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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 ...
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
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.
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My Son the Jazz Drummer! (subtitled Modern Jazz Versions of Jewish and Israeli Songs) is an album by drummer Shelly Manne performing jazz adaptations of traditional and contemporary Jewish music, recorded in 1962 and released on the Contemporary label. [1] The album was re-released on CD in 2004 as Steps to the Desert.
Little House on the Prairie (1979) in season 5, episode 15, "The Craftsman", in multiple scenes with Isaac Singerman, a Jewish master woodworker who befriends Albert, and (1981) in season 7, episode 13, "Come Let us reason", in the scene where Percival's parents first come to Walnut Grove to meet Nellie and her parents. It is played in the ...
Masada was the first ensemble to perform Zorn's compositions inspired by Radical Jewish Culture and written to be performed by small groups of musicians. [1] Initially envisioned as a set of 100 "songs" notated within a limited number of staves and confined to specific modes or scales , Zorn's Masada project would eventually total 613 ...