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Spirit of the Horn w/ Slide Hampton's World of Trombones (2002, MCG Jazz) American Song w/ Andy Bey (2004, Savoy) Dizzy's Business w/ Dizzy Gillespie Alumni All-Star Big Band (2005, MCG Jazz) Turn Up the Heath w/ Jimmy Heath Big Band (2006, Planet Arts) On the Real Side w/ Freddie Hubbard & New Jazz Composers Octet (2008, Hip Bop)
The Cry of Jazz is a 1959 documentary film by Edward O. Bland that connects jazz to African American history. [1] It uses footage of Chicago's black neighborhoods, performances by Sun Ra, John Gilmore, and Julian Priester and the music of Sun Ra and Paul Severson interspersed with scenes of musicians and intellectuals, both black and white, conversing at a jazz club.
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.
On November 7, 2000, 22 companion single-artist compilation albums, all titled Ken Burns Jazz, were released by the Verve and Columbia/Legacy labels. [2] A five-CD box set, Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music, was also released, along with a single album sampler of that box set (The Best of Ken Burns Jazz).
Dolly Parton released "Color Me America" in 2003 as a soothing balm post-9/11, singing, "I am red and white and blue / These are colors that ring true / To all I am and feel and love and do / I ...
A popular jazz standard, the song has been recorded by many artists, including Cab Calloway (1934), Coleman Hawkins (1935) and Eddie Durham (1936). The Benny Goodman Quartet played the song in their famous 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. [2] The tune remains popular in the gypsy jazz repertoire, having been performed by Wawau Adler and others.
1944 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers are Louis Armstrong , Benny Goodman , Lionel Hampton , Artie Shaw , Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden .
For a looser, more comprehensive A-Z list of jazz standards and tunes which have been covered by multiple artists, see the List of jazz tunes Index of articles associated with the same name This set index article includes a list of related items that share the same name (or similar names).