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Easy listening. Easy listening (including mood music [5]) is a popular music genre [6] [7] [8] and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to 1970s. [9] It is related to middle-of-the-road (MOR) music [1] and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non- rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular ...
Stomp progression. In music and jazz harmony, the Stomp progression is an eight-bar chord progression named for its use in the "stomp" section of the composition "King Porter Stomp" (1923) by Jelly Roll Morton. The composition was later arranged by Fletcher Henderson, adding greater emphasis on the Trio section, containing a highly similar ...
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 ...
The music. Mingus Moves (Atlantic SD 1653) is one of the late works of American jazz bassist, composer, and bandleader Charles Mingus. He hired three new musicians for the recording: Don Pullen on piano; Ronald Hampton on trumpet, and George Adams on tenor saxophone. Drummer Dannie Richmond, a stalwart of Mingus's bands in the 1950s and '60s ...
When Golson originally wrote the song, the chord for the first measure was a B-flat augmented chord. When Miles Davis recorded it, he changed that measure to accommodate two chords, an E minor seventh for the first two beats, and an A seventh for the third and fourth, which had Golson dismayed. Musical composition. The tune follows an ABA form.
Lainey Wilson and Chuck D joined U.S. Secretary of State Anthony J. Blinken and YouTube’s head of music Lyor Cohen in Washington D.C. to unveil the streaming platform’s partnership with with ...
Just Friends" is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The song was written in 1931 by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis. Although introduced by Red McKenzie and His Orchestra in October 1931, it first became a hit when singer Russ Columbo performed it with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra in 1932.
As of 2010, on the online music site www.lala.com, there were 161 listed albums or singles containing the song "Whispering". As of 2014, TJD Online, the online version of The Jazz Discography, listed 225 recording sessions, beginning with Ray Miller and his Black and White Melody Boys, who recorded it on about July 16, 1920, Okeh 4167-A.