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84Top 100 jazz songs, The 100 great jazz songs of all time
This is my list of the 100 top jazz songs of all time. Before I go any further, I need to make a couple of things clear. First, I really love jazz music. It is an important part of my everyday life and I...
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78Famous Birthday Listings: December 6
Born on this day? HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Below are some very famous celebrities (77 names) past and present who have their birthday today. Some of them you will have heard of and others you may not have! ...
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75Raised on music: a Norwegian Lutheran American's Top Ten
A list of my top ten books growing up seems easy enough to list; my top ten musical choices is not as simple a task. But I have determined to do this, and so I will begin. Music so permeates my heart, my...
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63Time Out for Dave Brubeck
I've been a fan of Dave Brubeck for 40 years or so and have heard him in person twice. Once at Birmingham, Michigan's Groves High School and a second time in the National Cathedral in Washington where he...
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701959: a miracle year in jazz
Revolution was in the air and the world seemed ripe for change. Bob Dylan had not yet found the answer blowing in the wind, but the wind was freshening all over the world. In the world of jazz the wind was also being felt.
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67Take Five plus Fifty!
What happened when producer Teo Macero, who had just months before had Miles Davis and his musicians in the Columbia 30th Street Studio to record, brought Dave Brubeck and his quartet into the same studio, was to make more jazz history - the album Time Out with the hit track "Take Five".
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68The feeling of JAZZ ...in just six songs!
All that JAZZ history Jazz is an American music genre which can be traced back to the the 1920s and is a combination of dixieland, blues, and swing music. One of the most unique characteristics of Jazz is...
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54Cellist Yo-Yo Ma releases 30 years of recordings
Yo-Yo Ma, the great cellist has just released a 90-CD set for his hard-core fans! The set encompasses the cellist's entire recorded career, plus a 312-page hard-bound book and two bonus CDs. The set cost...
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62I Wanna Talk About Jazz
I think it would be rather bold to try to write to the history and current practices in and of jazz in one article. Either that or, hey, I just don't have the endurance or attention span to attempt such...
2 comments65Great MELODY is music's "face"
Let's explore MELODY in a bit more detail then we have in previous chapters. This chapter is dedicated to the first of the three 'building blocks of music": MELODY. Some argue that a song's melody is...
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