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Top 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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SONNY SHARROCK76

Jazz Guitarist Sonny Sharrock--Ask the Ages

People can either take or leave jazz. There are those that are absolutely passionate about it; those that are snobs over it; those that are entirely dismissive of a lot of what is out there today and there...

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How to listen to jazz music; A beginners guide to the jazz genre PART TWO

When it comes to tackling a task that you’ve not tried before, or have barely made an attempt to, it’s best to start slow and easy, a little bit at a time. Find a comfortable pace and go with it. ...

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Inspirational Quotes - The Magic of Music

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn......... and many more great music quotations

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Badass Miles Davis in Concert; he originated "cool jazz", " jazz rock fusion", and hard bop.81

Modern Jazz Standards: Music with Culturally Converging Melodies, Harmonies and Riffs

SIDE B Slave music was an especially distinctive cultural form. Africans did not draw a clear line between secular and sacred music and , like many of their ancestors in Africa, sang a a great variety of...

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He wore a Dashiki: Miles Davis at his best

I moved to Chicago in the 1960s, as a single mother with two young children. It was a very exciting city with lots going on in art, music, and theater. I first settled in an area called Saganash Park, then...

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I 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...

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Born Ian Murray McKellen76

Famous Birthday Listings: May 25

Born on this day? HAPPY BIRTHDAY!Below are some very famous celebrities (66 names) past and present who have their birthday today. Some of them you will have heard of and others you may not have! These Famous...

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Miles after "retirement"76

Miles Davis Played Trumpet But Not the Game

Possibly included among Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk as one of the jazz greats of the twentieth century, Miles Davis was an outspoken critic of the way black musicians were treated in America's music...

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The Space wherein I'm free - part two

Part Two of my projected novel

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