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The song is arguably the most recorded popular song, and one of the top jazz standards. Billboard magazine conducted a poll of leading disk jockeys in 1955 on the "popular song record of all time"; four different renditions of "Stardust" made it to the list, including Glenn Miller's (1941) at third place and Artie Shaw's (1940) at number one.
1920s in jazz. The period from the end of the First World War until the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular music in America, although older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to cultural values. [1] Dances such as the Charleston and the Black Bottom were very popular during ...
B. Baby Dear. Backwater Blues. Basin Street Blues. Big Butter and Egg Man. Black and Blue (Fats Waller song) Blue Devil Blues. Blue Room (1926 song) Blue Skies (Irving Berlin song)
1921 – A Dangerous Maid (lyrics by Ira Gershwin). Premiered in Atlantic City. 1921 – The Broadway Whirl (co-composed with Harry Tierney, lyrics by Buddy DeSylva, Joseph McCarthy, Richard Carle and John Henry Mears) 1921 – George White's Scandals of 1921 (lyrics by Arthur Jackson, features the song South Sea Isles)
1914–1974. Website. dukeellington .com. Signature. Edward Kennedy " Duke " Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life.
Allowing jazz to rise up in American culture brought many unique things to music in 1920. New instrumental, orchestral, and rhythmic techniques were introduced, as well as twelve-bar blues, emotional expressiveness, a new scale, and unique forms (Murchison 98). In 1917, many jazz record companies began to conceal their identity because racial ...
Jelly Roll Morton. Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe ( né Lemott, [2] later Morton; c. September 20, 1890 – July 10, 1941), known professionally as Jelly Roll Morton, was an American ragtime and jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer of Louisiana Creole descent. [3] Morton was jazz's first arranger, proving that a genre rooted in improvisation could ...
Something for the Boys (1943 stage musical) "Could It Be You". ”The Leader of a Big-Time Band”. Mexican Hayride (1944 stage musical) "I Love You". Seven Lively Arts (1944 stage musical) "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye". Around the World (1946 stage musical) Kiss Me, Kate (1948 stage musical)