for piano and principally created by black Americans, that combines syncopated melodies with the forms of the march; the syncopated style of this genre.
So in short the difference between ragtime and jazz is:
Ragtime is a type of Jazz genre, while Jazz is a collective term for a wide range of genres.
It like asking what is the difference between a fruit and an apple. Jazz being fruit and ragtime, apple.
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Where was the capital of jazz during the 1920's?
In modern times, New York City is considered the Mecca of jazz.
Another answer: New Orleans is the capital of jazz.
When did Billie Holiday start her singing career?
when she seen that her mother been working as a maid and then as a teenage prostitute so according to her in 1930 age of 15 to keep her mother from being evicted she sang Body andsoul in the Harlem club.
What does Ragtime music sound like?
Jazz music can sound like a lot of things. Some good indicators include:
- having bass, drums, piano, trumpet, trombone, and saxaphone, although nearly all instruments have been included in jazz at one point or another.
- The bass line is all quarter notes and is scalar in nature.
- There is a "swing eightnote" which is where the first eighth note in a pair is longer, and the second eighth note is shorter.
Keep in mind that these are not always the case, but are usually the case.
THis type of music can also be realted to the blues
Playing Fur-Elise with a wooden instrument would need an accompaniment--preferably from a string orchestra. A keyboard accompaniment may not be used as it is a work for solo piano. An interesting alternative would be to transcribe it to a woodwind quartet or quintet.
Who is the most famous baseball player in the Jazz Age?
The most popular stars of the 'Jazz Age' (generally the 1920s) were Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy; and the romantic leads were Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, and Rudolph Valentino. The Jazz Age at the movies could be said to have ended with the release of 'The Jazz Singer' starring Al Jolson, the first motion picture with sound. It had the effect of putting most of the stars of the silent movies out of business because too many had unsuitable voices or heavy accents. Fortunately, the comedy stars were able to continue, and we still enjoy their work today.
Music first started when a person was board and wanted to be entertained . They probly just threw a rock and it hit a trash can and then they heard that it was good , I'm no expert about this but wouldn't you want to try to hit the trash can again if it made a really cool sound like......i don't know ....... MUSIC!
When did Peggy Lee record the song Fever?
I hate to bring bad news, but Ella never recorded "Fever" before - so far (who knows, someday somebody might find rare recordings of hers in a basement or something) For some mysterious reason, "Fever" vocals are commonly misattributed to Ella (as Louis Armstrong's are in "As Time Goes By"). Who sings it, indeed, is Peggy Lee.
What are all the instruments that are used in jazz?
Usually saxophones (baritone, tenor, alto, and soprano), trumpets, trombones, string bass, drum set, and piano are instruments found in a jazz band. Other instruments that are sometimes found are clarinet, flute, and vibraphone. You can play jazz with any instrument though. but the above instruments are common because of how well the sound suits jazz
How many wives did john coltrane have?
John Coltrane had two wives in his lifetime. He was married to his second wife, Alice Coltrane, at the time of his death. He passed away on July 17, 1967 from liver cancer.
Did duke ellington have a wife and kids?
Yes he was. Duke Ellington's wife's name was Autumn Ellington.
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