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Há 4 dias · O disco "Duke Ellington, north of the border" mostra como Duke Ellington transcendeu as fronteiras do Jazz.
Há 4 dias · Duke Ellington: 125 Years Young. April 29 marked the 125th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth in 1899. Catching the Ellington bug over the weekend, I figured what better way to kick off the week than with seven celebratory video clips and a bonus album [photo above of Duke Ellington in London in 1963 by John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins ]:
Há 4 dias · Duke Ellington by contrast was moody and aristocratic and he was looking to the future with his extraordinary-defining music and William Basie from Red Bank had a temperament that was heartfelt, compared to Armstrong who was looking to the past, Ellington to the future, William Basie was smack dab in the moment."
Há 2 dias · In a speech written for the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “much of the power of our Freedom Movement in the United States has come from this music.” King considered jazz music “triumphant” — and this belief is rooted in the widespread popularity of three men: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie, according to author Larry Tye. Respectively known ...
Há 4 dias · A new book by Larry Tye -- The Jazzmen -- traces how the popularity of musicians Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong and Count Basie affected the civil rights movement.
Há 4 dias · Some of the best-known black artists of the period include Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes. [Read more…] about The Harlem Renaissance: A Primer & Some Sources
Há 22 horas · Jun 7, 2024 • By Scott Mclaughlan, PhD Sociology. Gypsy jazz guitar extraordinaire Django Reinhardt (1910-1953) was the star of the remarkable Quintet of the Hot Club of France (1934-39), the most original European contribution in the history of jazz. Reinhardt led a colorful life: he survived a devastating fire to become the first Romani ...
