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"Salt Peanuts" is a contrafact of "I Got Rhythm" by George and Ira Gershwin: it has the same 32-bar AABA structure and harmony, but its melody is different. [3] It is a simple piece – "a four-measure riff phrase played twice in each A section, and a slightly more complex bridge (which incorporates the ubiquitous ♭ 9–7–8 figure twice)".
Jazz critic Scott Yanow concedes that the music included is classic, but dismisses the compilation over-all as "so-so" because of its brevity, because of the outdated and lightweight liner notes and because the material presented does not represent the complete sessions at which the material was played. [2]
Steamin' with the Miles Davis Quintet is an album by the Miles Davis Quintet which was released in July or August 1961 through Prestige Records. [1] [2] The recording was made at two sessions on May 11 and October 26, 1956 that produced four albums: Steamin, Relaxin' with The Miles Davis Quintet, Workin' with The Miles Davis Quintet and Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet.
"Groovin' High" is an influential 1945 song by jazz composer and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.The song was a bebop mainstay that became a jazz standard, [1] one of Gillespie's best known hits, [2] and according to Bebop: The Music and Its Players author Thomas Owens, "the first famous bebop recording". [3]
John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (/ ɡ ɪ ˈ l ɛ s p i / gil-ESP-ee; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. [2] He was a trumpet virtuoso and improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy Eldridge [3] but adding layers of harmonic and rhythmic complexity previously unheard in jazz.
The song’s final verse bluntly addressed the dangers of various STDs, with Salt-N-Pepa rapping: “Like a dumb son-of-a-gun, oops, he forgot the condoms/’Oh well,’ you say ‘What the hell ...
The squirrel's death sparked so much outrage that it prompted a state lawmaker to propose legislation to improve animal-rights statutes, calling the bill "Peanuts Law: Humane Animal Protection Act."
Sabrina Carpenter has something special ahead of her upcoming album.. On Thursday, Aug. 22, the 25-year-old singer dropped a teaser of her new song, "Taste," to her Instagram.The clip was released ...