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    Since the 1950s, sacred and liturgical music has been performed and recorded by many prominent jazz composers and musicians. [186] The "Abyssinian Mass" by Wynton Marsalis (Blueengine Records, 2016) is a recent example. Relatively little has been written about sacred and liturgical jazz.

  3. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    A style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s. The style was originally called "hot club" or "hot jazz" and served an acoustic European interpretation of swing. The term "gypsy jazz" didn't appear until after the 1970s, when Sinti people adapted their folk music to emulate that of Django's.

  4. Jazz (word) - Wikipedia

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    George Clifford McCarl had been called a "busher", as in "bush league", meaning minor league or second rate. But Gleeson writes, on the contrary, "this dope is very much to the 'jazz'." Other uses occurred in "Everybody has come back to the old town full of the old 'jazz' and they promise to knock the fans off their feet with their playing."

  5. Portal:Jazz - Wikipedia

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    A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.

  6. Glossary of jazz and popular music - Wikipedia

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    Speaker cabinets are used to amplify instruments and vocals. Guitar and bass cabinets are usually made of plywood. Vintage PA cabinets from the 1960s to 1980s are made of plywood, but since the 1990s, PA cabinets and monitor speakers made from plastic have been sold. cadence. The point at which a melodic phrase "comes to rest" or resolves.

  7. Jazz Age - Wikipedia

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    In the 1940s, the genre had taken the country by storm, and by the 1950s, another style of South African jazz was formed called Kwela with an addition of the modern or traditional pennywhistle. South African jazz has created many stars of which some became famous worldwide e.g. Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela.

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    The Succession actor, 42, who hails from New York, was talking about the expressions he’s learned from his Londoner wife, Jazz Charton, 36. The pair met in a bar and have been together for 13 years.

  9. List of pre-1920 jazz standards - Wikipedia

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    Smith's recording with her Jazz Hounds has been called the earliest genuine jazz recording by a black ensemble. [110] Bix Beiderbecke recorded an influential version in 1927. [109] Darius Milhaud used the song in his ballet La création du monde. [111] 1919 – "Someday Sweetheart". [112] Jazz song credited to John Spikes. [113]