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For the 2011 Woodstock Jazz Festival, Takayama and Kyrouac presented "Recordings That Revolutionized Jazz: Kind of Blue, Time Out and Bitches Brew" at Stage Left Cafe. The presentation explored the stylistic and compositional approaches of the recordings which were groundbreaking for its time and continue to influence jazz music today.
Television was an important source of work for jazz musicians in the early-mid-1960s; the GTV-9 house band, which provided music for programs like Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight employed many of best players on the Melbourne jazz/session scene and showcased younger entrants into the scene, such as The Red Onion Jazz Band.
Today jazz elements can be found in a great variety of musical styles, such as German Hip-Hop, House, Drum 'n' Bass, dance music, and many others. Jazz is in low demand on German television. Jazz clubs and other venues still must face the fact that the number of visitors is often difficult to predict and highly variable.
Duke Ellington was an important influence on mainstream jazz; his music during the swing era was not known for breaking rules. [2] Coleman Hawkins made significant contributions to big band music prior to introducing bebop to his style. [3] Johnny Hodges was a member of Duke Ellington's Orchestra and became a familiar voice within the orchestra ...
The News in Music (Tabloid Lament) (2017) by Thomas Meadowcroft is an orchestral work of TV news music specifically written for the concert hall. [16] Commissioned by the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra , the work positions orchestral news music, stylistically reminiscent of TV news music cues from the 1970s and 1980s, in a live ...
The following is a list of jazz-influenced classical compositions. Classical music has often incorporated elements or material from popular music of the composer's time. Jazz has influenced classical music, particularly early and mid-20th-century composers, including Maurice Ravel. "While Western classical music emphasizes structure, written ...
British jazz is a form of music derived from American jazz. It reached Britain through recordings and performers who visited the country while it was a relatively new genre, soon after the end of World War I. Jazz began to be played by British musicians from the 1930s and on a widespread basis in the 1940s, often within dance bands.
All Music Guide to Jazz; Feather, Leonard and Gitler, Ira. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Gioia, Ted. The History of Jazz; Gioia, Ted. The Jazz Standards; Kennedy, Rick. Jelly Roll, Bix, and Hoagy: Gennett Records and the Rise of America's Musical Grassroots; Kennedy, Rick. Little Labels, Big Sound: Small Record Companies and the Rise ...