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(焦虑) in the mind and my hands would shake. One person I particularly admired was the great composer Duke Ellington. On the stage and on television, he seemed the very model of confidence. Then I learned Ellington still got stage fright and had anxietyattacks. I went on doing those ...
41 It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line —Duke Ellington 33 I would not be a rose upon t...
1 big band leader: Duke Ellington. PAGE 20 When I'm at Van Kerkwijk's Piano's I'm surrounded by piano sounds. Even when no ones plays them. The piano is my favorite musi- cal instrument. At Van Kerkwijk they restore old Steinway's and Petrov's, and know what makes a ...
"big bands". the most popular included the white bands of artie shaw, benny goodman, glenn miller, and woody herman. there were also the more jazz-style. black bands of jimmie lunceford, count basie, and duke ellington. after world war ii, individual singers such as frank sinatra, perry ...
Duke Ellington, Queen, Ken Colyer, Michel Lagoa, Joni Mitchell, the Residents, Ladysmith Black Mambazu, Louis Armstrong, Yat Kha, Peter Gabriel, Eminem, Laura Nyro, Carrie Tree, Afro Celt Sound system, Dr John, Mahvishnu Orchestra, The Smiths, Danny Thompson, Sam Walker, Lucie and Wayne an...
Duke Ellington was a noted swing band leader. Many point to Benny Goodman & His Orchestra as the first swing band, with its appearance in 1935 at Los Angeles' PallomarBallroom. This may have been when white audiences caught on to the danceable form, but it was Chick Webb, an African Am...
not only musically but also in terms of racial and cultural hegemony. A particularly tragic moment in this history was the committee’s refusal to award the prize to Duke Ellington in 1965. Pulitzers awarded to Henry Threadgill in 2016 and Ornette Coleman in 2007 were important steps toward pr...
For years, Malcolm would work menial jobs and hustle: dishwasher (first job), shoe-shiner at the Roseland Ballroom (where Duke Ellington would play and Ella Fitzgerald would sing), waiter, railroad porter. He fell in love with New York City and moved there (after running afoul of the Flori...
This dynamic sister duo honed their vocals as little girls in church, and have blossomed into vocal powerhouses. Both are beneficiaries of The Duke Ellington School Of The Arts in DC. After a three-year hiatus, The highly anticipated release of the R&B love duo ‘The Amours’ dropped on ...