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What Is This Thing Called Jazz? African American Musicians as Artists, Critics, and Activists

Book by Eric Porter; University of California Press, 2002

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African American Jazz Musicians, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, Jazz--History And Criticism

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...European classical music and jazz. By the time he finished high...1977, he won the Outstanding Musician Award at the Eastern Music Festival...developed his skills in both the jazz and classical idioms. He performed...and sat in with a variety of jazz groups, including Art Blakeys...
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Growing Up with Jazz: Twenty-Four Musicians Talk about Their Lives and Careers

Book by W. Royal Stokes; Oxford University Press, 2005

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Jazz Musicians--Interviews

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...a very well-known musician, a pianist and composer. He was giving this jazz course, something special...was able to meet other musicians, and not just from...not to offer any more jazz instruction. That was...Music. They have great jazz programs, con- temporary...was one of the first musicians I used in my combo...changed and became a musician. It was very hard to...
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The History of Jazz

Book by Ted Gioia; Oxford University Press, 1999

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Jazz Musicians, Jazz--History And Criticism

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...claim to the most raw talent of any jazz musician of his generation, given his extraordinary...overseas: Ibrahim as a mainstream jazz pianist, and Masekela as an eclectic musician whose works traversed jazz, pop, and funk idioms. Duke Ellington...
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Jazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present

Book by Sascha Feinstein; Praeger Publishers, 1997

Subjects:

African American Musicians In Literature, American Poetry--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Poetry--African American Authors--History And Criticism, English Language--Rhythm, Jazz In Literature, Jazz Musicians In Literature, Music And Literature--History--20th Century, Poetics, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...complex, however, when a musician is not named or when the references...reference to establish a poem as a jazz poem? Again, the answer is...context and its relationship to jazz. Elegies written for jazz musicians are unquestionably jazz-related...
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Jazz Performers: An Annotated Bibliography of Biographical Materials

Book by Gary Carner; Greenwood Press, 1990

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Jazz Musicians--Biography--Bibliography

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...or the like. Thus, musicians such as Ray Charles...recorded and performed with jazz ensembles, do not qualify...have functioned as jazz musicians, and done gigs and...has led the life of a jazz musician. If this is not so...exerted an influence on jazz generally, then those...

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Journal Articles on: jazz musician

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Reflexive Ethnography: An Ethnomusicologist's Experience as a Jazz Musician in Zimbabwe

Journal article by Linda F. Williams; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 25, 2005

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Black music--Analysis, Cultural anthropology--Analysis, Ethnology--Analysis, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Evaluation, Jazz musicians--Works, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Evaluation, Music, Black--Analysis

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...Experience as a Jazz Musician in Zimbabwe. by Linda...worked extensively as a jazz saxophonist with musicians in the United States...criticism from male musicians who look on a female...but as a professional musician performing with other professional musicians who were just as adept with jazz and improvisation as...
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The Art of Becoming a Jazz Musician: an Interview with Toshiko Akiyoshi

Journal article by Steven Moore; Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. 43, 2004

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Akiyoshi, Toshiko, Composers, Jazz, Musicians & conductors, Personal profiles

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The Art of Becoming a Jazz Musician: an Interview with Toshiko...first appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival, Toshiko Akiyoshi...a significant force in the jazz world, both as pianist and...she has performed innovative jazz compositions in clubs and concert...So Japan needed a lot of musicians, and I was hired. Thats how...
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Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others

Journal article by Thomas J. Hennessey; Journal of Southern History, Vol. 75, 2009

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Books--Book reviews, Jazz and Blues Musicians of South Carolina: Interviews with Jabbo, Dizzy, Drink, and Others (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...playing with black musicians in the 1950s, he...known South Carolina jazz musician today, and Ron Westray...with Potter as the jazz star. Although South...generally seen as a jazz center, many of these musicians, like Webster Young...
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Maestro: One-Time Jazz Musician Alan Greenspan Has Conducted the Economic Orchestra with a Combination of Facts and Intuition, Producing a Melody of Stability and Prosperity

Journal article by Jack Milligan; ABA Banking Journal, Vol. 97, 2005

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Banking industry--Services, Greenspan, Alan--Appointments, resignations and dismissals, Greenspan, Alan--Evaluation, Greenspan, Alan--Services, United States. Federal Reserve Board--Officials and employees

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Maestro: One-Time Jazz Musician Alan Greenspan Has Conducted the Economic Orchestra with a Combination...most people to discover that Greenspans first real job was as a jazz musician in the 1940s. Born and raised in Manhattan, Greenspans first...
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Jazz in Los Angeles: The Black Experience

Journal article by Dwight Dickerson; Black Music Research Journal, Vol. 31, 2011

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Black musicians--Emigration and immigration, Black musicians--Works, Jazz music--History, Jazz music--Personalities, Jazz musicians--Emigration and immigration, Jazz musicians--Works, Jazz--History, Jazz--Personalities, Los Angeles, California--Social aspects, Musicians, Black--Emigration and immigration, Musicians, Black--Works

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...certainly includes jazz: no musician from California can...New York. New York musicians have believed this from the beginnings of jazz in the early decades...problems for other talented jazz musicians. (Wilson 2009) Los...international fame, a musician must be from New York...and commercialism, jazz will survive and thrive...

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Magazine Articles on: jazz musician

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Wynton's Blues: For Two Decades Wynton Marsalis Rulled the Jazz Universe, Enjoying Virtually Unqualified Admiration as a Musician and ..

Magazine article by David Hadju; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, March 2003

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Jazz musicians--United States, Marsalis, Wynton, Music industry

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...books and where musicians congregate between...is a venturesome musician who upends the jazz repertoire on the...for many black jazz musicians." Stanley Crouch...Hes a greater musician than any of them...naturally talented musician who hated to practice...with rock and pop musicians such as Sting and...has derided pop-jazz players as "cult...
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Ode to John Coltrane: A Jazz Musician's Influence on African American Culture

Magazine article by Gerald Early; The Antioch Review, Vol. 57, Summer 1999

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Coltrane, John--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--Personalities, Jazz musicians--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--Personalities

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...death in 1967. No jazz musician - not Monk, Evans...lyricist in his fellow musicians. There is, for...and early jazz musicians such as Armstrong...cult of the genius jazz musician as the way the...Has any jazz musician categorically condemned...a staple of the jazz musicians repertoire? However...
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Wayman Tisdale: Out of Basketball and Now at the Top of His Game as a Jazz Musician

Magazine article by Joy T. Bennett; Ebony, Vol. 62, April 2007

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Jazz, Jazz music, Jazz musicians, Tisdale, Wayman--Competitions, Tisdale, Wayman--Criticism and interpretation

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...way Im evolving as a musician, taking more control...dabbling with playing jazz bass," he wrote...some of the most popular musicians in contemporary jazz, including David Sanborn...Everette Harp and the jazz super group Maximum Grooves...
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New Jazz Generation: A New Wave of Young Musicians Is Pushing the Boundaries of the Genre, Writes Sholto Byrnes

Magazine article by Sholto Byrnes; New Statesman, Vol. 135, November 13, 2006

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Jazz music--Forecasts and trends, Jazz musicians--Forecasts and trends, Jazz--Forecasts and trends

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New Jazz Generation: A New Wave of Young Musicians Is Pushing the Boundaries of the...Byrnes The new generation of British jazz musicians is characterised by its...inspiration or how their work fits into the jazz canon. Just as American-English...
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Wynton's Blues: For Two Decades Wynton Marsalis Ruled the Jazz Universe, Enjoying Virtually Unqualified Admiration as a Musician and Unsurpassed Influence as the Music's Leading Promoter and Definer

Magazine article by David Hajdu; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 291, March 2003

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Armstrong, Louis--Influence, Columbia Records--Marketing, Columbia Records--Product discontinuation, Ellington, Duke--Influence, Jazz music--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz music--History, Jazz music--Marketing, Jazz--Criticism and interpretation, Jazz--History, Jazz--Marketing, Marsalis, Wynton--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Marsalis, Wynton--Criticism and interpretation, Marsalis, Wynton--Influence, Recording industry--Marketing, Recording industry--Product discontinuation, Sound recording industry--Marketing, Sound recording industry--Product discontinuation

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...admiration as a musician and unsurpassed...controversy at Jazz at Lincoln Center...critics and fellow musicians alike for his narrow...for many black jazz musicians." Stanley Crouch...Hes a greater musician than any of them...naturally talented musician who hated to practice...with rock and pop musicians such as Sting and...has derided pop-jazz players as "cult...

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Newspaper Articles on: jazz musician

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Wheeling's Elite Three Jazz Musicians to Perform Together

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 27, 2009

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High schools, Jazz musicians

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...Wheelings Elite Three Jazz Musicians to Perform Together...named to the All State Jazz Combo, which includes...now a professional musician and band director at...Jamey Aebersolds Summer Jazz Workshop in Louisville...working as a recording jazz musician on nights and weekends...pursuit to aspiring musicians. "I tell them to consider...
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Meagre Income of Jazz Musician Made Up for with Unbeatable Life

Newspaper article; The Observer (Gladstone, Australia), March 26, 2011

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Jazz, Jazz music, Jazz musicians, Music festivals, Music industry

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...are some outstanding musicians whom I have the great...purely out of playing jazz. Cpounds sterlingOver...meagre life of a being a musician, nothing beats playing...all of the very best jazz musicians between Brisbane and...the Dingo Creek Wine, Jazz and Blues Festival...
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Festival Dates for Top Jazz Musician

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), August 17, 2009

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Festivals, Jazz, Jazz music, Jazz musicians

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...Festival Dates for Top Jazz Musician. DYNAMIC American jazz bassist, composer and...will be joined by the musicians who make up his quintet...he was awarded Young Jazz Musician of the Year Award by the Worshipful Company of Musicians. Michael Janisch will...873421 and at Swansea Jazz Land on September 2...
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Jazz Musician Billy Taylor Dies at 89

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, December 30, 2010

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Jazz musicians--Biography, Taylor, Billy--Death of

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...Billy Taylor, a leading jazz musician and composer who introduced...New York where he played with jazz greats Ben Webster, Miles...a performer than as one of jazz musics most vocal proponents...and radio, Taylor developed jazz programs, profiled musicians and broadcast music across...
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Violins, a Band, an Album and All That Jazz; You've Heard of Northern Soul, but What about Northern Jazz? Musician Elaine Binney Talks to TAMZIN LEWIS about Her New Genre-Busting Band the Rascals

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 28, 2011

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Jazz, Jazz music, Musicians

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...orchestra. So discovering free jazz was a "revelation" from which...university Elaine has formed her own jazz four-piece and recently recorded...She says: "As a classical musician you have your music in front...It is so strict. "But as a jazz violinist if you make a mistake...Unlike many professional musicians who have benefited from private...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: jazz musician

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Jazz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Orleans produced an exodus of jazz musicians. Many went to Chicago...sessions with outstanding musicians. Meanwhile, distinctive...cities, evolved by younger musicians who stressed a single melodic...and a major Chicago-style musician, was influential in developing more complex melodic lines. Jazz spread to Kansas City, Los...
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Marsalis, Wynton

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...one of the leading jazz musicians of the 1980s and 90s. When...essentials of classical music and jazz. Marsalis won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for music for his jazz oratorio Blood on the Fields ; he was the first jazz musician to receive the award. He...
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Davis, Miles

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

DAVIS, MILES 1926 91, American jazz musician, b. Alton, Ill. Rising to prominence with the birth of modern jazz in the mid-1940s, when he was...Davis became a dominant force in jazz trumpet. He was influential in the...
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Ellington, Duke

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Ellington), 1899 1974, American jazz musician and composer, b. Washington, D...first professional appearance as a jazz pianist in 1916. By 1918 he had...the most famous figures in American jazz. Ellingtons orchestra, playing...
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Coltrane, John

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...tran, 1926 67, American jazz musician, b. Hamlet, N.C. He began...the later exemplars of free jazz, Ascension and Interstellar...soprano saxophonist of the jazz avant-garde, and his music...strong source of inspiration to jazz and pop musicians. See biographies by E. Nisenson...

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