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Ornette Coleman. Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) [ 1] was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. His pioneering works often abandoned the harmony ...
Jazz chordsare chords, chord voicingsand chord symbolsthat jazzmusicians commonly use in composition, improvisation, and harmony. In jazz chords and theory, most triadsthat appear in lead sheetsor fake bookscan have seventhsadded to them, using the performer's discretion and ear.[1] For example, if a tune is in the key of C, if there is a G ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
Clue (book series) The Clue series is a book series of 18 children's books published throughout the 1990s based on the board game Clue. The books are compilations of mini-mysteries that the reader must solve involving various crimes committed at the home of Reginald Boddy by six of his closest "friends".
Jazz Book Club. The Jazz Book Club ( JBC) was a publishing project of Sidgwick & Jackson, a London-based publisher. Herbert Jones, the editor, and a distinguished panel, selected the works. Sixty-six issues, and various extras were published from 1956 to 1967. [1]
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Sparky J's, previously known as the Cadillac Club, [1] was a popular jazz club in downtown Newark, New Jersey. [2] Sparky J's often featured soul jazz or funky jazz best exemplified by the organ combo, a band usually consisting of a Hammond B-3 organist, a saxophonist, a drummer, and a guitarist. [3] The club was located in downtown Newark, on ...
Jazzmen is a book on the history of jazz. It was edited by Frederic Ramsey, Jr. and Charles Edward Smith, and was published by Harcourt, Brace & Company in 1939. It was the first jazz history book published in the United States and helped establish a story of early jazz as well as renewing interest in those forms of music and their players.