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... Ellington film in which she played the role of a rejected woman abused by her lover in Duke Ellington's short film Symphony in Black: A Rhapsody of Negro Life. In her scene, she sang the song "Saddest Tale . She felt that since her career was blossoming, she needed someone to help her organize burgeoning career so she turned to agent Joe Glazer who was ... ...
... feeling. The Roaring Twenties was also known as the Jazz Age and the Era of Wonderful Nonsense due to the many fads, or styles or activities that are popular for short amounts of time, that ran through the nation. Fads of the Roaring Twenties included Flagpole sitting, the dance marathon, and a Chinese game, Mah-jongg. Large pursuers of these crazy fads ... were women called Flappers. Flappers were against traditional ways of thinking and acting and did anything to be different. They wore their hair bobbed, and their dresses short. They wore makeup, smoked in public and drank in speakea...
... . Out of all these changes, possibly one of the most drastic was that of the women. As sex became more popular and common, the women started to cut their hair short, smoke cigarettes, drink booze, and show a lot more skin than before. They wanted to become more desireable. These women became known as flappers. When searching the website, http://www.pandorasbox ... , there are some great pictures that immediately show up on the screen. These pictures show just how life back then was for women. There are pictures of women dancing with short hair and a lot of makeup covering their face. This...
... began to play in small cafes and other venues such as clubs around town with the band he had started the Duke's Serenaders. It was when Duke was just months short of his high school graduation that he married Edna Tompson, moved into a house with her that he had bought, and dropped out of high school. In order to pay for ... ...
... their name. It had become a hot spot that songwriters, producers, promoters and agents hung out. An agent named Joe Glaser heard Billie sing and signed her on the spot. After a short spur of prostitution, she finally made her professional debut as a singer. By the time she was twenty the jazz world seemed to be at Billie Holiday's feet. John Hammond signed ... ...
... together and Billie bestowed the nickname of "Pres- on Young. And he dubbed her "the Lady Day- for her "Elegance- (Walker). She stayed with Basie's group for less then a year. A short while later she was hired by Artie Shaw's popular band. She began singing with the band in 1938 and it was one of the first instances of a black female appearing ... ...
... the 1960s. Miles Davis, responsible for cool jazz, was the first jazz artist to incorporate electronic music including synthesizers and electric guitar and bass. Also, he used riffs or ostinatos (short repeated melody lines), which came from a rock influence. Plus, he simplified harmonies down to one or two chords, and began to use other types of scales called modes. This led ... ...
Louis Armstrong was born in 1901 in one of the poorest sections of New Orleans, known as "The Battlefield", because of the frequent gang fights. His famous nickname was "Satchmo" short for "satchel mouth", for his big lips. Louis Armstrong's exact birthday date has been two different days, July 4th and August 4th. His actual birth date was discovered in the ... ...
