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Charleston, South Carolina
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Charleston had an estimated population of 132,609 in 2015. Charleston was founded as Charles Town—honoring King Charles II of England—in 1670 and its initial location at Albemarle Point on the west bank of the Ashley River was abandoned in 1680 for its present site, which became the 5th-largest city in North America within 10 years. Despite its size, it remained unincorporated throughout the period, its government was handled directly by the state legislature and by its Anglican parish wardens. It adopted its present spelling with its incorporation as a city in 1783 at the close of the Revolutionary War. The Confederates burned the town prior to its evacuation but continued demand for the cotton and rice, along with growing industry. In 2016, Charleston was ranked the Worlds Best City by Travel + Leisure, the city proper consists of six distinct areas, the Peninsula or Downtown, West Ashley, Johns Island, James Island, Daniel Island, and the Cainhoy Peninsula. The old town fit into 4–5 square miles as late as the First World War, the city limits also have expanded across the Cooper River, encompassing Daniel Island and the Cainhoy area. The present city has an area of 127.5 square miles. North Charleston blocks any expansion up the peninsula, and Mount Pleasant occupies the land directly east of the Cooper River, Charleston Harbor runs about 7 miles southeast to the Atlantic with an average width of about 2 miles, surrounded on all sides except its entrance. Sullivans Island lies to the north of the entrance and Morris Island to itself south, the entrance itself is about 1 mile wide, it was originally only 18 feet deep, but began to be enlarged in the 1870s. The tidal rivers are evidence of a submergent or drowned coastline, there is a submerged river delta off the mouth of the harbor and the Cooper River is deep. Charleston has a subtropical climate, with mild winters, hot, humid summers. Summer is the wettest season, almost half of the rainfall occurs from June to September in the form of thundershowers. Fall remains relatively warm through November, winter is short and mild, and is characterized by occasional rain. Measurable snow only occurs several times per decade at the most, however,6.0 in fell at the airport on December 23,1989, the largest single-day fall on record, contributing to a single-storm and seasonal record of 8.0 in snowfall. The highest temperature recorded within city limits was 104 °F on June 2,1985, and June 24,1944, and the lowest was 7 °F on February 14,1899. At the airport, where records are kept, the historical range is 105 °F on August 1,1999. Hurricanes are a threat to the area during the summer and early fall
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
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Blood, Sweat & Tears is a contemporary jazz-rock American music group. They are noted for their combination of brass and rock band instrumentation, the group recorded songs by rock/folk songwriters such as Laura Nyro, James Taylor, the Band, the Rolling Stones, as well as Billie Holiday and Erik Satie. They also incorporated music from Thelonious Monk and Sergei Prokofiev into their arrangements and they were originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since their beginnings, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles. The band is most notable for their fusion of rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements, Al Kooper, Jim Fielder, Fred Lipsius, Randy Brecker, Jerry Weiss, Dick Halligan, Steve Katz and Bobby Colomby formed the original band. The creation of the group was inspired by the ideas of the Buckinghams and its producer, James William Guercio. Jim Fielder was from Frank Zappas the Mothers of Invention and had played briefly with Buffalo Springfield, Kooper, Colomby, Katz, and Fielder did a few shows as a quartet at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York City in September 1967, opening for Moby Grape. Fred Lipsius then joined the two months later. A few more shows were played as a quintet, including one at the Fillmore East in New York, Lipsius then recruited the other three, Dick Halligan, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss, who were New York jazz horn players Lipsius knew. The final lineup debuted at the Cafe Au Go Go on November 17–19,1967, the band was a hit with the audience, who liked the innovative fusion of jazz with acid rock and psychedelia. After signing to Columbia Records, the group released Child Is Father to the Man, the album cover was considered quite innovative showing the band members sitting and standing with child-sized versions of themselves. The album slowly picked up in sales despite growing artistic differences among the members which resulted in several personnel changes for the second album. Colomby and Katz wanted to move Kooper exclusively to keyboard and composing duties, while hiring a stronger vocalist for the group and he became a record producer for the Columbia label, but not before arranging some songs that would be on the next BS&T album. The groups trumpeters, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss, also left and were replaced by Lew Soloff, Brecker joined Horace Silvers band with his brother Michael, and together they eventually formed their own horn-dominated musical outfits, Dreams and The Brecker Brothers. Jerry Weiss went on to start the similarly-styled group Ambergris, after Kooper left the group, Colomby and Katz began to look for a new vocalist, considering Alex Chilton, Stephen Stills and Laura Nyro. Ultimately, they decided upon David Clayton-Thomas, a Canadian singer, born in Surrey, reportedly, folk singer Judy Collins had seen Clayton-Thomas perform at a New York City club and was so taken and moved by his performance that she told Colomby and Katz about him. With her prodding, they came to see Clayton-Thomas perform and were so impressed that he was offered the role of singer in a re-constituted Blood Sweat & Tears. Trombonist Halligan took up the chores and Jerry Hyman joined to take over trombone
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The Blues Brothers
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The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live. The band made its debut as the musical guest on the April 22,1978, episode of Saturday Night Live, after the death of Belushi in 1982, the Blues Brothers have continued to perform with a rotation of guest singers and other band members. The band reformed in 1988 for a tour and again in 1998 for a sequel to the film. They make regular appearances at festivals worldwide. While not all appeared in the original film, the full band included. In it, Howard Shore and his All-Bee Band play the Slim Harpo song Im a King Bee, with Belushi singing and Aykroyd playing harmonica, dressed in the bee costumes they wore for the Killer Bees sketch. Following tapings of SNL, it was popular among cast members and the hosts to attend Aykroyds Holland Tunnel Blues bar. Dan and John filled a jukebox with songs from different artists such as Sam and Dave. John bought an amplifier and they kept some musical instruments there for anyone who wanted to jam and it was also at the bar that Aykroyd introduced Belushi to the blues. An interest soon became a fascination and it wasnt long before the two began singing with local blues bands, jokingly, SNL band leader Howard Shore suggested they call themselves The Blues Brothers. The suits came from the concept that when you were a player in the 40s, 50s 60s, to look straight. The band was also modeled in part on Aykroyds experience with the Downchild Blues Band, one of the first professional blues bands in Canada, as Aykroyd has said of this time, So I grew up, in this capital city. My parents used to work for the government, and I went to school, high school. And there was a place on Sussex Drive, and there was a club there called Le Hibou. I was going to Le Hibou and hearing James Cotton, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, I actually jammed behind Muddy Waters. S. P. Leary left the drum kit one night, and I walked on stage and we started, I dont know, Little Red Rooster, something. He said keep that going, you make Muddy feel good. Many, many times I saw Howlin Wolf, and of course Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee
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Frank Zappa
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Zappa also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. He is considered one of the most innovative and stylistically diverse rock musicians of his generation, as a self-taught composer and performer, Zappas diverse musical influences led him to create music that was sometimes difficult to categorize. While in his teens, he acquired a taste for 20th-century classical composers such as Edgard Varèse, Igor Stravinsky and he began writing classical music in high school, while at the same time playing drums in rhythm and blues bands, later switching to electric guitar. His 1966 debut album with the Mothers of Invention, Freak Out, combined songs in conventional rock and roll format with collective improvisations and studio-generated sound collages. He continued this eclectic and experimental approach, irrespective of whether the format was rock. Zappas output is unified by a conceptual continuity he termed Project/Object, with musical phrases, ideas. His lyrics reflected his views of established social and political processes, structures and movements. Unlike many other musicians of his era, he personally disapproved of and seldom used drugs. During Zappas lifetime, he was a productive and prolific artist, earning widespread acclaim from critics. He had some success, particularly in Europe, and worked as an independent artist for most of his career. He remains an influence on musicians and composers. His honors include an induction into the 1995 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the 1997 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him at number 71 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Zappa was born in Baltimore, Maryland. His mother, Rosemarie was of Italian and French ancestry, his father, whose name was Anglicized to Francis Vincent Zappa, was an immigrant from Partinico, Sicily, with Greek and Arab ancestry. Frank, the eldest of four children, was raised in an Italian-American household where Italian was often spoken by his grandparents, the family moved often because his father, a chemist and mathematician, worked in the defense industry. After a time in Florida in the 1940s, the returned to Maryland. Due to their homes proximity to the arsenal, which stored mustard gas, gas masks were kept in the home in case of an accident and this had a profound effect on Zappa, and references to germs, germ warfare and the defense industry occur throughout his work. Zappa was often sick as a child, suffering from asthma, earaches, a doctor treated his sinusitis by inserting a pellet of radium into each of Zappas nostrils
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Magic City Jazz Orchestra
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The Magic City Jazz Orchestra is an American jazz ensemble which was founded in 1999 as a spin-off of the SuperJazz Big Band by Birmingham, Alabama jazz pianist and vocalist Ray Reach. The mission of the group is to. perform and record big band jazz music written by well known, initially, the band met and rehearsed at Boutwell Recording Studio in Birmingham. After a 20-plus year association with the UAB Music Department, ties were severed, as of September 2007, the group now presents concerts four times a year at the new Brock Recital Hall at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. SuperJazz has remained a popular jazz orchestra in the Birmingham metro area for more than 30 years. SuperJazz has performed and/or recorded with notable jazz artists, including Ernie Watts, Lou Marini, Lew Soloff, Chuck Redd. In 2001, a recording titled UAB SuperJazz, Featuring Ellis Marsalis was released by UAB Entertainment Records, SuperJazz has spawned a number of spin-off groups, such as the Night Flight Big Band and the Magic City Jazz Orchestra. Mr. Marini subsequently came to Birmingham, where he conducted jazz workshops, mr. Reach suggested to Marini that a recording of his numerous big band compositions and arrangements was long overdue. Further, Reach suggested, Marini could make a high quality recording using the musicians from SuperJazz. Mr. Marini agreed to do just that and this recording was, in fact, Marinis debut as a leader. So, in 1999, Marini and Reach began work on co-producing a recording titled Lous Blues at Bates Brothers Recording in Hueytown, a suburb of Birmingham. Both Marini and Reach agreed that for new recording they would assemble a new band composed of some of the regular members of SuperJazz. This new band needed a new name, Thus, the Magic City Jazz Orchestra was born, following the successful recording of Lous Blues, Reach decided to make the MCJO an ongoing official organization, dedicated to the continuance of the great tradition of the American jazz orchestra. He planned a series of jazz recordings, featuring well-known but under-recorded artists, such as Lou Marini, Lew Soloff, Tom Malone. To date, the MCJO has made recordings with saxophonist Lou Marini, Jr. in 2003, the MCJO released a CD with Blue Lou Marini, titled Lous Blues, which elicited favorable reviews. The liner notes for this CD were written by Grammy Award winning arranger and composer Bob Belden, in addition, bass player Cleveland Eaton performs with the band, as does Mike Williams and Blue Lou Marini. Ray Reach, founding director of the MCJO recently began work on a new recording to be released in the first quarter of 2011, the title of this recording is Spinning Wheel - The Magic City Jazz Orchestra plays the music of Blood, Sweat and Tears. The CD will feature former members of Blood, Sweat and Tears as soloists, including Lou Marini, Lew Soloff, Tom Malone. UAB SuperJazz, Featuring Ellis Marsalis Lous Blues, Lou Marini, live at WorkPlay, Lew Soloff and the Magic City Jazz Orchestra. com SuperJazz Big Band at AllAboutJazz. com
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Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a form of musical expression. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms, Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience, intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as one of Americas original art forms. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging musicians music which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments. In the early 1980s, a form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin, the question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a term dating back to 1860 meaning pep. The use of the word in a context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a context in New Orleans was in a November 14,1916 Times-Picayune article about jas bands. In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying, When Broadway picked it up. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. Jazz has proved to be difficult to define, since it encompasses such a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, in the opinion of Robert Christgau, most of us would say that inventing meaning while letting loose is the essence and promise of jazz. As Duke Ellington, one of jazzs most famous figures, said, although jazz is considered highly difficult to define, at least in part because it contains so many varied subgenres, improvisation is consistently regarded as being one of its key elements
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Blues
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Blues is a genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century. The genre developed from roots in African musical traditions, African-American work songs, spirituals, Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. Blue notes, usually thirds or fifths flattened in pitch, are also a part of the sound. Blues shuffles or walking bass reinforce the trance-like rhythm and form a repetitive effect known as the groove, Blues as a genre is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times, Early blues frequently took the form of a loose narrative, often relating the troubles experienced in African-American society. Many elements, such as the format and the use of blue notes. The origins of the blues are closely related to the religious music of the Afro-American community. The first appearance of the blues is often dated to after the ending of slavery and, later and it is associated with the newly acquired freedom of the former slaves. Chroniclers began to report about blues music at the dawn of the 20th century, the first publication of blues sheet music was in 1908. Blues has since evolved from unaccompanied vocal music and oral traditions of slaves into a variety of styles and subgenres. Blues subgenres include country blues, such as Delta blues and Piedmont blues, as well as urban blues styles such as Chicago blues, World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a form called blues rock evolved. The term blues may have come from blue devils, meaning melancholy and sadness, the phrase blue devils may also have been derived from Britain in the 1600s, when the term referred to the intense visual hallucinations that can accompany severe alcohol withdrawal. As time went on, the phrase lost the reference to devils, by the 1800s in the United States, the term blues was associated with drinking alcohol, a meaning which survives in the phrase blue law, which prohibits the sale of alcohol on Sunday. Though the use of the phrase in African-American music may be older, it has been attested to in print since 1912, in lyrics the phrase is often used to describe a depressed mood. The lyrics of traditional blues verses probably often consisted of a single line repeated four times. Two of the first published songs, Dallas Blues and Saint Louis Blues, were 12-bar blues with the AAB lyric structure. Handy wrote that he adopted this convention to avoid the monotony of lines repeated three times, the lines are often sung following a pattern closer to rhythmic talk than to a melody
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Soul music
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Soul music is a popular music genre that originated in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It combines elements of African-American gospel music, rhythm and blues, Soul music became popular for dancing and listening in the United States, where record labels such as Motown, Atlantic and Stax were influential during the Civil Rights Movement. Soul also became popular around the world, directly influencing rock music, catchy rhythms, stressed by handclaps and extemporaneous body moves, are an important feature of soul music. Other characteristics are a call and response between the lead vocalist and the chorus and a tense vocal sound. The style also occasionally uses improvisational additions, twirls and auxiliary sounds, Soul music reflected the African-American identity and it stressed the importance of an African-American culture. The new-found African-American consciousness led to new styles of music, which boasted pride in being black, Soul music dominated the U. S. R&B chart in the 1960s, and many recordings crossed over into the pop charts in the U. S. By 1968, the music genre had begun to splinter. Some soul artists developed funk music, while other singers and groups developed slicker, more sophisticated, by the early 1970s, soul music had been influenced by psychedelic rock and other genres, leading to psychedelic soul. The United States saw the development of neo soul around 1994, there are also several other subgenres and offshoots of soul music. The term soul had been used among African-American musicians to emphasize the feeling of being an African-American in the United States, according to another source, Soul music was the result of the urbanization and commercialization of rhythm and blues in the 60s. The phrase soul music itself, referring to music with secular lyrics, is first attested in 1961. The term soul in African-American parlance has connotations of African-American pride, gospel groups in the 1940s and 1950s occasionally used the term as part of their name. The jazz style that derived from gospel came to be called soul jazz, important innovators whose recordings in the 1950s contributed to the emergence of soul music included Clyde McPhatter, Hank Ballard, and Etta James. Ray Charles is often cited as popularizing the genre with his string of hits starting with 1954s I Got a Woman. Singer Bobby Womack said, Ray was the genius and he turned the world onto soul music. Charles was open in acknowledging the influence of Pilgrim Travelers vocalist Jesse Whitaker on his singing style, little Richard and James Brown were equally influential. Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson are also acknowledged as soul forefathers. Cooke became popular as the singer of gospel group The Soul Stirrers
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Ray Reach
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Raymond Everett Reach, Jr. is an American pianist, vocalist and educator. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Reach is the child of Erma Elizabeth Hillman and Raymond Everett Reach. He began piano lessons at age 6, studying with Giula Williams of E. E. Forbes, later, he studied piano at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music. He attended Minor High School, Birmingham-Southern College, the University of Montevallo, at Birmingham-Southern, he studied voice with New York City Opera baritone Andrew Gainey, and studied piano with Sam Howard of the concert piano duo, Hodgens and Howard. At UA, he served as assistant to jazz educator Steve Sample, Sr, directing Jazz Ensemble B. During his time at the University of Alabama, ASCAP presented Reach with the Raymond Hubbell Musical Scholarship, for his contributions to jazz, Reach has been an active jazz educator since the early 1970s. While attending Birmingham-Southern College, he created a series of jazz workshops which were hosted by the music department. In the late 1970s, Reach was chosen by jazz educator Steve Sample, from 1998 to 2005, Reach was instructor of jazz and music technology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and director of the UAB Jazz Ensemble. He is currently Director of Student Jazz Programs for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and he served as a faculty member of the W. C. Handy Jazz Camp, and is a featured performer at the W. C. Handy Music Festival and a member of the W. C, while Reach was director of the UAB Jazz Ensemble, Studdard often sat in on his rehearsals. Reach is a pianist, singer, guitarist, arranger and composer and his skills span numerous musical and stylistic genres, including classical, jazz, R & B, contemporary pop, gospel and country. He leads his own group, Ray Reach and Friends, and is a member of the SuperJazz Big Band. Reach has appeared frequently at numerous festivals, including the W. C. Reach has been a singer all his life, and has been a choral conductor for more than 35 years. His first public performance was at age four, singing a song at his home church, Minor United Methodist. His love for music began at Dixie Junior High School, where he sang in the choir under Tom Pinion. He began formal lessons at age 15 with Andrew Gainey at Birmingham-Southern College and later entered Birmingham-Southern as a voice major
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Navarre, Ohio
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Navarre is a village in Stark County, Ohio, United States. The population was 1,957 at the 2010 census and it is part of the Canton-Massillon, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Navarre was the home of Orlando Poe, a United States Army officer in the American Civil War and it was also the childhood home of Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon singer-songwriter Mark Kozelek. Navarre is located at 40°43′25″N 81°31′17″W, along the Tuscarawas River, according to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 2.05 square miles, all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,957 people,868 households, the population density was 954.6 inhabitants per square mile. There were 935 housing units at a density of 456.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 98. 2% White,0. 7% African American,0. 1% Native American,0. 2% Asian,0. 1% Pacific Islander,0. 1% from other races, and 0. 8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 7% of the population,37. 7% of all households were made up of individuals and 18. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the family size was 2.74. The median age in the village was 48.9 years. 17. 7% of residents were under the age of 18, 6% were between the ages of 18 and 24,20. 8% were from 25 to 44, 29% were from 45 to 64, and 26. 2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 47. 2% male and 52. 8% female, as of the census of 2000, there were 1,440 people,606 households, and 369 families residing in the village. The population density was 957.8 people per square mile, there were 649 housing units at an average density of 431.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the village was 98. 89% White,0. 35% African American,0. 07% Pacific Islander, hispanic or Latino of any race were 0. 07% of the population. 35. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 19. 1% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.20 and the average family size was 2.83. In the village, the population was out with 19. 4% under the age of 18,7. 3% from 18 to 24,22. 8% from 25 to 44,24. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 45 years, for every 100 females there were 82.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 78.2 males, the median income for a household in the village was $33,382, and the median income for a family was $41,515
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Royal Villa of Monza
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The Royal Villa is a historical building in Monza, northern Italy. It lies on the banks of the Lambro, surrounded by the large Monza Park and it was originally built by Giuseppe Piermarini between 1777 and 1780, when Lombardy was part of Austrian Empire, for the Archduke Ferdinand of Austria. Following the establishment of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the building was used as a Royal Palace and became home to the Viceroy of Italy, Eugène de Beauharnais. With the fall of the First Empire, Austria annexed the Italian territories to the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, in 1861, when the new Kingdom of Italy was established, the building became a palace of the Italian Royal House of Savoy. The Royal Villa was abandoned by the family in 1900. The palace complex includes the Cappella Reale, or the Royal Chapel, the Cavallerizza, the Rotonda dellAppiani, the Teatrino di Corte and the Orangerie. The rooms at the first floor include grand salons and halls, in front of the palace are the Royal gardens, designed by Piermarini as English landscape gardens. The building hosts exhibitions, but lacked a long-term resident or use until July 23,2011. Official web Site Royal Palace of Monza
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Monza
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Monza listen is a city and comune on the River Lambro, a tributary of the Po in the Lombardy region of Italy, about 15 kilometres north-northeast of Milan. It is the capital of the Province of Monza and Brianza, Monza is best known for its Grand Prix motor racing circuit, the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, which hosts the Formula One Italian Grand Prix. On 11 June 2004 Monza was designated the capital of the new province of Monza and Brianza, the new administrative arrangement came fully into effect in summer 2009, previously, Monza was a comune within the province of Milan. Monza is the third-largest city of Lombardy and is the most important economic, industrial and administrative centre of the Brianza area, supporting a textile industry, Monza also hosts a Department of the University of Milan Bicocca, a Court of Justice and several offices of regional administration. Monza Park is one of the largest urban parks in Europe, Monza is located in the high plains of Lombardy, between Brianza and Milan, at an altitude of 162 metres above sea level. It is 15 kilometres from the centre of the capital, although when considering the cities borders. Monza is about 40 km from Lecco and Como, Monza shares its position with Milan in the same metro area, and is a big part of its new province. Monza is crossed north to south by the River Lambro. The river enters Monza from the north, between Via Aliprandi and Via Zanzi streets and this is an artificial fork of the river, created for defensive purposes in the early decades of the 14th century. The fork is known as Lambretto and it rejoins the main course of the Lambro as it exits to the south, another artificial stream is the Canale Villoresi, which was constructed in the late 19th century. Precipitation is abundant, with most occurring in the autumn and the least in winter and summer, despite this, during the Roman Empire, Monza was known as Modicia. During the 3rd century BCE, the Romans subdued the Insubres, a Gallo-Celtic tribe, perhaps the Insubres themselves, founded a village on the Lambro. The ruins of a Roman bridge named Ponte dArena can be seen near todays Ponte dei Leoni, Theodelinda, daughter of Garibald I of Bavaria and wife of the Lombard king Authari, chose Monza as her summer residence. Here in 595 she founded an oraculum dedicated to St. John the Baptist, according to this legend, the medieval name of Monza, Modoetia, is derived from these two words. She also had a palace built here, berengar I of Italy located his headquarters in Monza. A fortified castrum was constructed to resist the incursions of the Hungarians, under Berengars reign, Monza enjoyed a certain degree of independence, it had its own system of weights and measures, and could also seize property and mark the deeds with their signatures. Berengar was very evident by the donation of numerous works to the Monza Cathedral, including the famous cross. In 980 Monza hosted Emperor Otto II inside the walled city, the Glossary of Monza, one of the earliest examples of the evolution of Italian language, probably dates to the early 10th century
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University of North Texas College of Music
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It developed one of the first jazz studies programs in the nation, and it remains one of the top schools for Jazz. As one of thirteen colleges and schools at the University of North Texas, North Texas has been a member of the National Association of Schools of Music for 78 years. Since the 1970s, approximately one-third of all North Texas music students have enrolled at the graduate level. Music at North Texas dates back to the founding of the university in 1890 when Eliza Jane McKissack, its founding director, the College of Music is a comprehensive institution of international rank. Its heritage dates back one hundred and twenty-six years, when North Texas was founded, the college has one of the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, of which it has been a member for 78 years. It has been among the largest music institutions of learning in North America since the 1940s. The college awards bachelor of music, master of music, doctor of philosophy, concentrations include performance, music composition, music education, music history, music theory, and jazz studies. The music library, founded in 1941, has one of the largest music collections in the United States, with over 300,000 volumes of books, periodicals, scores, and approximately 900,000 sound recordings. Since the 1970s, approximately one-third of all North Texas music students have enrolled at the graduate level. North Texas was first in the world to offer a degree in jazz studies, the One OClock Lab Band has been nominated for 7 Grammy Awards. What then was a teachers college offered a Conservatory Music Course as part of the initial Nine Full Courses, the complete course in music, lasting forty-four weeks, required private lessons that had to be paid for, in addition to regular school tuition. Tuition for these classes was $200 for the course, while regular tuition for a forty-week school year was only $48. The founding president, Joshua Crittenden Chilton, taught the first classes in the history of music, john M. Moore, a Dallas Methodist bishop and teacher of mathematics and engineering courses, taught the classes in voice culture and harmony. Mrs. Eliza Jane McKissack was also a teacher of music,1960 — The oldest existing part of the current Music Building opens, along with Voertman Concert Hall. 1968 — The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved degrees leading to a Doctor of Musical Arts 1975 — Most of the current Music building opens. 1989 — The School of Music restructured itself as a college of music, reflecting nearly 60 years of size, the College of Music has enjoyed close collaboration with other Colleges within the University. Despite the high caliber of student musicianship and seriousness of all the programs, the College of Music is accessible in many areas to non-music majors
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One O'Clock Lab Band
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The One O’Clock Lab Band for 69 years has been the premier ensemble of the Jazz Studies Division at the University of North Texas College of Music in Denton. Since the 1970s, the albums have received seven Grammy nominations. Steve Wiest, a three-time Grammy-nominated composer-arranger-director and Associate Professor of Music, jay Saunders, a veteran of the Stan Kenton Orchestra, has been interim director since 2014. The One OClock evolved from a stage band founded in 1927 into a curricular laboratory dance band in 1947. For the next 20 years — until 1967 — North Texas was the only US university that offered a degree in jazz studies, the Lab Band portion of the name is drawn from the its original long name – Laboratory Dance Band. Gene Hall, the director, coined the phrase in 1946. Dance was dropped in the early 1960s, to reflect the developing aspects of big band music. The academic degree name, Dance Band, however, stood until 1978, Leon Breeden presided when The One OClock was added as part of the official name in the early 1960s. North Texas has several lab bands, each bearing the name of their respective rehearsal times. When Leon Breeden took over the Lab Band Program in 1959, there were four lab bands, then referred to as Units, One OClock, Two OClock, Three OClock, at that time, the Two OClock was the premier band, known as Laboratory Dance Band A. The Stage Band served as a ground for Ann Sheridan, Joan Blondell. Actress Nancy Jane Gates first performed with the Stage Band in 1929, the Moonbeams, a quartet of four female vocalists, got their start with the Saturday night stage show in 1946. Two years later, they were touring with the Vaughn Monroe Band as the Moonmaids, the Aces of Collegeland was never offered for academic credit. Conover, who had heard the One OClock Lab Band several times, including as judge at the 1960 Notre Dame Jazz Festival, asked Leon Breeden, in 1967, for recordings of certain numbers. Later that year, Conover featured the One OClock Lab Band in an hour broadcast to an audience of 40 million. Every year thereafter, the One O’Clock supplied a professional quality studio engineered album to Conover, Jazz was, as Mr. Conover liked to say, the music of freedom, and to those who had no freedom, it became a metaphor of hope. Conover was known as the most famous American virtually no American had ever heard of, Dave Richards Prime Directive, Dave Holland, arr. Josh Dresser Newport, Slide Hampton Pretzel Logic, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen and this was the first Lab Band recording in both HiFi and Stereo
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Saturday Night Live
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Saturday Night Live is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11,1975, under the original title NBCs Saturday Night, the shows comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest and features performances by a musical guest, an episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, Live from New York, its Saturday Night. In 1980, Michaels left the series to other opportunities. He was replaced by Jean Doumanian, who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews, Ebersol ran the show until 1985, when Michaels returned, Michaels has remained since then. Many of SNLs cast found national stardom while appearing on the show, others associated with the show, such as writers, have gone on to successful careers creating, writing, or starring in TV and film. The show format has developed and recreated in several countries. Successful sketches have seen life outside of the show as feature films, throughout four decades on air, Saturday Night Live has received a number of awards, including 50 Primetime Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards, and three Writers Guild of America Awards. In 2000, it was inducted into the National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame and it was ranked tenth in TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time list, and in 2007 it was listed as one of Time magazines 100 Best TV Shows of All-TIME. As of 2012, it has received 156 Emmy nominations, the most received by any TV show, the live aspect of the show has resulted in several controversies and acts of censorship, with mistakes and intentional acts of sabotage by performers as well as guests. From 1965 until September 1975, NBC ran The Best of Carson reruns of The Tonight Show, in 1974, Johnny Carson announced that he wanted the weekend shows pulled and saved so that they could be aired during weeknights, allowing him to take time off. In 1974, NBC president Herbert Schlosser approached his vice president of late night programming, Dick Ebersol, at the suggestion of Paramount Pictures executive Barry Diller, Schlosser and Ebersol then approached Lorne Michaels. Over the next three weeks, Ebersol and Michaels developed the idea for a variety show featuring high-concept comedy sketches, political satire. By 1975 Michaels had assembled a talented cast, including Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Chevy Chase, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Michael ODonoghue, Gilda Radner, and George Coe. The show was originally called NBCs Saturday Night, because Saturday Night Live was in use by Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on the rival network ABC, NBC purchased the rights to the name in 1976 and officially adopted the new title on March 26,1977. In 1975 and 1976, they were the most desirable demographic for television advertisers, NBC executives agreed with Michaels and decided to keep the show on the air despite many angry letters and phone calls that the network received from viewers who were offended by certain sketches. Chevy Chase left the show in November of the season and was replaced a few months later by the then-unknown comic actor Bill Murray. Aykroyd and Belushi left the show in 1979 after the end of season four, in May 1980, Michaels—emotionally and physically exhausted—requested to put the show on hiatus for a year to give him time and energy to pursue other projects
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Blues Brothers 2000
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Blues Brothers 2000 is a 1998 American musical comedy film that is a sequel to the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, written and produced by John Landis and Dan Aykroyd. Directed by Landis, the film stars Aykroyd and John Goodman, eighteen years after the original mission from God, Elwood Blues is getting out of prison and discovering that much has changed in the time hes been away. His brother, Joliet Jake Blues and their surrogate father-figure Curtis have died, his band is no longer together, in the midst of the mayhem, hes got to prove to the Illinois State Police that theres magic in the music. Special appearances and musical performances including B. B. King, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Jonny Lang, Blues Traveler, Kathleen Freeman, Frank Oz, Steve Lawrence and Jeff Morris appear in cameos, all reprising their roles from The Blues Brothers film. Nia Peeples portrays a state officer, Darrell Hammond a militia member. The film is dedicated to John Belushi, Cab Calloway, and John Candy, Blues Brothers 2000 made it into the Guinness Book of Records for the biggest car pile-up, a record previously held by the original film. Approximately 60 cars were used in the scene after Elwood says to the band, inevitably, everyone looks back and sees the massive pile-up. Portions of this scene were filmed in Niagara Falls, Ontario, the film was originally intended to include Brother Zee Blues. But due to an existing television deal, Belushi was unable to appear. This character was named Cabel as an homage to Cab Calloway, the bands original keyboardist, Paul Shaffer, had been committed to Gilda Radners one-woman show on Broadway and therefore unable to appear in the first film. He was replaced by actor-musician Murphy Dunne, Shaffer does appear in Blues Brothers 2000, taking a week off from Late Show with David Letterman to film his role as Queen Moussettes aide, M. C. of the battle of the bands. Shaffer shaved his head for the role, a change in appearance he chose to keep permanently, during the Funky Nassau number, Shaffer in his character as Marco asks to cut in on keyboards, which Murph allows. This marks the first on-screen time that the Blues Brothers Band plays with the original keyboardist, several cast members from the first film reprised their characters, including Frank Oz, Jeff Morris, Steve Lawrence, Kathleen Freeman, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown. Blues Brothers 2000 was screened out of competition at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, the film grossed a little over $14 million in box office sales in North America. The film received mixed reviews, averaging a 47% positive rating at Rotten Tomatoes based on 45 reviews, roger Ebert gave the film 2 stars, saying, The film is lame comedy surrounded by high-energy blues. A Blues Brothers 2000 video game was released for the Nintendo 64 on November 17,2000, the plot of the game involves Elwood as the main character going through different chapters and levels while trying to save the kidnapped members of the band one by one. Like the film on which it based and the game based on the first film. Blues Brothers 2000 at the Internet Movie Database Blues Brothers 2000 at the TCM Movie Database Blues Brothers 2000 at Box Office Mojo Blues Brothers 2000 at Rotten Tomatoes
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Dan Aykroyd
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Daniel Edward Dan Aykroyd is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, producer, screenwriter, musician and businessman. He was an member of the Not Ready for Prime Time Players on Saturday Night Live. A musical sketch he performed with John Belushi on SNL, The Blues Brothers, turned into a performing band and then a highly successful 1980 film. He conceived and starred in Ghostbusters, which spawned a sequel, in 1990, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in the 1989 film Driving Miss Daisy. He starred in his own sitcom, Soul Man, from 1997–98, Aykroyd is also a successful businessman, having co-founded the House of Blues chain of music venues and the Crystal Head Vodka brand. Aykroyd was born on Canada Day,1952 at Ottawa General Hospital in Ottawa, Ontario and he grew up in Ottawa, Canadas capital, where his father, Samuel Cuthbert Peter Hugh Aykroyd, a civil engineer, worked as a policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau. His mother, Lorraine Hélène, was a secretary and his mother was of French Canadian descent and his father of English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch and French ancestry. His brother, Peter, is also an actor, Aykroyd was born with syndactyly, or webbed toes, which was revealed in the film Mr. Mikes Mondo Video and in a short film on Saturday Night Live titled Dont Look Back In Anger. Aykroyd was raised in the Catholic Church, and until age 17 he intended to become a priest and he attended St. Pius X and St. Patricks high schools, and studied criminology and sociology at Carleton University, but dropped out before completing his degree. He worked as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and ran a speakeasy, Club 505. Aykroyd developed his career in Ottawa, particularly through his regular attendances at Le Hibou. He describes these influences as follows. there was a disco club there called Le Hibou. I was going to Le Hibou and hearing James Cotton, Otis Spann, Pinetop Perkins, I actually jammed behind Muddy Waters. S. P. Leary left the drum kit one night, and I walked on stage and we started, I dont know, Little Red Rooster, something. He said keep that going, you make Muddy feel good. Many, many times I saw Howlin Wolf, and of course Buddy Guy, Buddy Guy and Junior Wells, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee. So I was exposed to all of these players, playing there as part of scene to service the academic community in Ottawa. He was a member of the Second City comedy troupe in 1973 in both Toronto and Chicago, Aykroyd gained fame on the American late-night comedy show Saturday Night Live
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Zappa in New York
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Zappa in New York is a live double album by Frank Zappa. It was recorded at a series of concerts at the Palladium in New York City in December 1976, Zappa in New York was released in the UK only by Zappas DiscReet Records label in 1977, then quickly withdrawn. A second version was re-released in March 1978 with changes ordered by DiscReets distributor, the 1978 edition reached #57 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in the United States. Immediately following the 1976 concerts Zappa spent time in the adding a significant number of overdubs to the live recordings. The album is notable for the presence of members of the Saturday Night Live band, including Lou Marini and Tom Malone, in addition, Don Pardo was invited by Zappa to the Palladium concert, and he provides introductory narrations to Punkys Whips and The Illinois Enema Bandit. On the CD version, Pardo also delivers a verse of Im the Slime, the lyrics of Punkys Whips were intended as an inside joke regarding drummer Terry Bozzios purported infatuation with Punky Meadows, lead guitarist of the band Angel. Titties and Beer also features Bozzio in the role of the Devil, the song references Milhous Nixon and Agnew whose souls are supposedly taken by the Devil. This is a clear re-interpretation of Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinsky, the favorite group of the girl portrayed in Honey Dont You Want a Man Like Me. is said to be Helen Reddy. In concert performances from the 1980s Zappa would substitute other current bands in this line, the lyrics of The Illinois Enema Bandit are based on facts about the criminal actions of Michael H. Kenyon. Alongside humorous lyrics, Zappa presented many musically complex instrumental passages which stretched the bands skill to the absolute limit, among the most complicated parts are the instrumentals The Black Page and Manx Needs Women. This title references the 1967 science fiction B-movie Mars Needs Women, the Purple Lagoon is an extended instrumental which takes up an entire side of vinyl. It features an opening theme and jazz-like solos from the Brecker Brothers, bassist Patrick OHearn. Zappa in New York was first released in early 1977 with Zappas original intended track listing, a small number of LP copies reached stores in England before the album was quickly withdrawn. In 1978 some original cassette copies also appeared in the United States, though, before re-issuing the album Warner removed one of the longest songs, Punkys Whips. This reduced the time of side one to a mere ten minutes, moving Big Leg Emma from side 2 to the end of side 1. The changes made to the album violated Zappas contract, which gave him artistic control over album content. When Zappas distribution agreement with Warner ended in 1982 all release rights reverted to him, Zappa re-issued Zappa in New York as a double CD in 1991 with the addition of four bonus tracks
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Aerosmith
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Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as the Bad Boys from Boston and Americas Greatest Rock and Roll Band. Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues. They were formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, in 1971, Tabano was replaced by Brad Whitford, and the band began developing a following in Boston. They were signed to Columbia Records in 1972, and released a string of gold and platinum albums, beginning with their 1973 eponymous debut album, followed by Get Your Wings in 1974. In 1975, the broke into the mainstream with the album Toys in the Attic. Two additional albums followed in 1977 and 1979 and their first five albums have since attained multi-platinum status. Throughout the 1970s, the band toured extensively and charted a dozen Hot 100 singles, by the end of the decade, they were among the most popular hard rock bands in the world and developed a loyal following of fans, often referred to as the Blue Army. The band did not fare well between 1980 and 1984, releasing the album Rock in a Hard Place, which was certified gold, Perry and Whitford returned to Aerosmith in 1984 and the band signed a new deal with Geffen Records. After a comeback tour, the band recorded Done with Mirrors, the band also became a pop culture phenomenon with popular music videos and notable appearances in television, film, and video games. Their comeback has been described as one of the most remarkable, additional albums followed in 2001,2004, and 2012. Since 2001, the band has toured every year, except 2008, Aerosmith is the best-selling American hard rock band of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide, including over 70 million records in the United States alone. The band has scored 21 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, nine number-one Mainstream Rock hits, four Grammy Awards, six American Music Awards, and ten MTV Video Music Awards. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in 2013, the bands principal songwriters, Tyler and Perry, were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 1964, Steven Tyler formed his own called the Strangeurs—later Chain Reaction—in New Hampshire. Meanwhile, Perry and Hamilton formed the Jam Band, which was based on free-form, Hamilton and Perry moved to Boston, Massachusetts in September 1969. There they met Joey Kramer, a drummer from Yonkers, New York, Kramer knew Tyler and had always hoped to play in a band with him. Kramer, a Berklee College of Music student, decided to school to join Jam Band. In 1970, Chain Reaction and Jam Band played at the same gig, Tyler immediately loved Jam Bands sound, and wanted to combine the two bands
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Eumir Deodato
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Mainly, his records can be categorized as pop, jazz or crossover jazz. His successes as a keyboard player occurred mainly in the 1970s, since then, he has produced or arranged music on more than 500 albums for acts ranging from Kool and the Gang to Björk, Christophe and k. d. lang. His daughter, Kennya Deodato, is married to American actor Stephen Baldwin, Deodato was born in Rio de Janeiro to Italian and Portuguese parents. He is an autodidact, starting with the accordion at age 12. His first album in the US, Prelude, released in January 1973, was of a big band Latin jazz style that attracted a wide audience. The album was produced by Creed Taylor on his CTI label, the nine-minute crossover jazz version of Richard Strauss Also Sprach Zarathustra, entitled Also Sprach Zarathustra, won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Performance. It went to No.2 in the pop charts in the US, No.3 in Canada, the album climbed to No.3 in the Billboard chart, the labels best-selling album and an amazing sales achievement for a jazz-based release. It was subsequently used to effect in the 1979 film Being There, starring Peter Sellers. It has also covered extensively by the rock band Phish in their live performances. 41 on the Hot 100 in 1973 and his early career records used guitarist John Tropea and jazz fusion flautist Hubert Laws. He was also known for utilizing the piano sound of the Fender Rhodes Eighty-Eight. In 1982 he released a track called Keep on Movin from the LP Happy Hour. He continued recording until the late 1980s on the Warner Brothers label, fire In The Sky and Are You For Real, were Top 20 Billboard Dance hits in 1985. Deodato has been in demand as a producer and arranger since the 1960s, in all, he has worked on more than 500 albums,15 of which have reached platinum. Deodato had previously worked on Björks song Isobel, making a mix which was released on her album Telegram, produced by Björk, Nellee Hooper, Tricky, Howie B. He has also written scores for a number of films, including The Gentle Rain, The Black Pearl, in 2007 Deodato co-produced the single called Paris, Tokyo which is on the album Lupe Fiascos The Cool. He also recorded an album in Rio in 2007 called Eumir Deodato Trio – ao vivo no Rio. In 2010, Deodato released the CD, The Crossing, produced by him in cooperation with Lino Nicolosi, Pino Nicolosi and Nicolosi productions, with guest Al Jarreau
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Maureen McGovern
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And in 1979 for her #1 on the Billboard adult contemporary chart with Different Worlds, the theme song from the television series Angie. McGovern was born in Youngstown, Ohio, United States, the daughter of James Terrence McGovern, as a child, McGovern would listen to her fathers singing quartet rehearse in their home. She was told by her elders that she began singing at the age of three, and would sometimes sing herself to sleep with things she heard on the radio and she decided at age eight that she wanted to be a professional singer. Her influences include Barbra Streisand and Dionne Warwick, after graduating from Boardman High School in 1967, she worked as a secretary and performed part-time as a singer for a local folk band called Sweet Rain. Her singing caught the attention of Russ Regan in 1972 when he heard a demonstration she had recorded, at the time, Regan was searching for a singer to record The Morning After for release as a record. He hired McGovern sight unseen to record the song, which resulted in her contracting with 20th Century Records, after it won an Oscar for Best Original Song, The Morning After scored well on the popular music charts, reaching #1 during 1973. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the R. I. A. A. in August 1973, following the success of The Morning After, she received a Grammy Award nomination in 1974 for Best New Artist. The former won an Oscar, and the received an Oscar nomination. In 1976, she recorded her version of The Continental. It proved to be her only hit in the UK Singles Chart, mcGoverns contract with 20th Century ended during 1976. Her career declined and so did her finances, ready to begin her life over again, she moved to Marina del Rey and took a secretarial job under an assumed name, Glenda Schwartz. Nevertheless, she was still in demand occasionally for live concerts. Her career improved when McGovern was asked to record a version of Can You Read My Mind, the theme from 1978s Superman. The single achieved success on the Popular charts. Toward the end of the decade, McGovern recorded Different Worlds, the song, her only other Top 40 Pop single aside from The Morning After, soared to #18 on the Billboard Hot 100 during 1979 and hit at #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart. During 1980, McGovern made an appearance as Sister Angelina. At the beginning of the 1980s, McGovern gave up singing movie themes to begin a career on Broadway, despite not having any acting experience. During 1981, she made her Broadway debut as Mabel in a revival of Gilbert & Sullivans musical The Pirates of Penzance and she then performed in two productions with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, The Sound of Music and South Pacific
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Steely Dan
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Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band whose music also blends elements of crossover jazz, latin music, blue-eyed soul, R&B, boogie, and pop. Founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972, Rolling Stone has called them the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies. Steely Dan reunited in 1993 and has toured ever since. Recorded with a revolving cast of musicians, Steely Dans music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies. Becker and Fagen are whimsical, often sarcastic lyricists, having written cerebral, wry and eccentric songs about drugs, love affairs, gambling. Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from live performances, after the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active throughout most of the next decade, though a cult following remained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993 Steely Dan has released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock, Steely Dan was listed as one of the 100 greatest musical artists of all time according to VH1. Becker and Fagen met in 1968 at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, as Fagen passed by a café, The Red Balloon, he heard Becker practicing the electric guitar. In an interview, Fagen recounted the experience, I hear this guy practicing and it sounded like, you know, like a black person, really. He introduced himself to Becker and asked, Do you want to be in a band, discovering that they enjoyed similar music, the two began writing songs together. Becker and Fagen began playing in local groups, one such group, known as the Don Fagen Jazz Trio, the Bad Rock Group and later the Leather Canary, included future comedy star Chevy Chase on drums. They played covers of songs by the Rolling Stones, Moby Grape, terence Boylan, another Bard musician, remembered that Fagen took readily to the beatnik life while attending college, They never came out of their room, they stayed up all night. They looked like ghosts — black turtlenecks and skin so white that it looked like yogurt, absolutely no activity, chain-smoking Lucky Strikes and dope. Fagen himself would later remember it as probably the time in my life that I actually had friends. After Fagen graduated in 1969, the two moved to Brooklyn and tried to peddle their tunes in the Brill Building in midtown Manhattan, Becker later said bluntly, We did it for the money. A series of demos from 1968 to 1971 are available in bootleg form and this collection features approximately 25 tracks and is notable for its sparse arrangements and lo-fi production, a contrast with Steely Dans later work. Although some of songs were re-recorded for Steely Dan albums
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James Taylor
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James Vernon Taylor is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. A five-time Grammy Award winner, he was inducted into the Rock and he is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide. Taylor achieved his breakthrough in 1970 with the No.3 single Fire and Rain and had his first No.1 hit the year with Youve Got a Friend. His 1976 Greatest Hits album was certified Diamond and has sold 12 million US copies, following his 1977 album, JT, he has retained a large audience over the decades. Every album that he released from 1977 to 2007 sold over a million copies and his chart performance had a resurgence during the late 1990s and 2000s, when he recorded some of his most-awarded work. He achieved his first number one album in the US in 2015 with his recording Before This World. He is notable for his covers of other peoples songs, such as How Sweet It Is. James Vernon Taylor was born at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston on March 12,1948 and his father was from a well-off family of Southerners of Scottish ancestry. His mother, the former Gertrude Woodard, studied singing with Marie Sundelius at the New England Conservatory of Music and was an opera singer before the couples marriage in 1946. James was the second of five children, the others being Alex, Kate, Livingston and they built a house in the Morgan Creek area off the present Morgan Creek Road, which was sparsely populated. James would later say, Chapel Hill, the Piedmont, the hills, were tranquil, rural, beautiful. Thinking of the red soil, the seasons, the way things smelled down there, I feel as though my experience of coming of age there was more a matter of landscape, James attended public primary school in Chapel Hill. Isaacs career prospered, but he was away from home, on military service at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. Isaac Taylor later rose to dean of the UNC School of Medicine from 1964 to 1971. The Taylors spent summers on Marthas Vineyard beginning in 1953, Taylor first learned to play the cello as a child in North Carolina and switched to the guitar in 1960. He began attending Milton Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts in fall 1961. Summering before then with his family on Marthas Vineyard, he met Danny Kortchmar, the two began listening to and playing blues and folk music together, and Kortchmar quickly realized that Taylors singing had a natural sense of phrasing, every syllable beautifully in time. I knew James had that thing, Taylor wrote his first song on guitar at 14, and he continued to learn the instrument effortlessly
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Dionne Warwick
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Dionne Warwick is an American singer, actress and TV-show host, who became a United Nations Global Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and a United States Ambassador of Health. Having been in a partnership with songwriters Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Warwick ranks among the 40 biggest hit makers of the rock era. She is second only to Aretha Franklin as the female vocalist of all time. Marie Dionne Warrick, later Warwick, was born on December 12,1940 in East Orange, New Jersey, to Mancel Warrick and her mother was manager of the Drinkard Singers, and her father was a Pullman porter, chef, record promoter and CPA. She was named after her aunt on her mothers side, Dionne had a sister Delia who died in 2008 and a brother, Mancel Jr. who was killed in an accident in 1968 at the age of 21. Her parents were both African American, and she also has Native American, Brazilian and Dutch ancestry, after finishing East Orange High School in 1959, Warwick pursued her passion at the Hartt College of Music in Hartford, Connecticut. She also landed work with her group singing backing vocals for recording sessions in New York City. During one session, Warwick met Burt Bacharach, who hired her to record demos featuring songs written by him, much of Warricks family were members of the Drinkard Singers, a renowned family gospel group and RCA recording artists that frequently performed throughout the New York metropolitan area. The original group consisted of Cissy, Anne, Larry, and Nicky, but later included Warwicks grandparents, Nicholas and Delia Drinkard, Marie instructed the group and they were managed by Lee. As they became successful, Lee and Marie began performing with the group, and they were augmented by pop/R&B singer Judy Clay. Elvis Presley eventually expressed an interest in having them join his touring entourage, Dionne began singing gospel as a child at the New Hope Baptist Church in Newark, New Jersey. After personnel changes, the Gospelaires became the group the Sweet Inspirations, which had some chart success. And we left and did the session, I wish I remembered the gentlemans name because he was responsible for the beginning of my professional career. The backstage encounter led to the group being asked to sing background sessions at recording studios in New York, the background vocal work would continue while Warwick pursued her studies at Hartt. According to a July 14,1967 article on Warwick from Time, Bacharach stated, She has a strong side. Musically, she was no play-safe girl, what emotion I could get away with. And what complexity, compared with the run of pop songs. During the session, Bacharach asked Warwick if she would be interested in recording demonstration recordings of his compositions to pitch the tunes to record labels
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Buddy Rich
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Bernard Buddy Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Widely considered one of the most influential drummers of all time and known for his technique, power. He performed with many bandleaders, most notably Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Count Basie, Rich was born in Brooklyn to Jewish-American parents Bess and Robert Rich, both vaudevillians. His talent for rhythm was first noted by his father, who saw that Buddy could keep a beat with spoons at the age of one. He began playing drums in vaudeville when he was 18 months old, at the peak of Richs childhood career, he was reportedly the second-highest paid child entertainer in the world. At age 11, he was performing as a bandleader and he received no formal drum instruction and went so far as to claim that instruction would only degrade his musical talent. He also never admitted to practicing, claiming to play the only during performances and was not known to read music. Rich first played jazz with a group in 1937 with Joe Marsala. He then played with Bunny Berigan and Artie Shaw, and even instructed a 14-year-old Mel Brooks in drumming for a period when playing for Shaw. At 21, Rich participated in his first major recording with the Vic Schoen Orchestra, in 1938, he was hired to play in Tommy Dorseys orchestra, where he met and performed with Frank Sinatra. In 1942, Rich left the Dorsey band to join the United States Marine Corps, in which he served as an instructor, never saw combat. He rejoined the Dorsey group after leaving the Marines two years later, in 1946, Rich formed his own band with financial support from Sinatra, and continued to lead different groups on and off until the early 1950s. In the early 50s, Rich played with Dorsey and began to perform with trumpeter Harry James, in 1966, Rich left James to develop a new big band. For most of the period from 1966 until his death, he led successful big bands in an era when the popularity of big bands had waned from their 1930s and 1940s peak. Rich also served as the drummer for many recordings, where his playing was often much more understated than in his own big-band performances. In 1968 Rich collaborated with the Indian tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha in the studio album Rich à la Rakha by Buddy Rich and Alla Rakha. Perhaps his most popular later performance was an arrangement of a medley derived from Leonard Bernsteins West Side Story. The West Side Story Suite is a complex arrangement which highlights Richs ability to blend the rhythm of his drumming into his bands playing of the musical chart
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Woody Herman
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Woodrow Charles Woody Herman was an American jazz clarinetist, alto saxophonist, singer, and big band leader. Leading various groups called The Herd, Herman was one of the most popular of the 1930s and 1940s bandleaders and his bands often played music that was experimental for its time. He was a halftime performer for Super Bowl VII. Herman was born Woodrow Charles Thomas Herman in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His parents were Otto and Myrtle Herman and his father had a deep love for show business and this influenced Woody Herman at an early age. As a child he worked as a singer and tap-dancer in Vaudeville, then started to play the clarinet, in 1931, he met Charlotte Neste, an aspiring actress, they married on September 27,1936. Woody Herman joined the Tom Gerun band and his first recorded vocals were Lonesome Me, Herman also performed with the Harry Sosnick orchestra, Gus Arnheim and Isham Jones. Isham Jones wrote many songs, including It Had to Be You. Jones wanted to live off the residuals of his songs, Woody Herman saw the chance to lead his former band, Woody Hermans first band became known for its orchestrations of the blues, and was sometimes billed as The Band That Plays The Blues. This band recorded for the Decca label, at first serving as a cover band, the first song recorded was Wintertime Dreams on November 6,1936. After two and a half years on the label, the band had its first hit, Woodchoppers Ball recorded in 1939, Woody Herman remembered that Woodchoppers Ball started out slowly at first. But Decca kept re-releasing it, and over a period of three or four years it became a hit, eventually it sold more than five million copies—the biggest hit I ever had. Other hits for the band include The Golden Wedding and Blue Prelude, musicians and arrangers that stand out include Cappy Lewis on trumpet and Dean Kincaide, a big band arranger. In jazz, swing was gradually being replaced by bebop, Dizzy Gillespie, a trumpeter and one of the originators of bop, wrote three arrangements for Woody Herman, Woodyn You, Swing Shift and Down Under. Woodyn You was not used at the time, down Under was recorded November 8,1943. The fact that Herman commissioned Gillespie to write arrangements for the band, in February 1945, the band started a contract with Columbia Records. Herman liked what drew many artists to Columbia, Liederkranz Hall, the first side Herman recorded was Laura, the theme song of the 1944 movie of the same name. Hermans version was so successful that it made Columbia hold from release the arrangement that Harry James had recorded days earlier, the Columbia contract coincided with a change in the bands repertoire. The 1944 group, which he called the First Herd, was famous for its progressive jazz, the First Herds music was heavily influenced by Duke Ellington and Count Basie
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Lou's Blues
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Lous Blues is a big band jazz album by saxophonist Lou Marini and the Magic City Jazz Orchestra recorded at Bates Brothers Recording in Hueytown, Alabama. This CD was the first recording as a leader by Marini, production duties for the album were shared by Lou Marini and Birmingham-based jazz musician Ray Reach. All of the arrangements on this CD were written by Lou Marini, and all the compositions are his, except for Mr. Clean, some of the charts on this album have become enduring favorites of the Lab Bands at the University of North Texas. Liner notes for the CD were written by Grammy Award winning saxophonist, arranger, composer and producer, Lous Blues Looking With New Eyes Hip Pickles Odalisk Mr. Ray Reach - Official Website Magic City Jazz Orchestra at AllAboutJazz. com Lous Blues CD at BarnesandNoble. com
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University of North Texas
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Ten colleges, two schools, an early admissions math and science academy for exceptional high-school-age students from across the state, and a library system comprise the university core. Its research is driven by 34 doctoral degree programs, during the 2013–2014 school year, the university had a budget of $865 million, of which $40 million was allocated for research. In 1901, North Texas was formally adopted by the state, UNT is the main campus of the University of North Texas System, which includes additional campuses in Dallas and Fort Worth. The Denton campus is located in the largest populated region of Texas under two categories defined by the U. S. Census, core based statistical area and combined statistical area, as a state, Texas, as of 2011, had the second highest GDP in the country. On behalf of the state, the university, in its advocacy for the state. In 2009, the University of North Texas at Dallas became its own independent institution and that same year, the Texas legislature approved the creation of University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law, opening in 2014 in Downtown Dallas as part of UNT Dallas. In 2004, North Texas opened UNT Discovery Park —290 acres — in Denton, north of the campus with technology incubator facilities dedicated to science. In 1985 the Governors Select Committee on Higher Education recommended that North Texas be designated a national research university. Nine years earlier, in 1976, the Carnegie Foundation designated North Texas as a Class 1 Doctorate-Granting Institution, in 1992, UNT was elected to full membership in the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities. And, in 2011, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board included UNT as one of eight Emerging Research Institutions in its accountability system, certified enrollment as of the fall of 2013 was 36,198, the fourth largest in the state. For the 2011 academic year, the university awarded 8,608 degrees, North Texas awarded 459 PhD degrees from fiscal years 2009 to 2011. Of the thirteen constituent collegiate units, ten sponsor 97 bachelors degree programs, the Toulouse Graduate School coordinates admissions, recruiting, and other aspects of the 81 masters and 34 doctorate degree programs offered by the ten collegiate units. The Honors College is described below, the student-faculty ratio at UNT is 23,1, and 28.8 percent of its classes consist of fewer than 20 students. The most popular majors include business, management, marketing, communication, journalism, English, multi/interdisciplinary studies, and visual and performing arts. As of this year,2017, North Texas is a member of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and is among the twenty-seven universities in Texas at Level VI. As of 2013, the university was home to research centers and institutes. Three have been sponsored by the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, simultaneously, the university launched six additional strategic research areas, some of which involving frontiers in science, medicine, and hi-tech. In 2010, the National Science Foundation ranked UNT 104th out of 418 academic institutions for number of science
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Gil Evans
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Ian Ernest Gilmore Gil Evans was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz, playing an important role in the development of jazz, modal jazz. He is best known for his collaborations with Miles Davis. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his name was changed early on from Green to Evans and his family moved to Stockton, California where he spent most of his youth. After 1946, he lived and worked primarily in New York City, living for many years at Westbeth Artists Community. Between 1941 and 1948, Evans worked as an arranger for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. ”Evans modest basement apartment behind a New York City Chinese laundry soon became a place for musicians looking to develop new musical styles outside of the dominant bebop style of the day. Those present included the leading performer, Charlie Parker, as well as Gerry Mulligan. In 1948, Evans, with Miles Davis, Mulligan, and others, the Miles Davis-led group was booked for a week at the Royal Roost as an intermission group on the bill with the Count Basie Orchestra. Capitol Records recorded 12 numbers by the nonet at three sessions in 1949 and 1950 and these recordings were reissued on a 1957 Miles Davis LP titled Birth of the Cool. Later, while Davis was under contract with Columbia Records, producer George Avakian suggested that Davis could work with any of several arrangers, the three albums that resulted from the collaboration are Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, and Sketches of Spain. Another collaboration from this period, Quiet Nights was issued later, against the wishes of Davis, although these four records were marketed primarily under Daviss name, Evanss contribution was as important as Daviss. Their work coupled Evanss classic big band jazz stylings and arrangements with Daviss solo playing, Evans also contributed behind the scenes to Davis classic quintet albums of the 1960s. The demands of the score for Porgy and Bess were legendary, the limited time allotted for rehearsals revealed that the ability to read such a challenging score was not consistent among jazz musicians, and there are many audible errors. Evans was an influence on Daviss interest in non-jazz music. Davis died before the release of the album, from 1957 onwards Evans recorded albums under his own name. Tubist Bill Barber and trumpeter Louis Mucci from Thornhills band were both stalwarts in Evanss early ensembles, with Mucci finding a spot on nearly every pre1980s Evans recording. Among the featured soloists on these records were Lee Konitz, Jimmy Cleveland, Steve Lacy, Johnny Coles, in 1965 he arranged the big band tracks on Kenny Burrells Guitar Forms album. Evans was explicitly influenced by Spanish composers Manuel de Falla and Joaquín Rodrigo and his arrangements of pieces already well known to some listeners from their original cabaret, concert hall or Broadway stage arrangements, revealed aspects of the music in a wholly original way
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Bob Brookmeyer
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Robert Edward Bob Brookmeyer was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Brookmeyer first gained public attention as a member of Gerry Mulligans quartet from 1954 to 1957. He later worked with Jimmy Giuffre, before rejoining Mulligans Concert Jazz Band and he garnered 8 Grammy Award nominations during his lifetime. Brookmeyer was born on December 19,1929 Kansas City, Missouri and he was the only child of Elmer Edward Brookmeyer and Mayme Seifert. Brookmeyer began playing professionally when in his teens and he attended the Kansas City Conservatory of Music, but did not graduate. He played piano in big bands led by Tex Beneke and Ray McKinley and he was part of small groups led by Stan Getz, Jimmy Giuffre, and Gerry Mulligan in the 1950s. During the 1950s and 1960s Brookmeyer played in New York clubs, on television, in the early 1960s Brookmeyer joined flugelhorn player Clark Terry in a band that achieved some success. In February 1965 Brookmeyer and Terry appeared together on BBC2s Jazz 625, Brookmeyer moved to Los Angeles in 1968 and became a full-time studio musician. He spent 10 years on the West Coast, and had an alcohol problem. After he overcame this, he returned to New York, Brookmeyer became musical director of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1979, although he had not composed any music for a decade. Brookmeyer wrote for and performed with groups in Europe from the early 1980s. He founded and ran a school in the Netherlands, and taught at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. In June 2005, Brookmeyer joined ArtistShare and announced a project to fund a third album featuring his New Art Orchestra. The resulting Grammy-nominated CD, titled Spirit Music, was released in 2006, Brookmeyer was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in the same year. His eighth Grammy Award nomination was for an arrangement from the Vanguard Jazz Orchestras album, Forever Lasting, Brookmeyer died on December 15,2011, in New London, New Hampshire. With Benny Aronov Shadow Box With Gary Burton Who Is Gary Burton
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Thad Jones
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Thaddeus Joseph Thad Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader. Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan, on March 28,1923, to Henry and Olivvia Jones, a self-taught musician, Thad began performing professionally at the age of 16. He served in U. S. Army bands during World War II, after his military service, which included an association with the U. S. Military School of Music and working with bands in Des Moines and Oklahoma City. He was featured as a soloist on such tunes as April in Paris, Shiny Stockings. However, his contribution to Basies organization was nearly two dozen arrangements and compositions, which included The Deacon, H. R. H. Counter Block, and lesser known tracks such as Speaking of Sounds, in 1959 Jones played cornet on Thelonious Monks 5 by Monk by 5 album. Jones left the Basie Orchestra in 1963 to become a freelance arranger, in 1965 he and drummer Mel Lewis formed the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. The group started with informal jam sessions among New Yorks top studio musicians. They began performing at the Village Vanguard in February 1966, to wide acclaim and they won a 1978 Grammy Award for their album Live in Munich. Jones also taught at William Paterson College in New Jersey, which is now the site of the Thad Jones Archive, containing pencil scores, Jones big-band arranging style was unique, especially from the standpoint of featuring dissonant voicings in a tonal context. This required the members of his big band to play correctly in tune, minor 2nds and major 7ths are often featured in his voicings, especially when the entire band plays a long, powerful chord that some would describe as having bite. In January 1979, Thad suddenly moved to Copenhagen, Denmark, there he became the leader of The Danish Radio Big Band, and married a Danish woman. Jones transformed the Danish Radio Big Band into one of the worlds best, the result can be heard on a live-recording from the Montmartre in Copenhagen. In July 1979 Jones formed a new big band, Eclipse, with which he recorded a live album, several Americans were on the album, pianist Horace Parlan, baritonist Sahib Shihab, trumpeter Tim Hagans and trombonist/vocalist Richard B. Boone, along with trombonists Bjarne Thanning and Ture Larsen, trumpeter Lars Togeby, altoists Ole Thøger and Michael Hove, tenor saxophonist Bent Jædig, Jones further composed for the Danish Radio Big Band and taught jazz at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen. He studied composition formally during this period, and also took up the valve trombone, in February 1985, Jones returned to the U. S. to take over the leadership of the Count Basie Orchestra, upon his former leaders death. He returned to his home in Copenhagen for the last few months of his life, in later years his playing ability was diminished due to lip injury, but his composing and arranging skills blossomed
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Patti Austin
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Patti Austin is an American R&B, pop and jazz singer. Austin was born in Harlem, New York to Gordon Austin, a jazz trombonist, Quincy Jones and Dinah Washington have referred to themselves as her godparents. When she was four years old, she made her debut at the Apollo Theater, during the 1960s, she was a session musician who sang background vocals and commercial jingles. She was known as Queen of the Jingles, appearing on commercials for Almay, Avon, Burger King, Impulse, KFC, Maxwell House, McDonalds, Meow Mix, Stouffers, in 1969, she made the R&B Top 50 with the single Family Tree. Her debut album, End of a Rainbow, appeared in 1976 on the jazz label CTI Records, Two years later, she sang on the song Love Light by Japanese musician Yutaka Yokokura. She provided vocals for Roberta Flack, Angela Bofill, and Noel Pointer, in 1981, she sang on the album The Dude by Quincy Jones and on the hit single Razzmatazz. Jones signed her to his label, Qwest Records. A second duet with Ingram, How Do You Keep the Music Playing, was used on the soundtrack for the movie Best Friends, Austins single, Its Gonna Be Special, was featured on the soundtrack for the movie Two of a Kind. Its Gonna Be Special peaked at No.5 on the chart, No.15 on the R&B chart. The song also appeared on Austins self-titled album in 1984, a follow-up single, Rhythm of the Street, remixed by John Jellybean Benitez, narrowly missed the Billboard Dance Top Ten chart, though it peaked higher on Hi-NRG charts. The two songs were featured on a double-A-side 12 single, for Rhythm of the Street Austin shot her first music video. Austins 1985 album, Gettin Away With Murder, was her album in as many years. It produced two hit singles, Honey For The Bees and The Heat of Heat. The album used producers Russ Titelman, Tommy LiPuma, Monte Moir and Jimmy Jam, billy Joel, Dan Hartman, friends Luther Vandross and Jocelyn Brown and Chaka Khan were among the background vocalists on the project. Songwriters included Randy Goodrum, Michael Bolton and Jam & Lewis, also in 1985, Austin sang lead vocals on a collaboration with her producer, Narada Michael Walden, and the single, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, hit the top 40 of the R&B charts. Austin appeared with Jeff Bridges and Joan Allen in Francis Ford Coppolas 1988 comedy-drama film, Tucker, The Man, also in 1988, Austin released The Real Me, a collection of standards which garnered the first of several Top 10 showings on the jazz albums chart. The Real Me was chiefly produced by David Pack, lead singer of the pop group Ambrosia, though Austin served as a co-producer, Austin scored a top five dance hit with the single, Reach, from her 1994 album, That Secret Place. Austin was scheduled to be on onboard United Flight 93 on September 11,2001, in 2002, she recorded For Ella, a tribute to jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald
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Jimmy Buffett
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James William Jimmy Buffett is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman. He is best known for his music, which portrays an island escapism lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including Margaritaville and he has a devoted base of fans known as Parrotheads. Aside from his career in music, Buffett is also a writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after two of his best-known songs, Cheeseburger in Paradise and Margaritaville. He owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain and co-developed the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant chain, Buffett was born on December 25,1946, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and spent part of his childhood in Mobile, Alabama. He is the son of Mary Lorraine and James Delaney Buffett, in grade school years, he attended St. Ignatius School, where he played the trombone in the school band. Buffetts grandfather was a sailor, therefore he was exposed to sailing as a child which had an effect on his life. He later lived in Fairhope, Alabama and he graduated from McGill Institute for Boys in 1964. He was initiated into the fraternity Kappa Sigma at the University of Southern Mississippi, after graduating from college, Buffett worked as a correspondent for Billboard magazine in Nashville, breaking the news of the separation of Flatt and Scruggs. Buffett married Margie Washichek in 1969, they divorced in 1972, Buffett spent years working as the First Mate on the yacht of industrialist Foster Talge on the Petticoat III in Key West while perfecting the Caribbean Rock n Roll genre. Buffett and his wife, Jane have two daughters, Savannah Jane and Sarah Delaney, and an adopted son, Cameron Marley. They separated in the early 1980s but reconciled in 1991, Buffett also owns a home in St Barts, a Caribbean island where he lived on and off in the early 1980s while he was part-owner of the Autour de Rocher hotel and restaurant. He spends part of the summer traveling about the East Coast on his sailboat, an avid pilot, Buffett owns a Dassault Falcon 900 that he often uses while on concert tour and traveling worldwide. He has also owned a Boeing Stearman, Lake Amphibian and Grumman Albatross and his father died May 1,2003 at the age of 83. His mother died a few months after her husband, on September 25,2003, in 2015, Jimmy Buffett spoke at the University of Miamis graduation ceremony and received an honorary doctorate in music. Wearing flip flops and aviator sunglasses he told graduates, Its time to see the world, time to kiss a girl, and time to cross that wide meridian. Buffett began his career in Nashville, Tennessee, during the late 1960s as a country artist and recorded his first album. During this time, Buffett could be found busking for tourists in New Orleans
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Freddy Cole
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Lionel Frederick Freddy Cole is an American jazz singer and pianist, whose recording career has spanned over sixty years. He is leader of the Freddy Cole Quartet, which tours the United States, Europe. He is the brother of the musicians Nat King Cole and Ike Cole, father of Lionel Cole and uncle of Natalie Cole, Timolin Cole, Cole was born to Edward and Paulina Cole, and grew up in Chicago with siblings Eddie, Ike and Nat King Cole. He began playing piano at the age of six, and continued his education at the Roosevelt Institute in Chicago. He moved to New York in 1951, where he studied at the Juilliard School of Music, following the moderate success of Whispering Grass in 1953 Cole spent several months on the road with Johnny Coles and Benny Golson as the Earl Bostic band. He was the subject of the 2006 documentary The Cole Nobody Knows, in June of that year, Cole was added to the Steinway Artist roster. Cole was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 2007, in July 2009, he released a recording featuring his own quartet, along with alto saxophonist Jerry Weldon and pianist John DiMartino, playing live at Dizzys jazz club in Lincoln Center. His 2010 album, Freddy Cole Sings Mr. B, was nominated for the Grammy in the category Best Vocal Jazz Album, the album features tenor Houston Person, pianist John DiMartino, guitarist/arranger Randy Napoleon, drummer Curtis Boyd, and bassist Elias Bailey. Coles influences included John Lewis, Oscar Peterson, Teddy Wilson, when speaking of Eckstine, Cole recalled, He was a fantastic entertainer. I learned so much from just watching and being around him, guitarist Randy Napoleon, who has been playing and recording with Cole since 2007, said, Freddy just glides through life. Hes got a lot of patience, warmth, a sense of humor. The music is really inseparable from the person…One of the things that makes Freddy really great is his elegance and careful and he doesnt play a lot of notes on piano, but the ones he plays really do make the band feel great. They’re melodic, it swings, and thats it and he doesnt feel you need a lot of extra, fancy stuff. Official website filmmaker Clay Walkers webpage on Freddy Cole PBS video of performance at the Georgia Music Hall of Fame induction ceremony
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Manu Dibango
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Emmanuel Manu NDjoké Dibango is a Cameroonian musician and song-writer who plays saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, though his mother was a Duala and he is best known for his 1972 single, Soul Makossa. Dibango was born in Douala, Cameroon and his father, Michel Manfred NDjoké Dibango, was a civil servant. The son of a farmer, he met his wife travelling by pirogue to her residence, a literate woman, she was a fashion designer, running her own small business. Both her ethnic group, the Duala, and his, the Yabassi, emmanuel had no siblings, although he had a stepbrother from his fathers previous marriage who was four years older than he was. In Cameroon, ones ethnicity is dictated by their fathers, though he wrote in his autobiography, Three Kilos of Coffee, Dibangos uncle was the leader of his extended family. Upon his death, Dibangos father refused to take over, as he never fully initiated his son into the Yabassis customs, throughout his childhood, Dibango slowly forgot the Yabassi language in favour of the Duala. However, his family did live in the Yabassi encampment on the Yabassi plateau, while a child, Dibango attended Protestant church every night for religious education, or nkouaida. He enjoyed studying music there, and reportedly was a fast learner, in 1941, after being educated at his village school, Dibango was accepted into a colonial school, near his home, where he learned French. He admired the teacher, whom he described as an extraordinary draftsman, in 1944, French president Charles de Gaulle chose this school to perform the welcoming ceremonies upon his arrival in Cameroon. In 1998, he recorded the album CubAfrica with Cuban artist Eliades Ochoa, the song Soul Makossa on the record of the same name contains the lyrics makossa, which means dance in his native tongue, the Cameroonian language Duala. He served as the first chairman of the Cameroon Music Corporation, Dibango was appointed a UNESCO Artist for Peace in 2004. His song, Reggae Makossa, is featured on the soundtrack to the 2006 video game Scarface, in August 2009, he played the closing concert at the revived Brecon Jazz Festival. In July 2014, he made an 80th anniversary concert at Olympia, chocnSoul features Sly and Robbie Afro Funk Afro Soul Machine Past Present Future features Soul Makossa 2
