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Elsie Carlisle
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Originally from Manchester, Elsie became extremely popular during the 1920s and 30s, recording with many of the big dance bands of the time, as well as solo. She recorded very little after the beginning of the Second World War, and retired from the e...
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Billie Holiday
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Billie Holiday was an American jazz singer.
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Diana Krall
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Diana Krall is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer.
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Sade
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Sade is a Nigerian-born English soul, jazz, R&B singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer.
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Etta James
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Etta James is an American blues, soul, R&B, and jazz singer and songwriter.
Latest Jazz Reviews from the BBC
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byFeatured Lenses - Jazz Saxophone Players
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Lester Young
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Lester Young a.k.a. Prez - the President of the tenor saxophone. He made jazz hip.
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Coleman Hawkins
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The first great jazz saxophonist. Hugely influential.
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Jan Garbarek
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Jan Garbarek rose to fame in the mid-1970s playing post-bop jazz in Keith Jarrett's successful "European Quartet". Further success came with Dis, a meditative collaboration with guitarist Ralph Towner. In the 1980s, Garbarek's music be...
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Art Pepper
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This troubled alto saxophonist was the one of the leading lights of West Coast Jazz.
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John Coltrane
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John Coltrane pushed the boundaries in every way, a groundbreaking improviser with a distinctive saxophone sound, his melodic imagination and obsessive commitment to his art continue to inspire jazz musicians to this day.
Featured Lenses - More Jazz Saxophonists
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Gerry Mulligan
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Gerry Mulligan was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger.
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Ornette Coleman
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Ornette Coleman moved jazz on from bebop - striking off in a new direction, moving away from the prevailing conventions of harmony, rhythm, and melody.
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Ben Webster
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Influential Jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Cannonball Adderley
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This lens is about all things Cannonball Adderley, one of the true legends in the world of jazz. Here you will find mostly music-related info, digital goodies (i.e. links to pictures, videos, cds), and links to other credible info sites about Cannon...
Featured Lenses - Yet More Jazz Saxophonists
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Dexter Gordon
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Dexter Gordon was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and actor.
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John Coltrane
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John Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Charlie Parker
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Charlie Parker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
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Zoot Sims
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Zoot Sims was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and soprano saxophonist.
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Stan Getz
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Stan Getz, was an American jazz musician ans saxophone player.
Featured Lenses - Cornet Players
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Bix Beiderbecke
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Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 - August 6, 1931 was a notable jazz cornet player, as well as a very talented classical and jazz pianist. Birth name: Leon Bismark Beiderbecke Born: March 10. 1903 Origin: Davenport, Iowa, U.S. Died: A...
Featured Lenses - Jazz Guitarists
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Barney Kessel
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Barney Kessel was a regular with Oscar Peterson, but teamed with many other greats including Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Julie London, Ray Brown, Shelley Manne and Stephane Grappelli.
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Chet Baker
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LARRY CARLTON HOT JAZZ FUSION GUITARIST
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Hello Jazz Fusion Fans! Swims here! Below you will read about a most fantastic jazz/blues/rock guitarist Larry Carlton, whom I have had the distinct pleasure of seeing numerous times live at The Blue Note Aoyama in Tokyo, & most recently at the newly...
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Joe Pass
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Virtuoso Jazz Guitarist.
Featured Lenses - Jazz Bass Players
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Charlie Haden
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Lyrical Jazz Double Bass Player.
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Charles Mingus
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An iconic jazz musician - virtuoso bass player, innovative jazz composer, successful and influential band leader.
Featured Lenses - Jazz pianists
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Oscar Peterson
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There is something to be said about Oscar Peterson, his career has spanded over 65 years, with many collaborations with other jazz greats, Such as Lester Young, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Teddy Wilson and many many more. His music still stands...
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Jamie Cullum Lens
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Brilliant. How else can you define Jamie. I stumbled upon his music on itunes in a free download in 2006 and haven't stopped listening since. I've seen him in concert 3 times and have spread the gospel of Jamie to anyone who would listen. So now I'm...
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Bill Evans
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A jazz great. An innovative, influential jazz pianist.
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Mose Allison
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There is really no one else quite like Mose Allison and this is the case whether you are speaking of him as a singer, a pianist or as a songwriter. Always good for a laugh and a lesson, Mose Allison has given us lyrics that have contributed entire s...
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NAT KING COLE
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Nat King Cloe was a famous piano player and singer, He was accomplished pianist at the young age of 12, and formed his first jazz band while in high school. Later forming "The Nat Cole Trio. As his career took off he was the first bl...
Featured Lenses - More Jazz Pianists
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Keith Jarrett
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Well-loved pianist, successful in both jazz and classical music.
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Fats Waller
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Thomas "Fats" Waller (1904-1943) Fats Waller was the son of a preacher and learned to play the organ in church with his mother. In 1918 he won a talent contest playing James P. Johnson's Carolina Shout which he learned from watching a p...
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Herbie Hancock
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Herbie Hancock is an American jazz pianist and composer.
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McCoy Tyner
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McCoy Tyner plays piano like he knows something that nobody else knows. It's astonishing. You've just got to hear him play to understand.
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Jamie Cullum Video Showcase
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Here is a collection of Jamie videos, live performances, interviews, and misc. stuff. Enjoy! http://www.squidoo.com/artistdirect..jamiecullum/
Lenses from webnh - Jazz pianists
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Duke Ellington
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Les McCann
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accompanying album artist atlantic benny born compared composer concert crossover decade earlier flew folks group guest harris historic include innovator jazz kentucky mccann movement music nobody opening piano pickett player political prefigures pre...
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Dave Brubeck
Featured Lenses - Jazz Keyboardists
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Joe Zawinul
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Joe Zawinul was an Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer.
Featured Lenses - Jazz Drummers
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Dannie Richmond - Drummer
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...it's really gonna help you, if you happen to be Dannie Richmond.
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Billy Higgins - Drummer
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To say that Billy Higgins played with everyone in jazz during the second half of the twentieth century is hardly an exaggeration and when you listen to him you understand why.
Great Jazz Groups
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Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers
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The list of great musicians who played with the Jazz messengers seems never ending: Clifford Brown, Keith Jarrett, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Bennie Golson, McCoy Tyner, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Bobby Timmons, Cedar Walton, Curtis Fuller, Jymie...
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The Crusaders
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The Crusaders are an American jazz and soul music group.
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Weather Report
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Weather Report blends the electric piano with synthesizers, classic saxophone sequences as well as African and Middle Eastern rhythms. The Weather Report core was heavily influenced by Miles Davis electric period. WR, through all its changes in virt...
Featured Lenses - Jazz Composers
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Billy Strayhorn
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Billy Strayhorn showed up one day at an Ellington performance, demonstrated for Duke how he would play a song or two of Duke's and the rest was history. They were to spend the next quarter century as collaborators and Duke would come to describe his...
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George Russell
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Jazz pianist and composer. His musical theories hugely influenced the development of Modal Jazz.
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Carla Bley
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Jazz composer and pianist. "queen of the avant-garde", a daring, satirical composer.
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Count Basie
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Count Basie was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.
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Duke Ellington
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Duke Ellington was an American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader.
Featured Lenses - Jazz Arrangers
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Gil Evans
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Celebrated jazz arranger - best known for his work with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, and Sketches of Spain. He also made many successful albums under his own name.
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Quincy Jones
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Quincy Jones is an American jazz music impresario, conductor, record producer, musical arranger, film composer and jazz trumpeter.
Jazz Trumpeters
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Chris Botti
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Chris Botti is a jazz trumpeter and composer.
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Miles Davis
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Miles Davis was an American jazz musician, trumpeter, bandleader and composer.
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The Great Lee Morgan
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Born July 10, 1938 in Philadelphia, Lee Morgan was arguably the greatest trumpet player ever recorded. Turning some of the greatest heads in jazz by the age of 15, Lee went on to write his own ticket after the success of his cross-over hit "The...
Jazz Trombone
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Trombone Players
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Profiles, Interviews, Videos, and Personal Observations about Trombone Players. Great Trombone T-Shirts, CD's and Gifts for Musicians. Humor, Random Thoughts and Trombone History according to Bumper T.
Featured Lenses - Jazz Flutists
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John Devitt's flute improvisations
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An introduction to the music I've written, improvised and recorded for flute. Hope you enjoy it! My latest album is "Afar" and has just been released for download at iTunes: Also available: THREE MINUTE JAZZ OUT OF THE BOX On Wicklow's Way
Featured Lenses - Jazz Harmonica
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Toots Thielemans
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...though you may not have known his name. A guitarist and whistler who played with some of the top artists in the music business, he is best known as a harmonica player; arguably the greatest harmonica player ever recorded!
Featured Lenses - Jazz Multi-instrumentalists
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Art Farmer
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Jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.
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Eric Dolphy
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Outstanding avant-garde jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
Featured Lenses - NuJazz
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nujazz
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as always jazz has a way of taking up new things, new ways, new instrumentation nujazz is jazz with a hefty dose of electronica and a suitable nod towards various areas of dance music look out for the aromatiq show I am back on air - the aromatiq show...
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Acid Jazz
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Acid jazz (also known as club jazz) is a musical genre that combines elements of soul music, funk, disco, particularly looping beats and modal harmony.[1]. It developed over the 1980s and 1990s and could be seen as tacking the sound of jazz-funk onto...
Featured Lenses - Jazz Violinists
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Stephane Grappelli
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Stephane Grapelli was originally a pianist, but found his voice with the violin and led the way during a career as THE jazz violinist. Largely paired with guitarist Django Reinhardt until the latter's death in 1953, Grappelli continued to play into t...
Featured Lenses - Songbirds of the 1920's and 30's
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Ethel Waters
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"Sweet Mama String Bean" Background information: Born October 31, 1896(1896-10-31) Chester, Pennsylvania, USA Died September 1, 1977 (aged 80) Chatsworth, California, USA Genre(s): Jazz Occupation(s): Actress, singer Instrument(s): Vocals Years active: 1925...
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Lee Morse
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"She was 5 feet tall. She was less than 100 lbs "soaking wet". She spent her childhood in Oregon and Idaho yet was proud of her family's Southern roots. She could hunt and fish and, if you deserved it, she...
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Annette Hanshaw
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Birth name Annette Hanshaw Born October 18, 1901 Origin USA Died March 13, 1985 Genre(s)Jazz Occupation(s) Singer Instrument(s) Vocals Annette Hanshaw (October 18, 1901 - March 13, 1985) was one of the first great female jazz singers. In the la...
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Sophie Tucker
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Birth name Sonia Kalish Born January 13, 1884 Origin Czarist Russia Died February 9, 1966 Genre(s) Jazz vaudeville Occupation(s) Singer Comedian Instrument(s) vocalist Sophie Tucker, 1917 Sophie Tucker (January 13, 1884–February 9, 1966)...
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Ruth Etting
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Ruth Etting on the cover of Radio Mirror magazine, June 1932. Ruth Etting (November 23, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American singing star of the 1930s, who had over sixty hit recor...
Featured Lenses - Songbirds of the '20's and '30's
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Jane Green
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Jane Green (2 January 1897 - 28 August 1931) was a United States singer popular in the 1920s. Green was born in Kentucky as Martha Jane Greene. She appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies and recorded over 30 phonograph records, and appeared in some early s...
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Josephine Baker
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Background information Birth name Freda Josephine Carson Born June 3, 1906, St. Louis, Missouri Died April 12, 1975, Paris, France Genre(s) Cabaret, Music Hall, French pop music Occupation(s) Singer, Dancer Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 - April 12...
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Lee Morse
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"She was 5 feet tall. She was less than 100 lbs "soaking wet". She spent her childhood in Oregon and Idaho yet was proud of her family's Southern roots. She could hunt and fish and, if you deserved it, she could punch your lights out! She was Lee Mor...
Featured Lenses - Close Harmony Groups
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The Boswell Sisters
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The Boswell Sisters were a close harmony singing group that attained national prominence in the USA in the 1930s. Sisters Martha Boswell (June 9, 1905 - July 2, 1958), Connee Boswell (December 3, 1907 - October 11, 1976), and Helvetia "Vet" Bos...
The Rat Pack
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The Rat Pack
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This is Doug Ferony and I'm going to help you find the best of the Rat Pack Online and other American Pop Classics. I have been fronting my own swing orchestra for 17 years and love to sing! Visit my page at www.dougferony.com
Featured Lenses - Jazz Singers
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Al Bowlly
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Albert Allick 'Al' Bowlly (January 7, 1897/1899(?)–April 17, 1941) was a popular singer in the United Kingdom during the 1930s, making more than 1,000 recordings between 1927 and 1941. Bowlly was born in Mozambique to Greek and Lebanese parent...
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Gene Austin
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Gene Austin June 24, 1900-January 24, 1972 was an American singer and songwriter who is considered to have been the first "crooner". Background information Birth name: Gene Austin Born: June 24, 1900 Origin: Gainesville, Texas Died: January 24, 197...
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Whispering Jack Smith
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Jack Smith (31 May 1898 in New York City - 13 May 1950 in New York City) was known as "Whispering" Jack Smith and was a popular baritone singer in the 1920s and 1930s who made a brief come-back in the late 1940s. He was a popular radio and...
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Russ Columbo
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Ruggero Eugenio di Rodolfo Colombo (January 14, 1908–September 2, 1934), better known by the name Russ Columbo, was an American singer, violinist and actor, most famous for his signature tune, "You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love,"...
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Bing Crosby
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The incomparable Bing Crosby had perhaps the most successful career of any artist in the twentieth century. As both singer and actor he entertained the public for more than forty years and spent much of that time on top of the charts, bo...
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Seger Ellis
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Seger Ellis Background information Born: c. 1940 Houston, Texas, United States Died: 1995, Houston, Texas Genre(s): Jazz Instrument(s): Voice, Piano Seger Ellis (b. 1904 in Houston, Texas - d. 1995 in Houston, Texas) was a jazz pianis...
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Al Bowlly
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AL BOWLLY WAS THE GREATEST SINGER THAT EVER LIVED.
Featured Lenses - Bandleaders of the '30's
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Lew Stone
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~Biography London native Lew Stone was an extremely popular bandleader, arranger, and pianist throughout the'30s. The self-taught musician also authored Harmony and Orchestration for the Modern Dance Band, a book that was the standard in its field...
Featured Lenses - Vaudeville Jazz
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Mound City Blue Blowers
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The Mound City Blowers were an unlikely success. Originally comprised of Red McKenzie on comb and tissue paper (which sounded like a kazoo), Dick Slevin on an actual kazoo, and Jack Bland on banjo, the unique band's initial recording in 1924 ("Arkans...
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The Jumping Flea
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Ukulele The ukulele (Hawaiian: ukulele, IPA pronunciation: ukulele; Anglicised pronunciation usually IPA: juk%u0259-le%u026Ali), sometimes spelled ukelele (particularly in the UK) or uke, is a chordophone classified as a plucked lute; it is a...
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The Frisky Frolics
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About The Frisky Frolics This wily, five-piece, ukulele-driven troupe specializes in long-forgotten musical gems of the 1920-30’s. Self-described Tin Pan Alley Troubadours, they have lovingly mined...
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Cliff Edwards aka "Ukulele Ike"
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Cliff Edwards Background information: Birth name Clifton A. Edwards Also known as "Ukelele Ike" Born 14 June 1895 Origin Hannibal, Missouri Died 17 July 1971 Genre(s) Jazz Vaudeville Occupation(s) Singer Instrument(s) Vocals Uk...
Jazz Events
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The Sacramento Jazz Jubilee
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Every Memorial Day Weekend since 1974, Old Sacramento and other downtown venues have drawn a horde of jazz fans to the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, the top jazz festival in the West. Sponsored by the Sacramento Traditional Jazz Society, the event feature...
Jazz Recording Labels
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SUPERBATONE RECORDS
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SUPERBATONE CDs shine the coherent light on a wide variety of historic music and entertainment ranging in time from the very dawn of recording to the end of the 78 era (1888 - 1960). SUPERBATONE'S MISSION is to startle listeners with unknown, great m...
Featured Lenses - Music Colleges
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Berklee College of Music
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Welcome to our lens! This is a home for everything Berklee on the web. Check out our homepage, events listing, or podcast to find out more about what's going on at Berklee! For email updates, sign up for our monthly newsletter!
Featured Lenses - Vote for your favorites
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10 Jazz CDs that should be in every music lover's collection
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Hello, music fans! I've picked out, for your listening pleasure, ten essential jazz albums, as an easy introduction to the wide world of jazz. You're welcome. I'll assume that you already love music. But maybe you're a lifelong rocker. Or a connossieu...
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Mardi Gras Music
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Music and Mardi Gras go hand in hand. This lens lists the top Mardi Gras songs of all time. Check them out, download them, burn them to a CD, load them on your iPod, then throw a Mardi Gras party! Laissez bon temps roule!
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Vote your favorite New Orleans | Louisiana Bands & Musicians to the top
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The definition of what constitutes music varies according to culture and social context.In New Orleans, the birthplace of Jazz, Mardi Gras Indians chant along with Second Line Brass Bands. Zydeco 2 step is Southwest Louisiana. Andthe state prod...
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Vintage Sheet Music
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF SHEET MUSIC People have always loved music. It is said that almost anywhere one goes in the world, there will be somebody playing some kind of rhythm and tune, even if it is just hitting two sticks together! In the early 1900s, pia...
Latest Jazz Reviews from All About Jazz
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Elsewhere on the Web
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PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Home
The companion Web site to the latest production by acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, JAZZ celebrates America's greatest original art form.0 points
All About Jazz | Jazz Music, Clubs and Culture
Offers monthly columns, active chat forum, and browsable archive including artists' profiles, photos, gigs, festivals, news, reviews, and interviews.0 points
Jazz Online
Reviews, FAQs, video interviews, bulletin board, audio and video clips, artist interviews, archives.0 points
A Passion for Jazz! Music History and Education
History of Jazz music origins, styles and musicians featuring timeline, photos, festivals, glossary, guitar & piano chords, scales &am...0 points
The Red Hot Jazz Archive
A history of Jazz before 1930. This site contains over 2000 songs from this era in Real Audio 3 format, as well as hundreds of biographies and discogr...0 points
Jazz | JazzReview.com Magazine is your complete guide to Jazz ...
Since 1997 JAZZREVIEW.COM has been your jazz music connection to reviews of the hottest new jazz releases and so much more. JAZZREVIEW.0 points
A Jazz Anthology MP3 Choose listen download 17162 tunes jazz artists
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Smithsonian Jazz - A Jazz portal intended to preserve and promote one of America's greatest art forms - Jazz
Jazz portal for Smithsonian Institution. Information on jazz exhibits, events, and concerts. Jazz education and classes on Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzge...0 points
Favorite Books on Jazz
Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It by Nat Shapiro
The story of the origins of Jazz told through interviews with great jazz musicians.0 points
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Nice lens! I must ask. back in the 70's I was with Stax Records with the band Round Robin Monopoly. In the past few years, I've seen our stuff on a few compilations entitled "Acid Jazz" volume whatever. Question. What is Acid Jazz? Posted January 18, 2008 |
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