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Al Jolson in 1929. Jewish Americans have played a significant role in jazz, a music genre created and developed by African Americans.As jazz spread, it developed to encompass many different cultures, and the work of Jewish composers in Tin Pan Alley helped shape the many different sounds that jazz came to incorporate. [1]
Jewish women have left their mark on the jazz music industry, making contributions both formally and informally. Miriam Bienstock (1923–2015), daughter to Russian-Jewish immigrants, played an important role during the early years of Atlantic Records, a label founded in 1947 that recorded numerous significant jazz and pop artists. Bienstock ...
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Jewish composers, musicians, and promoters had a prominent role in the transition from jazz and swing to doo-wop and rock 'n' roll in American popular music of the 1950s, [3] while Jewish businessmen founded many of the labels that recorded rhythm and blues during the height of the vocal group era.
Terry Gibbs Plays Jewish Melodies in Jazztime is a 1963 studio album by Terry Gibbs. It is the debut recording of Alice Coltrane , credited as Alice McCord or Alice Hagood. Track listing
Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and in domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer .
Cab Calloway was a famous black American Jazz singer who drew heavy influences from Jewish music, [3] even going so far to be considered an "Afro-Yiddishist." [2] Calloway's friendship with his Jewish manager, Irving Mills [4] was Calloway's main gateway into the world of Jewish music and songs.