One of the best jazz songs ever came in the form of an unlikely duet:Natalie Colesang with a recording of her legendary father, Nat King Cole. Leaving aside how beautiful the actual singing is (and itisstunning), the circumstances of the recording gave it a deep, added resonance. 33: Dj...
Check Out Some Of The Most Popular Songs From Charlie Parker - "Confirmation" - "Yardbird Suite" - "Bird Gets The Worm" Dive Into Charlie Parker's History With Some Unique Deep Cuts - "Parker's Mood" - "Ko -Ko" Also ranks #1 on The Best Bebop Artists of All Time Also ranks #2...
Early attempts to define jazz as a music whose chief characteristic was improvisation, for example, turned out to be too restrictive and largely untrue, since composition, arrangement, and ensemble have also been essential components of jazz for most of its history. Similarly, syncopation and swing...
history, say, tofree jazz. Early attempts to define jazz as a music whose chief characteristic wasimprovisation, for example, turned out to be too restrictive and largely untrue, sincecomposition,arrangement, and ensemble have also been essential components of jazz for most of its history. ...
Jazz and politics have always been entwined, but rarely in the music’s history have the links spelt out on record. The 1960s was a decade when that orthodoxy was reversed, with Charlie Haden’s debut album at the decade’s end being one of the most explicit endorsements of leftist sentim...
mostly improvised score was an important component of the film’s groundbreaking exploration of narrative via imagery, action, and music. Miles’ induction into movie soundtracks is not only one of the best jazz soundtracks in history, it was also his first venture into modal jazz and would set...
The Best Jazz Christmas Songs Of All Time, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!, The Christmas Waltz, Baby, It's Cold ...
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, born in 1928, was one of the most respected alto saxophonists in jazz. For nothing else, he would have gone down in history for his work on Miles Davis’Kind of Blue, said to be the best-selling jazz album of all-time. Adderley’s own groups would incl...
Cassidy's extraordinary vocal instrument can make you hear familiar songs like "You've Changed" and "Autumn Leaves" for the first time. When she sings the line from Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Tall Trees in Georgia" ("The sweetest love I ever had I left aside ..."), she pierces your heart...
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