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"Three Times a Lady" is a 1978 song by American soul group Commodores for their album Natural High, written by lead singer Lionel Richie. It was produced by James Anthony Carmichael and Commodores. It was Commodores' first number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 , topping the chart for two weeks on August 12, 1978, and also reached number one ...
James's 1981 song "Sign of the Times" was sampled by Warren G and Nate Dogg in their 1994 single "Regulate". His 1980 song "Snowbird Fantasy" was sampled by French house musician and Le Knight Club member Eric Chedeville , also Known as "Rico the Wizard", in his 2009 single "Spell of Love", which was remixed later by DJ Sneak .
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes, which includes jazz standards, pop standards, and film song classics which have been sung or performed in jazz on numerous occasions and are considered part of the jazz repertoire. For a chronological list of jazz standards with author details, see the lists in the box on the right.
Relatively little has been written about sacred and liturgical jazz. In a 2013 doctoral dissertation, Angelo Versace examined the development of sacred jazz in the 1950s using disciplines of musicology and history. He noted that the traditions of black gospel music and jazz were combined in the 1950s to produce a new genre, "sacred jazz". [187]
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.
Frank Sinatra recorded "Witchcraft" three times in a studio setting. The first recording was in 1957, for his single release, and was later released on his compilation album All the Way (1961). Sinatra re-recorded "Witchcraft" for 1963's Sinatra's Sinatra , and finally recorded it as a duet with Anita Baker for Duets (1993).
The song's I-vi-ii-V7 chord progression has been used in countless jazz compositions, and is commonly known as "rhythm changes". [20] George Gershwin's last concert composition, Variations on "I Got Rhythm" was based on this song. [21] "Lazy River", [4] [22] a song by Hoagy Carmichael and Sidney Arodin, [23] was a hit for the Mills Brothers in ...
A remix (called a "Re-Recording") was done for "Jazz (We've Got)" and was featured on The Love Movement and Revised Quest for the Seasoned Traveller. "Your mic & my mic, come on, yo, no equal”, a Q-Tip line on "Jazz (We've Got) (Re-Recording)" can be heard in the chorus on "No Equal" by The Beatnuts from their 1993 EP Intoxicated Demons: The EP.