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Jazz music is a multicultural music, created and developed by African Americans using European instruments with Jewish Americans and others mixing in to further diversify the music. [3] Jazz music was invented in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Jazz portal; Judaism portal; Pages in category "Jewish jazz musicians" The following 129 pages are in this category, out of 129 total.
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.
While Jazz is primarily considered an art form with African-American originators, many Jewish musicians have contributed to it including clarinetists Mezz Mezzrow, Shep Fields, [5] [6] Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw (the latter two swing bandleaders made significant contributions in bringing racial integration into the American music industry [7 ...
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
Jewish music is the music and melodies of the Jewish people. There exist both traditions of religious music, as sung at the synagogue and in domestic prayers, and of secular music, such as klezmer .
“Jazz is a Jewish creation,” automative tycoon Henry Ford wrote in his anti-Semitic publication, The International Jew.“ The mush, slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of ...
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.