7 résultats pour "bandleader"
- Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), American jazz, cornet, and trumpet player, singer, bandleader, and popular entertainer.
- Count Basie Count Basie (1904-1984), American jazz pianist and bandleader, a leading musician of the swing era (1930s and early 1940s).
- Miles Davis Miles Davis (1926-1991), American trumpet player and bandleader, one of the most innovative, influential, and respected figures in the history of jazz .
- Duke Ellington Duke Ellington (1899-1974), American jazz composer, orchestrator, bandleader, and pianist, considered the greatest composer in the history of jazz music and one of the greatest musicians of the 20th century.
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Jazz
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Joshua Redman
Saxophonist Joshua Redman, a graduate of Harvard University, became a fast-rising star in jazz in the 1990s.
performed a highly produced, jazz-inspired form of blues that was popular in traveling minstrel shows and vaudeville. Thisexample is from the song “St. Louis Blues,” written by American composer and trumpet player W. C. Handy in 1914 andrecorded by Smith in 1925."St. Louis Blues" performed by Bessie Smith, from The Riverside History of Classic Jazz (Cat.# Riverside RB-005) Riverside Records under master license to Fantasy, Inc. All rightsreserved./Frank DriggsCollection/Archive Photos Jazz is ro...
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Popular Music
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Satchmo Sings "Back O' Town Blues"
One of the founders of instrumental jazz music, American Louis Armstrong, known as Satchmo, also profoundly influenced
vocal jazz and popular song.
disseminating popular music until the 1920s remained printed sheet music. By the late 19th century, the music-publishing business was centralized in New York City,particularly in an area of lower Manhattan called Tin Pan Alley. “After the Ball” (1892) by Charles K. Harris, the first popular song to sell 1 million copies—in this case, ofsheet music—inspired rapid growth in the music-publishing industry. Composers were hired to rapidly produce popular songs by the dozens, and the techniques ofFost...
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Duke Ellington - Musik.
diese Weise für den Jazz einen zumindest partiellen Kunstcharakter in einer Zeit, da er – mit Ausnahme seltener Initiativen wie von Paul Whiteman – hauptsächlichfunktional zur Unterhaltung genützt wurde. Darüber hinaus entwickelte Ellington einen ökonomisch pointierten Spielstil am Klavier, dessen oktavbetonte Harmonisierung derAkkorde die rhythmisch betonten Figuren der Ragtime- und Harlem Stride-Überlieferung ergänzten. Als führender Bandleader des Swing, der es verstand, sein Orchesterauch üb...