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Jazz Fusion

2007-07-29T04:36:00.000-07:00

Jazz fusion (or "jazz-rock fusion" or "fusion") is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music. Fusion albums — even those that are made by the same artist — often include a variety of these musical styles.

In the late 1960s, jazz musicians began mixing the forms and improvisational techniques of jazz with the electric instruments of rock and the rhythms of soul and rhythm and blues. At the same time, some rock artists began adding jazz elements to their music. The 1970s were the most visible decade for fusion, but the style has been well represented during more recent times. Rather than being a codified musical style, fusion can be viewed as a musical tradition or approach. Some progressive rock music is also labeled as fusion.

Don Ellis – 33 222 1 222

Herby Hancock

2007-07-29T04:06:00.000-07:00

A FEW jazz musicians have found success in the pop world too, but not many have managed it without leaving the riskier and more unpredictable aspects of jazz improvisation behind. Herbie Hancock, the jazz pianist born in Chicago in 1940, is one of those.

Hancock is that rare breed, who gets respect from jazz, classical, hip hop and drum 'n' bass artists alike. As a composer, he has written many great songs, including ‘Maiden Voyage’, ‘Watermelon Man’ and ‘Canteloupe Island’, and he had chart hits in 1973 with his Headhunters band and ‘Chameleon’, and in 1983 with ‘Rockit’. All this music continues to be regularly sampled by young DJs and producers.

Herbie Hancock – Cantaloupe Island Used by US3 in Cantaloop(Flip Fantasia).(Pop record)

Herbie Hancock – Rockit
Very Popular BreakDance melody in the 80's.Thats what Jazz can do

THE JAZZ FESTIVAL in UK .August 17-19/2007

2007-07-29T03:10:00.000-07:00

Following on from the success of the Fettes Jazz Festival 2006 This year’s festival will be held from Friday 17th to Sunday 19th August. Set in the stunning grounds of Fettes College, this year’s event is not to be missed.

The Fettes Jazz Festival, in association with Purvis Marquees, will boast a phenomenal line-up including Toby Shippey’s 7-piece Latin Band Rumba Caliente, Colin Steele Quintet, Dele Sosimi 9-piece Afrobeat Orchestra, National Youth Jazz Orchestra of Scotland and Perrier Award Winner Niki King and more.

Dele Sosimi – Turbulent Times

Latin Jazz - Short Intro

2007-07-29T03:01:00.000-07:00

Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz and classical harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and United States.

The two main categories of Latin Jazz are Brazilian and Afro-Cuban.

Brazilian Latin Jazz includes bossa nova and samba.
Afro-Cuban Latin Jazz includes salsa, merengue, songo, son, mambo, bolero, charanga and cha cha cha.
One of the contribution of Latins (Latinos in Spanish) to America, Latin jazz was further popularized in the late 1940s. Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton began to combine the rhythm section and structure of Afro-Cuban music, exemplified by Machito and His Afro-Cubans, whose musical director Mario Bauza created the first Latin jazz composition "Tanga" on May 31, 1943, with jazz instruments and solo improvisational ideas. On March 31, 1946, Stan Kenton recorded "Machito," written by his collaborator / arranger Pete Rugalo, which is considered by many to be the first Latin jazz recording by American jazz musicians. The Kenton band was augmented by Ivan Lopez on bongos and Eugenio Reyes on maracas. Later, on December 6th of the same year, Stan Kenton recorded an arrangement of the Afro-Cuban tune The Peanut Vendor with members of Machito's rhythm section. In September of 1947, Dizzy Gillespie collaborated with Machito conga player Chano Pozo to perform the "Afro-Cuban Drums Suite" at Carnegie Hall. This was the first concert to feature an American band playing Afro-Cuban jazz and Pozo remained in Gillespie's Orchestra to produce "Cubana Be, Cubana Bop" among others.

Dizzy Gillespie – A Night In Tunisia

The Styles of Jazz

2007-07-29T02:53:00.000-07:00

This chart of Jazz Styles is derived from Joachim Berendt's The Jazz Book. This book is indispensible to any person seeking a comprehensive survey of the history of Jazz. Berendt masterfully covers the evolution of this complex music from several parallel perspectives, helping readers absorb history from more than one direction. This structure also makes the book a pleasure to browse.

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The Monterey Jazz Festival

2007-07-22T02:25:00.000-07:00

The Monterey Jazz Festival is a yearly festival of jazz music that takes place at the Monterey Fairgrounds in Monterey, California the third full weekend in September. Founded by Jimmy Lyons in 1958, that year's festival included performers such as Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, and Billie Holiday. It is now the longest-running annual jazz festival in the world, and continues to feature world-class jazz performers, as well as workshops, exhibitions, and panel discussions.
And the 50TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL is on the way .. check out this site

Legends Of Jazz - Duke Ellington

2007-06-22T05:00:00.000-07:00

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899–May 24, 1974) was an African American jazz composer, pianist, and band leader who has been one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music. As a composer and a band leader especially, Ellington's reputation has increased since his death, with thematic repackagings of his signature music often becoming best-sellers .
Ellington was one of the twentieth century's best-known African-American celebrities. He recorded for many American record companies, and appeared in several films. Ellington and his orchestra toured the United States and Europe regularly before and after World War II.

International Jazz marathon # 3 Tel-Aviv Israel

2007-06-22T04:49:00.000-07:00

On 28-29 June Jazz Marathon will take place in Tel-Aviv , organized by city mayoralty , 24 hours of jazz all day all night .

Hello from Dolly ?

2007-06-20T11:40:00.000-07:00

Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955.

Hello, Dolly! was first produced on Broadway by David Merrick in 1964, winning the Tony Award for Best Musical and nine other Tonys. It has become one of the most enduring musical theatre hits, enjoying three Broadway revivals and international success. It was also made into a 1969 film that was nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Louis Armstrong – Hello Dolly

Jumping to Modern Age : Yuma Sung

2007-06-20T11:36:00.000-07:00

Yuma Sung is a talented 16 year old jazz pianist. He performed with Dave Brubeck and David Benoit in the Three Generations Concert at Villa Montalvo on August 22, 2003. He also performed in various other venues including performances at the San Jose Jazz Festival in since 2002. In 2002, his composition "Looking Up" won Downbeat Magazine's "best original song" in the junior high division of their twenty-fifth annual Student Music Award program.

The Modern Jazz Quartet

2007-06-20T11:30:00.000-07:00

The Modern Jazz Quartet was established in 1952 by Milt Jackson (vibraphone), John Lewis (piano, musical director), Percy Heath (bass), and Kenny Clarke (drums). Connie Kay replaced Clarke in 1955.

Modern Jazz Quartet – Django

Louis Daniel Armstrong

2007-06-20T11:23:00.000-07:00

Louis Daniel Armstrong (4 August 1901[1] – July 6, 1971) (he preferred his given name pronounced as Lewis[2]; also known by the nicknames Satchmo, for satchel-mouth, and Pops) was an American jazz musician. Armstrong was a charismatic, innovative performer whose musical skills and bright personality transformed jazz from a rough regional dance music into a popular art form. One of the most famous jazz musicians of the 20th century, he first achieved fame as a trumpeter, but toward the end of his career he was best known as a vocalist and was one of the most influential jazz singers.

Louis Armstrong – What a Wonderful World

CHattanooga Choo Choo

2007-06-13T06:29:00.000-07:00

Glenn Miller – Chattanooga Choo Choo

Sun Valley Serenade

2007-06-13T06:23:00.000-07:00

Sun Valley Serenade is a 1941 film starring Sonja Henie, John Payne and Milton Berle. It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers. The movie was nominated for three 1941 Oscars: Cinematography, Scoring of a Musical Picture, and Best Song ("Chattanooga Choo Choo").

DigitalMedia #1

2007-06-13T06:19:00.000-07:00

Benny Goodman, born Benjamin David Goodman[1] , (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz musician, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman".

Kansas City Jazz

2007-06-13T05:39:00.000-07:00

Kansas City Jazz is a style of jazz that developed and flourished in Kansas City, Missouri and the surrounding Kansas City Metropolitan Area during the 1930s and marked the transition from the structured big band style to the musical improvisation style of Bebop. According to a Kansas City website, "While New Orleans was the birthplace of jazz, America's music grew up in Kansas City".

Ella Fitzgerald (1917 - 1996)

2007-06-12T06:32:00.000-07:00

Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 – June 15, 1996), also known as Lady Ella and the First Lady of Song, is considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th Century.[1]

With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, near faultless phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. She is widely considered to have been one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook.[2]

Over a recording career that lasted fifty-seven years, she was the winner of thirteen Grammy Awards, and was awarded the National Medal of Art by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940)

2007-06-12T06:20:00.000-07:00

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. He is regarded as one of the greatest twentieth century writers. Fitzgerald was of the self-styled "Lost Generation," Americans born in the 1890s who came of age during World War I. He finished four novels, left a fifth unfinished, and wrote dozens of short stories that treat themes of youth, despair, and age.

Jazz Age

2007-06-12T06:17:00.000-07:00

The Jazz Age describes the period from 1918-1929, the years between the end of World War I and the start of the Great Depression, particularly in North America and (in the era's literature) specifically in Miami, largely coinciding with the Roaring Twenties; ending with the rise of the Great Depression, the traditional values of this age saw great decline while the America stock market soared. The focus of the elements of this age, in some contrast with the Roaring Twenties, in historical and cultural studies, are somewhat different, with a greater emphasis on all Modernism.
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Welcome To The JazzMusic Blog

2007-06-12T06:04:00.000-07:00

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Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States around the start of the 20th century. Jazz uses improvisation, blue notes, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and syncopation, and blends African American musical styles with Western music technique and theory.