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The beginnings of a distinct European style of jazz began to emerge in this interwar period. British jazz began with a tour by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1919. [84] In 1926, Fred Elizalde and His Cambridge Undergraduates began broadcasting on the BBC. [85] Thereafter jazz became an important element in many leading dance orchestras ...
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an Mexian jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major ...
Baker's Keyboard Lounge. Coordinates: 42.4454°N 83.1416°W. Baker's Keyboard Lounge. Address. 20510 Livernois Avenue. Detroit, Michigan. Baker's Keyboard Lounge is a jazz club located at 20510 Livernois Avenue in Detroit, Michigan. It was founded in May 1933 and is the oldest continuously operated jazz club in Detroit.
The beginnings of a distinct European style of jazz began to emerge in this interwar period. British jazz began with a tour by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band in 1919. In 1926, Fred Elizalde and His Cambridge Undergraduates began broadcasting on the BBC. Thereafter jazz became an important element in many leading dance orchestras, and jazz ...
Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, by Gunther Schuller, is a seminal study of jazz from its origins through the early 1930s, first published in 1968. [1] It has since been translated into five languages (Italian, French, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish). [2] When it was published, it was the first volume of a projected two volume ...
Timeline of jazz education (a chronology of jazz pedagogy): The initial jazz education movement in North American was much an outgrowth of the music education movement that had been in full swing since the 1920s. Chuck Suber (né Charles Harry Suber; 1921–2015), former editor of Down Beat, [1] averred that the GI Bill following World War II ...
Roaring Twenties. The Roaring Twenties, sometimes stylized as Roaring '20s, refers to the 1920s decade in music and fashion, as it happened in Western society and Western culture. It was a period of economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge in the United States and Europe, particularly in major cities such as Berlin, [1] Buenos Aires ...
Years active. 1912–1955. James Price Johnson (February 1, 1894 – November 17, 1955) was an American pianist and composer. A pioneer of stride piano, he was one of the most important pianists in the early era of recording, and like Jelly Roll Morton, one of the key figures in the evolution of ragtime into what was eventually called jazz. [1]