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WEBFeatured Brenda Earle Stokes: On Music, Motherhood, and Being Here For Everything By Andrea Wolper | Interview September 25, 2024. This past May, New York-based pianist, singer, composer, and teacher-entrepreneur Brenda Earle Stokes released her fifth album, Motherhood, reviewed on All About Jazz as "an honest and open-hearted look at the scope of selflessness and self-discovery involved with ...
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WEB5 days ago · September 29, 2024. In the world of jazz, where innovation and tradition often dance together in harmonious syncopation, Louis Stringer stands out as a visionary. At just 27, this British jazz/world music prodigy has become a pioneering force, known for his exceptional fusion of West African and South American rhythms with free-flowing jazz.
Louis Armstrong Musician - All About Jazz
WEBAug 1, 2024 · Vital and productive from the 1920s to the 1960s, Louis Armstrong provided jazz with its quantum leap forward - his Hot Five and Hot Seven group recordings for the OKeh Records label between 1925 and 1928. They were the culmination of all he had accomplished in music to that point. Born in abject poverty in the worst black slum in …
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WEB4 days ago · Live Review Belgian Jazz Showcase: European Jazz Conference 2024. by Ian Patterson September 30, 2024. Various Artists Music Centre De Bijloke/various venues European Jazz Conference jny:Ghent, Belgium September 12-15, 2024 An important part of the annual European Jazz Conference (see separate article) is the space given over to music of the host country.
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WEB5 days ago · Jazz Album Reviews. Our daily album reviews are carefully curated by the All About Jazz staff. You can find more reviews by searching our website or see what's trending on our popular reviews page or read reviews ahead of their published dates on our future articles page. Sign in to customize your My …
Art Blakey: Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: Moanin' - All …
WEBMar 19, 2013 · Drummer and bandleader Art Blakey provides the aggressive, driving pulse that propels the Jazz Messengers and is so characteristic of the hard bop style. Blakey was 39 at the time of this recording, the Jazz Messengers had already progressed through several lineups, and Blakey remained the only constant. Despite the …
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WEBPre-1850. Though jazz and classic blues are really early twentieth-century black music innovations, certain characteristics found in jazz do have their roots in much earlier musical traditions. Call and response, improvisation, the appropriation and reinvention of elements from Western art music: black music in the twentieth-century has never ...
Buddy Rich Musician - All About Jazz
WEBSep 12, 2023 · Buddy Rich. Arguably the greatest jazz drummer of all time, the legendary Buddy Rich exhibited his love for music through the dedication of his life to the art. His was a career that spanned seven decades, beginning when Rich was 18 months old and continuing until his death in 1987. Immensely gifted, Rich …
The Harlem Renaissance and American Music - All About Jazz
WEBMar 3, 2013 · The Harlem Renaissance and the "New Negro". One of the most significant intellectual and artistic trends of twentieth century American history, the Harlem Renaissance impacted art, literature, and music in a manner that forever altered the American cultural landscape. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement in the 1920s through which African ...
Modern Jazz Quartet Musician - All About Jazz
WEBJul 1, 2021 · The Modern Jazz Quartet was a major jazz institution, a band that, counting a seven-year “vacation,” lasted 43 years. During a time when jazz musicians were stereotyped as unreliable, rarely sober and erratic, the MJQ played at concert halls while wearing tuxedos. They are not known to have ever …