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otheruses remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians.]]jazzbox Jazz is a musical art form originally developed by African Americans from around the turn of the 20th century. It is characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swung note swing, call and response (music)call and response, polyrhythmpolyrhythms, and improvisation sometimes in jam sessions. As the first original art form to emerge from the United StatesUnited States of America, jazz has been described as "America's Classical Music".
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Roots of jazz - Jazz has roots in the cultural and musical expression of West Africa and the western Sahel, and in African American music traditions, including blues and ragtime, as well as EuropeEuropean military band music. After originating in African American communities near the beginning of the 20th century, jazz gained international popularity by the 1920s. Since then, jazz has had a profoundly pervasive influence on other musical styles worldwide. Today, various jazz styles continue to evolve.The word ''jazz'' itself is rooted in American slang, probably of sexual origin, although various alternative derivations have been suggested.At the root of jazz is the blues, the folk music of former African Atlantic slave tradeslaves in the Deep SouthU.S. South and their descendants, heavily influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions, that evolved as black musicians migrated to the cities. According to Pulitzer Prize-winning African American composer and European classical musicclassical and jazz trumpet virtuoso Wynton !MarsalisJ azz? is something Negroes invented, and it said the most profound things -- not only about us and the way we look at things, but about what modern democratic life is really about. It is the nobility of the race put into sound ... jazz has all the elements, from the spare and penetrating to the complex and enveloping. It is the hardest music to play that I know of, and it is the highest rendition of individual emotion in the history of Western !music. ''Ear ly? jazz influences found their first mainstream expression in the marching band and dance band music of the day, which was the standard form of popular concert music at the turn of century. The instruments of these groups became the basic instruments of jazz: brass, reeds, and drums.Black musicians frequently used the melody, structure, and beat of marches as points of departure; but says "North by South, from Charleston, South CarolinaCharleston to Harlem," a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities: "...a black musical spirit (involving rhythm and melody) was bursting out of the confines of EuropeEuropean musical tradition, even though the performers were using European styled instruments. This African-American feel for rephrasing melodies and reshaping rhythm created the embryo from which many great black jazz musicians were to emerge." Many black musicians also made a living playing in small bands hired to lead funeral processions in the New Orleans African-American tradition. These Africanized bands played a seminal role in the articulation and dissemination of early jazz. Traveling throughout black communities in the Deep South and to northern big cities, these musician-pioneers were the Hand helping to fashion the music's howling, raucous, then free-wheeling, "raggedy," ragtime spirit, quickening it to a more eloquent, sophisticated, swing incarnation.For all its genius, early jazz, with its humble, folk roots, was the product of primarily self-taught musicians. But an impressive American Civil Warpostbellum network of black-established and -operated institutions, schools, and civic societies in both the North and the South, plus widening mainstream opportunities for education, produced ever-increasing numbers of young, formally trained African-American musicians, some of them schooled in classical European musical forms. Lorenzo Tio and Scott Joplin were among this new wave of musically literate jazz artists. Joplin, the son of a former slave and a free-born woman of color, was largely self-taught until age 11, when he received lessons in the fundamentals of music theory from a classically trained GermanyGerman immigrant in Texarkana, Texas.Also contributing to this trend was a tightening of Jim Crow laws in Louisiana in the 1890s, which caused the expulsion from racial integrationintegrated bands of numbers of talented, formally trained African-American musicians. The ability of these musically literate, black jazzmen to transpose and then read what was in great part an improvisational art form became an invaluable element in the preservation and dissemination of musical innovations that took on added importance in the approaching Big bandbig-band era.
The national music scene at the start of the 20th century - By the turn of the century, American society had begun to shed the heavy-handed, straitlaced formality that had characterized the Victorian era. Strong influence of African American music traditions had already been a part of mainstream popular music in the United States for generations, going back to the 19th century minstrel show tunes and the melodies of Stephen Foster.Public dance halls, clubs, and tea rooms opened in the cities. Curiously named black dances inspired by African dance moves, like the shimmy, turkey trot, buzzard lope, chicken scratch, monkey glide, and the bunny hug eventually were adopted by a white public. The cake walk, developed by slaves as a send-up of their masters' formal dress balls, became the rage. White audiences saw these dances first in vaudeville shows, then performed by exhibition dancers in the clubs. The popular dance music of the time was not jazz, but there were precursor forms along the blues-ragtime continuum of musical experimentation and innovation that soon would blossom into jazz. Popular Tin Pan Alley composers like Irving Berlin incorporated ragtime influence into their compositions, though they seldom used the specific musical devices that were second nature to jazz players—the rhythms, the blue notes. Few things did more to popularize the idea of hot music than Berlin's hit song of 1911,"Alexander's Ragtime Band," which became a craze as far from home as Vienna. Although the song wasn't written in rag time, the lyrics describe a jazz band, right up to jazzing up popular songs, as in the line, "If you want to hear the Swanee River played in ragtime...."
The early New Orleans "jass" style - A number of regional styles contributed to the early development of jazz. Arguably the single most important was that of the New Orleans, Louisiana area, which was the first to be commonly given the name "jazz" (early on often spelled "jass").The city of New Orleans and the surrounding area had long been a regional music center. People from many different nations of Africa, Europe, and Latin America contributed to New Orleans' rich musical heritage. In the French and Spanish colonial era, slaves had more freedom of cultural expression than in the English colonies of what would become the United States. In the Protestant colonies African music was looked on as inherently "pagan" and was commonly suppressed, while in Louisiana it was allowed. African musical celebrations held at least as late as the 1830s in New Orleans' "Congo Square" were attended by interested whites as well, and some of their melodies and rhythms found their way into the compositions of white Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk. In addition to the slave population, New Orleans also had North America's largest community of free people of color, some of whom prided themselves on their education and used European instruments to play both European music and their own folk tunes.According to many New Orleans musicians who remembered the era, the key figures in the development of the new style were flamboyant trumpeter Buddy Bolden and the members of his band. Bolden is remembered as the first to take the blues — hitherto a folk music sung and self-accompanied on string instruments or blues harp (harmonica) — and arrange it for brass instruments. Bolden's band played blues and other tunes, constantly "variating the melody" (improvising) for both dance and brass band settings, creating a sensation in the city and quickly being imitated by many other musicians.By the early years of the 20th century, travelers visiting New Orleans remarked on the local bands' ability to play ragtime with a "pep" not heard elsewhere. Characteristics which set the early New Orleans style apart from the ragtime music played elsewhere included freer rhythmic improvisation. Ragtime musicians elsewhere would "rag" a tune by giving a syncopated rhythm and playing a note twice (at half the time value), while the New Orleans style used more intricate rhythmic improvisation often placing notes far from the implied beat (compare, for example, the piano rolls of Jelly Roll Morton with those of Scott Joplin). The New Orleans style players also adopted much of the vocabulary of the blues, including bent and blue notes and instrumental "growls" and smears otherwise not used on European instruments.Key figures in the early development of the new style were Freddie Keppard, a dark Creole of color who mastered Bolden's style; Joe "King" OliverJoe Oliver, whose style was even more deeply soaked in the blues than Bolden's; and Kid Ory, a trombonist who helped crystallize the style with his band hiring many of the city's best musicians. The new style also spoke to young whites as well, especially the working-class children of immigrants, who took up the style with enthusiasm. Papa Jack Laine led a multi-ethnic band through which passed almost all of two generations of early New Orleans white jazz musicians (and a number of non-whites as well).
Other regional styles - sample box startjazz music multi-listen start SongFromCottonField.oggtitle=''Song From A Cotton Field''description=This 1920s classic jazz song by Bessie Brown has a clear blues influence.format=Ogg !DukeEllington_TakeTheATrain.og gtitle=''Take The 'A' Train''description=This 1941 sample of Duke Ellington's signature tune is an example of the swing (genre)swing style.format=Ogg !CharlieParker_YardbirdSuite.og gtitle=''Yardbird Suite''description=Excerpt from a saxophone solo by Charlie Parker. The fast, complex rhythms and substitute chords of bebop would change jazz forever.format=Ogg JohnColtrane_MrPC.oggtitle=''Mr. P.C.''description=This hard blues by John Coltrane is an example of hard bop, a post-bebop style which is informed by gospel music, blues and work songs.format=Ogg !CourtneyPine_TheJazzstep.oggtitle=''The Jazzstep''description=This 2000 track by Courtney Pine shows how electronica and hip hop influences can be incorporated into modern jazz.format=Ogg multi-listen end sample box end Meanwhile, other regional styles were developing which would influence the development of jazz. African-American minister Rev. Daniel J. Jenkins of Charleston, South Carolina, was an unlikely figure of far-reaching importance in the early development of jazz. In 1891, Jenkins established the Jenkins Orphanage for boys and four years later instituted a rigorous music program in which the orphanage's young charges were taught the religious and secular music of the day, including overtures and marches. Precocious orphans and defiant runaways, some of whom had played ragtime in bars and brothels, were delivered to the orphanage for "salvation" and rehabilitation and made their musical contributions, as well. In the fashion of the Fisk Jubilee Singers and Fisk University, the Jenkins Orphanage Bands traveled widely, earning money to keep the orphanage afloat. It was an expensive enterprise. Jenkins typically took in approximately 125 – 150 "black lambs" yearly, and many of them received formal musical training. Less than 30 years later, five bands operated nationally, with one traveling to England — again in the Fisk tradition. It would be hard to overstate the influence of the Jenkins Orphanage Bands on early jazz, scores of whose members went on to play with jazz legends like Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Count Basie. Among them were the likes of trumpet virtuosos Cladys "Cat" Anderson, Gus Aitken and Jabbo Smith. In the northeastern United States, a "hot" style of playing ragtime developed. While centered in New York City, it could be found in African-American communities from Baltimore to Boston. Some later commentators have categorized it after the fact as an early form of jazz, while others disagree. It was characterized by rollicking rhythms, but lacked the distinctly bluesy influence of the southern styles. The solo piano version of the northeast style was typified by such players as noted composer Eubie Blake, the son of slaves, whose musical career spanned an impressive eight decades. James P. Johnson took the northeast style and around 1919 developed a style of playing that came to be known as "stride." In stride piano, the right hand plays the melody, while the active left hand "walks" or "strides" from upbeat to downbeat, maintaining the rhythm. Johnson influenced later pianists like Fats Waller and Willie Smith.: The top orchestral leader of the style was James Reese Europe, and his 1913 and 1914 recordings preserve a rare glimpse of this style at its peak. It was during this time that Europe's music profoundly influenced a young George Gershwin, who would go on to compose the jazz-inspired classic "Rhapsody in Blue." By the time Europe recorded again in 1919, he was in the process of incorporating the influence of the New Orleans style into his playing. The recordings of Tim Brymn give later generations another look at the northeastern hot style with little of the New Orleans influence yet evident. In Chicago at the start of the 1910s, a popular type of dance band consisted of a saxophone vigorously ragging a melody over a 4-square rhythm section. The city soon fell heavily under the influence of waves of New Orleans musicians, and the older style blended with the New Orleans style to form what would be called "Chicago Jazz" starting in the late 1910s. Along the banks of the Mississippi around Memphis, Tennessee to Saint Louis, Missouri, another band style developed incorporating the blues. The most famous composer and bandleader of the style was the "Father of the Blues," W.C. Handy. While in some ways similar to the New Orleans style (Bolden's influence may have spread upriver), it lacked the freewheeling improvisation found further south. Handy, indeed, for many years denounced jazz as needlessly chaotic, and in his style improvisation was limited to short fills between phrases and considered inappropriate for the main melody.
The national spread of ‘jass’ music - A number of educated "African Americancolored" New Orleanians left the South due to increasingly restrictive Jim Crow laws, at first heading mostly to California. One of these was musician Bill Johnson, who thought a good New Orleans-style band would have commercial possibilities out West. Johnson sent for some of the city's best hot musicians, including Freddie Keppard, to join him at the start of the 1910s, forming the Original Creole Orchestra. A vaudeville promoter caught the band playing to enthusiastic crowds in between rounds at a boxing match and booked the band to tour the nation on the Pantages Circuit. The members of the Creole Orchestra wrote their colleagues back home that hot New Orleans musicians could make much better money playing their style up North and out West than they could at home, encouraging many to start spreading the style around the nation.Chicago, IllinoisChicago was one of the first cities to embrace the new style, and from some accounts it was here that the New Orleans style was first popularly christened "jass." Back in New Orleans, it was called by such names as "ratty music", "hot music," or simply "ragtime" (Sidney Bechet often continued to call his music "ragtime" as late as the 1950s). The style was so different from the ragtime and dance music of the rest of the nation, that a new name was needed to distinguish it. Apparently, the first band billed as playing "jass" was that of trombonist Tom Brown (trombonist)Tom Brown. The term "jass" was rude sexual slang, related either to the term "jism" or to the jasmine perfume popular among urban prostitutes.One group that followed the Original Creoles and Tom Brown to Chicago went North in 1916 as "Stein's Dixie Jass Band." These veterans of the Papa Jack Laine bands made their way to New York City the following year, calling themselves "The Original Dixieland Jass Band." In New York, they had an opportunity to record gramophone recordphonograph records. The discs, recorded as a novelty, were a surprise national hit, and "jass" quickly became a national craze.It was in New York where "jass" became "jazz" in the late 1910s, purportedly because mischievous people were making a habit of scratching out the "J"s on posters, which then, unfortunately, advertised "ass band"s.
Jazz in the 1920's - Two disparate, but important, inventions of the second half of the nineteenth century quietly had set the stage for jazz to capture the spotlight in American popular music by the 1920s. George Pullman's invention of the sleeping car in 1864 brought a new level of luxury and comfort to the nation's railways; and Thomas Edison's invention, in 1877, of the phonograph record made quality music accessible to virtually everyone. Pullman's ingenious, rolling sleeping quarters provided employment to legions of African-American men, who criss-crossed the nation as sleeping car porters; and by the second decade of the twentieth century, the Pullman Company employed more African-Americans than any single business concern in the United States. But Pullman porters were more than solicitous, smiling faces in smart, navy blue uniforms. The most dapper and sophisticated of them were culture bearers, spreading the card game of bid whist, the latest dance crazes, regional news, and a heightened sense of black pride to cities and towns wherever the railways reached. Many porters also shared, traded and even sold "race records" to augment their income, speeding artistic innovations to musicians eager to hear the latest; spreading among the general public an awareness of and appreciation for this rapidly evolving musical form; and, in the process, putting jazz on the fast track to first U.S., then worldwide, acclaim.With Prohibition, the constitutional amendment that forbade the sale of alcoholic beverages, the legal saloons and cabarets were closed; but in their place hundreds of speakeasy speakeasies appeared, where patrons drank and musicians entertained. The presence of dance venues and the subsequent increased demand for accomplished musicians meant more artists were able to support themselves by playing professionally. As a result, the numbers of professional musicians increased, and jazz—like all the popular music of the 1920s—adopted the 4/4 beat of dance music.Another nineteenth-century invention, radio, came into its own in the 1920s, after the first commercial radio station in the U.S. began broadcasting in Pittsburgh in 1922. Radio stations proliferated at a remarkable rate, and with them, the popularity of jazz. Jazz became associated with things modern, sophisticated, and decadent. The third decade of the new century, a time of technological marvels, flappers, flashy automobiles, organized crime, bootleg whiskey, and bathtub gin, would come to be known as the Jazz Age.
Key figures of the decade - stamp celebrates the rise of jazz in the 1920s]]Joe "King" OliverKing Oliver was "jazz king" of Chicago in the early 1920s, when Chicago was the national hub of jazz. His band was the epitome of the New Orleans hot ensemble jazz style. Unfortunately, his band's recordings were little heard outside of Chicago and New Orleans, but the ensemble was a powerful influence on younger musicians, both black and white.Sidney Bechet was the first master jazz musician to take up what previously often had been dismissed as a novelty instrument, the saxophone. Bechet helped propel jazz in more individualistic personality- and solo-driven directions. In this last point, Bechet was joined by a young protege of King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, who was to become one of the major forces in the development of jazz. Armstrong was an extraordinary improviser, capable of creating endless variation (music)variations on a single melody. Armstrong also popularized scat singing, an improvisational vocal technique in which nonsensical syllables or words are sung or otherwise vocalized, often as part of a call-and-response interaction with other musicians onstage. His unique, gravely voice and innate sense of swing made scat an instant hit.Arguably, Bix Beiderbecke was both the first white and the first non-New Orleanian to make major original contributions to the development of jazz with his legato phrasing, bringing the influence of classical romanticism to jazz.Paul Whiteman was the most commercially successful bandleader of the 1920s, billing himself as "The King of Jazz." Sacrificing spontaneous improvisation for the sake of elaborate written arrangements, Whiteman claimed to be "making a lady out of jazz." Despite his hiring Bix and many of the other best white jazz musicians of the era, later generations of jazz lovers have often judged Whiteman's music to have little to do with real jazz. Nonetheless, his notion of combining jazz with elaborate orchestrations has been returned to repeatedly by composers and arrangers of later decades. It was Whiteman who commissioned Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," which was debuted by Whiteman's Orchestra.Fletcher Henderson led the top African American band in New York City. At first he wished to follow the lead of Paul Whiteman, but after hiring Louis Armstrong to play in his band, Henderson realized the importance of the improvising soloist in developing jazz bands. Henderson's arrangements would play a significant role in the development of the Big Band era in the following decade.Young pianist and bandleader Duke Ellington first came to national attention in the late 1920s with his tight band making many recordings and radio broadcasts. Ellington's importance would grow in the coming decades.
1930s to 1950s - While the solo became more important in jazz, popular bands became larger in size. The Big band became the popular provider of music for the era. Big bands varied in their jazz content; some (such as Benny Goodman's Orchestra) were highly jazz oriented, while others (such as Glenn Miller's) left little space for improvisation. Most were somewhere inbetween, having some musicians adept at jazz solos playing with section men who kept the rhythm and arrangements going. However even bands without jazz soloists adopted a sound owing much to the jazz vocabularity, for example sax sections playing what sounded like an improvised variation on a melody (and may have originated as a transcription of one).Key figures in developing the big jazz band were arrangers and bandleaders Fletcher Henderson, Don Redman and the man sometimes deemed the most prolific composer in American history, Duke Ellington.The influence of Louis Armstrong continued to grow. Musicians and bandleaders like Cab Calloway — and, later, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, jumped on the scat bandwagon. Pop vocalists like Bing Crosby embraced Armstrong's style of improvising on the melody, and U.S. pop singers seldom since have rendered a tune "straight," in the pre-jazz style.In the early 1920s, popular music was still a mixture of things—current dance numbers, novelty songs, show tunes. "Businessman's bounce music," as one horn player put it. But musicians with steady jobs, playing with the same companions, were able to go far beyond that. The Ellington band at the Cotton Club and the various Kansas City, MissouriKansas City groups that became the Count Basie band date from this period.Over time, social strictures regarding racial segregation began to relax in entertainment. White bandleaders, who tended to mold the music more to orthodox rhythms and harmony, began to recruit black musicians. In the mid-1930s, Benny Goodman hired pianist Teddy Wilson, vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, and guitarist Charlie Christian to join small groups. During this period, the popularity of swing (genre) and big band music was at its height, making stars of such men as Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington. Swing, the popular music of its time, covered a broad spectrum from "sweet" to "hot" bands, with the jazz content varying across the range.A development of swing in the early 1940s known as "jumping the blues" or jump bluesjump music anticipated rhythm and blues and rock and roll in some respects. It involved the use of small combos instead of big bands and a concentration on up-tempo music using the familiar blues chord progressions. Drawing largely upon the evolution of boogie woogie (music) boogie-woogie in the 1930s, it used a doubled rhythm—that is, the rhythm section played "eight to the bar," eight beats per measure instead of four. Big Joe Turner, a Kansas City singer who worked in the 1930s with Swing bands like Count Basie's, became a boogie-woogie star in the 1940s and then in the 1950s was one of the first innovators of rock and roll, notably with his song "Shake, Rattle and Roll". Another jazz founder of rock and roll was saxophonist Louis Jordan.
Development of bebop - The next major stylistic turn came in the 1940s with bebop, led by such distinctive stylists as the saxophonist Charlie Parker (known as "Yardbird" or "Bird"), Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie. This marked a major shift of jazz from pop music for dancing to a high-art, less-accessible, cerebral "musician's music." Thelonious Monk, while too individual to be strictly a bebop musician, was also associated with this movement. Bop musicians valued complex improvisations based on chord progressions rather than melody. Hard bop moved away from cool jazz, incorporating influences from soul music, gospel music, and the blues. Hard bop was at the peak of its popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, and was associated with such figures as Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Art Blakey and Charles Mingus. Later, bebop and hard bop musicians, such as trumpeter Miles Davis, made more stylistic advances with modal jazz, where the harmonic structure of pieces was much more free than previously, and was frequently only implied -- by skeletal piano chords and bass parts. The instrumentalists then would improvise around a given mode of the scale.
Latin jazz - ''Main article Latin jazzLatin jazz has two varieties: Afro-Cuban and Brazilian. Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the U.S. directly after the bebop period, while Brazilian jazz became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Afro-Cuban jazz began as a movement after the death of Charlie Parker. Notable bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Taylor started Afro-Cuban bands at that time. Gillespie's work was mostly with big bands of this genre. While the music was influenced by such Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians as Tito Puente and, much later, Arturo Sandoval, there were many Americans who were drawing upon Cuban rhythms for their work.Brazilian jazz is, in North America at least, nearly synonymous with bossa nova, a Brazilian popular style which is derived from samba with influences from jazz as well as other 20th-century classical and popular music. Bossa is generally slow, played around 80 beats per minute or so. The music uses straight eighths, rather than swing eighths, and also uses difficult polyrhythms. The best-known bossa nova compositions are considered to be jazz standards in their own right. The related term jazz-samba essentially describes an adaptation of bossa nova compositions to the jazz idiom by American performers such as Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd, and usually played at 120 beats per minute or faster. Samba itself is actually not jazz but, being derived from older Afro-Brazilian music, it shares some common characteristics.
Free jazz - ''Main article Free jazzFree jazz, or avant-garde jazz, is a subgenre that, while rooted in bebop, typically uses less compositional material and allows performers more latitude in what they choose to play. Free jazz's greatest departure from other styles is in the use of harmony and a regular, swinging tempo: Both are often implied, utilized loosely, or abandoned altogether. These approaches were rather controversial when first advanced, but have generally found acceptance — though sometimes grudgingly — and have been utilized in part by other jazz performers.There were earlier precedents, but free jazz crystalized in the late 1950's, especially via Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, and probably found its greatest exposure in the late 1960s with John Coltrane, Archie Shepp, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, Pharoah Sanders, Sam Rivers, Leroy Jenkins, Don Pullen and others.While perhaps less popular than other styles, free jazz has exerted an influence to the present. Peter Brötzmann, Michael Schulz, Ken Vandermark, William Parker, Derek Bailey and Evan Parker are leading contemporary free jazz musicians, and musicians such as Coleman, Taylor and Sanders continue to play in this style. Keith Jarrett has been prominent in defending free jazz from criticism by traditionalists in recent years.
Jazz and rock music: jazz fusion - ''Main article Jazz fusionWith the growth of rock and roll in the 1960s, came the hybrid form jazz-rock fusion, again involving Davis, who recorded the fusion albums ''In a Silent Way'' and ''Bitches Brew'' in 1968 and 1969 respectively. Jazz was by this time no longer center stage in popular music, but was still breaking new ground and combining and recombining in different forms. Notable artists of the 1960s and 1970s jazz and fusion scene include: Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and his The HeadhuntersHeadhunters band, John McLaughlin (musician)John McLaughlin and the Mahavishnu Orchestra, Al Di Meola, Jean-Luc Ponty, Sun Ra, Soft Machine, Narada Michael Walden (who would later enjoy huge success as a music producer), Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorius, the Pat Metheny Group and Weather Report. Some of these have continued to develop the genre into the 2000s.
Recent developments - The stylistic diversity of jazz has shown no sign of diminishing, absorbing influences from such disparate sources as world music and experimental musicavant garde classical music, including African rhythm and traditional structure, serialism, and the extensive use of chromatic scale, by such musicians as Ornette Coleman and John Zorn. Beginning in the 1970s with such artists as Keith Jarrett, the Pat Metheny Group, Jan Garbarek, Ralph Towner, and Eberhard Weber, the ECM (record label)ECM record label established a new chamber-music aesthetic, featuring mainly acoustic instruments, and incorporating elements of world music and folk music. This is sometimes referred to as "European" or "Nordic" jazz, despite some of the leading players being American.However, the jazz community has shrunk dramatically and split, with a mainly older audience retaining an interest in traditional and "straight-ahead" jazz styles, a small core of practitioners and fans interested in highly experimental modern jazz, and a constantly changing group of musicians fusing jazz idioms with contemporary popular music genres. The latter have formed such styles as acid jazz which contains elements of 1970s disco, acid swing which combines 1940s style big-band sounds with faster, more aggressive rock-influenced drums and electric guitar, and nu jazz which combines elements of jazz and modern forms of electronic musicelectronic dance music.Exponents of the "acid jazz" style which was initially United KingdomUK-based included the Brand New Heavies, James Taylor Quartet, Young Disciples, and Corduroy (band)Corduroy. In the United States, acid jazz groups included the Groove Collective, Soulive, and Solsonics. In a more pop or smooth jazz context, jazz enjoyed a resurgence in the 1980s with such bands as Pigbag and Curiosity Killed the Cat achieving chart hits in Britain. Sade Adu became the definitive voice of smooth jazz. There have been other developments in the 1980s and 1990s that were less commercially oriented. Many of these artists, notably Wynton Marsalis, called what they were doing jazz and in fact strove to define what the term actually meant. They sought to create within what they felt was the tradition, creating extensions of small and large forms initially pioneered by such artists as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. In the case of Wynton Marsalis these efforts met with critical acclaim.Others musicians in this time period - although clearly within the tradition of the great spontaneous composerspontaneous composers such as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Fats Navarro and many others – choose to distance themselves from the term jazz and simply define what they were doing as music (this in fact was suggested by the great composer Duke Ellington when the term jazz first began to be popular). Alternatively they created their own names for what they were doing (such as M-Base). Many of these artists agree with the creative guitarist Jean-Paul Bourelly who feels that "You shouldn't categorize according to styles of music, you should categorize in terms of creative levels". These musicians feel that rhythm is the key for further progress in the music. Jean-Paul BourellyBourelly, similar to M-Base, believes that the rhythmic innovations of James Brown (musician)James Brown and other Funk pioneers can provide an effective rhythmic base for spontaneous composerspontaneous composition. However, the ideas of these musicians go far beyond simply playing over a funk groove, extending the rhythmic ideas in a way analogous to what had been done with harmony in previous times. Some of the musicians involved in the approach called M-Base even view this as Rhythmic Harmony. Others, like Wynton Marsalis, disagree with this point of view, preferring instead to retain the rhythmic base of swing for creating their music. However, all of these artists participate in spontaneous composerspontaneous composition and only differ in creative focus and what could be called Groove (popular music)groove emphasis.With the rise in popularity of various forms of electronic music during the late 1980s and 1990s, some jazz artists have attempted a fusion of jazz with more of the experimental leanings of electronica (particularly intelligent dance musicIDM and Drum and bass) with various degrees of success. This has been variously dubbed "future jazz", "jazz-house" or "nu jazz". The more experimental and improvisional end of the spectrum includes Scandinavia-based artists such as pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, trumpeter Nils Petter Molvær (who both began their careers on the ECM record label), and the trio Wibutee, all of whom have gained their chops as instrumentalists in their own right in more traditional jazz circles. The Cinematic Orchestra from the UK or Julien Loureau from France have also gained praise in this area. Toward the more pop or pure dance music end of the spectrum of nu jazz are such proponents as Saint Germain (musician)St Germain and Jazzanova, who incorporate some live jazz playing with more metronomic house musichouse beats.In the 2000s, "jazz" hit the pop charts and blended with contemporary Urban music through the work of artists like Jill Scott, Jamie Cullum, Erykah Badu, Amy Winehouse, Diana Krall and Norah Jones, and the jazz advocacy of performers who are also music educators (such as Jools Holland, Courtney Pine and Peter Cincotti). Some of these new styles may be light on improvisation, a key characteristic of jazz. However, their instrumentation and rhythms are similar to other jazz music, and the label has stuck.
Improvisation - Jazz is often difficult to define, but improvisation is unquestionably a key element of the form. Improvisation has been since early times an essential element in African and African-American music and is closely related to the pervasiveness of call and response in West African and African-American cultural expression. The exact form of improvisation has changed over time. Early folk blues music often was based around a call and response pattern, and improvisation would factor into the lyrics, the melody, or both. Part of the Dixieland style involves musicians taking turns playing the melody while the others make up counter lines to go with it. By the Swing era, big bands played carefully arranged sheet music, but the music often would call for one member of the band to stand up and play a short, improvised solo. Finally, in bebop, improvisation takes center stage, as almost the entire focus of the music is on clever, improvised solos, with little attention given to the melody, or "head", of each piece.As previously noted, later styles of jazz, such as modal jazz, abandoned the strict notion of a chord progression, allowing the individual musicians to improvise more freely within the context of a given scale or mode. The best-known example of this is the classic Miles Davis album ''Kind of Blue''. When a pianist or guitarist improvises chords while a soloist is playing, it is called ''comping'' or ''vamping'' (also see ostinato).
See also - American Jazz Museum Cool (aesthetic) Jazz standard Swing (genre) Thirty-two-bar form
References - Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward: Jazz - A History of America´s Music. Alfred A. Knopf, NY USA. 2000. or: The Jazz Film Project, Inc.
External links - wikiquote commonsJazz jazzscene.no - Jazz Scene with David Fishel. 55 hours of jazz-celebrity interviews americanjazzmuseum.com - The American Jazz Museum portlandjazzjams.com - Portland Jazz Jams northbysouth.kenyon.edu - The African-American influence on traditional marching band music northbysouth.kenyon.edu - The Jenkins' Orphanage Bands northbysouth.kenyon.edu - The Influence of Africa: Syncopation, Call and Response and Timbre jass.com - Early Jazz History frenchquarter.com - New Orleans and the Early Roots of Jazz publicradiofan.com - Jazz radio programs online bbc.co.uk - The BBC's online jazz radio station npr.org - NPR jazz profiles jazzdisco.org - Jazz Discography Project radioblack.com - Collection of jazz radio stations darmstadt.de - Jazz Institute Darmstadt — Europe's largest public research archive on jazz jazzkc.org - Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors smithsonianjazz.org - Smithsonian Jazz allaboutjazz.com - All About Jazz, internet jazz publication jazzguitar.be - All About Jazz Guitar jazzservices.org.uk - Jazz in the United Kingdom isa.utl.pt - Jazz in Lisbon - Portugal isa.utl.pt - Portuguese Jazz Musicians bigbandsandbignames.com - BigBands and BigNames alldatjazz.com - All Dat Jazz & More jazz.openfun.org - Top 100 jazz artists and CD albums !learn-to-play-piano-online.com - Jazz !ImprovisationAmericanrootsmusi c? jazzfooter Modernism Category:Jazz Category:Musical genresCategory:Musical !modernismca:Jazzcs:Jazzda:Jazz de:Jazzes:Jazzeo:Ĵazofa:جا fi:Jazzfr:Jazzkn:ಜಾಝ್ ? !ಸಂಗೀತko:재즈id:Jaz zit:Jazzhe:ג'אזhu:Jazzla:Ja ziumlt:Džiazasnl:Jazzja:ジ ズno:Jazznds:Jazzpl:Jazzpt:J azzru:Джазsimple:Jazzsl:Ja zzsv:Jazzth:แจ๊สtr:Caz zh:爵士乐
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Websites
Sheldon Records
Jazz Record Company specialising in Singer / Saxophonist Jonny Boston and his quartet
http://www.sheldonrecords.com/
Wayne Ricardo Gibson - Socafire - Steelpan Solist
Steel drum soloist & Entertainer - avaiable from solo to 5 piece combinations, Caribbean music, soca,salsa, reggae,jazz,uk based entertainer. Steel band. all functions
http://www.socafire.com/
Tomajazz
Tomajazz: el magazine on-line más importante sobre jazz y música improvisada en español en la red. Con cientos de entrevistas, reseñas discográficas, conciertos, noticias y mucho más.
http://www.tomajazz.com/
Official Home page of Saxophonist and recording artist Noah Peter
Saxophonist and band leader Noah Peterson offers a clear, true voice and a new vision. The consummate professional in every sense, his group reflects his vision at the center of their improvisation. Turning pop tunes into jazz classics; polishing jazz standards into bright new gems. His talented musicians offer the perfect balance to Noah's fine horn playing; they are light to Noah's shadow, as they groove to the mystic depths of his untamed saxohpone. Like the best high wire act these gentlemen perform without a net.
http://www.noahpeterson.com/
www.ploink.de
handmade music with electric bass-guitars. - Solo-Bass-Art
http://www.ploink.de/
Franz Oberthaler
jazz musician and composer
http://www.franzoberthaler.com/
Alan J Moore: media composer
bespoke music for film, TV and other media formats
http://www.alanjmoore.com
Vinyl Record Paradise
Vinyl records, all genres, from rock to jazz, from funk to folk, punk, classical. Specializing in Swiss rock, pop and evergreens. Also in 12 maxis and picture sleeve vinyl singles. Located in Switzerland. Ships worldwide.
http://www.record-paradise.com
Dansatak UK's online largest entertainment agency
Full A-Z listings of all styles of artistes and bands available in the UK including Tribute Bands, Party Bands, Original Artistes, 60s bands etc. Full photos, sound files, biogs and client testimonials.
http://www.dansatak.com/
s1play.com
Scotland's most comprehensive entertainment listings website.
http://www.s1play.com/
Drummer Patrick Manzecchi
The site of German Jazz drummer Patrick Manzecchi
http://www.manzecchi.de
Ballet World The page for Dancers
Ballet-World presenting a page for dancers, schools, audition, theatre and more...
http://www.ballet-world.de/
juergen peiffer
Allround Drummer from Germany. Living close to cologne. check him out!
http://www.juergenpeiffer.de/
CRESCENDO
The West Coast's premier vocal harmony ensemble, CRESCENDO is a multi-ethnic quintet of stellar singers blending into one gorgeous sound.
http://www.crescendo5.com/
Richie Records
Hip-hop, electronica record label from San Francisco
http://www.richierecords.com/
Mary Barry
award winning bilingual jazz artist from Newfoundland, 2004 MIANL Female Artist of the Year 2005 ECMA nominations for Jazz Recording of the Year
http://www.marybarry.net/
cd shop, berlin - big-tone-records: independent jazz label
cd shop of oli bott and thomas wallisch from berlin
http://www.big-tone-records.com/
www.stormjazz.com
Hakon Storm homepage
http://www.stormjazz.com/
Randa:Jazz Singer
Randa Ghossoub is a Canadian jazz singer of Lebanese origins. She is considered to be the first jazz singer in Lebanon.
http://www.randaonline.com/
Jazzmusicians of the Sixties
Website about Jazzmusicians of the Sixties and more
http://www.karlheinz-fuerst.de/
The wed2music directory
Wed2music is the definitive free UK directory of wedding musicians and entertainers. Our directory gives you free and direct access to wedding entertainers websites and contact details. We have everything from medieval musicians, to dj's to cocktail pianists. Come and explore and contact the bands and dj's directly! If you are a wedding entertainer then log on now and get yourself registered. We always welcome new acts to our directory.
http://wed2music.co.uk/
Steps On Main Dance Studio
A dance studio that offers tap, jazz, ballet, modern, lyrical and hip hop to kids age 2 and a half through adult.
http://www.stepsonmaindance.com/
richard wynne artist
Richard is an American living in Thailand. And has lived in many countries. He started his art studies at ...
http://www.richardwynneartist.com
Latin Jazz Pittsburgh
Musical quartet Puro Queso Jazz is a Latin Jazz group based in Pittsburgh, PA USA, and plays in different venues from concert halls to Jazz clubs. The background of his members Venezuela, USA, ITALY, and Mexico influences the final sound of the band. Check the web site and listen our work. We hope to hear from you soon.
http://www.puroquesojazz.com/
Jazz Explorium
Home World of Freelance Percussionist, Community Musician, Composer, DrumCircle & Music Workshop Facilitator - Steve Ball : Participate - Create - Celebrate a Mission & Philosophy
http://www.jazzexplorium.net/
Swingdance in Utrecht
This site offers information on swingdance (lindyhop, charleston, jazz dances) classes and events in Utrecht (The Netherlands).
http://www.swinginutrecht.nl/
Jazz Folk & Bike Festival Syke
A music Festival in Syke about 20 km south of Bremen. Different venues such as a watermill, an old church, a historic farmhouse and a natural amphitheatre in a forest.The combination of music and scenery is unique. The bike is the ideal vehicle to visit the different sites.
http://www.jazzfolkbike.de/
Felix and All the Cats
Felix Swing Band
http://www.felix-jazz.com/
Nicola Boschetti - Independent Composer & Guitarist
Welcome to the official website of composer, arranger and guitarist Nicola Boschetti. Here, you will find Boschetti’s biography, as well as information about his music and his albums. Boschetti’s style is an eclectic fusion of funk, jazz, and latin. His latest accomplishment is a collection of acoustic guitar arpeggios.
http://www.nicolaboschetti.com/
handmade music - finest harmony singing
This website is the homepage of a brilliant local Leipzig music group.
http://www.quiteahandful.de/
The International Archives for the Jazz Organ
Informations on jazz organ, organ players, their records, new releases, the jazz organ scene worldwide, articles about the jazz organ, jazz links
http://www.iajo.org
The Diplomats Jazz band
Take a handful of great musicians, dozens of years of jazz experience, and a level of professionalism that is unmatched, and you've found the winning recipe for the Diplomats. We mainly exist to provide live jazz for weddings, anniversaries, parties and corporate events.
http://www.diplomatsjazz.com/
Fishhead Horns Big Band
Big Band aus der Metropolregion Hamburg
http://www.fishhead-horns.de
Basin Street - traditioneller Jazz aus Berlin
traditioneller Jazz aus Berlin repräsentiert von zwei Bands: Aleksandr's Swingtime Band spielt in kleiner Besetzung Swing, auch zum Tanzen, und Dorothe's Jazz Serenaders spielen New Orleans Jazz und Dixieland
http://www.basinstreet.de/
Calamity Jazz Band
Dixieland jazz, gospel, swing, ragtime and novelty tunes get special treatment by this co-ed [4 ladies, 4 gents] band.
http://www.calamityjazz.com/
A French Dance Supplies On-Line Catalog
Our company specifies in ballet dance wear, original nice leotards. To order or To get informations, just send us an e-mail in english.
http://www.articles-danse.com/
InsiderEntertainment.com
InsiderEntertainment.com ~ the premier creative online manual for metropolitan individuals seeking entertainment and enjoyment in their professional, social and cultural endeavours.
http://www.insiderentertainment.com/
Jure Pukl
Jazz Saxophonist
http://www.jurepukl.com/
Ballet Academy of Warrenton Virginia
A dance school which offers Ballet instruction using the Russian Method, Broadway Jazz, Tap, Modern, Hip Hop, Acrobatics and Creative Movement for the little ones.
http://www.ballet-academy.com
MJ Lawrence Productions, Transmelodic
This site offers lyrics and free MP3 files to orginal Jazz and Pop compositions of MJ Lawrence and friends.
http://www.transmelodic.com/
musicmakers-online.com
International database of musicians-instrumentalists, vocalists, conductors, composers, sound engineers and music teachers who are looking for employment (permanent or temporary) and also looking to enlarge their circle of contacts and colleagues.
http://www.musicmakers-online.com/
Bassiona Amorosa
world's best double-bass formation
http://www.bassiona-amorosa.de/
Cheryl Porter Official Website
Website of internationally acclaimed singer Cheryl Porter. With a rich and powerful voice deeply rooted in the Spirituals tradition, her albums range from Gospel, Jazz, Folk, Inspirational and classical.
http://www.cherylporter.net
Summertime Collection
More than 3000 different cover versions of the Gershin-classic Summertime from the opera Porgy & Bess.
http://www.summertime-collection.com/
Regensburg-Kultur Regensburg Kultur
Die Kulturseite - ein Kultur Programm für Regensburg und die Oberpfalz mit innovativem Konzept. Kultur in und um Regensburg.
http://www.regensburg-kultur.de/
Blue House Productions
Blue House has the best equipment and a world-class staff who have made studio and live multi-camera video, as well as studio and live multi-track audio recordings for some of the best musicians in the area and in the world. Besides offering two studios and full mixing and mastering, we also provide a CD duplication and replication service which includes packaging, artwork, and shrink-wrapping. We would be happy to make as few or as many copies of your CD as you would like. In addition to all of this, our instrument repair service is top notch and professional. We pride ourselves in our reputation for producing quality recordings, for having an ear for arrangements and a mind for understanding how to achieve the artist's goal. If you sound good normally, we will make you sound great! Thanks, and have a good one.
http://www.bluehouseproductions.com/
56STUFF.ru
Simple pleasures of complicated people: to listen, to look, to read.
http://www.56stuff.ru/
Drycastle records homepage
A new indie label, jazz, blues, rock oriented, founded by bassist Maurizio Bozorius Bozzi.
http://www.drycastle.com/
Gaslight Square
The final rememberence of a world wide entertainment district in Saint Louis that influenced many new artists and entertainers.
http://www.gaslightsquare.org
Entertainment
Cannings online store of Reggae, Ska, Calypso, World Music, Jazz Music, mp3 downloads, CDs, DVDs, VHS, Cassettes, T Shirts. An International Musician, Businessman offering original music. Cannings also offers Performance Lectures. Performance Rights Org., and runs his own companies
http://www.jamescannings.com/
ATM Records
CDs by mail-order
http://www.atm-records.de/
www.schwoof-kapelle.de music for your dancing pleasures
Die Schwoof-Kapelle: Tanszmusik, Unterhaltungsband, Tanzband, Stuttgart, Tübingen, Reutlingen, Partymusik, Unterhaltungsmusik, Hochzeit, Geburtsag
http://www.schwoof-kapelle.de/
4ever - Das Gesangsensemble für alle Fälle
Unser Repertoire umfasst Klassik, Gospel, Pop, Stücke der 20er und 30er Jahre bis hin zur Moderne a capella und mit Klavierbegleitung.
http://www.4ever-huettenberg.de/
Silver Dog Music
Hire a Live Band for any event! All areas of the UK covered. Competetive rates, top quality musicians.
http://silverdogmusic.co.uk/
El Argonauta, la librería de la música
Especializada en libros y publicaciones relacionados con la música. Libros de música de cualquier género literario (biografía, ensayo, guías, historia...) en todos los estilos musicales (clásica, jazz, rock, flamenco, etnomúsicas...), además de libro infantil, libretos, danza, musicología, musicoterapia, pedagogía, formación musical, libro-discos, revistas, etc. y partituras por encargo.
http://www.elargonauta.com/
Jazz from Berlin: Oli Bott - Vibraphone and Composition
The official Oli Bott - Jazz from Berlin - Homepage! Vibraphonist and Composer: all Bands, Concertdates, Pressquotes, Prizes and Awards, CD-Shop, News and Contact.
http://www.olibott.com/
Gayle Hurmuses
Media Artist specializing in Documentary Photography and Film, Graphic Design and Event Production. This portfolio site showcases the work of Media Artist Gayle Hurmuses.
http://www.hurmuses.com/
Royal Groove Webradio
A weekly mix of jazz, soul, funk, rare grooves, Brazilian flavours, easy listening, soundtracks and nu sounds, hosted by DeLuca.
http://www.royalgroove.org/
Radio Patjane
La puerta grande de entrada a México
http://www.radiopatjane.com/
Black Snake Stompers New Orleans Jazz Band
Die Black Snake Stompers, das sind New Orleans Jazz begeisterte Musiker, die entgegen allen Trends einer alten Version des Jazz, der Kollektivimprovisation frönen. Die Zusammensetzung der Band erscheint besonders interessant: vier junge und drei junggebliebene Musiker interpretieren respektlos und mit voller Kraft die Musik der 20er Jahre. Besetzung: Mario Kröger (Posaune, Gesang) Gregor Brinkschröder (Kornett) Martin Schreiber (Saxophon, Gesang) Tilo Franz (Piano) Daniel Reckersdrees (Tuba, Gesang) Jan Sonnenburg (Schlagzeug) Jürgen Sonnenburg (Banjo/Arr.) Das Repertoire setzt sich aus einigen Jazz-Standards und vielen eher unbekannten Stücken namhafter Musiker der New Orleans Jazz-Ära zusammen, wie z. B. King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Turk Murphy oder Fletcher Henderson. Die Arrangements werden zum großen Teil selbst geschrieben. Bekannt sind die Black Snake Stompers im ostwestfälischen Raum (von Bielefeld, Gütersloh, Rietberg, Delbrück, Paderborn bis Lippstadt) seit ca. 1990. Ihre Qualitäten stellte die Band auf zahlreichen Auftritten, die von Stadtfesten, Jazzclubs bis zu Privatfesten reichen, unter Beweis. Wenn die Black Snake Stompers erst richtig loslegen, ist das Publikum schon nach kurzer Zeit von der Stimmung des Hot Jazz gefangen. Damit beweisen die Black Snake Stompers immer wieder neu, dass auch im ländlichen Raum guter, fast professioneller Jazz möglich ist, wenn viel Engagement und Spielfreude dahinterstehen.
http://www.black-snake-stompers.de/
Dave Elke
Web site for Jazz Trio and guitar lessons
http://www.delke.com/
JWR (James Wegg review)
your independent global view of performing arts and film
http://www.jamesweggreview.org/
Prodance Dance Center
Professional dance study center.
http://www.prodance.ee/
Tyalgum Press
Publishers of the music of contemporary British composer Will Todd.
http://www.tyalgumpress.com/
jazz,liner notes,son,tommy Rodriguez
Kinky's Techno Acoustic Fusion Band is a vanguardist vintage electronics and acoustic sound mix. It is a virtual electronic group, with live acoustic instrument leads. It is also a generation fusion: 1950's & 2000's: Father & Son.
http://www.tommysbigband.com/
Rap mp3
Many rap albums in this site.
http://www.rapmp3.ru/
Historic Distillery District FREE Blues Festival - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Toronto's FREE summer Blues Street Festival at The Historic Distillery District features live music, outdoor entertainment, talent search, Jazz bands.
http://www.distilleryblues.com/
niceeasy music world
Internetradio and more...
http://www.niceeasy-music.de/
brrrn
Artist and musician Bryan Brrrn Lohr, paintings, installations, projects and recordings, bio and journal too.
http://www.brrrn.com/
Richard Broadnax & The Zion Gospel Singers
Gospelformation with the leadsinger Richard Broadnax
http://www.broadnax.ch/
General Dance Infos
Personal Website
http://www.soria-wolf.de/
Marina Music Service
sheet music arrangements, books, and recordings for jazz ensembles
http://www.marinamusic.com/
Christoph Iacono
Pianist, Composer
http://www.c-iacono.com/
Demo Cates One Sound One Voice One Man
SMOOOOOOOTH!!!!! Voacl Sax Groove Harmony
http://www.democates.com/
South Anne Arundel County Dance Conservator, J. Davis Hobdy-School Director
dance conservatory providing training in ballet, Felenkrais, jazzz, modern, pointe,stretch and tap for ages 3-adult, rehearsal home for semi-professional dance company-PIECES
http://www.piecesdance.com/
Bell's Super Lube
Bell's Super Lube is a lubricant for valve, rotary, and slide musical instruments.
http://www.bellssuperlube.com/
Afrozsiraf
audio-visual site with dj mixes, vj videos, reviews, interviews, radio show, news...
http://www.afrozsiraf.hu/
Lovelight Records
Record label dedicating itself to the electronica, house and techno genres that also has divisions specializing in Jazz, Kids, Metal, Gospel and soundtracks. When you think quality music, always think Lovelight Records.
http://www.lovelightrecords.com/
The official site of Dave Peck modern jazz musician.
The official site of Dave Peck modern jazz musician.
http://www.davepeckmusic.com/
Norbert Schneider - Website
Norbert Schneider is a famous guitarist, singer and songwriter from austria. Check out http://www.norbertschneider.at for all details about this nice guy! --- wurde 1979 in Wien geboren und ist seit seinem neunzehnten Lebensjahr hauptberuflich Musiker. Er zeichnet sich aus durch sein einzigartiges Gitarrenspiel, welches Elemente von Bill Jennings, Johnny Guitar Watson, Billy Butler, T-Bone Walker u.v.m. erkennen lässt. Trotz diesen Einflüssen fehlt es Norberts Spiel und seinem Gesang nie an Eigencharakter und Authentizität – er schreibt viele Stücke in seinem Repertoire selbst. Viel musikalische Erfahrung sammelte er bei Auftritten u.a. mit Louisiana Red, Big Jay McNeely, Rusty Zinn, Bernard Allison, Aaron Burton, Dana Gillespie und Sister Shirley Sydnor.
http://www.norbertschneider.at/
Transcription: Free Solo Transcriptions
transcription: solo transcriptions from jazz to pop for free! Share your own transcription with other musicians, work on your musical abilities and learn from the masters by playing their solos.
http://www.piludu.de/
Radio 19/4 - Jazz, Pop, Noize
Radio 19/4 for more than eleven Years on Antenne Muenster's Open Channel, Ukw 95,4 mhz. 4. Monday/Month + Specials. Length: one hour. Profile: Jazz, Pop, Noise - no Mainstream - Music somewhat alternartive. Range: 80km around Muenster City + Promotion via Website-reviews.
http://www.radio19-4.de/
IndieAvenue
Database of over 5,000 musicians, bands, venues and festivals in the Pacific Northwest.
http://www.indieavenue.com/
THCradio.net
Largest maihuana relaed download server, in 99 - 2005 also stoners edited inernet radio.
http://www.thcradio.net/
ConChord Big Band
Highly entertaining big band based in West Sussex, England. Weddings, Dances, stage shows concerts. Visit us now!
http://www.conchordbigband.com
Calvi Jazz Festival (Corsica - France)
The Calvi Jazz Festival is one of the most famous events in Corsica and one of the most appreciated jazz festivals in France. During one week, more than 23 concerts and jam sessions gathering more than 100 musicians, this convivial event offers a very unique way to discover and visit again the different streams which make jazz the richest improvised music… and the whole wealth that Corsica can offer.
http://www.calvi-jazz-festival.com/
Komodo Recording Studio
We are a leading recording studio in N. Ireland dealing with location and studio recording. Running Pro-Tools 7 HD for recording and Samplitude for mastering, we deliver a very high quality product. Equipment inlcudes PT HD7, Focusrite ISA 428, CLM dynamics, LA Audio preamps & Audient preamps, Soundfield stereo mic, AKG 414s BULS + TLII, 4000b, D112 and many others. Amps include 4*12 cab, Ampeg SVTII pro all valve bass head + 8*10 cab, organs etc. etc. Please phone to book a free visit.
http://www.komodorecordings.com/
Tango meets Jazz: Vibratanghissimo from Berlin
The Tango meets Jazz - Ensemble Vibratanghissimo from Berlin introduces itself: Information, Photos, Pressquotes, Samples, Concertdates, CD-Shop and Contact.
http://www.vibratanghissimo.de/
PAM Radio
Non Stop Music with oldies,evergreens, easy Listening and daily between 18H00 cet and 24H00 cet the best of Jazz and blues
http://www.pamradio.com/
Movin Easy Dancewear
Retail dance store website with information about dance product, events, and where to dance in Austin, TX.
http://www.movineasy.com/
Patrycja Kosiarkiewicz
Patrycja Kosiarkiewicz
http://www.patrycja.pl/
Gold Coast Jazz Society, Inc. - Jazz Concerts & Eventis!
Gold Coast Jazz Society presents the preservation of jazz music with an annual concert season in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and various events to celebrate jazz.
http://www.goldcoastjazz.org/
3Lune Records
3Lune Records, founded in 1997 in Rome, is a Records Label and Distributor of Instrumental & Contemporary music, Jazz, Traditional & World-music, Early & Classical music. Catalogue online.
http://www.trelunerecords.it/
Dixie Friends Krombach
Dixieland and Swing, Oldtime Jazz from Germany Contact via URL-Form
http://www.dixiefriends.de/
OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF DJ BASEPHUNK
dj mixes online_next basephunk gigs_playlist dj
http://www.basephunk.net/
Jazz in Cambridge
Cambridge Jazz Cooperative runs a weekly jazz workshop that takes place on Saturday morning from 11:00 to 1:30 in Cambridge. Workshops are led by experienced jazz musicians, often one of the UK's leading names. Also links to other jazz musicians.
http://www.jazzcreation.com/
Reuben Hoch/ The Chassidic Jazz project
ancestry and artistry unite. This world class chamber group performs liturgical jewish melodies set to jazz and neo contemporary music.
http://www.chassidicjazz.com/
Jean-Michel Pilc
Artist website. Includes biography, interview, albums, audio & video clips, press kit, itinerary, contacts
http://www.jmpilc.com/
myoneofakind
Online Galleries consisting of music, art, artifacts, furniture collections, all rare and one of a kind. Marketing tools for up and coming artists are also available.
http://www.myoneofakind.com/
manteca the band for Latin and Groove-Music
Unser Name “Manteca“ deutet es schon an: Latin und Groove stehen im Vordergrund. Unsere Musik ist eingängig und authentisch, deshalb spricht sie ein breites Publikum an und sorgt spontan für entspannte Stimmung und gute Laune. Wir spielen Standards, aber auch weniger bekannte Titel aus dem “Amerikan Song Book” sowie Afro/Cuban und Brazilian Music.
http://www.mantecamusic.de/
Encore Recordings
music in all formats: CD, LP, 7, 78 rpm, 16 rpm, Tape, Reel-To-Reel, Cylinders, Piano Rolls, Sheet Music, Books on Music & Musicians, Music Memorabilia bought, sold and traded!
http://www.encorerecordings.com/
Blues and Jazz Sounds/Sounds of Blue Radio
Radio & Press Marketing services offerings for blues, jazz, soul and funk musicians. Plus the Sounds of Blue radio show which streams live on the internet and at Live365.com Sounds of Blue playlists are available, as well as reviews I wrote for Goldmine Magazine, Blues Revue, and Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine.
http://www.bluesandjazzsounds.com/
Sensound Music
Creative Music Services
http://www.sensoundmusic.com/
Calle Cinco
Latin American Festival every September in downtown Charlotte.
http://www.callecinco.com/
TheDoors.ch
All you want about The Doors: Lyrics, Picture-Gallery, Albums, Band Info, Biography, Guitar Tabs, Sheet Music, Poems, Jim's last days and more!
http://www.thedoors.ch/
Record Store
On Line Record Store In Stockholm, Sweden. Dance Music On Vinyl.
http://www.snickarsrecords.com/
Vocke und Haagen Musikagentur
Hier finden Sie Künstlervermittlung, individuelle Spezialprogramme und Infotainmentshows budgetgerecht und zielorientiert.
http://www.vocke-haagen-musikagentur.com
Casa Musicale Eco
Edizioni musicali e discografiche. Musical editions
http://www.casamusicaleeco.com/
Florida Ballet Arts Academy
Southwest Florida's Most Respected Dance Training Ground Since 1962.
http://www.floridaballet.net
Soundsuche Music Directory
SoundSuche.de is a German Music Directory open for all Musicstyles.All Musicans can add their relevant Web sites.
http://www.soundsuche.de
Jazzthemes
Free scores of JB Eisinger, Virtual Trio and Jazz-Hip Trio CDs with Barney Wilen or Didier Lockwood as guest stars,artist interviews made by François Postif.
http://www.jazzthemes.net/
dccblowout/ Better Records
Audiophile CDs Wholesale to the Public! We're also piling records (9000+!) on the site as fast as we can.
http://www.dccblowout.com/
Armenian music-Oscar records-Armenian CD store
Welcome to Oscar records music store Exclusive distributor of such reputable labels and catalogues as ECM, ARC Music, and others in Armenia, Oscar Music is also proud to offer the largest selection of Armenian music in the world, as well as rarities, mint condition LPs, and accessories. Browse through our extensive selection of classical, jazz, rock, pop, new wave, and world music and check out items marked Rare and Exclusive. No illegal copies, only originals... Purveyors of Fine Music, Rarities and Quality Vinyls.
http://www.oscarrecords.com/
rekord.net ....the record collector's source
www.rekord.net ....we provide the good music on vinyl we are specialized in finding and trading rare vinyl and special CD Editions of most of the musical styles: Jazz, Funk, Library, Soul, Deep house , Techno, Garage, Disco, Rap, Elektro, Drum&bass, KrautRock, Psychedelic Rock, Roots Reggae, Dub, Chanson, Folk.... all kinds of collectors items (Ltd. editions, hard to find rarities, deleted backstock...etc)
http://www.rekord.net/
www.matsup.ch
Website of MATS-UP
http://www.matsup.ch/
Corky McClerkin
Chicago Bebop & Soul Jazz mu- sician with CD's available, live videos, bio, jazz photos,news,& performance schedule.
http://www.corkymcclerkin.com/
Kendra Shank - jazz vocalist
Considered one of the most consistently interesting vocalists on the New York scene (Gary Giddins, Village Voice), Kendra Shank combines jazz originals, standards, folk/pop tunes, and open improvisation in an adventurous, genre-bending style that inspired Abbey Lincoln to call her an original; a singer with a sound. Shank's three critically-acclaimed CDs have won Top Ten ratings, and she has toured across the U.S. and in Europe, Japan, Canada and South Africa. Kendra Shank sounds like sunlight shining through a stained glass window, her crystalline tone illuminating each song. Working her voice like a horn, she phrases inventively, whether crisp and sizzling or sensuously smoky. (Jazz Times)
http://www.kendrashank.com/
Unexpected Records
Unexpected Records has been established by producer Perquisite as an independent NuJazz/HipHop-label in march 2001. Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Unexpected Records tries to make a difference in the musicscene of today by releasing unexpected music in the broadest sense of the word.
http://www.unexpected-records.com/
NEW ORLEANS HAPPY FIVE
TRADITIONAL NEW ORLEANS JAZZ AND DIXIELAND OF TOP QUALITY!
http://www.nohappyfive.cz/
Basslines, Music & More
Andreas Reinhard: Bassist aus NRW für Live, Studio, Teaching, Touring. Homepage mit Infos, Terminen, Bands und Kontakt
http://www.andreas-reinhard.de/
Mumagi World!
The music and creativity of Dahu Mumagi and the Mumagi people.
http://www.mumagi.com/
Jazz Online
Online jazz magazine with articles about jazz artists, CD reviews, contests, artists Q&A, an introduction to jazz, archives.
http://www.jazzonln.com/
All About Jazz
Monthly Webzine featuring profiles, interviews, reviews and a 'jazz journalist of the month,' plus many tie-ins to commercial partners.
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/
Jazz Corner
Features more than 150 musicians and jazz organizations.
http://jazzcorner.com
Jazz Online
Reviews, FAQs, video interviews, bulletin board, audio and video clips, artist interviews, archives.
http://www.jazzonline.com/
Jazzreview.com
Jazz CD reviews with news, artist interviews, photography and charts.
http://www.jazzreview.com
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