Jazz History
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Dorothy Ashby One Of The Great Jazz Harpists
Together with another Detroit Native; Alice Coltrane, Dorothy captivated audiences in the 50's and 60's with her extraordinary musical ability and technique on the harp.
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The Ragtime Music Of Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin's life was both heroic and tragic. He viewed himself not just as a composer of popular music but as a teacher and leader.
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The Origins of Jazz in New Orleans
The creation of jazz was the result of the unique ethnic and economic circumstances in New Orleans at the dawn of the 20th century.
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Strange Fruit A Jazz Sound Of Protest.
Strange Fruit the song started life as a poem written by school teacher Abel Meeropol, but when Billie poured her heartache into it, it became a song of protest.
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Joe Harriott Innovative Free Form Jazz Creator.
Harriott moved to England in 1952 and immediately created an impact on the British Scene with his total command of the popular Be-Bop style and his excellent musicality.
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Hazel Scott Jazz Pioneer And Activist.
Hazel Scott was born in Trinidad, grew up in the US. She mesmerized audiences with her piano skills, married a congressman and ended up on Joe McCarthy's blacklist.
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"Straight No Chaser"
The music of Miles Davis encapsulated the many sides of his prodigious talent with that familiar provocative "Me-ness" that always identified his work instantly.
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A Tribute to the Divas : And All That Jazz...
Black music has always had a monumental impact on world culture. Gospel, blues, jazz, rock, soul, reggae and now hip-hop, have all had their origins in black culture.
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Ragtime and its Influence
Ragtime is a musical idiom which flourished between the 1890s and 1910s. It is the only stylistic precursor of jazz for which any tangible evidence survives.
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Return To Forever: The Anthology
A collection of songs from four albums by the jazz/rock fusion innovators Return To Forever are documented on The Anthology.
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Tenor Sax Player John Coltrane, Jazz Great
Saxophonist John Coltrane played with Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones and others. He backed up Thelonious Monk and Miles Davis on the album Kind of Blue.
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Hitler's War on Jazz in France
During WWII, jazz became a fugitive music banned and silenced in the cafes and clubs of war-time Paris by Nazi occupiers who feared its rebellious undertones
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Jazz, Josephine Baker, and France
Into a France rocked by WWI and the Great Depression, jazz arrived at the perfect moment to revitalize, renew, and fill deep longings for escape into "Otherness
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A Life of Django Reinhardt
Django Reinhardt changed the very philosophy of the jazz guitar, turning it into a major solo instrument. This is a life of the man.
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