Jazz Music

Ann Wilson - no question whatsoever - powerful, wide ranging voice and actually singing to rock and roll, which is no small accomplishment, as many great female vocalists couldn't sing to rock, with wailing guitars, heavy bass, and pronounced drum beats! Ann Wilson did this the best . . . by far!

Ann Wilson of Heart. What a voice!

Miles Davis was the first jazz fusion pioneer with his recording Bitches Brew. Other important innovators were Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinal of Weather Report, Chick Corea of Return to Forever, The Tony Williams Lifetime, and John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra).

COOL jazz OBAMA APPROVES BTW

Billy Strayhorn.

There is so much information available on him that rather than try to summarize it here, I'd suggest either heading to your library for some books on jazz (look for works by Leonard Feather) or to any decent search engine.

Music originated from Africa, and ever since has been a very important part of society. Nearly all cultures have some sort of music, and that will never change. Music is a way of expressing ones thoughts and emotions. Some music is very calming, such as jazz or even a simple lullaby. Some music (such as rap or rock) makes you think... A world without music would be a very boring world indeed. Music has made the world a better place. To learn more about the history of music, consider going to, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_music

His instrument was the piano.

Sade's birth name is Helen Folasade Adu.

Ragtime.

The musician Billie Holiday is known as an American jazz singer and songwriter. She was well known for her performance of jazz and pop music. Critics claimed she changed the art of American pop vocals forever.

May be Trumpet

The ethnic group that is credited for creating jazz music and maintaing its strong presence in American life is....African Americans.

I think they're Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

George gershwin

W.E.B. Du Bois

Good question. Shaw made 'Begin the Beguine' in 1938 and then went into seclusion, supposedly because he was not able to handle the publicity that went along with making a hit record. He recorded a song called 'Frenesi' in 1940 that was pretty popular. But as far as 1939 is concerned, I don't know of any hits he made. I just found it! Answer is "They Say." Here's the link: http://www.lyricsvault.net/songs/18453.html

Aretha Franklin did in the 1960s and 1970s presenting a rock and roll feel in her music which derived from the discombobulated (confused) writings of Maya Angelou with soul in her writings. Gospel music was started by slaves in the 1800s called Negro spirituals. they sung them while picking cotton. It was then Thomas Dorsey that started the gospel century. He influenced Mahalia Jackson who sung God Gonna Separate the Wheat from the Tares.

I would thnik that the blues came first along with the call and response music that the slaves used. From that the New Orleans style mixed with European music. Swing is an off shoot of the New Orleans jazz mixed with a lot of Europeans and their music. Cool Jazz, something someone invented.

The decade of discontent, or the decade of peace, love, and harmony.

Brass bands were a popular band before that.

The 1920s were the golden age of the sophisticated popular song, like those of Irving Berlin and Cole Porter. Songs were put into revues without much regard for integrating the song into the plot. During the 1930s there was a shift in musical theatre from musical revues to musicals that used the song to further the plot, limiting the demand for the pure stand-alone song. The Tin Pan Alley (named for the cacophony of pinaos in the Manhattan area that housed the song business, which sounded like the banging of tin pans)songwriters who wrote songs followed the money. Many of the early Hollywood stars, such as Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire were veterans of these plotted Broadway and London musicals, and brought the form to Hollywood. Their songwriters and lyricists followed.

Chris Westland

13 1/2 pounds at birth.

Charles "Buddy" Bolden

Lester Young died on March 15, 1959 at the age of 49.