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Blues for Sarka is a live album by the New York Jazz Quartet, recorded in 1978 and released on the Enja label. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] George Mraz wrote the title track for his daughter. [ 3 ]
Yaged was born in Brooklyn, New York and began playing the clarinet at the age of 12 after hearing Goodman's broadcasts for Nabisco in 1935.He studied under a clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic but turned down a classical career to play jazz in New York City nightclubs, such as Jimmy Ryan's and the Swing Club.
The National Jazz Museum in Harlem is dedicated to preservation and celebration of the jazz history, culture and music of Harlem, Manhattan, New York City.The museum was founded in 1997 by Leonard Garment, then Counsel to two U.S. presidents and an accomplished jazz saxophonist, Abraham David Sofaer, former U.S. district judge who gave the initial gift in honor of his brother-in-law Richard J ...
The new song, "Theme from New York, New York", begins with one of Kander's famous vamps, this one derived from the ragtime practice of putting the melody underneath a repeated note. [ 3 ] : 25–6 Liza Minnelli's performance was released as a single from the soundtrack album and peaked at #104 on the Billboard chart.
Jazz at Lincoln Center is an organization based in New York City. Part of Lincoln Center , the organization was founded in 1987 and opened at Time Warner Center (now Deutsche Bank Center ) in October 2004.
"Autumn in New York" is a jazz standard and popular song composed by Vernon Duke in Westport, Connecticut in the summer of 1934. It was written without a commission or for a specific show, but Duke offered it to producer Murray Anderson for his Broadway musical Thumbs Up!
The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert by Benny Goodman, Columbia Records catalogue item SL-160, is a two-disc LP of swing and jazz music recorded at Carnegie Hall in New York City on January 16, 1938. First issued in 1950, the landmark recording captured the premiere performance given by a big band in the famed concert venue. The event has ...
The directions began with the words "Take the A Train", referring to the then-new A subway service that runs through New York City, which at that time ran from eastern Brooklyn, on the Fulton Street Line opened in 1936, up into Harlem and northern Manhattan, using the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan opened in 1932.