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2 giorni fa · Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer. Nicknamed "Lady Day" by her friend and music partner, Lester Young, Holiday made a significant contribution to jazz music and pop singing.
3 giorni fa · Europa Radio Jazz is a non-profit organization aimed at providing listeners with musical and cultural information relevant to quality Jazz. Over the years we have also accumulated more than 15.000 hours of the best jazz music and we are keen to share our archives with all of you.
4 giorni fa · Charlie Parker, American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, a lyric artist generally considered the greatest jazz saxophonist. Parker was the principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop, and he was one of the three great revolutionary geniuses in jazz.
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I-Jazz. Un luogo aperto di condivisione per il jazz, un intenso programma di iniziative, 70 soci tra festival e rassegne. Dal 2008 al centro del jazz in Italia.
4 giorni fa · The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Last Updated: May 20, 2024 • Article History. Duke Ellington. Byname of: Edward Kennedy Ellington. Born: April 29, 1899, Washington, D.C., U.S. Died: May 24, 1974, New York, N.Y. (aged 75) Awards And Honors: Pulitzer Prize. Grammy Award (1979) Grammy Award (1976) Grammy Award (1972) Grammy Award (1971)
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- Duke Ellington grew up in Washington, D.C., in a secure middle-class family that encouraged his interests in the fine arts. He began studying piano...
- Benefiting from the expertise of a large ensemble that included several important jazz artists, Duke Ellington broke away from the conventions of b...
- Often collaborating with his longtime composing-arranging partner Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington was responsible for big-band jazz classics such a...
- Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer and bandleader of his time. One of the originators of big-band jazz, he led his band for more than 50...
2 giorni fa · Table of Contents. The Modes of the Major Scale. 1. Ionian or Major scale. 2. Dorian Minor Scale. 3. Phrygian Minor Scale. 4. Lydian Major (Lydian Scale) 5. Mixolydian Scale (Dominant Scale) 6.
4 giorni fa · He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age, and worldbeat in his music.
