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The tune, in a version taken from Duke Ellington and his orchestra's 1941 album Hollywood, was included in the soundtrack of the 2008 video game Grand Theft Auto IV from the fictitious in-game jazz music radio station "JNR 108.5 (Jazz Nation Radio)". The song was the theme song of the Voice of America Jazz Hour, heard worldwide on shortwave ...
Written. 1934. Genre. Jazz. Songwriter (s) Vernon Duke. "Autumn in New York" is a jazz standard and popular song composed by Vernon Duke in Westport, Connecticut in the summer of 1934. It was written without a commission or for a specific show, but Duke offered it to producer Murray Anderson for his Broadway musical Thumbs Up!
Columbia, CBS, ARC. Songwriter (s) Joe Zawinul. "Birdland" is a jazz/pop song written by Joe Zawinul of the band Weather Report as a tribute to the Birdland nightclub in New York City, which appeared on the band's 1977 album Heavy Weather. The Manhattan Transfer won a Grammy Award with their 1979 version of the song, which had lyrics by Jon ...
Take Five. " Take Five " is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It was first recorded in 1959 and is the third track on Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet. [1][2] Frequently covered by a variety of artists, the track is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. Dave Brubeck was inspired to create an ...
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz -influenced effects. Commissioned by bandleader Paul Whiteman and written by George Gershwin, the work premiered in a concert titled "An Experiment in Modern Music" on February 12, 1924, in Aeolian Hall, New York ...
Snoop Dogg. "New York, New York" by Duke Ellington. "New York, New York" by Gerard Kenny. "New York, New York" by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five. "New York, New York" by Ja Rule featuring Fat Joe and Jadakiss. "New York, New York" by Johnny Winter. "New York, New York" by The Last Poets. "New York, New York" by Marc Jordan.
Contents. Music of New York City. The music of New York City is a diverse and important field in the world of music. It has long been a thriving home for popular genres such as jazz, rock, soul music, R&B, funk, and the urban blues, as well as classical and art music. It is the birthplace of hip hop, garage house, boogaloo, doo wop, bebop, punk ...
William Thomas Strayhorn (November 29, 1915 – May 31, 1967) [1] was an American jazz composer, pianist, lyricist, and arranger who collaborated with bandleader and composer Duke Ellington for nearly three decades.