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| | Definition of Jazz |
 | | Jazz at this stage was no longer center stage in popular music, but was still breaking new ground and combining and recombining in different forms. | | | However even bands without jazz soloists adopted a sound owing much to the jazz vocabularity, for example sax sections playing what sounded like an improvised variation on a melody (and may have originated as a transcription of one). | | | Although the song wasn't written in rag time, the lyrics describe a jazz band, right up to jazzing up popular songs, as in the line, "If you want to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime...." |
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http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Jazz
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| | CHRIS BOTTI / JAZZ |
| | Jazz combined elements of Ragtime, spirituals, marching band music and of course the blues. | | | Many of the early jazz musicians weren' t good sight readers, and some of them could not read music at all, but nevertheless were able to thrill the audiences with their music and by their way of expressing feelings by improvisation. | | | Half a century later, jazz, America' s great contribution to music, became considered worldwide. |
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| | Electric Trumpets (2) |
| | Both Sonic Trance and Freak In are packaged more like pop or rock music albums than jazz albums. | | | It’s more like a Radiohead album than a jazz album. |
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http://www.jazzitude.com/electro_trumpet02.htm
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| | What's News? Jazz History CDs and Books Jazz With Bob Parlocha |
| | A landmark in jazz studies, Thinking in Jazz reveals as never before how musicians, both individually and collectively, learn to improvise. | | | Noted anthropologist, critic, and musical scholar John F. wed takes readers on a tour of the music's tangled history and explores how it developed from an ethnic music to become America's most popular music and then part of the avant garde in less than fifty years. | | | These sketches mingle musical, biographical, and cultural insights--indeed, one of Giddins's great gifts is to break down the very distinction between such categories. |
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http://www.jazzwithbobparlocha.com/what/historybooks.html
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| | ITG Web Site - I Remember |
| | However, the notation represents the music accurately and no prior knowledge of either improvisation or jazz styles is required. | | | This allows listeners to focus on the trumpet, conjure the style of each artist, ideas from certain well-known improvised solos, and the lyricism and drama that touched so many. | | | Wilson's works are published by Boosey and Hawkes, Ludwig Music Publishers, and Dorn Publications; and recorded on Klavier, Albany, Summit, Open Loop, Mark, Redwood, Musical Heritage Society, and Kosei Recordings. |
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| | Jazz All About Jazz The Web's Ultimate Guide to Jazz |
| | Not only is this is a classic record by a truly classic jazz musician, it is one of the better records for hearing Armstrong's true talent as an improviser. | | | These however, are some of the most seminally important figures in that tradition, and so this is a good starting point for either the new listener or the experienced one who has yet to survey the full extent of Jazz trumpet. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/library/trumpet_jazz.htm
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| | Capital Public Radio KXJZ KKTO KUOP Jazz Blues and World Music |
| | Jazz diva Dianne Reeves talks with KXJZ's Paul Conley about her latest release, A Little Moonlight,which picked up the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal album this year. | | | Steve also talks with Tamás Benyei, leader of the Hot Jazz Band of Budapest, about the history of jazz in eastern Europe and about the appeal of Sacramento's world-famous festival. |
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http://www.csus.edu/npr/jazzplusindex.htm
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| | Electric Trumpets |
| | Soul, dance music, the nascent sounds of rap and hip-hop as well as world music all found a place in the music Miles created during his last decade. | | | Meantime, Hargrove recorded a number of albums that explored various aspects of the jazz tradition, playing bebop on Parker’s Mood, Latin jazz on Habana, and exploring ballads on 2000’s Moment to Moment. |
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http://www.jazzitude.com/electro_trumpet01.htm
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| | Don's Musical Musings |
| | Both products of provincial towns where brass band traditions are strong and standards high (Barrow-in-Furness was the birthplace of legendary session musician Stan Roderick, who preceded Kenny Baker as lead trumpet in Ted Heath's post-war band), John shared with Baker a delight in the trumpet as a means of making music. | | | He was proud to have been the lead trumpet in the Music Masters Band from Barrow-in-Furness which won the Melody Maker Championship in 1957. | | | After learning his trade in his father's circus band and mastering it in the polished big band of Benny Goodman, I suppose it was inevitable that he would turn out to be something of a showman. |
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http://www.yarl.org/musings/0212.htm
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| | Bob Florence and the Limited Edition: Bigger and Better Than Ever |
| | The band kicked off with a lovely but complex arrangement of Bronislaw Kaper's “Invitation”; soloists were tenor saxophonists Jeff Driscoll and Tom Peterson and jazz trumpeters Ron Stout and Steve Huffsteter. | | | From the Grammy Award-winning album Serendipity 18, the aggregation next recapped the second emotion (in E) from Florence's “Three Emotions,” featuring baritone saxophonists the Bobs Carr and Efford; trumpeter Stout's solo was so big, round and beautiful, I couldn't believe he wasn't playing a flugelhorn. | | | The concert ended with “Never Let Me Go” by Raymond Evans and Jay Livingston, with a solo by bassist for the evening Kevin Axt, another choice improvisation by Koonse, the aforementioned clarinet choir, and more heartfelt emoting on trumpet by Ron Stout. |
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http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=15320
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| | NewToJazz.com Artist Profile Freddie Hubbard |
| | He recorded with John Coltrane, participated in Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz (1960), was on Oliver Nelson's classic Blues and the Abstract Truth album (highlighted by "Stolen Moments") and started recording as a leader for Blue Note that same year. | | | However in 1977 he toured with Herbie Hancock's acoustic V.S.O.P. Quintet and in the 1980s on recordings for Pablo, Blue Note and Atlantic he showed that he could reach his former heights (even if much of the jazz world had given up on him). | | | But after the glory of the CTI years (during which producer Creed Taylor did an expert job of balancing the artistic with the accessible), Hubbard made the mistake of signing with Columbia and recording one dud after another; Windjammer (1976) and Splash (a slightly later effort for Fantasy) are lowpoints. |
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http://www.newtojazz.com/artist.asp?section=guides&id=68
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| | JAZZED IN CLEVELAND - Part Twenty-Two by Joe Mosbrook |
| | The legendary Benny Bailey, who also grew up in Cleveland playing trumpet, said it was difficult to tell from Webster's records "just how beautiful his sound was." According to Bailey, Webster "had the most wonderful sound of any trumpet player I've ever heard. | | | The band made one record for Paramount Records of Cleveland, "Perdido," featuring a trumpet solo by Webster, and "Cedar Avenue Blues," with a vocal by Gene Jordan. | | | More than 40 years after Webster's death, Dizzy Gillespie said Freddie "probably had the best sound of the trumpet since the trumpet was invented, a sound that was alive, just alive and full of life!" |
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http://www.cleveland.oh.us/wmv_news/jazz22.htm
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| | 100 Greatest Jazz Trumpeters |
| | Like The Sidewinder, it is one of my favorite trumpet albums. | | | I highly recommend this album to anyone interested in trumpet music or solid jazz music. | | | This album has solid arrangments and the solos are all inspired. |
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http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_jazztrumpet.html
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| | Membranophonist's Ramblings: The Trumpeters Three |
| | I'm listening to the newest Terence Blanchard album (AMG), which has gotten good reviews - four and a half stars at AMG and called "and#8230;a wonderful feast of aurally delightful jazz," by All About Jazz. | | | I'm listening to the newest Terence Blanchard album (AMG), which has gotten good reviews - four and a half stars at AMG and called " …a wonderful feast of aurally delightful jazz," by All About Jazz. | | | Pop hooks are obviously not the object of the record, but none of the songs stuck in my mind. |
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http://blog.wilsonet.com/archives/000063.html
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| | Trombone Page of the World |
| | Mel Lewis recorded as a leader in the 1950s for San Francisco Jazz Records, Mode (reissued on V.S.O.P.) and Andex and, after Thad Jones left their orchestra, Mel Lewis recorded with this big band for Atlantic, Telarc and Music Masters. | | | -The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis big band was one of the finest jazz orchestras of the late '60s but it is Solid State LPs had been long out-of-print for decades before Mosaic wisely reissued all of the music (plus seven previously unissued performances) on this deluxe but limited-edition, five-CD set. | | | -This is an unusual recording, for it features the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra performing Manuel De Sica's five-part "First Jazz Suite." The distinctive sound of the ensemble is intact; baritonist Pepper Adams has a notable solo; Dee Dee Bridgewater takes a vocal, and the band was still an all-star orchestra at the time. |
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http://www.trombone-usa.com/jones_lewis.htm
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| | The Daily Journal - St. Francois County |
| | By the time he was 13 he was playing at local dances with a number of bands and by 15, had put together his own group to play at dances, occasional concerts and in jazz coffee houses. | | | One of his albums, 'Outstanding In His Field' was nominated for a Grammy in 1980, while, 'Heavy Company' was awarded the Jazz Album Of The Year in 1983. | | | In addition to being a sideman, Shew also became a leader around this time, recording many of his own albums. |
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http://www.mydjconnection.com/articles/2004/03/09/community/news7.txt
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| | Salsa Magazine - Cuban vs Boricua - Salsa-magazine, Salsa Roots and Memorabilia |
| | Show me any record Celia did that had jazz riffs in the musical arrangements. | | | The list of elements that influence salsa as a concept is as wide and varied as the list of the ethnic origins of New York's residents itself. | | | Irakere in particular takes Cuban music and mixes it up with Jazz, Pop, and Rock elements. |
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http://www.salsa.bigstep.com/generic.html?pid=39
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| | The Northern Jazz Allstars |
| | Howard hails from Manchester, and is one of the regions best reeds man. Plays regularly with the popular Parade Jazz Band. | | | A top man in the Arvell Shaw style. |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~jazzworld/njas.htm
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| | Jazz concerts |
| | the Creators of Modern Jazz and Improvised Musics. | | | options of concert around Jazz and Improvised Musics: | | | Composers to make him discover another aspect of their Music. |
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http://www.eutepe.com/jazz_concerts.htm
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| | CLIFFORD BROWN. Free term papers for college, book reports and research papers. Welcome to School Term Papers |
| | His style is not widely recognized outside of an interested jazz listening audience, but to those who like jazz, they cannot help but be impressed with Brown's unique sound and immense talent. | | | They recorded for labels such as: Blue Note, Prestige, EmArcy, GNP, and Pacific Jazz. | | | Brown began playing a trumpet his father gave him in early high school, and by his late teens was playing in collage and other youth bands. |
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http://www.schooltermpapers.com/essay/003819.html
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| | M.F. - Magazines / Articles List |
| | in Count Basie's dressing room durin the Jazz Supports the Symphony concert at Chicago's Civic Open House. | | | "Nobody gets on my band today unless they're great acoustical jazz players and unless they can delve equally into the computerized sounds of today." | | | Getting Down to Brass Facts; Pop music: Cornetist Bill Berry, who plays an O.C. tribute to Duke Ellington, learned well from the famed bandleader.; Orange County Edition |
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http://www.bluebirdland.com/mf/mf_article.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Dizzy Gillespie |
| | He was prominent as a leader of big bands as early as the mid-1940s and continued to perform internationally through the 1980s. | | | His compositions include âÂÂSalt Peanutsâ (1945), âÂÂBebopâ (1945), and âÂÂNight in Tunisiaâ (1946), as well as âÂÂMantecaâ (1947), a pioneering work in an Afro-Cuban jazz style. | | | He was born John Birks Gillespie in Cheraw, South Carolina. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761576074/Gillespie_Dizzy.html
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| | Official Website of Jazz Trumpeter - Mike Metheny |
| | "...If you like tasty, thoughtful jazz, press 'play,' sit back, and start listening. | | | jazz trumpet, metheny, jazz music, jazz musician, kansas city jazz, jazz artist, trumpet player, jazz trumpet, metheny, jazz music, jazz musician, kansas city jazz, jazz artist, trumpet player, jazz trumpet, metheny, jazz music, jazz musician, kansas city jazz, jazz artist, trumpet player | | | Official Website of Jazz Trumpeter - Mike Metheny |
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| | Nor does Graham's new album, which ranks among the finest we've heard in the new millennium. | | | Although Graham takes most of the solos (who's complaining?), Florence has his moments on Scraping the Top of the Barrel, My Marilyn and Wee Small Hours, while trombonist Bob McChesney takes a flashing chorus or three on Kinda 2 Kinda 3. | | | I cannot pretend that Graham or indeed any of the musicians featured here were known to me before, and I have to confess that I was hardly in a fever of impatience to check them out. |
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http://www.trumpetgeorge.com/reviews.html
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| | NPR : Jazz Trumpeter Lester Bowie |
| | Bowie also headed his own band, Lester Bowie's Jazz Fantasy. | | | Bowie was considered one of the most original trumpeters in jazz, and a master of horn effects. | | | Fresh Air, December 29, 2000 · Jazz trumpeter Lester Bowie. |
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http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1116253
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| | Billy Taylor's Jazz Guest Artist |
| | As a child, Roney was drawn to the trumpet by his fatherÂ’s love for the instrument and his substantial collection of jazz records. | | | At one point, Roney describes how he met Davis while playing at a retrospective of MilesÂ’ music at Radio City Music Hall. | | | Having absorbed and integrated earlier advances on his instrument, Roney draws on his own imagination to develop a sound that is unique and original. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/btaylor/pastprograms/wroney.html
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| | Trumpet Kings: Players Who Shaped the Sound, Scott Yanow |
| | Trumpet Kings The Players Who Shaped The Sound Of Jazz Trumpet | | | Highlighting why these colourful musicians are so significant, author Scott Yanow describes each jazz trumpeter's unique personal and musical traits, intriguing life experiences, relationships with other influential players, career milestones, and key recordings. |
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http://www.jazzscript.co.uk/books/instyanow.htm
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| | Boperation, MP3 Album Music Download at eMusic |
| | Portions of content provided by All Music Guide, a trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc. | | | Ray Vega pays tribute to 13 fellow trumpeters on Boperation, offering Latin jazz interpretations of songs that were, in most cases, written by the trumpeters themselves. | | | If everyone from Bunny Berigan, Charlie Shavers, and King Oliver to Don Cherry, Lester Bowie, and Hannibal Peterson were also included, Vega would have needed to record several CDs instead of simply one. |
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http://www.emusic.com/album/10587/10587795.html
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| | Trumpeters |
| | I sat down and began listing every trumpeter I could think of, or had on a recording, and placed them in categories that reflected the area of trumpet playing with which they are most commonly associated. | | | To view this content, you need the Flash plugin from Macromedia |
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http://www.tsmp.org/band/wurtz/Trumpeters.html
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| | Ye Olde 13 Beachwood: Jazz trumpeter's group alleges funds were embezzled |
| | Jazz trumpeter's group alleges funds were embezzled---Famed jazz trumpeter Orbert Davis -- and the group he co-founded to introduce underprivileged kids to music -- has been scammed out of thousands of dollars by a board member and someone hired to solicit grants on the group's behalf. | | | Ye Olde 13 Beachwood: Jazz trumpeter's group alleges funds were embezzled |
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http://www.13beachwood.net/2004/04/jazz_trumpeters.html
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| | Trumpeters in Jazz, photographs, pictures, photos of trumpets |
| | Not only that I named my boat "SATCHMO" and I visited New Orleans to walk the streets Louis walked, it was even the first shot I did of an international wellknown jazz musician. | | | Trumpeters in Jazz, photographs, pictures, photos of trumpets |
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http://www.jazzphotography.us/trumpets.html
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| | Jazz Trumpets |
| | especially interested in the jazz genre of performance. | | | I selected this topic because I have played the trumpet for many years and I am | | | This page will introduce you to some of the major jazz trumpeters of the last |
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http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~carlsta/cs102
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