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2. Backing track - Wikipedia

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   A solo steel drum player performs with the accompaniment of pre-recorded backing tracks that are being played back by the laptop on the left of the photo.. A backing track is an audio recording on audiotape, CD or a digital recording medium or a MIDI recording of synthesized instruments, sometimes of purely rhythmic accompaniment, often of a rhythm section or other accompaniment parts that ...

3. Offstage musicians and singers in popular music - Wikipedia

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   When heavy metal band Kiss hired an offstage keyboardist, it was to fill in the band's sound during the live concerts with backing chords and deep bass notes. However, one of the band members felt that only guitarists should be seen on stage, due to the group's reputation as a guitar-based heavy metal band. [ 1 ]

4. Vocal jazz - Wikipedia

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   Jazz music has its roots in blues and ragtime and can also traced back to the New Orleans jazz tradition. [1] Jazz music is characterized by syncopated rhythms, improvisation, and unique tonality and pitch deviation. [1] In vocal jazz, this includes vocal improvisations called scat singing where vocalists imitate the instrumentalist's tone and ...

5. Session musician - Wikipedia

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   The requirement to read different types of music notation, improvise and/or "play by ear" varies according to the type of recording session and the genres of music being performed. Classical musicians and many jazz and popular music musicians are expected to read music notation and do sight-reading. In jazz, rock, and many popular music genres ...

6. List of jazz tunes - Wikipedia

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   This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.

7. Jazz at Lincoln Center - Wikipedia

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   Concerts are also broadcast live online. Educational programs are broadcast on the center's YouTube channel. Since 2015, the orchestra's albums have been issued on its own label, Blue Engine Records. [5] The center distributes jazz curriculums to high schools through its Essentially Ellington program. Professional musicians visit schools ...

8. Backing vocalist - Wikipedia

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   A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are used in a broad range of popular music, traditional music, and world music styles. Solo artists may ...

9. Don Ellis - Wikipedia

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   The tracks are notable for their revelations of the Ellis band's contemporary live sound, which was far more raucous than either of their previous live recordings. In early 1969, the Orchestra was back in Columbia Studios to record The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground , a collection of several pop songs (arranged by Ellis) and some Ellis ...