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The School of Jazz and Contemporary Music is located at 55 West 13th Street. The school's 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) facility was designed to help young artists realize their goal of becoming successful music professionals.
Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea at New Orleans Jazz Fest 2008 "Spain" is an instrumental jazz fusion composition by jazz pianist and composer Chick Corea. It is likely Corea's most recognized piece, and is considered a jazz standard. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Jazz, Blues Terrestrial Mutual Musicians Foundation, Inc. Kansas City Missouri: Website: KRTU-FM: 91.7 MHz Jazz, Independent Terrestrial Trinity University: San Antonio Texas: Website: KRWV-LP: 99.3 MHz Smooth Jazz, Mainstream Terrestrial Gold Canyon Public Radio Inc. Gold Canyon Arizona: Website: KSBR: 88.5 MHz Mainstream Terrestrial ...
Smooth jazz as a radio format has its roots in the construction of what were once called "beautiful music" stations, which generally played fifteen-minute sets consisting of instrumentals bookending a vocal song or two. The incubators of the format were specialty shows at night or on the weekends, in places such as Atlanta (WQXI-FM and WVEE-FM ...
The mid- to late-1970s included songs "Breezin'" as performed by another smooth jazz pioneer, guitarist George Benson in 1976, the instrumental composition "Feels So Good" by flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, in 1978, "What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell along with his debut album was released the same year, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra's instrumental "Morning Dance", released in ...
Free jazz musicians make use of free improvisation to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes, tempos, melodies, or phrases. Ornette Coleman was an early and noted advocate of this style. 1950s -> Gypsy jazz: A style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt ...
Samba-jazz or jazz samba is an instrumental subgenre of samba that emerged in the bossa nova ambit in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil. [1] [2]The style consolidated the approach of Brazilian samba with American jazz, [3] especially bebop and hard bop, jazzy styles quite experienced by Brazilian musicians in scope of gafieiras and nightclubs especially in Rio de Janeiro.
Haerle began teaching in 1961 at Tri-County Community Schools in What Cheer, Iowa, where he was the Instrumental music director for elementary, junior high and high school. [ 1 ] In 1963 to 1966, as a graduate student at North Texas State University, Dan was one of three teaching assistants to Leon Breeden, director of the jazz studies program.