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"She's the One" Blake Aaron April 20 "Cigar Lounge" Big Mike Hart featuring Boney James: April 27 "Tell Me Something" Quintin Gerard W. May 4 "Cigar Lounge" Big Mike Hart featuring Boney James: May 11 May 18 "The Way She Moves" Michael Broening May 25 "Ocean Breeze" Tim Bowman: June 1 "Anything" Norman Brown: June 8
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.
Stride employed left hand techniques from ragtime, wider use of the piano's range, and quick tempos. [1] Compositions were written but were also intended to be improvised. [1] The term "stride" comes from the idea of the pianist's left hand leaping, or "striding", across the piano. [2] The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse ...
Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 50 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres.He is one of the most recognized and respected jazz flutists in the history of jazz.
Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Downtown Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz: 5 Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley; Mr. Tipple's Recording Studio, San Francisco: 5 Jazz Workshop, San Francisco; SF Jazz Center, San Francisco; Yoshi's Jazz Club, Jack London Square, Oakland: 5 Colorado. Dazzle (Denver Performing Arts Complex), Denver: 5
This is a glossary of jazz and popular music terms that are likely to be encountered in printed popular music songbooks, fake books and vocal scores, big band scores, jazz, and rock concert reviews, and album liner notes. This glossary includes terms for musical instruments, playing or singing techniques, amplifiers, effects units, sound ...
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
Critical reception. On AllMusic Timothy Monger said, "Captured at one of their regular haunts, San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom, on the night of Saturday, February 23, this blazing gig heralds the dawn of the band's fabled Wall of Sound PA system, resulting in a clear, clean recording of era classics like "Row Jimmy", "Stella Blue", and "Eyes of the World" from their 1973 studio set Wake of ...
Bill Evans at Town Hall is a live album from 1966 by American jazz pianist Bill Evans and his trio. It was released as "Volume 1," but no subsequent volume appeared. A planned release of big-band material, featuring Evans, from the second part of the concert ended up being nixed, as according to Evans's manager, Helen Keane, the pianist "did not play his best" during the second half.
Allmusic describes it as a "brisk shot of R&B, worthy of any Stax artist or sounds that were emanating from Muscle Shoals during the mid '60s, with a bopping bass line, lively horn section, and rock-steady groove." The review goes on to say that "The horn section delivers the song's main melodic hook, punching up the chorus with accent lines ...