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Donovan Mitchell is an American professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the NBA. He was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in 2017 and traded to the Utah Jazz, where he played until 2022. He is a five-time NBA All-Star and won the Slam Dunk Contest in 2018.
The program was founded by jazz historian, composer, musician, and, at that time, conservatory president, Gunther Schuller. 1982: The Manhattan School of Music, a classical music institution since its founding in 1917, launched a jazz department in 1982 – one of the first in New York City. In 1984, the school established its Master of Music ...
Bix Beiderbecke was an American jazz cornetist, pianist and composer who influenced jazz soloists and composers. He played with various bands in the 1920s, recorded classics such as "Singin' the Blues" and "In a Mist", and died at age 28 in 1931.
The Dark Tree: Jazz and the Community Arts in Los Angeles. The George Gund Foundation Book in African American Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24591-1; Litweiler, John (1990). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80377-1; Dailey, Raleigh.
Learn about the history, programs, and achievements of one of the largest and most comprehensive music schools in the U.S. The college offers degrees and certificates in various disciplines, including jazz studies, and has a renowned music library and ensemble areas.
He was the author of two major books on the history of jazz, Early Jazz (1968) [21] and The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945. [22] His students included Irwin Swack, [23] Ralph Patt, [24] John Ferritto, Mohammed Fairouz, Gitta Steiner, Oliver Knussen, Nancy Zeltsman, Riccardo Dalli Cardillo [25] and hundreds of others.
Robert Leroy Johnson was born in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, possibly on May 8, 1911, [4] to Julia Major Dodds (born October 1874) and Noah Johnson (born December 1884). Julia was married to Charles Dodds (born February 1865), a relatively prosperous landowner and furniture maker, with whom she had ten children.
Javier Arau (September 30, 1975) is an American composer, saxophonist, conductor, theorist, author, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and executive director of New York Jazz Academy, leads the Javier Arau Jazz Orchestra, and is the author of several works on music theory and improvisation.