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" Echoes of the Jazz Age " is a short essay by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in Scribner's Magazine in November 1931. [2][3] The essay analyzes the societal conditions in the United States which gave rise to the raucous historical era known as the Jazz Age and the subsequent events which led to the era's abrupt conclusion. The frequently anthologized essay ...
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 ...
Earl Rudolph " Bud " Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) [1] was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, [2] Powell's application of complex phrasing to the piano influenced both his contemporaries and later pianists including Walter Davis Jr., Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Barry Harris. [3] Born in the ...
Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Louis Armstrong created a template for what it means for a musician to be 'on tour.' How much of their accounts was pure myth?
Frank Vincent Zappa [nb 1] (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist ...
Blossom Dearie. Margrethe Blossom Dearie[1][a][2] (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist. [3] She had a recognizably light and girlish voice. [4][5][2][3] Dearie performed regular engagements in London and New York City over many years [4][2] and collaborated with many musicians, including Johnny Mercer ...
Joey DeFrancesco (April 10, 1971 – August 25, 2022) was an American jazz organist, trumpeter, saxophonist, and occasional singer. [3] He released more than 30 albums under his own name, and recorded extensively as a sideman with such leading jazz performers as trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist Houston Person, and guitarist John McLaughlin.
Scott Joplin (November 24, 1868 – April 1, 1917) was an American composer and pianist. Dubbed the "King of Ragtime ", [ 1 ] he composed more than 40 ragtime pieces, [ 2 ] one ragtime ballet, and two operas. One of his first and most popular pieces, the " Maple Leaf Rag ", became the genre's first and most influential hit, later being recognized as the quintessential rag. [ 3 ] Joplin ...