Nina Simone: “Putting A Spell” on the Jazz Era
Nina Simone: “Putting a Spell” on the Jazz Era Jazz is not just music, it is a way of life, it is a way of
Joya Wheatfall-Melvin
October 22, 2020
Nina Simone: “Putting a Spell” on the Jazz Era Jazz is not just music, it is a way of life, it is a way of
The Queen of Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald Named “The First Lady of Song”, Ella Fitzgerald was namely the most popular female jazz singer in the United
Thesis: Record Row produced sounds of African American to be heard by groups across a broad range of races. Record Row was a stretched
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Coleman, who did groundbreaking work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, was named an NEA Jazz Master in 2015. This “RSD First” release is ...
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African Music ( Congo Square) djembe | call & response
Other Cultures Integrated – Cajun, Native Americans, Europeans, etc…
Negro Spirituals – Slave Music (sacred)
Folk Music Work Songs. example
Blues (secular music – expressive like spirituals) example
New Orleans cultural influences ( marches, bands, funeral processions, second line, swing dancing)
Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971)
played in Fletcher Henderson’s Band
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Charlie Parker
Louis Armstrong
Pharoah Sanders
Wynton Marsalis
Miles Davis
Theloneous Monk
Oscar Peterson
Art Blakey
Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
Dizzy Gillespie
Bud Powell
Max Roach
Coleman Hawkins
John Coltrane
Dexter Gordon
Sarah Vaughn
Mary Lou Williams
Cecil Taylor
Joe Jennings
Tony WIlliams
Tia Fuller
George Benson
Grover Washington Jr.
Marcus Miller
Esperanza Spaulding
Freddie Hubbard
Lenny White
Sonny Rollins
Lee Morgan
Branford Marsalis
Freddie Hubbard
Wes Montgomery
Donald Byrd
Jimmy Smith
Elvin Jones
McCoy Tyner
Ron Carter
The Jazz Messengers
Cannonball Adderly
Charles Mingus
Herbie Hancock
Al Jarreau
Wynton Marsalis
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald
Horace Silver
Alice Coltrane
Wayne Shorter
Keith Jarrett
Charlie Parker
Louis Armstrong
Pharoah Sanders
Wynton Marsalis
Miles Davis
Theloneous Monk
Oscar Peterson
Art Blakey
Ornette Coleman
Sun Ra
Dizzy Gillespie
Bud Powell
Max Roach
Coleman Hawkins
John Coltrane
Dexter Gordon
Sarah Vaughn
Mary Lou Williams
Cecil Taylor
Joe Jennings
Tony WIlliams
Tia Fuller
George Benson
Grover Washington Jr.
Marcus Miller
Esperanza Spaulding
Freddie Hubbard
Lenny White
Sonny Rollins
Lee Morgan
Branford Marsalis
Freddie Hubbard
Wes Montgomery
Donald Byrd
Jimmy Smith
Elvin Jones
McCoy Tyner
Ron Carter
The Jazz Messengers
Cannonball Adderly
Charles Mingus
Herbie Hancock
Al Jarreau
Wynton Marsalis
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald
Horace Silver
Alice Coltrane
Wayne Shorter
Keith Jarrett
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