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Album
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Album, is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape, or another medium. Albums of recorded music were developed in the early 20th century, first as books of individual 78rpm records, vinyl LPs are still issued, though in the 21st century album sales have mostly focused on compact disc and MP3 formats. The audio cassette was a format used from the late 1970s through to the 1990s alongside vinyl, an album may be recorded in a recording studio, in a concert venue, at home, in the field, or a mix of places. Recording may take a few hours to years to complete, usually in several takes with different parts recorded separately. Recordings that are done in one take without overdubbing are termed live, the majority of studio recordings contain an abundance of editing, sound effects, voice adjustments, etc. With modern recording technology, musicians can be recorded in separate rooms or at times while listening to the other parts using headphones. Album covers and liner notes are used, and sometimes additional information is provided, such as analysis of the recording, historically, the term album was applied to a collection of various items housed in a book format. In musical usage the word was used for collections of pieces of printed music from the early nineteenth century. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, the LP record, or 33 1⁄3 rpm microgroove vinyl record, is a gramophone record format introduced by Columbia Records in 1948. It was adopted by the industry as a standard format for the album. Apart from relatively minor refinements and the important later addition of stereophonic sound capability, the term album had been carried forward from the early nineteenth century when it had been used for collections of short pieces of music. Later, collections of related 78rpm records were bundled in book-like albums, as part of a trend of shifting sales in the music industry, some commenters have declared that the early 21st century experienced the death of the album. Sometimes shorter albums are referred to as mini-albums or EPs, Albums such as Tubular Bells, Amarok, Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield, and Yess Close to the Edge, include fewer than four tracks. There are no rules against artists such as Pinhead Gunpowder referring to their own releases under thirty minutes as albums. These are known as box sets, material is stored on an album in sections termed tracks, normally 11 or 12 tracks. A music track is a song or instrumental recording. The term is associated with popular music where separate tracks are known as album tracks. When vinyl records were the medium for audio recordings a track could be identified visually from the grooves
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Nina Simone
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Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and activist in the Civil Rights Movement. Simone employed a range of musical styles including classical, jazz, blues, folk, R&B, gospel. Born in North Carolina, the child of a preacher. With the help of the few supporters in her hometown of Tryon, North Carolina, Waymon then applied for a scholarship to study at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was denied despite a well-received audition. Waymon became fully convinced this rejection had been due to her race. Years later, two days before her death, the Curtis Institute of Music bestowed on her an honorary degree, to make a living, Eunice Waymon changed her name to Nina Simone. The change related to her need to disguise herself from family members and she was told in the nightclub that she would have to sing to her own accompaniment, and this effectively launched her career as a jazz vocalist. Simone recorded more than forty albums, mostly between 1958, when she made her debut with Little Girl Blue, and 1974, and had a hit in the United States in 1958 with I Loves You, Porgy. Simones musical style fused gospel and pop with music, in particular Johann Sebastian Bach. Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in North Carolina and raised in Tryon, the sixth of eight children in a poor family, she began playing piano at age three, the first song she learned was God Be With You, Till We Meet Again. Demonstrating a talent with the instrument, she performed at her local church, but her concert debut, a classical recital, was given when she was 12. Simone later said that during this performance, her parents, who had taken seats in the front row, were forced to move to the back of the hall to make way for white people. She said that she refused to play until her parents were moved back to the front, Simones mother, Mary Kate Waymon, was a Methodist minister and a housemaid. Simones father, John Divine Waymon, was a handyman who at one time owned a dry cleaning business, Simones music teacher helped establish a special fund to pay for her education. Subsequently, a fund was set up to assist her continued education. With the help of this scholarship money she was able to attend Allen High School for Girls in Asheville, North Carolina. After her graduation, Simone spent the summer of 1950 at the Juilliard School, as a student of Carl Friedberg, discouraged, she took private piano lessons with Vladimir Sokoloff, a professor at Curtis, but never re-applied to the institution. She took a job as an assistant, but also found work as an accompanist at Arlene Smiths vocal studio
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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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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Bethlehem Records
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Bethlehem Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Gus Wildi in 1953. Bethlehem is remembered for its releases from the 1950s. Producers included Creed Taylor and Teddy Charles, Bethlehem released the first albums recorded by singers Chris Connor in 1954, Nina Simone in 1958, and singer/actress Julie London. London did not record an album for the label. She recorded four songs that would later be released on the compilation LP Bethlehems Girlfriends in 1955, in 1958, Bethlehem began a distributing deal with King Records. In 1962, it was sold and absorbed by King, after Syd Nathans death in 1968, King was acquired by Starday Records and relaunched as Starday and King Records. It was acquired in 1970 by Lin Broadcasting and in 1972 by Tennessee Recording & Publishing, at that time, Bethlehem was purchased by the Cayre brothers Salsoul Records, who initially intended to release its back catalog for inexpensive 8-track tapes in the 1970s. In 1993, the Bethlehem name was revived as Bethlehem Music Company and it was licensed by the Verse Music Group in 2010. During 2013–2014, Verve and Naxos reissued the 1950s catalogue on LP, CD and this included music by Art Blakey, Chris Connor, Paula Castle, John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Nina Simone, Mel Tormé, and Zoot Sims. The BCP1000 Series of 10 inch LP records commenced in September 1954, the BCP Deluxe Series of 12 inch LP records commenced in 1955 and ran until 1960. Early releases consisted of reissues of 10 inch albums from the BCP1000 Series, the 6000 series of 12 inch LP records commenced in 1956 and ran until 1964. List of record labels The Pictorial Discography of 1000 Series Bethlehem Discography
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Little Girl Blue (album)
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Little Girl Blue is the debut album by jazz singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone, released by Bethlehem Records. Simone was in her mid-20s at the time, and still aspiring to be a concert pianist. She immediately sold the rights for the songs on this album to Bethlehem for $3,000, Simone was dissatisfied by the lack of effort the record company took in promoting her, and after this album she formed a long business relationship with Colpix Records. The album Nina Simone and Her Friends was released after she had left Bethlehem, without her consent, the session was the only one ever recorded for Bethlehem. The original 1958 album was released in mono, but an issue the following year. The album was reissued by Bethlehem in 1992 on CD, with three tracks from the same session, Hes Got the Whole World in His Hands, For All We Know. This format was released again in 2002, as Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club by Charly / Snapper Music, remastered, I Loves You, Porgy, from George Gershwins opera Porgy and Bess. This was the song that started Simones career, the single became her only Billboard top 20 hit in the United States. Mood Indigo, also featured on Let It All Out, love Me or Leave Me featured on the soundtrack of Billys Hollywood Screen Kiss, also features on Let It All Out. Plain Gold Ring was later covered by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, White Magic, Simones version was also incorporated into the song Deadly Species by Alif Tree for their album French Cuisine. My Baby Just Cares for Me was Simones biggest hit and it was one of the last songs she recorded during the session, because the record label wanted an uptempo song to finish with. The fairly obscure song became a hit when it was re-released in 1987 and it helped the almost forgotten Simone back into the limelight. Central Park Blues was created and recorded in a single take, the record company needed another song, so Simone drew inspiration from a photo shoot earlier in the day at Central Park. Little Girl Blue is an example of a quodlibet. In this case Simone combined the Rodgers and Hart melody and lyrics with the melody of the popular carol Good King Wenceslas, dont Smoke in Bed, is a jazz song written and originally recorded by Willard Robison
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AllMusic
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AllMusic is an online music guide service website. It was launched in 1991 by All Media Guide which later became All Media Network, AllMusic was launched in 1991 by Michael Erlewine of All Media Guide. The aim was to discographic information on every artist whos made a record since Enrico Caruso gave the industry its first big boost and its first reference book was published the following year. When first released onto the Internet, AMG predated the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site, the AMG consumer web properties AllMusic. com, AllMovie. com and AllGame. com were sold by Rovi in July 2013 to All Media Network, LLC. All Media Network, LLC. was formed by the founders of SideReel. com. The following are contributors to AllMusic, as of this date, All Media Network also produced the AllMusic guide series that includes the AllMusic Guide to Rock, the All Music Guide to Jazz and the All Music Guide to the Blues. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president of the series, in August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its Top 100 Classic Websites list. All Media Network AllGame AllMovie SideReel All Music Guide to the Blues All Music Guide to Jazz Stephen Thomas Erlewine Official website
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Carmen McRae
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Carmen Mercedes McRae was an American jazz singer. She is considered one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century and is remembered for her behind-the-beat phrasing. McRae was inspired by Billie Holiday, but she established her own voice and she recorded over sixty albums and performed worldwide. Her father, Osmond, was originally from Costa Rica, and her mother, Evadne McRae and she began studying piano when she was eight, and the music of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington filled her home. When she was just 17 years old she met singer Billie Holiday, as a teenager McRae came to the attention of Teddy Wilson and his wife, the composer Irene Kitchings Wilson. One of McRaes early songs, Dream of Life, was, through their influence, McRae considered Holiday to be her primary influence. In her late teens and early twenties, McRae played piano at a New York City club called Mintons Playhouse, Harlems most famous club, sang as a chorus girl. But it was working in Brooklyn that she came to the attention of Decca’s Milt Gabler. Her five-year association with Decca yielded 12 LPs, in 1948 she moved to Chicago with comedian and impressionist George Kirby, with whom she had fallen in love. At the end of the relationship, she worked as a pianist and she played piano steadily for almost four years at a number of clubs in Chicago before returning to New York in 1952. In Chicago she developed her own specific style and those years in Chicago, McRae told Jazz Forum, gave me whatever it is that I have now. Thats the most prominent schooling I ever had, back in New York in the early 1950s, McRae got the record contract that launched her career. She was voted best new female vocalist of 1954 by Down Beat magazine, macRae married twice, to drummer Kenny Clarke in 1946, and to bassist Ike Isaacs in the late 1950s, both marriages ended in divorce. The latter two albums were part of a notable eight-year relationship with Concord Jazz, McRae sang in jazz clubs throughout the United States — and across the world — for more than fifty years. She left New York for Southern California in the late 1960s, but appeared in New York regularly, usually at the Blue Note, where she performed two engagements a year through most of the 1980s. In May–June 1988, she collaborated with Harry Connick Jr. on the song, Please Dont Talk About Me When Im Gone in New York City at the RCA Studios, for Connicks debut album,20. She withdrew from performance in May 1991 after an episode of respiratory failure only hours after she completed an engagement at the Blue Note jazz club in New York. On November 10,1994, McRae died at her home in Beverly Hills, California and she had fallen into a semi-coma four days earlier, a month after being hospitalized for a stroke
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Chris Connor
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Chris Connor was an American jazz singer. She was born as Mary Jean Loutsenhizer in Kansas City, Missouri, to Clyde Loutsenhizer and she became proficient on the clarinet, having studied for eight years throughout junior high and high school. Following the death of her mother Mabel in 1941, her father and she moved in with her married older sister, who took over the responsibility of raising her. She first sang publicly in 1945, at the Jefferson City Junior Colleges graduation and she performed the song Amor and it was well received. After the positive response she received from the audience, she decided to pursue a singing career full-time, initially, she stayed within the parameters of the Kansas City area, working during the day as a stenographer and singing on weekends. Her first professional job was with the University of Missouri college band playing various functions in the Columbia area and she moved between local bands from 1946–47, and, in 1948, she moved to New York City with the intention of having a glamorous career. Unable to find a job, she became an office stenographer. She spent the seven weeks trying to secure any kind of singing job. Those weeks were quite difficult for Connor, as she was kicked out of the hotel where she was staying, and she met a man acquainted with orchestra leader Claude Thornhills road manager, Joe Green. Thornhill was seeking a new singer to round out his vocal group and she successfully auditioned and joined Thornhills group, touring around the United States and recording harmonies in the studio. Of her time spent with the Snowflakes, there is evidence of her vocal contribution on two recorded songs, Theres a Small Hotel and I Dont Know Why, both performed in 1949. She also reunited with Claude Thornhill in October 1952 for a radio broadcast from the Statler Hotel in New York City and she sang four songs, Wish You Were Here, Come Rain or Come Shine, Sorta Kinda, and Who Are We to Say. In February 1953, when Connor was singing on a radio broadcast from the Roosevelt Hotel, June Christy, was listening to the radio. By 1952, Kenton had rotated several female singers as replacements, in late 1952, Christy returned to the Kenton band for some sporadic engagements. When she informed Kenton again of her departure to pursue a solo career, she remembered Chris Connor. Connor auditioned and began touring and recording for the Stan Kenton band in February 1953, on February 11,1953, Connor recorded her first sides with the Stan Kenton band. Her first song, And The Bull Walked Around, Ole, additional songs Connor sang on the road were Taking A Chance On Love, Dont Worry About Me, Ill Remember April and There Will Never Be Another You. On her live dates with the band, Thornhill often introduced her as Chris Connors, by June 1953, Connor found the constant traveling and vocal demands of nightly performances exhausting
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Julie London
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Julie London was an American singer, and film and television actress, whose career spanned five decades of television. She was noted for her smoky, sensual husky voice and languid demeanor and she released 32 albums of pop and jazz standards during the 1950s and 1960s, with her signature song being the classic Cry Me a River, which she introduced in 1955. She had also appeared as a guest on talk shows. Londons 35-year acting career began in films in 1944, and included playing opposite Rock Hudson in The Fat Man, Gary Cooper in Man of the West and she achieved continuing success in the 1970s medical drama Emergency. Co-starring her real-life husband, Bobby Troup, and produced by her ex-husband, Jack Webb, in which London played the lead role of Nurse Dixie McCall. An only child, London was born on September 26,1926, in Santa Rosa, California, the daughter of Jack and Josephine Peck, who were a vaudeville song-and-dance team. In 1929, when she was 3 years old, her moved to San Bernardino, California. In 1941, when she was 14, the moved to Hollywood. Shortly after that, she began appearing in films and she graduated from the Hollywood Professional School in 1945. London began singing in public in her teens before appearing in film and she was discovered by talent agent Sue Carol, while working as an elevator operator. Her early film career did not include any singing roles, London recorded 32 albums in a career that began in 1955 with a live performance at the 881 Club in Los Angeles. Billboard named her the most popular female vocalist for 1955,1956 and she was the subject of a 1957 Life cover article in which she was quoted as saying, Its only a thimbleful of a voice, and I have to use it close to the microphone. But it is a kind of oversmoked voice, and it automatically sounds intimate, londons début recordings were for the Bethlehem Records label. While shopping for a deal, she recorded four tracks that would later be included on the compilation album Bethlehems Girlfriends in 1955. Bobby Troup backed London on the album, London recorded the standards Dont Worry About Me, Motherless Child, A Foggy Day, and Youre Blasé. Londons most famous single, Cry Me a River, was written by her high-school classmate Arthur Hamilton, the recording became a million-seller after its release in December 1955, and also sold on reissue in April 1983 from the attention brought by a Mari Wilson cover. London performed the song in the film The Girl Cant Help It, the song Yummy Yummy Yummy was featured on the HBO television series Six Feet Under and appears on its soundtrack album. Londons Must Be Catchin was featured in the 2011 premiere episode of the ABC series Pan Am and her last recording was My Funny Valentine for the soundtrack of the Burt Reynolds film Sharkys Machine
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I Loves You, Porgy
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I Loves You, Porgy is a duet from the opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. Nina Simones recording of the song was a Top 20 pop hit in the United States in the autumn of 1959, Simones version went to number eighteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and number two on the R&B charts. A live version is featured in her 1964 album Nina Simone in Concert, bill Evanss piano trio version recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1961, available on the CD re-issue of the album Waltz for Debby, is also acclaimed. Barbra Streisand recorded I Loves You, Porgy as a medley with Bess, jex Saarelaht and Kate Ceberano recorded a version on their album Open the Door - Live at Miettas. Whitney Houston sang I Loves You, Porgy at the beginning of a medley with I Have Nothing at the 1994 American Music Awards and this performance was included on the 2014 CD/DVD release, Whitney Houston Live, Her Greatest Performances. Houston performed the tune several times during her Bodyguard Tour in 1993, also during her HBO televised Classic Whitney, Live in Washington, christina Aguilera performed a critically acclaimed rendition of the song at the Grammy Nomination Concert in December 2008
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Billboard Hot 100
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The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for singles, published weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on sales, radio play and online streaming, the weekly sales period was originally Monday to Sunday, when Nielsen started tracking sales in 1991, but was changed to Friday to Thursday in July 2015. Radio airplay, which, unlike sales figures and streaming data, is available on a real-time basis. A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public by Billboard on Tuesdays, as of the issue for the week ending on April 15,2017, the Hot 100 has had 1,061 different number one hits. The current number one song is Shape of You by Ed Sheeran, prior to 1955, Billboard did not have a unified, all-encompassing popularity chart, instead measuring songs by individual metrics. At the start of the era in 1955, three such charts existed, Best Sellers in Stores was the first Billboard chart, established in 1936. This chart ranked the biggest selling singles in retail stores, as reported by merchants surveyed throughout the country, Most Played by Jockeys was Billboards original airplay chart. It ranked the most played songs on United States radio stations, as reported by radio disc jockeys, Most Played in Jukeboxes ranked the most played songs in jukeboxes across the United States. On the week ending November 12,1955, Billboard published The Top 100 for the first time, the Top 100 combined all aspects of a singles performance, based on a point system that typically gave sales more weight than radio airplay. The Best Sellers In Stores, Most Played by Jockeys and Most Played in Jukeboxes charts continued to be published concurrently with the new Top 100 chart. The week ending July 28,1958 was the publication of the Most Played By Jockeys and Top 100 charts. On August 4,1958, Billboard premiered one main all-genre singles chart, the Hot 100 quickly became the industry standard and Billboard discontinued the Best Sellers In Stores chart on October 13,1958. The Billboard Hot 100 is still the standard by which a songs popularity is measured in the United States, the Hot 100 is ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data compiled by Nielsen Soundscan and streaming activity provided by online music sources. There are several component charts that contribute to the calculation of the Hot 100. Charts are ranked by number of gross audience impressions, computed by cross-referencing exact times of radio airplay with Arbitron listener data. Hot Singles Sales, the top selling singles compiled from a sample of retail store, mass merchant and internet sales reports collected, compiled. The chart is released weekly and measures sales of commercial singles. With the decline in sales of singles in the US
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A Cottage for Sale
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A Cottage for Sale is a popular song. The music was composed by Willard Robison, and the lyrics were written by Larry Conley, the song was first published in 1929, and over 100 performers have recorded versions of A Cottage for Sale. The first versions of the song were released by The Revelers in January 1930, the song uses an empty cottage as a metaphor of a failed relationship or the end of a long relationship perhaps in death. Where we planted roses The weeds seem to say, the song has become a standard, with artists from a variety of genres creating many notable recordings. 1963 Julie London 2005, Les Deux Love Orchestra, chuck Berry sings the song, accompanied by electric guitar and Johnnie Johnson on piano, in an intimate moment during rehearsal in his concert film Hail
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Yip Harburg
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Edgar Yipsel Yip Harburg was an American popular song lyricist who worked with many well-known composers. He wrote the lyrics to the standards Brother, Can You Spare a Dime, April in Paris, and Its Only a Paper Moon, as well as all of the songs in The Wizard of Oz, including Over the Rainbow. He was known for the commentary of his lyrics, as well as his liberal sensibilities. He championed racial and gender equality and union politics and he also was an ardent critic of religion. Harburg, the youngest of four surviving children, was born Isidore Hochberg on the Lower East Side of New York City on April 8,1896 and his parents, Lewis Hochberg and Mary Ricing, were Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews who had emigrated from Russia. Isidore later adopted the name Edgar Harburg, and came to be best known as Edgar Yip Harburg. He attended Townsend Harris High School, where he and Ira Gershwin, after World War I, Harburg returned to New York, and graduated from City College, which Ira Gershwin had initially attended with him, in 1921. After Harburg married and had two children, he started writing light verse for local newspapers, at this point, Harburg and Ira Gershwin agreed that Yip should start writing song lyrics. To the tune of a lullaby Gorney had learned as a child in Russia and this song swept the nation, becoming an anthem of the Great Depression. And he — there were eleven screenwriters on that — and he pulled the whole thing together, wrote his own lines and gave the thing a coherence, but he doesn’t get credit for that. But nevertheless, he put his influence on the thing, working in Hollywood did not stop Harburgs career on Broadway. It was made into a film in 1968 starring Fred Astaire and Petula Clark, although never a member of the Communist Party he had been involved in radical groups, and he was blacklisted. Harburg was unable to travel abroad during this period, as his passport had been revoked, the New York critics were dismissive of the show, although it had been a success during its earlier pre-Broadway run in Philadelphia. In 1966, songwriter Earl Robinson sought Harburgs help for the song Hurry Sundown, the song was intended for the film Hurry Sundown, but was not used in the film. It was, however, recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary for their 1966 album The Peter, Paul, the song was released as a single in 1967, and reached #37 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart. It was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Folk Recording and he died in a head-on collision when he swerved into oncoming traffic on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California on March 5,1981. In 1940 Harburg won an Oscar, shared with Harold Arlen, for Best Music, Original Song for The Wizard of Oz. In addition, he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Music, Original Song, along with Arlen, for Cabin in the Sky, Harburg was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972
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George Gershwin
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George Jacob Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwins compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are widely known, among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue and An American in Paris as well as the opera Porgy and Bess. Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell and he began his career as a song plugger, but soon started composing Broadway theatre works with his brother Ira Gershwin, and Buddy DeSylva. He moved to Paris intending to study with Nadia Boulanger, who refused him, after returning to New York City, he wrote Porgy and Bess with Ira and the author DuBose Heyward. Initially a commercial failure, Porgy and Bess is now considered one of the most important American operas of the twentieth century, Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores until his death in 1937 from a malignant brain tumor – glioblastoma multiforme. Gershwins compositions have been adapted for use in films and for television. Many celebrated singers and musicians have covered his songs, Gershwin was of Russian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish ancestry. His grandfather, Jakov Gershowitz, had served for 25 years as a mechanic for the Imperial Russian Army to earn the right of travel and residence as a Jew. His teenage son, Moishe Gershowitz, worked as a cutter for womens shoes. Moishe Gershowitz met and fell in love with Roza Bruskina, the daughter of a furrier in Vilnius. She and her family moved to New York due to increasing anti-Jewish sentiment in Russia, Moishe, faced with compulsory military service if he remained in Russia, moved to America as soon as he could afford to. Once in New York, he changed his first name to Morris, Gershowitz lived with a maternal uncle in Brooklyn, working as a foreman in a womens shoe factory. When he married Rose on July 21,1895, Gershowitz soon Americanized his name to Gershwine. Their first child was born on December 6,1896, Gershwin then moved his family into a second-floor apartment on Brooklyns Snediker Avenue. Their second son, soon to be renamed George, was born at there on September 26,1898 and his birth certificate identifies him as Jacob Gershwine, with the surname pronounced Gersh-vin in the Russian and Yiddish immigrant community. He was named after his grandfather, the one time Russian army mechanic, American practice by then was to give children a first and a middle name, but had no other. He changed the spelling of his name to Gershwin when he became a professional musician, George and Ira lived in many different residences, as their father changed dwellings with each new enterprise which he became involved in. Mostly, the boys grew up around the Yiddish Theater District and they frequented the local Yiddish theaters, with George occasionally appearing onstage as an extra
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Ira Gershwin
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Ira Gershwin was an American lyricist who collaborated with his younger brother, composer George Gershwin, to create some of the most memorable songs of the 20th century. With George he wrote more than a dozen Broadway shows, featuring songs such as I Got Rhythm, Embraceable You, The Man I Love and he was also responsible, along with DuBose Heyward, for the libretto to Georges opera Porgy and Bess. The success the brothers had with their works has often overshadowed the creative role that Ira played. However, his mastery of songwriting continued after the death of George. He wrote additional hit songs with composers Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, Gershwin was born Israel Gershowitz in New York City, the oldest of four children of Morris and Rose Gershovitz. He was followed by George in 1898, Arthur in 1900, Morris changed the family name to Gershwine, or alternatively Gershvin well before their children rose to fame. Shy in his youth, he spent much of his time at home reading and he graduated from Townsend Harris High School in 1914, where he met Yip Harburg, with whom he enjoyed a lifelong friendship, and a love of Gilbert and Sullivan. He attended the City College of New York but dropped out, the childhood home of Ira and George Gershwin was in the center of the Yiddish Theater District, on the second floor at 91 Second Avenue, between East 5th Street and East 6th Street. They frequented the local Yiddish theaters, while his younger brother began composing and plugging in Tin Pan Alley from the age of eighteen, Ira worked as a cashier in his fathers Turkish baths. It was not until 1921 that Ira became involved in the music business, alex Aarons signed Ira to write the songs for his next show, Two Little Girls in Blue, ultimately produced by Abraham Erlanger, along with co-composers Vincent Youmans and Paul Lannin. So as not to appear to trade off his brothers growing reputation, he wrote under the pseudonym Arthur Francis, Gershwins lyrics were well received, and allowed him to successfully enter the show-business world with just one show. Later the same year, the Gershwins collaborated for the first time on a score, for A Dangerous Maid and it was not until 1924 that Ira and George Gershwin teamed up to write the music for their first Broadway hit Lady, Be Good. Once the brothers joined forces, their combined talents became one of the most influential forces in the history of American Musical Theatre, when the Gershwins teamed up to write songs for Lady, Be Good, the American musical found its native idiom. Together, they wrote the music for more than twelve shows, some of their more famous works include The Man I Love, Fascinating Rhythm, Someone to Watch Over Me, I Got Rhythm and They Cant Take That Away from Me. Their partnership continued until Georges sudden death from a tumor in 1937. Following his brothers death, Ira waited nearly three years before writing again, after this temporary retirement, he teamed up with such accomplished composers as Jerome Kern, Kurt Weill, and Harold Arlen. Over the next fourteen years, Gershwin continued to write the lyrics for film scores. But the failure of Park Avenue in 1946, a show about divorce
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Try a Little Tenderness
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Try a Little Tenderness is a song written by Jimmy Campbell, Reg Connelly and Harry M. Woods. It was first recorded on December 8,1932, by the Ray Noble Orchestra, both Ruth Etting and Bing Crosby recorded it in 1933. A popular version in a new form was recorded by soul artist Otis Redding in 1966. Redding was backed on his version by Booker T. & the M. G. s and this version peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. It has been named on a number of best songs of all time lists, including those from the Rock and it is in the 204th position on Rolling Stones list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. A live version performed in 1967 at the Monterey International Pop Festival was also recorded and this version was heavily influential in the 1991 cult Irish movie The Commitments, at one point the band performing the song in the style of Otis Redding. It was also sampled in the song Otis, recorded by rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West. Three Dog Night released a version of the song, which peaked at #29 on the Billboard Top 100 in 1969 and it is a copy of Reddings interpretation of the song, including the coda that was added in Reddings version. Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics
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Vernon Duke
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Vernon Duke was an American composer/songwriter, who also wrote under his original name, Vladimir Dukelsky. He is best known for Taking a Chance on Love with lyrics by Ted Fetter and John Latouche, I Cant Get Started with lyrics by Ira Gershwin, Harburg, and What Is There To Say for the Ziegfeld Follies of 1934, also with Harburg. He wrote the words and music for Autumn in New York for the revue Thumbs Up, Vernon collaborated with lyricists such as Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin, Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn. Vladimir Aleksandrovich Dukelsky was born in 1903 into a family of mixed Georgian-Austrian-Spanish-Russian descent, in Parafianovo, Vilna Governorate. The 1954 Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians referred to one of his grandparents as having been descended from the kings of Georgia. His birthplace was a railroad station in Minsk Governorate. At that time his mother happened to be traveling by train, the Dukelskys resided in Kiev, and Vladimirs only visit to Saint Petersburg and Moscow occurred in the summer of 1915. The impressions of that summer were later echoed in Dukelskys most daring classical composition. The title is a reference to the film The End of St. Petersburg directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, at the age of 11, Dukelsky was admitted to the Kiev Conservatory where he studied composition with Reinhold Glière and musical theory with Boleslav Yavorsky. In 1919, his family escaped from the turmoil of war in Russia and spent a year. In 1921, they obtained American visas and sailed steerage class on the SS King Alexander to New York and he underwent his immigrant inspection at Ellis Island, on the passenger list, the purser of the King Alexander recorded his name as Vladimir Doukelsky in the French fashion. It was in 1922 in New York that George Gershwin befriended the young immigrant, Gershwin suggested Dukelsky truncate, Dukelskys first songs published under his nom de plume were conceived that year, but he continued to write classical music and Russian poetry under his given name until 1955. In 1924, the young man left hospitable America for the Old World. In Paris, he received a commission from Serge Diaghilev to compose a ballet, in a review of musical novelties of the season, Sergei Prokofiev described it as full of superior melodies, very well designed, harmonically beautiful and not too modernist. Prokofiev was as impressed with the talent as Diaghilev was. Dukelskys First Symphony was premiered by Serge Koussevitzky and his orchestra in 1928 in Paris on the bill as the excerpts from Prokofievs The Fiery Angel. Some of Dukelskys and Prokofievs compositions of the 1930s bear evidence of the musical dialogue. In the late 1920s, Dukelsky shared his time between Paris, where his more classical works were performed, and London where he composed numbers for musical comedies under the pen name of Vernon Duke
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Singing
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Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist, Singers perform music that can be sung with or without accompaniment by musical instruments. Singing is often done in an ensemble of musicians, such as a choir of singers or a band of instrumentalists, Singers may perform as soloists, or accompanied by anything from a single instrument up to a symphony orchestra or big band. Singing can be formal or informal, arranged or improvised and it may be done as a form of religious devotion, as a hobby, as a source of pleasure, comfort, or ritual, as part of music education, or as a profession. Excellence in singing requires time, dedication, instruction, and regular practice, if practice is done on a regular basis then the sounds can become more clear and strong. Professional singers usually build their careers around one specific genre, such as classical or rock. They typically take voice training provided by teachers or vocal coaches throughout their careers. Though these four mechanisms function independently, they are coordinated in the establishment of a vocal technique and are made to interact upon one another. During passive breathing, air is inhaled with the diaphragm while exhalation occurs without any effort, exhalation may be aided by the abdominal, internal intercostal and lower pelvis/pelvic muscles. Inhalation is aided by use of external intercostals, scalenes and sternocleidomastoid muscles, the pitch is altered with the vocal cords. With the lips closed, this is called humming, humans have vocal folds which can loosen, tighten, or change their thickness, and over which breath can be transferred at varying pressures. The shape of the chest and neck, the position of the tongue, any one of these actions results in a change in pitch, volume, timbre, or tone of the sound produced. Sound also resonates within different parts of the body and an individuals size, Singers can also learn to project sound in certain ways so that it resonates better within their vocal tract. This is known as vocal resonation, another major influence on vocal sound and production is the function of the larynx which people can manipulate in different ways to produce different sounds. These different kinds of function are described as different kinds of vocal registers. The primary method for singers to accomplish this is through the use of the Singers Formant and it has also been shown that a more powerful voice may be achieved with a fatter and fluid-like vocal fold mucosa. The more pliable the mucosa, the more efficient the transfer of energy from the airflow to the vocal folds, Vocal registration refers to the system of vocal registers within the voice. A register in the voice is a series of tones, produced in the same vibratory pattern of the vocal folds
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Piano
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The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. The word piano is a form of pianoforte, the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument. The first fortepianos in the 1700s had a sound and smaller dynamic range. An acoustic piano usually has a wooden case surrounding the soundboard and metal strings. Pressing one or more keys on the keyboard causes a padded hammer to strike the strings. The hammer rebounds from the strings, and the continue to vibrate at their resonant frequency. These vibrations are transmitted through a bridge to a soundboard that amplifies by more efficiently coupling the acoustic energy to the air, when the key is released, a damper stops the strings vibration, ending the sound. Notes can be sustained, even when the keys are released by the fingers and thumbs and this means that the piano can play 88 different pitches, going from the deepest bass range to the highest treble. The black keys are for the accidentals, which are needed to play in all twelve keys, more rarely, some pianos have additional keys. Most notes have three strings, except for the bass that graduates from one to two, the strings are sounded when keys are pressed or struck, and silenced by dampers when the hands are lifted from the keyboard. There are two types of piano, the grand piano and the upright piano. The grand piano is used for Classical solos, chamber music and art song and it is used in jazz. The upright piano, which is compact, is the most popular type, as they are a better size for use in private homes for domestic music-making. During the nineteenth century, music publishers produced many works in arrangements for piano, so that music lovers could play. The piano is widely employed in classical, jazz, traditional and popular music for solo and ensemble performances, accompaniment, with technological advances, amplified electric pianos, electronic pianos, and digital pianos have also been developed. The electric piano became an instrument in the 1960s and 1970s genres of jazz fusion, funk music. The piano was founded on earlier technological innovations in keyboard instruments, pipe organs have been used since Antiquity, and as such, the development of pipe organs enabled instrument builders to learn about creating keyboard mechanisms for sounding pitches
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Double bass
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The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. It is an instrument and is typically notated one octave higher than sounding to avoid excessive ledger lines below the staff. The double bass is the modern bowed string instrument that is tuned in fourths, rather than fifths, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2. The instruments exact lineage is still a matter of some debate, the double bass is a standard member of the orchestras string section, as well as the concert band, and is featured in concertos, solo and chamber music in Western classical music. The bass is used in a range of genres, such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and roll, rockabilly, psychobilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango. The double bass is played either with a bow or by plucking the strings, in orchestral repertoire and tango music, both arco and pizzicato are employed. In jazz, blues, and rockabilly, pizzicato is the norm, Classical music uses just the natural sound produced acoustically by the instrument, so does traditional bluegrass. In jazz, blues, and related genres, the bass is typically amplified with an amplifier and speaker, the double bass stands around 180 cm from scroll to endpin. However, other sizes are available, such as a 1⁄2 or 3⁄4 and these sizes do not reflect the size relative to a full size, or 4⁄4 bass, a 1⁄2 bass is not half the size of a bass but is only slightly smaller. It is typically constructed from several types of wood, including maple for the back, spruce for the top and it is uncertain whether the instrument is a descendant of the viola da gamba or of the violin, but it is traditionally aligned with the violin family. While the double bass is nearly identical in construction to other violin family instruments, like other violin and viol-family string instruments, the double bass is played either with a bow or by plucking the strings. In orchestral repertoire and tango music, both arco and pizzicato are employed, in jazz, blues, and rockabilly, pizzicato is the norm, except for some solos and also occasional written parts in modern jazz that call for bowing. In classical pedagogy, almost all of the focus is on performing with the bow and producing a good bowed tone, some of these articulations can be combined, for example, the combination of sul ponticello and tremolo can produce eerie, ghostly sounds. Classical bass players do play pizzicato parts in orchestra, but these parts generally require simple notes, vibrato is used to add expression to string playing. In general, very loud, low-register passages are played with little or no vibrato, mid- and higher-register melodies are typically played with more vibrato. The speed and intensity of the vibrato is varied by the performer for an emotional and musical effect, in jazz, rockabilly and other related genres, much or all of the focus is on playing pizzicato. In jazz and jump blues, bassists are required to play extremely rapid pizzicato walking basslines for extended periods, as well, jazz and rockabilly bassists develop virtuoso pizzicato techniques that enable them to play rapid solos that incorporate fast-moving triplet and sixteenth note figures. In jazz and related styles, bassists often add semi-percussive ghost notes into basslines, to add to the rhythmic feel and to add fills to a bassline
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Albert Heath
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Albert Tootie Heath is an American jazz hard bop drummer, the brother of tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath and the double-bassist Percy Heath. He first recorded in 1957 with John Coltrane, from 1958 to 1974 he worked with, among others, J. J. In 1975, he, Jimmy and Percy formed the Heath Brothers and he remained with the group until 1978, then left to freelance. He has recorded extensively throughout his career, among his many workshop and classroom teaching assignments, Tootie Heath is a regular instructor at the Stanford Jazz Workshop. Tootie Heath is now the producer and leader of The Whole Drum Truth, the Apartment With Bennie Green and Gene Ammons The Swinginest With Herbie Hancock The Prisoner With Jimmy Heath The Thumper Really Big. With Blue Mitchell A Sure Thing Mapenzi with Harold Land With Roscoe Mitchell Hey Donald With Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery With Tete Montoliu Catalonian Fire Tete. 1 One Night In With Hope And More, Vol.1 One Night In With Hope And More, Vol
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Drum kit
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A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some also include electronic instruments and both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used. If some or all of them are replaced by electronic drums, the drum kit is usually played while seated on a drum stool or throne. The drum kit differs from instruments that can be used to produce pitched melodies or chords, even though drums are often placed musically alongside others that do, such as the piano or guitar. The drum kit is part of the rhythm section used in many types of popular and traditional music styles ranging from rock and pop to blues. Other standard instruments used in the section include the electric bass, electric guitar. Many drummers extend their kits from this pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals. Some performers, such as some rockabilly drummers, use small kits that omit elements from the basic setup, some drum kit players may have other roles in the band, such as providing backup vocals, or less commonly, lead vocals. Thus, in an early 1800s orchestra piece, if the called for bass drum, triangle and cymbals. In the 1840s, percussionists began to experiment with foot pedals as a way to them to play more than one instrument. In the 1860s, percussionists started combining multiple drums into a set, the bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and other percussion instruments were all played using hand-held drum sticks. Double-drumming was developed to one person to play the bass and snare with sticks. With this approach, the drum was usually played on beats one. This resulted in a swing and dance feel. The drum set was referred to as a trap set. By the 1870s, drummers were using an overhang pedal, most drummers in the 1870s preferred to do double drumming without any pedal to play multiple drums, rather than use an overhang pedal. Companies patented their pedal systems such as Dee Dee Chandler of New Orleans 1904–05, liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played with the foot of a standing percussionist. The bass drum became the central piece around which every other percussion instrument would later revolve and it was the golden age of drum building for many famous drum companies, with Ludwig introducing
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Forbidden Fruit (Nina Simone album)
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Forbidden Fruit is an album by the jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her studio album for Colpix. The rhythm section accompanying her is the trio as on both live albums before and after this release. Gin House Blues, Simone re-recorded this song in a more upbeat way on Nuff Said, work Song, written by Oscar Brown, Jr and Nat Adderley tells the story of a chain gang. This song also appears on Nina’s Choice, Nina Simone with Strings, forbidden Fruit, the title song, one of three on the album by Oscar Brown, Jr Its a humorous up-tempo take on Adam and Eve was part nursery rhyme, part call and response
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Nina Simone Sings Ellington
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Nina Simone Sings Ellington is an album by American singer and pianist Nina Simone. The album contains songs that were composed and recorded by Duke Ellington. Simone is complemented by the Malcolm Dodds Singers, the cover photo features just Nina Simones head in full colour. Nina says about this picture in her autobiography I Put A Spell On You that the picture was originally a full picture of Simones body. However, because Nina was pregnant of her daughter Lisa at that time and he failed in this most probably, and that is why just Simones head was cut out of the full picture. A leftover shot of Nina from this session, featuring a pose from her chest up, was used on her 1966 album
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Broadway-Blues-Ballads
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Broadway-Blues-Ballads is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was her album for Philips. In contrast to her first Philips album, the live In Concert, which was laden with civil rights motifs. It is not regarded as one of Simones best efforts, though it contains songs that became standards in her repertoire, Dont Let Me Be Misunderstood was written by Bennie Benjamin, Gloria Caldwell and Sol Marcus and is one of Simones most well known songs. Arranger and conductor Horace Ott co-wrote this song, but credited it under his wifes name Gloria Caldwell, I Am Blessed, Dont Take All Night, Of This Im Sure, Our Love were also written by Bennie Benjamin and Sol Marcus. See Line Woman became a standard in Simones live repertoire and it is loosely based on a traditional childrens song, Sea Lion Woman. -2,05 The Last Rose of Summer -3,08 on some CD releases the single A Monster is added as a bonus track
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I Put a Spell on You (album)
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I Put a Spell on You is a 1965 album by jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone for Philips Records. Described by AllMusic reviewer Richie Unterberger as One of her most pop-oriented albums, but also one of her best and most consistent, I Put a Spell on You, a song originally by Screamin Jay Hawkins. The original version gave the song a theme, but Simone transformed it into a thrilling love song, complete with horns. It had become one of her most well known songs and she used the title for her autobiography I Put A Spell On You. The Beatles drew inspiration from the song for their song Michelle, tomorrow Is My Turn, an English translation of a French song by Charles Aznavour. Ne me quitte pas, a rendition of the song by Jacques Brel and it became one of her live repertoire standards. Feeling Good, Simones version of this Broadway song, which has covered by many artists including Muse. A sample of the song is featured on Mary J. Bliges song About You on the album The Breakthrough, kanye West and Jay-Z also sample Feeling Good for the song New Day on their album Watch The Throne. Take Care of Business was featured in the 2015 film adaptation of the 60s television series The Man from U. N. C. L. E
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Pastel Blues
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Pastel Blues is a studio album by Jazz singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. It was recorded in 1964 and 1965 in New York City, the name Pastel Blues is somewhat deceiving because the songs on the album incorporate different musical styles besides the blues, such as jazz, soul and folk music. Be My Husband was written by Andrew Stroud, Simones husband and she sings it a cappella with her handclapping and a hi-hat as her only accompaniment. The song was retitled as Be Your Husband and covered by Jeff Buckley on Live at Sine-é. The song was covered by Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan on Rices Live from the Union Chapel, sung by Hannigan while other band members beat on the backs of guitars. Nobody Knows You When Youre Down and Out was originally sung by Bessie Smith and she was a blues singer in the 1920s/1930s and her songs had a great influence on Simone. Tell Me More and More and Then Some and Strange Fruit were originally sung by Billie Holiday, sinnerman is one of Simones most famous songs. Simone learned the lyrics of more than 10 minute song when it was used on revival meetings by her mother to help people confess their sins. An earlier version of this exists, recorded live at The Village Gate. Bob Marley & The Wailers also recorded a different version in 1966
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Nina Simone with Strings
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Nina Simone with Strings is an album by Nina Simone. The album was released without her knowing after she had left Colpix Records, to make the tracks on the album more commercial, strings were added on some of the tracks, occasionally burying Simones vocals under a wall of sound. Despite the post-production efforts the album one of Simones least accomplished works, mainly a collection of different songs in terms of subject, style. On later releases of Simones Colpix years, some of the tracks on album were remastered. The cover photo was used out of a shoot for the earlier album Nina Simone Sings Ellington. See details in the article about that album, chain Gang is Nat Adderleys Work Song, throughout her career Simone did several versions of the soul jazz classic. The Man with a Horn, Simone recorded this song later for Nina Simone and Piano, but it did not make it onto the album
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Wild Is the Wind (album)
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Wild Is the Wind is jazz singer-songwriter and pianist Nina Simones sixth album for Philips Records. The album was compiled from recordings that were left over from sessions for previous Philips albums. The album was a Billboard magazine special merit pick on release, with the reviewer commenting, sets up an exceptional romantic mood that offers top listening delight. The song Four Women was released as a single, and gained attention when banned by the New York jazz focused radio station WLIB due to concern over the lyrics. Simone first recorded Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair in 1955, for the song, Simone only wanted a minimal accompaniment with her playing the piano and a bass drone. Lisle Atkinson what he was asked to do during his time in Nina Simone’s band, “She wanted the least amount of complication as possible—roots and 5’s, I have to give Nina credit for being aware that I could bow, and she utilized it a lot. She had me playing a lot of arco in performances. ”Wild Is The Wind was covered by David Bowie on his 1976 studio recording Station to Station, lilac Wine was covered by Jeff Buckley on his album Grace. The album was included in Robert Dimerys 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, wild Is the Wind at Radio3Net
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High Priestess of Soul
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High Priestess of Soul is a studio album by jazz singer, pianist and songwriter Nina Simone. The songs are accompanied by a large band directed and arranged by Hal Mooney, the album contains popular songs and African American gospel and folk related songs written by Simone herself. However, according to her daughter, Simone, she never hated that moniker, Simone recorded also Another Spring by Badalamenti and Clifford for her album Nina Simone and Piano released 1969. An earlier recording of the soul-jazz hit Work Song by Nat Adderley and Oscar Brown, in 1966 Simone recorded the song once again With Strings. The last track I Love My Baby is a composition by Andy Stroud to whom Simone was married from 1960 until 1970 and his company Stroud Productions also produced many of her albums
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Nina Simone Sings the Blues
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Sings the Blues is an album by singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone. This was Simones first album for RCA Records after previously recording for Colpix Records, the album was also reissued in 2006 with bonus tracks, and re-packaged in 1991 by RCA/Novus as a 17-track compilation under the title The Blues. My Mans Gone Now, from the opera Porgy & Bess by George Gershwin, backlash Blues, one of Simones civil rights songs. The lyrics were written by her friend and poet Langston Hughes, I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl, based on a song by Simones great example, Bessie Smith, but with somewhat different lyrics. The House of the Rising Sun, previously recorded by Simone in 1962 on Nina At The Village Gate, after its cover by The Animals became a hit she re-recorded it. The fast-paced version on album is completely different from the slow
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Silk & Soul
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Silk & Soul is the thirteenth studio album by American musician Nina Simone released in October 1967 by RCA Victor. It features the cuts Go To Hell and a cover of I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free, in 1968, Simone got a Grammy nomination for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for the song Youll Go to Hell from this album. It Bes That Way Sometime, a written by Ninas brother Sam Waymon. The Look of Love, a song by Burt Bacharach, originally written for the movie Casino Royale, I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free, this song was written by Billy Taylor. It was later recorded by Solomon Burke and Levon Helm, turning Point, which at first seems to be a childs song about making a new friend, later turns into a song questioning the origins of racism. Consummation is a song written by Nina Simone. Nina Simone - piano, vocals Gene Taylor - bass Sammy Lowe - arrangements, conductor Ray Hall - engineer
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