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Spasm band. A spasm band is a musical group that plays a variety of Dixieland, trad jazz, jug band, or skiffle music. The term "spasm" applied to any band (often made up of children) who made musical instruments out of objects not usually employed for such. The first spasm bands were formed on the streets of New Orleans in the late eighteen ...
23 – Django Reinhardt, Belgian-born, Romani French jazz guitarist and composer (died 1953 ). [2] 27 – Charlie Holmes, American alto jazz saxophonist of the swing era (died 1985 ). February. 21 – Al Sears, American tenor saxophonist and bandleader (died 1990 ). March. 6 – Arthur Österwall, Swedish band leader, composer, vocalist, and ...
A jazz funeral for the Equal Rights Amendment took place in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana ( USA) on July 3, 1982. [1] The event was a public mourning for the failure of the proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution to be ratified by the required 38 states (3/4 of the 50 states) before the congressionally imposed 1982 deadline.
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.
Events June. 25 – Ella Fitzgerald started recording the album The Irving Berlin Songbook (June 25 – October 17). She won at the 1st Grammy Awards in the category Best Jazz Performance, Individual for this album. July. 4 – The 5th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 4 – 7). Unknown dates
Jazz arrangers often take music written for other forms like popular music, religious music, or classical music and alter the tempo, rhythm, and the chord structure to re-create music for a jazz idiom. They can also take so-called head arrangements and commit them to paper.
1993 in jazz. Band at French Quarter Festival, New Orleans. Visible musicians include Dan Levinson, clarinet; George Finola, cornet and leader; David Sager, trombone; Tom Saunders, bass sax. Tom McDermott in hat off stage comments to band. Decade. 1990s in jazz. Music. 1993 in music. Standards.
Transformers: Generation 1. Jazz (Tigre in Italy) is the " very cool, very stylish, very competent " member of the Autobots in the Transformers television and comic series based on the popular toy line produced by Takara and Hasbro. His original vehicle mode is a Martini Porsche 935 turbo racing car. Jazz serves as the first lieutenant of the ...