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Jane Wooster Scott. Jane Wooster Scott is an American painter, [1] who was named by Guinness Book of World Records as the most reproduced artist in America. [2] She started painting at the age of 35 and has never had a lesson. [3] Her works hang on permanent display at the American embassies in Portugal and Australia, and have hung at the US ...
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
Singer Adelaide Hall recorded with Ellington in 1927, 1932, and 1933, [7] but only recorded two versions of "Sophisticated Lady", in 1944 (with Phil Green And His Rhythm) [8] and in 1976, on her album "Hall of Ellington." [9] The song appeared on the soundtrack of the 1989/90 documentary celebrating her life entitled Sophisticated Lady. [10]
1919. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 304.8 cm × 243.8 cm (120.0 in × 96.0 in) Location. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool is a 1919 oil painting by the English artist Edward Wadsworth. It is one of Wadsworth's most famous paintings [1] and depicts a freshly painted vessel with dazzle camouflage in ...
Betty Carter (1929–1998), jazz singer; Lou Carter (1918–2005), jazz pianist, composer, and songwriter; Eric Chasalow (born 1955), composer of acoustic and electronic music; Bill Chinnock (1947–2007), singer-songwriter and guitarist; part of the Asbury Park music scene with Bruce Springsteen in the late 1960s
Recorded by Ethel Waters on February 20, 1926, [1] it soon achieved chart success. [2] The song is not to be confused with a 1927 song titled "Sugar", written by Jack Yellen, Milton Ager, Frank Crum and Red Nichols. [3] The song has been recorded by numerous artists, and is considered a jazz standard. [4] Artists that have recorded the song ...
Free Jazz was the first album-length improvisation at thirty-seven minutes, unheard of at the time. The original LP package incorporated Jackson Pollock's 1954 painting The White Light . [10] The cover was a gatefold with a cutout window in the lower right corner allowing a glimpse of the painting; opening the cover revealed the full artwork ...