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Jump blues
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Jump blues is an up-tempo style of blues, usually played by small groups and featuring saxophone or brass instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock, appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival. Jump blues evolved from the music of big bands such as those of Lionel Hampton and these bands of the early 1940s produced musicians such as Louis Jordan, Jack McVea, Earl Bostic, and Arnett Cobb. Blues and jazz were part of the musical world, with many accomplished musicians straddling both genres. Jump bands such as the Tympany Five, which came into being at the time as the boogie-woogie revival. Lionel Hampton recorded the stomping big-band blues song Flying Home in 1942, featuring a choked, screaming tenor sax performance by Illinois Jacquet, the song was a hit in the race category. When released, however, Billboard described the tune as an unusually swingy side. with a bounce in the medium tempo. Billboard also noted that Benny Goodman had a hand in writing the tune back in the old Goodman Sextet Days, Billboard went on to state that apart from the fact that it is Lionel Hamptons theme, Flying Home is a sure-fire to make the youngsters shed their nickels—and gladly. Five years later Billboard noted the inclusion of Flying Home in a show that was strictly for hepsters who go for swing and boogie, and beats in loud, hot unrelenting style a la Lionel Hampton. As this urban, jazz-based music became popular, both bluesmen and jazz musicians who wanted to play for the people began favoring a heavy. This music appealed to black listeners who no longer wished to be identified with life down home, Jump groups, employed to play for jitterbugs at a much lower cost than big bands, became popular with agents and ballroom owners. The saxophonist Art Chaney said e were insulted when an audience wouldnt dance. Jump blues was revived in the 1980s by artists such as Joe Jackson and Brian Setzer and is performed today by bands including Roomful of Blues, the Lucky Few, and Mitch Woods and His Rocket 88s. Contemporary swing bands, such as Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, african-American music List of jump blues musicians Swing revival West Coast blues Cohn, Lawrence, Humphrey, Mark A. Nothing but the Blues, The Music and the Musicians, jumptown, The Golden Years of Portland Jazz, 1942–1957. Deep Blues, A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta, escaping the Delta, Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. Richie Unterberger, Jump Blues at Allmusic. com Lindy Hop Style of Dancing used with Jump Blues
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Louis Jordan in 1946
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Rockabilly
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Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South. As a genre it blends the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blues, leading to what is considered classic rock, some have also described it as a blend of bluegrass with rock and roll. The term rockabilly itself is a portmanteau of rock and hillbilly, other important influences on rockabilly include western swing, boogie woogie, jump blues, and electric blues. An interest in the genre endures even in the 21st century, Rockabilly has left a legacy, spawning a variety of sub-styles and influencing other genres such as punk rock. There was a relationship between blues and country music from the very earliest country recordings in the 1920s. The first nationwide country hit was Wreck of the Old 97, backed with Lonesome Road Blues, during the 1930s and 1940s, two new sounds emerged. Recordings of Willss from the mid 1940s to the early 1950s include two beat jazz rhythms, jazz choruses, and guitar work that preceded early rockabilly recordings, wills is quoted as saying Rock and Roll. Why, man, thats the kind of music weve been playin since 1928. But its just basic rhythm and has gone by a lot of different names in my time and its the same, whether you just follow a drum beat like in Africa or surround it with a lot of instruments. The Maddox Brothers and Rose were at the edge of rockabilly with the slapped bass that Fred Maddox had developed. Maddox said, Youve got to have somethin they can tap their foot, or dance to, after World War II the band shifted into higher gear leaning more toward a whimsical honky-tonk feel, with a heavy, manic bottom end - the slap bass of Fred Maddox. They played hillbilly music but it sounded real hot and they played real loud for that time, too. The Maddoxes were also known for their antics and stuff. I mean it just wasnt us up there pickin and singing, there was something going on all the time. The demonstrative Maddoxes, helped release white bodies from traditional motions of decorum, more and more younger white artists began to behave on stage like the lively Maddoxes. Others believe that they were not only at the leading edge, Bill Monroe is known as the Father of Bluegrass, a specific style of country music. Many of his songs were in form, while others took the form of folk ballads, parlor songs. Bluegrass was a staple of music in the early 1950s
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Carl Perkins pictured around 1955
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Bill Haley and His Comets during a TV appearance.
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Gazzguzzlers use the classic instruments associated with rockabilly: a hollow-body guitar, and upright bass, and a pared-down drum kit.
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Rock and roll
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While elements of rock and roll can be heard in blues records from the 1920s and in country records of the 1930s, the genre did not acquire its name until the 1950s. For the purpose of differentiation, this deals with the first definition. The beat is essentially a blues rhythm with an accentuated backbeat, classic rock and roll is usually played with one or two electric guitars, a double bass or string bass or an electric bass guitar, and a drum kit. Beyond simply a style, rock and roll, as seen in movies and on television, influenced lifestyles, fashion, attitudes. In addition, rock and roll may have contributed to the civil rights movement because both African-American and white American teens enjoyed the music and it went on to spawn various genres, often without the initially characteristic backbeat, that are now more commonly called simply rock music or rock. The term rock and roll now has at least two different meanings, both in common usage, the American Heritage Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary both define rock and roll as synonymous with rock music. Encyclopædia Britannica, on the hand, regards it as the music that originated in the mid-1950s. In 1934, the song Rock and Roll by the Boswell Sisters appeared in the film Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round, in 1942, Billboard magazine columnist Maurie Orodenker started to use the term rock-and-roll to describe upbeat recordings such as Rock Me by Sister Rosetta Tharpe. By 1943, the Rock and Roll Inn in South Merchantville, in 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing this music style while popularizing the phrase to describe it. The origins of rock and roll have been debated by commentators. The migration of former slaves and their descendants to major urban centers such as St. The immediate roots of rock and roll lay in the rhythm and blues, then called race music, particularly significant influences were jazz, blues, gospel, country, and folk. The 1940s saw the use of blaring horns, shouted lyrics. In the same period, particularly on the West Coast and in the Midwest, similarly, country boogie and Chicago electric blues supplied many of the elements that would be seen as characteristic of rock and roll. Rock and roll arrived at a time of technological change, soon after the development of the electric guitar, amplifier and microphone. It was the realization that relatively affluent white teenagers were listening to music that led to the development of what was to be defined as rock. Because the development of rock and roll was a process, no single record can be identified as unambiguously the first rock. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Sign commemorating the role of Alan Freed and Cleveland, Ohio in the origins of rock and roll
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Chuck Berry in 1957
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Bill Haley and his Comets performing in the 1954 Universal International film Round Up of Rhythm
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Elvis Presley in a promotion shot for Jailhouse Rock in 1957
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Interscope Records
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Interscope Records is an American record company. At the time, it differed from most record companies by giving decision-making authority to its A&R staff and it had its first hit records less than a year after it was founded and achieved profitability in 1993. In 1992, Interscope acquired the rights to market and distribute the hardcore rap label Death Row. Albums by Death Row artists included rappers Tupac Shakur, Dr. Dre, as a result, Time Warner severed ties with Interscope by selling its 50 percent stake back to Field and Iovine for $115 million in 1995. In 1996, 50% of the label was acquired by the MCA Music Entertainment Group for a reported $200 million, Iovine served as chairman and CEO until May 2014. He was succeeded by John Janick, Interscope is headquartered in Santa Monica, California. The labels best-selling artists include U2, Eminem, Lady Gaga, in 1989, Ted Field began to build Interscope Records as a division of his film company, Interscope Communications. To run it, he hired John McClain, who had played a role in Janet Jacksons success at A&M Records, and Tom Whalley. Separately, Iovine, who had produced records by U2, Bruce Springsteen, I thought, Music is going to change, Iovine said in 1997. Young bands arent going to be asking for me, but I love working with the new thing. I always liked the part of the business thats the first time you hear something, Iovine and Field were introduced by Paul McGuinness, then U2s manager. After a series of negotiations led by David Geffen, they came to an agreement, in a 1997 article in Rolling Stone, David Wild wrote, Interscopes start-up coincided with a period of incredible change in the music world. Nirvana had ushered in the alternative revolution, based in Westwood, California, Interscope was run by music men. It was a departure from the industry practices of the 1970s and 1980s. A founding tenet of the label was that artists would have creative control. Interscopes first release was Rico Suave by Ecuadoran rapper Gerardo in December 1990, Primus Interscope debut was released in May, followed by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunchs Music for the People in July. It included the #1 single Good Vibrations, two days after first hearing his demo, Whalley signed Tupac Shakur, and in November 1991, Interscope released 2pacalypse Now, Shakurs studio debut. Interscope began to develop a significant presence in the genre in 1992
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Hollywood Records
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Hollywood Records, Inc. is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label focuses in pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, the label also releases Marvel Studioss soundtrack and compilation albums in conjunction with Marvel Music. At the time, the company was limited to the release of soundtracks from Touchstone, lawyer Peter Paterno was the first president of the label, until his resignation in 1993 because of the divisions lackluster sales. In 1997, Disney acquired Mammoth Records, in order to get a record label that could succeed. However, the acquisition of Mammoth was a failure and the label was closed and integrated to Hollywood in 2003. In 1998, the decided to form Buena Vista Music Group, integrating the operations of Walt Disney Records along with Hollywood, Lyric Street, Mammoth. Bob Cavallo, former manager of Earth, Wind & Fire and Prince was appointed as chairman of the group and this movement looked to organize the music operations of the company under a more integrated direction. The launch of Duffs career represents a new model for the record, utilising the synergies around the company, including important outlets like Disney Channel, Radio Disney. Duffs albums released under Hollywood proved to be successful including 2004s Hilary Duff. Their musical careers proved that the label had become a success, the label also continued to release soundtracks from films and TV shows, mainly those derived from Marvel Studios productions. In 2010, Hollywood absorbed the operations of country music label Lyric Street Records. In 2011, Queen left EMI for Universal-owned Island Records, with Hollywood continuing to remain the groups North American music distributor. In January 2012, after 14 years of a successful tenure, Bob Cavallo retired as chairman of the Group, since 2013, Hollywood Records also uses the brand name DMG Nashville to specialize in country music. The genre label was founded to provide music licensing for Bigger Picture Music Group, after Bigger Pictures closure in 2014, DMG Nashville released its first studio album, Lucy Hales Road Between. Hollywood Basic was Hollywood’s short-lived hip-hop subsidiary, run by Dave Funkenklein and it also released Shadows Legitimate Mix on the B-side of a single by the group Zimbabwe Legit in 1992. Although the BASIC Beats Sampler confirmed its release date for April 1992, other notable releases came from Organized Konfusion, its challenging second album, Stress, The Extinction Agenda, was widely acclaimed. The label was home of Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, although, following the shooting death of Charizma in 1993. This would later inspire Peanut Butter Wolf to found Stones Throw Records in order to make this music available, acts on Hollywood BASICs roster included Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf, Lifers Group, Organized Konfusion, Raw Fusion, Hi-C, and Zimbabwe Legit
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Surfdog Records
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Surfdog Records is an independent record label, music publishing company, merchandising company, and marketing company based in Encinitas, California, United States. Its roster is diverse and includes artists of the rock, punk, swing, rockabilly, reggae, lounge, Surfdog Records officially began as a record label in 1993. Today, in addition to being an Independent record label, other divisions of the company are Dave Kaplan Management Inc, Surfdog Music Publishing and Licensing, Surfdog Merchandising, Surfdog Entertainment Marketing and Surfdogs Java Hut. Rockabilly and big band jazz musician Brian Setzer, also managed by Dave Kaplan Management Inc. has released albums through Surfdog Records. Since 2000, Setzer has won three GRAMMY Awards, as well as receiving his seventh GRAMMY nomination in 2007 for his album Wolfgangs Big Night Out. Dave Stewart, best known for his work with British pop-rock duo Eurythmics, joined Surfdogs roster in 2007, followed by his 2011 release through Surfdog Records The Blackbird Diaries. British soul singer Joss Stone released her studio album LP1 through Surfdog Records in partnership with her own Stoned Records in 2011. Stone co-wrote and co-produced the album with Dave Stewart, campbell in 2012 received a GRAMMY Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to music throughout his 50 years plus career. In 2013, Surfdog announced the signing of a collaboration with rock and roll legend Eric Clapton for Claptons new record Old Sock, released in March 12,2013. On April 22,2014, Drake Bell released his first studio album since 2006s Its Only Time with Universal Motown Records, the record debuted at #182 on the Billboard 200, #50 on the Billboard Top Rock Albums, and #32 on the Billboard Top Independent Albums charts. It sold 2,000 copies in its first week of release, the record contains songs originally by Billy Joel, Queen, The Kinks, Stray Cats, and more. Brian Setzer, frontman of Stray Cats and also on the Surfdog roster, bull, a song on Ready Steady Go. was on the top 10 charts in Mexico for several weeks. On May 19,2014, Release of The Burning of Rome’s Year of The Ox, on July 29,2014, Eric Clapton & Friends released The Breeze, An Appreciation of JJ Cale. The Breeze is full of covers of songs originally by JJ Cale and contains vocals by Mark Knopfler, Willie Nelson, John Mayer, Tom Petty, the album received much attention, achieving a #2 debut on the Billboard Top 200 album charts. On August 12,2014, Brian Setzer released his newest record, the record contains new music from Setzer and was widely accepted by music critics. Lets Shake was the first single of the record, on October 6,2014, The Burning of Rome were one of the biggest winners at the 2014 San Diego Music Awards. Along with Jason Mraz they led the nomination pool and they won Best Live Performer, Best Alternative Album for Year of The Ox, and Song of the Year for God of Small Things. On October 21,2014, Brian Setzers 1959 Gretsch 6120 was inducted into the world-renowned Smithsonian Institution in Washington D. C
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Stray Cats
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The group had numerous hit singles in the UK, Australia, Canada and the U. S. The Stray Cats quickly developed a following in the New York music scene playing at CBGB. When the Cats heard a rumor that there was a revival of the 1950s Teddy Boy youth subculture in England and they then spearheaded the nascent rockabilly revival, by blending the 1950s Sun Studio sound with modern punk musical elements. The band first appeared in the middle of 1979 performing under a number of names including the Tomcats, the Teds, and Bryan, since 1983 they have used only Stray Cats as their name. The band name Stray Cats had already appeared in the 1973 rock n roll film Thatll Be the Day. In the middle of 1980 the Cats found themselves being courted by record labels including Virgin Records, Stiff Records, word quickly spread and soon members of The Rolling Stones, The Who and Led Zeppelin were at their shows. After a gig in London, Stray Cats met producer Dave Edmunds, well known as a roots rock enthusiast for his work with Rockpile and as a solo artist. Edmunds offered to work with the group, and they entered the studio to record their debut album, Stray Cats. They had three hits that year with Runaway Boys, Rock This Town, and Stray Cat Strut, the UK follow-up to Stray Cats, Gonna Ball, was not as well-received, providing no hits. Yet the combined sales of their first two albums were enough to convince EMI America to compile the best tracks from the two UK albums and issue an album in the U. S. in 1982. The record went on to double platinum in the US. Reflecting in 2012, Setzer said it was silly to break up the Stray Cats at the peak of our success. Setzer went on to a career, retaining Byrnes and exchanging his rockabilly focus for a more wide-ranging roots rock/Americana sound on albums such as 1986s The Knife Feels Like Justice. In 1986, the Stray Cats reunited in Los Angeles, in 1989, they reunited once again for the album Blast Off. which was accompanied by a tour with US blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. No longer with EMI America, they entered the studio with Nile Rodgers for the record titled Lets Go Faster, after 1992s Dave Edmunds-produced Choo Choo Hot Fish, and the cover album Original Cool, the group called it quits again. In 2004, the Stray Cats reunited for a tour of Europe. A live album culled from concerts, Rumble in Brixton, included one new studio track. In 2007, they reunited again for a successful and long-awaited US tour with ZZ Top
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Stray Cats in Japan
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The band playing in Gijon.
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Brian Setzer at a concert.
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Swing music
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Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of American music that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s. The name swing came from the swing feel where the emphasis is on the off–beat or weaker pulse in the music, Swing bands usually featured soloists who would improvise on the melody over the arrangement. The danceable swing style of big bands and bandleaders such as Benny Goodman was the dominant form of American popular music from 1935 to 1946, the verb to swing is also used as a term of praise for playing that has a strong groove or drive. Notable musicians of the era include Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Woody Herman. Swing has roots in the late 1920s as larger ensembles began using written arrangements, a typical song played in swing style would feature a strong, anchoring rhythm section in support of more loosely tied wind and brass. The most common style consisted of having a soloist take center stage, Swing music began to decline in popularity during World War II because of several factors. By the late 1940s, swing had morphed into traditional pop music, or evolved into new styles such as jump blues, Swing music saw a revival in the late 1950s and 1960s with pop vocalists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, and Ella Fitzgerald. Swing blended with other genres to create new styles, in country music, artists such as Jimmie Rodgers, Moon Mullican and Bob Wills introduced many elements of swing along with blues to create a genre called western swing. Gypsy swing is an outgrowth of Venuti and Langs jazz violin swing, in the 1970s, and 1980s, fans of big band music attended swing music performances at supper clubs. In the late-1980s a trendier, more urban-styled swing-beat emerged called new jack swing, in the late 1990s and into the 2000s there was a swing revival, led by Squirrel Nut Zippers, Brian Setzer, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, and Lavay Smith. In Canada, some of the early 2000s records by The JW-Jones Blues Band included swing revival elements, the 1920s saw parallel trends in jazz and popular music that would later converge into the swing style. New Orleans style jazz was based on a meter and contrapuntal improvisation led by a trumpet or cornet, typically followed by a clarinet. The rhythm section consisted of a tuba and drums, and sometimes a banjo, by the early 1920s guitars and pianos sometimes substituted for the banjo and a string bass sometimes substituted for the tuba. Further innovations in small ensemble playing led to development of the Chicago style identified with Louis Armstrong, a stint with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra familiarized him with arranged ensemble playing that differed from the New Orleans style, in which saxophones became the dominant sound among the reeds. Armstrong brought those back to his smaller ensembles, the soloist played over an ensemble relegated to a supporting role in the background. The string bass also lent itself to playing in a 4/4 rhythm rather than the 2/4 rhythm dictated by the tuba. The new format gave the soloist the opportunity to play with more rhythmic freedom, but playing with swing remained the province of the soloist, not the ensemble. The late 1920s saw increasingly sophisticated arrangements used by bigger ensembles, some arrangements used call-response between horn sections to build the melody
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Benny Goodman, one of the first swing bandleaders to achieve widespread fame.
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Frank Sinatra
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Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli
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Brian Setzer
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Brian Robert Setzer is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with his swing revival band, Setzer was born April 1959 in Massapequa, New York. He started on the euphonium and played in bands when he was in school. He found a way to jazz at the Village Vanguard, though as he got older he got interested in rock, punk. He was a member of the Bloodless Pharaohs and the Tomcats, the Tomcats became the Stray Cats when double bassist Lee Rocker and drummer Slim Jim Phantom joined. In 1980, thinking they might have more success in England than in America, they sold their instruments to pay for airplane tickets and flew to London. After performing in London for a few months, they met Dave Edmunds, Edmunds produced their debut album, Stray Cats, which yielded two hit singles, Stray Cat Strut and Rock This Town. The second album, Gonna Ball, was less successful, the band returned to America and released Built for Speed, produced again by Dave Edmunds, with songs collected from their first two albums. Helped by their music videos on MTV, the Stray Cats became popular in America and their next album, Rant n Rave with the Stray Cats produced the hit Sexy +17. The Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, though they reunited occasionally, recorded, after recording three albums with different producers, they returned to Dave Edmunds for Choo Choo Hot Fish. After the Stray Cats disbanded in 1984, Setzer began a career that included working as a sideman for other acts. On his first solo album, The Knife Feels Like Justice, he turned away from rockabilly and moved toward rhythm and blues, the album was produced by Don Gehman and featured Kenny Aronoff on drums. Both men had worked on albums by Mellencamp, Setzer returned to his love of music from the 1950s, this time the jump blues of Louis Prima. In the 1980s, he resurrected rockabilly, and in the 1990s and he assembled the Brian Setzer Orchestra, a seventeen piece big band that got the publics attention with a cover version of Primas Jump, Jive an Wail from the album The Dirty Boogie. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, the album Wolfgangs Big Night Out featured Setzers interpretation of classical pieces, such as Beethovens Symphony No.5 and Für Elise. Wolfgang earned Setzer his eighth Grammy nomination, this time for Best Classical Crossover Album and he produced the album Ready Steady Go. by Drake Bell and played guitar on two songs. Setzer has been married three times, most recently in 2005 to Julie Reiten, a singer with the Dustbunnies. No.152 US Nitro Burnin Funny Daddy Rockabilly Riot Vol.1, A Tribute to Sun Records 13 No.2 JAP Red Hot & Live Setzer Goes Instru-Mental, Rock This Town High School Confidential Stray Cat Strut Rip It Up
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Brian Setzer live in Salzburg, 2006
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Setzer performing in 2004
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Brian Setzer playing with his orchestra on June 29, 2006 in the East Room of the George W Bush White House during the entertainment following the official dinner in honor of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi ’s visit to the United States.
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Johan Frandsen, frontman from Swedish band The Knockouts and Brian Setzer on stage at the Helsinki Ice Hall, Finland, July 2011 as part of the European leg of the Brian Setzer Rockabilly Riot 2011
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Louis Prima
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Louis Prima was an Italian-American singer, actor, songwriter, bandleader, and trumpeter. From the 1940s through the 1960s, his music further encompassed early R&B and rocknroll, boogie-woogie, Prima made prominent use of Italian music and language in his songs, blending elements of his Italian identity with jazz and swing music. Prima was from a family in New Orleans. His father, Anthony Prima, was the son of Leonardo Di Prima, Prima was the second child of four, his older brother, Leon, was born in 1907, while his sisters Elizabeth and Marguerite were younger. Marguerite died when she was three years old, Leon, Louis, and Elizabeth were all baptized at St. Anns Parish. They lived in a house at 1812 St. Peter Street in New Orleans, in a neighborhood populated by Italians, Poles, Arabs, Jews. Primas mother, Angelina, was a first-generation Italian American, a music lover, she made sure that each child played an instrument. Prima was assigned the violin and started out playing at St. Anns Parish and he became interested in jazz when he heard black musicians, including Louis Armstrong. Clubs such as Matrangas, Joe Segrettas, Tontis Social Club, according to author Garry Boulard in his book Louis Prima, Prima paid attention to the music coming from clubs and watched his older brother Leon play the cornet. When Leon left the house to one summer in Texas. He formed a band in 1924 with his childhood friends Irving Fazola, Prima attended Jesuit High School but transferred to Warren Easton High in the fall of 1926. At Warren Easton, he played with the Eastonites, the school band, in 1927, he partnered with fellow musician Frank Federico and the pair played at The Whip, a run-down French Quarter nightclub. By the spring of 1928, Prima decided he would become a professional musician, after finishing high school in New Orleans, Prima had a few unsuccessful gigs, including when he joined the Ellis Stratako Orchestra in 1929. Prima, Federico and saxophonist Dave Winstein drove to Florida for a gig and they made it to a relatives house, where they were given money for gas and a meal. He joined Joseph Cherniavskys Orchestra in 1929 at Jefferson Parish and he got a temporary job playing on the steamship Capital that docked on Canal Street. Although the Capital did not provide him with a big break for his career and they married on June 25,1929. From 1931 to 1932 Prima occupied his time by performing in the Avalon Club owned by his brother Leon and his first break was when Lou Forbes hired him for daily afternoon and early evening shows at The Saenger. New York was an attraction for hungry musicians during the Great Depression and it posed numerous risks, but all of the best artists in the nation made it in New York if not anywhere else
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The Wildest. is an album by Louis Prima, first released in 1956. It features singer Keely Smith with saxophonist Sam Butera and the Witnesses and it is considered an innovative mixture of early rock and roll, jump blues and jazz as well as eccentric humor. Louis Prima was a well-known 1930s and 1940s trumpeter and singer who had a series of hit singles at that time. He initially gained popularity in his city of New Orleans. By 1954, Prima had joined a Louisiana band led by Sam Butera, with Primas stage partner and wife Keely Smith, he, Butera and the Witnesses secured a gig at the Sahara Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. They soon became the most popular act in that city, on April 19,1956 the band gathered at the casino lounge to record tracks for the album. Capitol Records attempted to retain Primas in person performance and spirit to capture what he referred to as three oclock in the morning at the Sahara with the group. One of the songs recorded, Jump, Jive, an Wail would become a hit through Brian Setzers cover version in 1998, the Wildest. was reissued on August 13,2002 by producer Michael Cuscuna. The album contains four tracks recorded on September 13,1956 as well as new liner notes by the producer. Allmusic expressed that The Wildest. is the gem of Louis Primas catalogue, none of his other efforts transcend its raunchy mix of demented gibberish, blaring sax, and explosive swing, which rocked as hard as anything released at the time. The album is considered a collection of Primas signature recordings, the Wildest. is noted in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In it, critic Will Fulford-Jones states, this is simply irrepressible music that more than matches its cover shot, Prima is joyous, rumbustious, and irresistible
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The euphonium is a large, conical-bore, baritone-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, meaning well-sounding or sweet-voiced. The euphonium is an instrument, nearly all current models are piston valved. The euphonium is an instrument known for its distinctive tone color. A person who plays the euphonium is sometimes called a euphoniumist, euphophonist, or a euphonist, while British players often colloquially refer to themselves as euphists, similarly, the instrument itself is often referred to as eupho or euph. The euphonium is part of the family of brass instruments and it is sometimes confused with the baritone horn. The two instruments are easily interchangeable to the player, with modification of breath and embouchure. The cylindrical baritone offers a brighter sound and the conical euphonium offers a mellower sound, several late 19th century music catalogs sold a euphonium-like instrument called the B♭ bass. In these catalog drawings, the B♭ Bass had thicker tubing than the baritone, along the same lines, drum and bugle corps introduced the Bass-baritone, and distinguished it from the baritone. The thicker tubing of the three-valve B♭ bass allowed for production of strong false-tones, ferdinand Sommers original name for the instrument was the euphonion. It is sometimes called the tenor tuba in B♭, although this can refer to other varieties of tuba. Names in other languages, as included in scores, can be ambiguous as well and they include French basse, saxhorn basse, and tuba basse, German Baryton, Tenorbass, and Tenorbasshorn, Italian baritono, bombardino, eufonio, and flicorno basso. The most common German name, Baryton, may also have caused the American use of the term baritone for the instrument with the influx of German musicians to the United States in the nineteenth century. As a baritone-voiced brass instrument, the euphonium traces its ancestry to the ophicleide, the search for a satisfactory foundational wind instrument that could support masses of sound above it took some time. With the invention of the valve system c. 1818, the construction of instruments with an even sound. While Saxs family of saxhorns were invented at about the same time, the euphonium, like the tenor trombone, is pitched in concert B♭. For a valved brass instrument like the euphonium, this means that when no valves are in use the instrument will produce partials of the B♭ harmonic series. It is generally orchestrated as an instrument like the trombone
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The serpent, the oldest ancestor of all low brass instruments
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A euphonium (L) and tuba (R), the two lowest conical-bore instruments
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The Village Vanguard is a jazz club located at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22,1935, by Max Gordon, at first, it featured many forms of music, such as folk music and beat poetry, but it switched to an all-jazz format in 1957. For years prior to 1935, the Vanguard’s proprietor, Max Gordon and his first attempt at a Village Vanguard opened in 1934 on Charles Street and Greenwich Avenue. Gordon intended for the Vanguard to be a forum for poets and artists as well as a site for musical performances. Yet, due to insufficient facilities, Gordon was refused a license from the police department and was unable to create the club that he originally envisioned. ”In 1934, Gordon moved his business and purchased the Golden Triangle. The Golden Triangle, first opened its doors in 1935, the Golden Triangles basement facility structure resembled that of an isosceles triangle. After purchasing the property, Gordon changed the name of the club to the Village Vanguard, like its prototype on Charles Street, the Vanguard was initially dedicated to poetry readings and folk music. Painters would go there to have discussions regarding the Spanish Civil War, political posters dotted the walls, enhancing the atmosphere of intensity and discourse. The club also had a rich history, with comedians like Phil Leeds performing there. Yet throughout the thirties and forties, amidst the neo-bohemian culture that flourished in the Village, “The biggest reason my pals and I went to the Vanguard, though, was because there were jazz jam sessions in the afternoons on Sundays. You could go hear Lester Young, Ben Webster, all the greatest jazz musicians for fifty cents at the door, or something like that. ”Even though jazz was not yet the main attraction at the club, the Vanguard was still a haven for the then established small group swing idiom. In the 1930s and 1940s, performers of the standing of Sidney Bechet, Una Mae Carlisle, Art Hodes, and Mary Lou Williams performed at the Vanguard. The wife of Max Gordon, Lorraine Gordon, has commented on the growth of jazz at the club, stating “in time, Max began to book acts, many proved to be high-caliber jazzmen. ”In 1940, Roy Eldridge performed at the Vanguard. His virtuosic performance coupled with his dedicated following presented the possibility that jazz sets could be at the top of the bill, as modern jazz developed in the 1940s, small group sets began to dominate the Vanguard scene. The maturation of jazz at the Vanguard can be attributed to the growing interest in and identification with the music among college students. In 1940, a resident trio was formed that included the pianist Eddie Heywood, along with Zutty Singleton, mirroring the culture in the Village, the jazz scene at the Vanguard was steadily growing. By 1957, one writes, “Gordon reversed his policy, putting jazz at the top of the bill. Thus the Vanguard booked Miles Davis, Horace Silver, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, the story of Monk’s introduction to the Vanguard began with the first ever encounter between Max and Lorraine
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In 1976
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Maxine Sullivan, March 1947
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Dexter Gordon and Benny Bailey, 1977
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Big Joe Turner
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Joseph Vernon Big Joe Turner, Jr. was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. According to the songwriter Doc Pomus, Rock and roll would have never happened without him and his greatest fame was due to his rock-and-roll recordings in the 1950s, particularly Shake, Rattle and Roll, but his career as a performer endured from the 1920s into the 1980s. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987, known as The Boss of the Blues and Big Joe Turner, Turner was born in Kansas City. His father was killed in an accident when Joe was four years old. He first discovered a love of music in his involvement at church and he began singing on street corners for money, quitting school at age fourteen to work in Kansas Citys nightclubs, first as a cook, and later as a singing bartender. The Sunset was managed by Piney Brown and it featured separate but equal facilities for caucasian patrons. Turner wrote Piney Brown Blues in his honor and sang it throughout his entire career. At that time Kansas City nightclubs were subject to frequent raids by the police, wed walk in, sign our names and walk right out. Then we would cabaret until morning and his partnership with Johnson proved fruitful. C. Eventually they were seen by the talent scout John H, in part because of their appearance at Carnegie Hall, Turner and Johnson had a major success with the song Roll Em Pete. The track was basically a collection of blues lyrics. It was a song that Turner recorded many times, with combinations of musicians. Besides Roll Em, Pete, Turners best-known recordings from this period are probably Cherry Red, I Want a Little Girl, Cherry Red was recorded in 1939 for the Vocalion label, with Hot Lips Page on trumpet and a full band in attendance. The next year Turner contracted with Decca and recorded Piney Brown Blues, in 1941, he went to Los Angeles and performed in Duke Ellingtons revue Jump for Joy in Hollywood. He appeared as a policeman in a comedy sketch called Hes on the Beat. Los Angeles was his home for a time, and during 1944 he worked in Meade Lux Lewiss Soundies musical movies and he sang on the soundtrack recordings but was not present for filming, and his vocals were mouthed by the comedian Dudley Dickerson for the camera. In 1945 Turner and Pete Johnson established their bar in Los Angeles and that same year he contracted with National Records company, and recorded under Herb Abramsons supervision. His first hit single was a cover of Saunders Kings S. K. Blues and he recorded the songs My Gals a Jockey and the risqué Around the Clock the same year, and the Aladdin company released Battle of the Blues, a duet with Wynonie Harris
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Big Joe Turner performing on the Rock and Roll Revue (1955)
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Elvis Presley
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Elvis Aaron Presley was an American singer and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is referred to as the King of Rock and Roll. Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and relocated to Memphis and his music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was a popularizer of rockabilly. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, Presleys first RCA single, Heartbreak Hotel, was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances. In November 1956, Presley made his debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service, in 1973, Presley featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of drug abuse severely damaged his health. Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century and he won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Presley was born on January 8,1935, in Tupelo, Mississippi, to Gladys Love and Vernon Elvis Presley, Jesse Garon Presley, his identical twin brother, was delivered stillborn 35 minutes before his own birth. Thus, as a child, Presley became close to both parents and formed an especially close bond with his mother. The family attended an Assembly of God, where he found his musical inspiration. Although he was in conflict with the Pentecostal church in his later years, rev. Rex Humbard officiated at his funeral, as Presley had been an admirer of Humbards ministry. Presleys ancestry was primarily a Western European mix, including Scots-Irish, Scottish, German, gladyss great-great-grandmother, Morning Dove White, was possibly a Cherokee Native American. Gladys was regarded by relatives and friends as the dominant member of the small family, Vernon moved from one odd job to the next, evincing little ambition. The family often relied on help from neighbors and government food assistance, the Presleys survived the F5 tornado in the 1936 Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak. In 1938, they lost their home after Vernon was found guilty of kiting a check written by the landowner, Orville S. Bean and he was jailed for eight months, and Gladys and Elvis moved in with relatives
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Presley in a publicity photograph for the 1957 film Jailhouse Rock
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Presley's birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi
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Presley in a Sun Records promotional photograph, 1954
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The "iconic cover" of Presley's 1956 debut album featuring a photo taken July 31, 1955, in Tampa, Florida
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Eddie Cochran
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Edward Raymond Eddie Cochran was an American musician. Cochrans rockabilly songs, such as Twenty Flight Rock, Summertime Blues, Cmon Everybody and he experimented with multitrack recording, distortion techniques and overdubbing even on his earliest singles. He played the guitar, piano, bass and drums and his image as a sharply dressed and good-looking young man with a rebellious attitude epitomized the stance of the 1950s rocker, and in death he achieved an iconic status. Cochran was involved with music from an age, playing in the school band. In 1954, he formed a duet with the guitarist Hank Cochran, and his first success came when he performed the song Twenty Flight Rock in the film The Girl Cant Help It, starring Jayne Mansfield. Soon afterwards, he signed a contract with Liberty Records. Cochran died at age 21 after an accident, while traveling in a taxi in Chippenham, Wiltshire, during his British tour in April 1960. Though his best-known songs were released during his lifetime, more of his songs were released posthumously, in 1987 Cochran was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His songs have been covered by a variety of recording artists. Cochran was born October 3,1938, in Albert Lea, Minnesota, to Alice and his parents were from Oklahoma, and he always said in interviews that his parents had some roots in Oklahoma. He took music lessons in school but quit the band to play drums, also, rather than taking piano lessons, he began learning guitar, playing country and other music he heard on the radio. Cochrans family moved to Bell Gardens, California, in 1952, as his guitar playing improved, he formed a band with two friends from his junior high school. He dropped out of Bell Gardens High School in his first year to become a professional musician, during a show featuring many performers at an American Legion hall, he met Hank Cochran, a songwriter. Although they were not related, they recorded as the Cochran Brothers and they recorded a few singles for Ekko Records that were fairly successful and helped to establish them as a performing act. Eddie Cochran also worked as a musician and began writing songs, making a demo with Jerry Capehart. In July 1955, Eddie Cochrans first solo artist single was released by Crest Records and it featured Skinny Jim, now regarded as a rock-and-roll and rockabilly classic. In the spring of 1956, Boris Petroff asked Cochran if he would appear in the comedy film The Girl Cant Help It. Cochran agreed and performed the song Twenty Flight Rock in the movie, in 1957 Cochran starred in his second film, Untamed Youth, and he had yet another hit, Sittin in the Balcony, one of the few songs he recorded that were written by other songwriters
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Memorial plaque at Rowden Hill, Chippenham
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Gene Vincent
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Vincent Eugene Craddock, known as Gene Vincent, was an American musician who pioneered the styles of rock and roll and rockabilly. His 1956 top ten hit with his Blue Caps, Be-Bop-A-Lula, is considered a significant early example of rockabilly and he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. Craddock was born February 11,1935, in Norfolk, Virginia, to Mary Louise and his musical influences included country, rhythm and blues and gospel music. His favourite composition was Beethovens Egmont overture and he showed his first real interest in music while his family lived in Munden Point, in Princess Anne County, Virginia, near the North Carolina line, where they ran a country store. He received his first guitar at the age of twelve as a gift from a friend, Vincents father volunteered to serve in the U. S. Coast Guard and patrolled American coastal waters to protect Allied shipping against German U-boats during World War II. Vincents mother maintained the store in Munden Point. His parents moved the family to Norfolk, the home of a naval base. Vincent dropped out of school in 1952, at the age of seventeen, as he was under the age of enlistment, his parents signed the forms allowing him to enter the Navy. He completed boot camp and joined the fleet as a crewman aboard the fleet oiler USS Chukawan, with a training period in the repair ship USS Amphion. He never saw combat but completed a Korean War deployment and he sailed home from Korean waters aboard the battleship USS Wisconsin but was not part of the ships company. Craddock planned a career in the Navy and, in 1955, in July 1955, while he was in Norfolk, his left leg was shattered in a motorcycle crash. He refused to allow the leg to be amputated, and the leg was saved and he wore a steel sheath around the leg for the rest of his life. Most accounts relate the accident as the fault of a driver who struck him. Years later in some of his biographies, there is no mention of an accident. He spent time in the Portsmouth Naval Hospital and was discharged from the Navy shortly thereafter. Craddock became involved in the music scene in Norfolk. He changed his name to Gene Vincent and formed a band, Gene Vincent. The band included Willie Williams on rhythm guitar, Jack Neal on upright bass, Dickie Harrell on drums and he also collaborated with another rising musician, Jay Chevalier of Rapides Parish, Louisiana
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Carl Perkins
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Carl Lee Perkins was an American singer-songwriter who recorded most notably at the Sun Studio, in Memphis, Tennessee, beginning in 1954. His best-known song is Blue Suede Shoes, according to Charlie Daniels, Carl Perkins songs personified the rockabilly era, and Carl Perkins sound personifies the rockabilly sound more so than anybody involved in it, because he never changed. Perkins songs were recorded by artists as influential as Elvis Presley, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Johnny Cash, Paul McCartney claimed that if there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles. Called the King of Rockabilly, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, and he also received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. Perkins was born near Tiptonville, Tennessee, the son of sharecroppers, Buck. He grew up hearing Southern gospel music sung by friends in church. During spring and autumn, school days would be followed by a few hours of work in the fields, in the summer, workdays were 12 to 14 hours, from can to cant. Perkins and his brother Jay together would earn 50 cents a day, All his family members worked, so there was enough money for beans and potatoes, tobacco for Perkinss father, and occasionally the luxury of a five-cent bag of hard candy. On Saturday nights Perkins would listen to the Grand Ole Opry on his fathers radio, Roy Acuffs broadcasts inspired him to ask his parents for a guitar. Since they could not afford one, his father made one from a cigar box, finally, a neighbor in hard times offered to sell his dented and scratched Gene Autry model guitar with its worn-out strings. Buck Perkins bought it for his son for a couple of dollars, Perkins taught himself parts of Acuffs Great Speckled Bird and The Wabash Cannonball, having heard them played on the Opry. He also cited Bill Monroes fast playing and vocals as an early influence, Perkins learned more about the guitar from John Westbrook, an African American field worker in his sixties. Uncle John, as Perkins called him, played blues and gospel music on an old acoustic guitar, Westbrook advised Perkins to Get down close to it. You can feel it travel down the strangs, come through your head, Perkins could not afford new strings, and when they broke he had to retie them. The knots cut his fingers when he would slide to another note, so he began bending the notes, Perkins was recruited to be a member of the Lake County Fourth Grade Marching Band. Since his family was too poor to afford them, Lee McCutcheon, the woman in charge of the band, gave him a new shirt, cotton pants, a white band cap. In January 1947, the Perkins family moved from Lake County, Tennessee, to Madison County, a new radio that ran on house current rather than a battery, and the closeness to Memphis exposed Perkins to a greater variety of music. At age fourteen, using the I-IV-V chord progression common in music of the day, he wrote a song that came to be known around Jackson as Let Me Take You to the Movie
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Carl Perkins, c. 1955
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On Ozark Jubilee
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Carl Perkins (2nd from left) performing "Glad All Over" with (left-right) Clayton Perkins, W.S. "Fluke" Holland, and Jay Perkins in the movie Jamboree.
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Perkins in the 1990s
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The Stray Cats
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The group had numerous hit singles in the UK, Australia, Canada and the U. S. The Stray Cats quickly developed a following in the New York music scene playing at CBGB. When the Cats heard a rumor that there was a revival of the 1950s Teddy Boy youth subculture in England and they then spearheaded the nascent rockabilly revival, by blending the 1950s Sun Studio sound with modern punk musical elements. The band first appeared in the middle of 1979 performing under a number of names including the Tomcats, the Teds, and Bryan, since 1983 they have used only Stray Cats as their name. The band name Stray Cats had already appeared in the 1973 rock n roll film Thatll Be the Day. In the middle of 1980 the Cats found themselves being courted by record labels including Virgin Records, Stiff Records, word quickly spread and soon members of The Rolling Stones, The Who and Led Zeppelin were at their shows. After a gig in London, Stray Cats met producer Dave Edmunds, well known as a roots rock enthusiast for his work with Rockpile and as a solo artist. Edmunds offered to work with the group, and they entered the studio to record their debut album, Stray Cats. They had three hits that year with Runaway Boys, Rock This Town, and Stray Cat Strut, the UK follow-up to Stray Cats, Gonna Ball, was not as well-received, providing no hits. Yet the combined sales of their first two albums were enough to convince EMI America to compile the best tracks from the two UK albums and issue an album in the U. S. in 1982. The record went on to double platinum in the US. Reflecting in 2012, Setzer said it was silly to break up the Stray Cats at the peak of our success. Setzer went on to a career, retaining Byrnes and exchanging his rockabilly focus for a more wide-ranging roots rock/Americana sound on albums such as 1986s The Knife Feels Like Justice. In 1986, the Stray Cats reunited in Los Angeles, in 1989, they reunited once again for the album Blast Off. which was accompanied by a tour with US blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan. No longer with EMI America, they entered the studio with Nile Rodgers for the record titled Lets Go Faster, after 1992s Dave Edmunds-produced Choo Choo Hot Fish, and the cover album Original Cool, the group called it quits again. In 2004, the Stray Cats reunited for a tour of Europe. A live album culled from concerts, Rumble in Brixton, included one new studio track. In 2007, they reunited again for a successful and long-awaited US tour with ZZ Top
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Stray Cats in Japan
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The band playing in Gijon.
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Brian Setzer at a concert.
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Berimbau
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The berimbau is a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, from Brazil. The instrument is known for being the matter of a popular song by Brazilian guitarist Baden Powell. The instrument is also a part of Candomblé-de-caboclo tradition, the berimbaus origins have not been fully researched, though it is most likely an adaptation of African gourde musical bows, as no Indigenous Brazilian or European people use musical bows. One belief, popularized by Ana Palmer, states that the berimbau may have started as a weapon disguised as an instrument. The way the berimbau and the mbulumbumba of southwest Angola are made and played are very similar, as well as the tuning and basic patterns performed on these instruments. The assimilation of this African instrument into the Brazilian capoeira is evident also in other Bantu terms used for bows in Brazilian, including urucungo. By the twentieth century, the instrument was with the jogo de capoeira, which had come to be known as the berimbau, the Portuguese used this word for their musical instrument the guimbarde, also known as a Jews harp. The smaller type of the African bow was called the berimbau de boca whereas the type became the berimbau de barriga. The berimbau slowly came to replace the drum as the instrument for the jogo de capoeira. The berimbau consists of a bow, about 4 to 5 feet long, with a steel string tightly strung. A gourd, dried, opened and hollowed-out, attached to the portion of the Verga by a loop of tough string. To play the berimbau, one holds it in one hand, wrapping the two middle fingers around the verga, and placing the little finger under the cabaças string loop, and balancing the weight there. A small stone or coin is held between the index and thumb of the hand that holds the berimbau. The cabaça is rested against the abdomen, in the other hand, one holds a stick and a shaker. One strikes the arame with the vaqueta to produce the sound, the dobrão is moved back and forth from the arame to change the pitch produced by the berimbau. The sound can also be altered by moving the back and forth from the abdomen. The berimbaus quality does not depend on the length of the verga or the size of the gourd, rather on the diameter and hardness of the vergas wood and the quality of the gourd. The berimbau, as played for capoeira, basically has three sounds, the string sound, the high sound, and the buzz sound
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Viola, media and gunga
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A caxixi, baqueta, and dobrão
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Kye Palmer
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Kye Palmer is a trumpet player who is a Los Angeles studio musician, most notable as a former member of The Tonight Show Band from 2006 to 2009. On April 10,2006, Kye Palmer replaced Lee Thornburg in The Tonight Show Band and was there for the last part of Kevin Eubanks tenure with The Tonight Show and he has recorded on several Grammy Award nominated/winning projects over the past 20 years. Palmer, a native Californian originally from Redlands, starting being interested in music at the age of 7, an early source of inspiration for him was being a part of the well known Stan Kenton Band Clinics at the University of Redlands. After high school he first attended California State University, Long Beach for a year to study music and he transferred to Fullerton College and played trumpet on the Down Beat award-winning LP Time Tripping while playing in the college jazz groups for a year. After two years attending Fullerton College he transferred and earned a degree in engineering from Cal Poly Pomona. He studied privately with such legends as trumpet great Bobby Shew, of the 1,500 or so people that studied with me, Kye was one of those 20 or 25 players that was really important, who understood the music, Charlie Shoemake says. Palmer names Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard as his principal influences, trumpeter Bobby Shew first got Palmer his start on the Woody Herman Orchestra, Palmer toured 1988 through 1990 with the group. Palmer currently performs and records with the Chris Walden Big Band, Bill Cunliffes Imaginacion, television appearances include The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with David Letterman, Good Morning America, the Today Show, and Late Night with Conan OBrien. He has recorded for motion picture soundtracks, including Seven Pounds, Man of the Year, Three to Tango, Stuart Little. He also appears in the movie and plays on the soundtrack for the 2011 film J. Edgar and he recorded on the 2005 Grammy nominated, multi-platinum award winning CD Its Time. He has also recorded with trumpeters Ron King, Marc Lewis, Palmer continues to teach trumpet and is serving as an adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton
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Kye Palmer, trumpet
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Rockefeller Center
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Rockefeller Center is a large complex consisting of 19 high-rise commercial buildings covering 22 acres between 48th and 51st Streets in New York City. Commissioned by the Rockefeller family, it is located in the center of Midtown Manhattan and it was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987. It is famous for its annual Christmas tree lighting, Rockefeller Center was named after John D. Rockefeller, Jr. who leased the space from Columbia University in 1928 and developed it beginning in 1930. Rockefeller stated, It was clear there were only two courses open to me. One was to abandon the entire development, the other to go forward with it in the definite knowledge that I myself would have to build it and finance it alone. The initial cost of acquiring the space, razing some of the existing buildings and it was the largest private building project ever undertaken in modern times. Construction of the 14 buildings in the Art Deco style began on May 17,1930, principal builder and managing agent for the massive project was John R. Todd. The construction of the project employed over 40,000 people and it was the public relations pioneer Ivy Lee, the prominent adviser to the family, who first suggested the name Rockefeller Center for the complex, in 1931. Rockefeller, Jr. initially did not want the Rockefeller family name associated with the commercial project, what could have become a major controversy in the mid-1930s concerned the last of the four European buildings that remained unnamed. Ivy Lee and others attempts to rent the space to German commercial concerns. Rockefeller ruled this out after being advised of Hitlers Nazi march toward World War II and this subsequently became the primary location of the U. S. In 1985, Columbia University sold the land beneath Rockefeller Center to the Rockefeller Group for $400 million, in 1989, Mitsubishi Estate, a real estate company of the Mitsubishi Group, purchased the entire Rockefeller Center complex, and its owner, Rockefeller Group. In 1996, the complex was purchased by a consortium of owners that included Goldman Sachs, Gianni Agnelli, Stavros Niarchos, and David Rockefeller. Tishman Speyer, led by Jerry Speyer, a friend of David Rockefeller. The landmark buildings comprise over 8,000,000 square feet on 22 acres in Midtown, bounded by Fifth and Sixth avenues and these are co-owned by Tishman-Speyer, and open to the public. 1 Rockefeller Plaza – The original Time–Life Building, a tenant was General Dynamics. 10 Rockefeller Plaza – Originally the Holland House, then the Eastern Air Lines Building, currently home of Today Show studios. 30 Rockefeller Plaza – Originally the RCA Building, in 1988 it was renamed the GE Building, headquarters of NBC, the Rainbow Room restaurant is located on the 65th floor
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Rockefeller Center's landmark plaque
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Studio 1A, home of Today
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Sheepshearing demonstration in the sunken plaza of McGraw-Hill Building, 1973
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The Dirty Boogie
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The Dirty Boogie is the third album from the swing band The Brian Setzer Orchestra. The release of the single came along after a Gap advertising campaign that featured Primas original recording of the song, each helped to propel the larger swing revival throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s. Seven of the tracks are covers of songs written and originally made popular between 1952 and 1962. In addition to Primas Jump Jive An Wail, covers include This Old House, Since I Dont Have You, Nosey Joe, the eighth track, Rock This Town, is a song originally done in 1981 by Setzers previous band, the Stray Cats. Hollywood Nocturne was a track from Setzers previous album, Guitar Slinger. The album also features a cover of the instrumental Sleep Walk, Setzers arrangement and recording won a Grammy Award the following year for best pop instrumental recording. Paul Brandt later did a cover of the fourth track. The illustration and logo for The Dirty Boogie was created by Sir Richard Wentworth, using such as pen and ink linework. The album cover began life as a poster designed by Wentworth to advertise a Brian Setzer Orchestra concert at Detroits State Theater. After Brian Setzer saw the poster, he commissioned Wentworth to reformat the poster, the angular, kinetic style employed in Wentworths illustration sparked a trend of identifying the music of the swing revival with the visual signifiers of the cartoon modern style. Wentworths retro logotype is still a part of the Brian Setzer Orchestras brand identity and has inspired a commercial font called Swinger. Wentworth also illustrated the covers for Setzers Best of The Big Band, cDs, and designed the logo for The Ultimate Christmas Collection CD
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Dig That Crazy Christmas
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Dig That Crazy Christmas is an album by The Brian Setzer Orchestra. Released in 2005 on Surfdog Records, it is a collection of songs performed in big band swing style. Although most of the songs have previously recorded by other artists. This album follows up his 2002 Christmas release, Boogie Woogie Christmas, dig That Crazy Santa Claus –2,14 Angels We Have Heard on High –4,21 Gettin in the Mood –3,34 White Christmas –5,22 Let It Snow. –2,08 Zat You Santa Claus, –4,08 My Favorite Things –3,59 Youre a Mean One, Mr
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Montreal
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Montreal, officially Montréal, is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the 2nd-most populous in Canada as a whole. Originally called Ville-Marie, or City of Mary, it is believed to be named after Mount Royal, the city has a distinct four-season continental climate, with warm-to-hot summers and cold, snowy winters. In 2016, Montreal had a population of 1,704,694, Montreals metropolitan area had a population of 4,098,927 and a population of 1,958,257 in the urban agglomeration, with all of the municipalities on the Island of Montreal included. Legally a French-speaking city,60. 5% of Montrealers speak French at home,21. 2% speak English and 19. 8% speak neither, Montreal is one of the most bilingual cities in Quebec and Canada, with 56% of the population able to speak both official languages. Montreal is the second-largest primarily French-speaking city in the world after Paris, historically the commercial capital of Canada, it was surpassed in population and economic strength by Toronto in the 1970s. It remains an important centre of commerce, aerospace, finance, pharmaceuticals, technology, design, education, culture, tourism, gaming, film, Montreal was also named a UNESCO City of Design. In 2009, Montreal was named North Americas leading host city for international events, according to the 2009 preliminary rankings of the International Congress. According to the 2015 Global Liveability Ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in the 2017 edition of their Best Student Cities ranking, Quacquarelli Symonds ranked Montreal as the worlds best city to study abroad. Also, Montreal has 11 universities with 170,000 students enrolled, the Greater Montréal region has the highest number of university students per capita among all metropolitan areas in North America. It is the only Canadian city to have held the Summer Olympics, currently, the city hosts the Canadian Grand Prix of Formula One, the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Just for Laughs festival. In 2012, Montreal was ranked as a Beta+ world city, in Kanien’kéha, or Mohawk language, the island is called Tiohtià, ke Tsi or Ka-wé-no-te. In Anishinaabemowin, or Ojibwe language, the land is called Mooniyaang, though the city was first named by French colonizers Ville Marie, or City of Mary, its current name comes from Mount Royal, the triple-peaked hill in the heart of the city. The most popular theory is that the name derives from Mont Réal, Cartiers 1535 diary entry, naming the mountain, according to the Commission de toponymie du Québec and the Geographical Names Board of Canada, Canadian place names have only one official form. Thus, Montreal is officially spelled with an accent over the e in both English and French. In practice, this is limited to governmental uses. English-speaking Montrealers, including English-language media, regularly omit the accent when writing in English, archaeological evidence demonstrates that First Nations native people occupied the island of Montreal as early as 4,000 years ago. By the year AD1000, they had started to cultivate maize, within a few hundred years, they had built fortified villages. Archeologists have found evidence of their habitation there and at locations in the valley since at least the 14th century
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Clockwise from top: Downtown Montreal as seen from the Champlain Bridge; McGill University; Saint Joseph's Oratory; the Old Montreal featuring the Montreal Clock Tower and the Jacques Cartier Bridge during the Montreal Fireworks Festival; a view of the Notre-Dame Basilica from Place d'Armes; and the Olympic Stadium.
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The Montreal Harbour in 1889.
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Saint Jacques Street (formerly St. James Street), in 1910
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Bonsecours Market in autumn.
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Townsquare Media
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Townsquare Media is an American media company based in Greenwich, Connecticut. The company started in radio and expanded digital media toward the end of the 2000s. As of 2016, Townsquare was the third-largest AM–FM operator in the country, Townsquare Media was established as Regent Communications by Terry Jacobs in 1994. Jacobs was formerly the CEO of Jacor Communications, a broadcasting company which he created in 1979. Bill Stakelin later shared chief status in the company with Jacobs, Stakelin and Jacobs resurrected the Regent name to replace JS, with approval by Jacor. Jacobs left the company in 2005, on October 27,2008, Regent Broadcasting joined Radiolicious and began streaming on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Regent is the first major group to contract for all of its streaming stations to be available through the Radiolicious application. The filing plan made Oaktree Capital Management the majority owner of Regent after the bankruptcy, after the privatization, the company was renamed Townsquare Media. Gap Broadcasting Group, another radio group owned by Oaktree, was merged into Townsquare, in December 2010, the company began to expand its digital media operations, overhauling its stations websites and launching a new country music news website known as Taste of Country. Townsquare acquired a number of stations from Double O Radio in August 2011, on August 24,2012, Townsquare reached a deal to acquire the MOG Music Network, an advertising network for music blogs. The network was part of MOG, a music service that had previously reached a deal to be acquired by Beats Electronics. In June 2013, Townsquare announced it would acquire a number of music-related blogs from AOL, including The Boombox, The Boot, the deal came following the abrupt shutdown of AOLs Music division in April 2013. On August 29,2013, it was announced that Cumulus would purchase Dial Global, Cumulus paid $260 million for this service, a portion of which was used to pay off Dials debt before it was folded into Cumulus. The second sent 15 more stations in Dubuque, IA and Poughkeepsie, NY, Peak, which like Dial Global and Townsquare has a large investment held by Oaktree, also had its Boise cluster folded into Townsquare. Due to market overlaps, three of Townsquares newly acquired stations were placed in a divestiture trust, the acquisition of the Cumulus stations closed on November 14,2013. On June 24,2014, Townsquare Media filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, on July 24,2014, Townsquare Media became a public company with an initial offering price of $11 a share. In September 2014, Townsquare Media acquired XXL, King, Townsquare then ceased print publication of XXL. In August 2015, Townsquare Media acquired North American Midway Entertainment of Farmland, Indiana, on August 17,2016, The Madison Square Garden Company acquired a 12% stake in Townsquare Media
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MusicBrainz
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MusicBrainz is a project that aims to create an open data music database that is similar to the freedb project. MusicBrainz was founded in response to the placed on the Compact Disc Database. MusicBrainz has expanded its goals to reach beyond a compact disc metadata storehouse to become an open online database for music. MusicBrainz captures information about artists, their works, and the relationships between them. Recorded works entries capture at a minimum the album title, track titles, and these entries are maintained by volunteer editors who follow community written style guidelines. Recorded works can also store information about the date and country. As of 26 July 2016, MusicBrainz contained information about roughly 1.1 million artists,1.6 million releases, end-users can use software that communicates with MusicBrainz to add metadata tags to their digital media files, such as MP3, Ogg Vorbis or AAC. As with other contributions, the MusicBrainz community is in charge for maintaining and reviewing the data, besides collecting metadata about music, MusicBrainz also allows looking up recordings by their acoustic fingerprint. A separate application, such as MusicBrainz Picard, must be used for this, in 2000, MusicBrainz started using Relatables patented TRM for acoustic fingerprint matching. This feature attracted many users and allowed the database to grow quickly, however, by 2005 TRM was showing scalability issues as the number of tracks in the database had reached into the millions. This issue was resolved in May 2006 when MusicBrainz partnered with MusicIP, tRMs were phased out and replaced by MusicDNS in November 2008. In October 2009 MusicIP was acquired by AmpliFIND, some time after the acquisition, the MusicDNS service began having intermittent problems. Since the future of the free service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský, while AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing the first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 pitch classes, storing these 8 times per second, additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns. The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity, since 2003, MusicBrainzs core data are in the public domain, and additional content, including moderation data, is placed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-2.0 license. The relational database management system is PostgreSQL, the server software is covered by the GNU General Public License. The MusicBrainz client software library, libmusicbrainz, is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, in December 2004, the MusicBrainz project was turned over to the MetaBrainz Foundation, a non-profit group, by its creator Robert Kaye
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra is a swing and jump blues band formed in 1990 by Stray Cats frontman Brian Setzer. The group covered Louis Primas Jump Jive an Wail, which appeared on Primas 1957 album The Wildest, the BSOs follow up single was Gettin in the Mood. Setzer grew up in Long Island, New York, in his youth, he played the euphonium and other brass instruments in school jazz bands. In the 1970s, he found ways to hear jazz and big band music at the Village Vanguard, but he was drawn to blues, rock, punk. He admired the jump blues of Louis Prima and Big Joe Turner, but also the rock and roll of Elvis Presley, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, during the early 1980s, he led the rockabilly trio the Stray Cats and found popular and commercial success. After the band broke up, Setzer worked as a side man, in 1994, he released the debut album of the Brian Setzer Orchestra, which combined his rockabilly style with swing, big band, and jump blues. The orchestra had a hit on the Billboard singles chart with its version of Jump. Setzer tunes have been used in commercials, the Brian Setzer Orchestra Guitar Slinger The Dirty Boogie Vavoom. Ultimate Christmas Collection Dont Mess With a Big Band Christmas Comes Alive, Brian Setzer Orchestra live In Japan Brian Setzer Orchestra Live, Christmas Extravaganza One Rockin Night – Recorded in Montreal,1995 Official website
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The Brian Setzer Orchestra playing in the East Room of the White House.
