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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 ...
World premiere of the Tri-Phonic Turntable, July 14, 1997, London. Record producer DJ Jazzy Jeff manipulating a record turntable in England in 2005. Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating new music, sound effects, mixes and other creative sounds and beats, typically by using two or more turntables and a cross fader -equipped ...
Cutting contest. A cutting contest is a type of musical battle that was traditionally held between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisation contests on other jazz instruments during the swing era. Up to the present time, the expression cutting in jazz is sometimes used, sometimes ...
Michael Tritsch of 303 magazine raved that the tour "broke new ground and set the bar high for future stadium tours", burning "its way into the history books". Commercial performance Swift broke many ticket sales and revenue records, including one at CenturyLink Field in Seattle (performance pictured). Ticket sales
Two weeks later, it became Jackson's sixth number-one single on the Hot 100, eleventh number-one single on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and ninth number-one single on the Dance Club Songs charts. At the time of its release, the song's three week trek to the top made it the second-fastest rising single in Hot 100 history, only behind The Beatles ...
June 25 – Prince releases his sixth album Purple Rain; the album sells over 20 million copies and gives Prince two US number one singles with "When Doves Cry" and "Let's Go Crazy". July–September. July 1 – During his performance at the first ever Cornerstone Festival in Grayslake, Illinois, Steve Taylor jumps off the stage, breaking his ...
Many of the performances took place in renowned jazz venues, such as the prestigious Dazzle Jazz Club in Denver (a sold-out event), the Ice House in Minneapolis and Blue Bamboo in Orlando. As part of the tour, Cafêzz participated in two special concerts, one of them at “Lamuza Parkeko Kasinoak” in Basque Country; [13] the other at the ...
In jazz, a turnaround is a passage at the end of a section which leads to the next section. This next section is most often the repetition of the previous section or the entire piece or song. [1] The turnaround may lead back to this section either harmonically, as a chord progression, or melodically .