... teens (artandculture). One would think Billie's tragic childhood would leave her in poverty for the rest of her life, but luckily her amazing voice and intense lyrics would boost her to fame. When Billie was eighteen she moved to New York to live with her mother. . She admired musicians like Louis Armstrong and ... leaves and blood at the root/ Black bodies swaying in the Southern breeze/ Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees (pbs.org)." At the time these lyrics were shocking to America and I"m sure made a lot of white southerners very angry. Billie Holiday is a true American hero ...

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... who always was good playing solo. I thought it so amazing how someone's cheeks can that big. Louis Armstrong is another cornet pioneer who paved the way for Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. Miles Davis is a huge icon in today's age of upcoming trumpet players. I look forward for another trumpet recital in the near future. Louis Armstrong Dizzy Gillespie ... ...

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... of a western like country. In Japan, they would listen to the popular music that had been made in America and make their own version of the song and translate the lyrics of the songs.9 This began to be a reoccurrence with the Japanese using America for their customs. In the 50s and 60s, Japanese musicians made a big impression on American audiences.10Japanese ... ...

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... light and springy' from Johnson. Fats' first recordings were done in 1922. But it wasn't 1929 when he caught a break writing the score for the Broadway hit "Hot Chocolates" with lyrics supplied by his friend Andy Razaf. His most famous song "Ain't Misbehavin- was part of this show, which also featured the great Louis Armstrong. Waller was a great entertainer and in ... ...

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... took a serious music lesson in her life, she read music only with difficulty. The most memorial of all was an acute dramatic intensely that she could make all of her lyrics profound and deeply irresistible. She new the impact came from the words of a song rather than any specific feature of the melodic or harmonic construction. Holiday's music continues to be ... ...

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... (Walker). " It was how she seemed to live through her music that made her so unique. Hell, anybody can sing a song; but when you the listener can identify with the lyrics then the singer is no longer a singer but an artist,"" as said by Aunt Grace. ...

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... about 1923. It was called King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Within Oliver's Band many musicians came to surface like Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis. Armstrong was known for his ability to improvise and play be-bop. Duke Ellington was a big band arranger and composed over 150 tunes. Count Basie was known for the ... two generations of jazz singers including Mildred Bailey, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Louis Jordan, and Nat "King" Cole. His trumpet descendants include Red Allen, Bunny Bergian, Hot Lips Page and Miles Davis. Al...

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... of sorts of the 1920's. Free, wild, and unencumbered, many people were puzzled when they first heard it being spoken. Jive, as it was called, was influenced mainly by the lyrics in some jazz songs, such as "The House of Blue Light": Man: What you say. You look ready as our Freddy. Woman: What's that homey. If you think I'm going dancing ... ...

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... and a part time prostitute. She left Louis and his sister Beatrice, also called "Mama Lucy", in the care of his grandma much of the time. Even though his family split apart, Satchmo still believed it was his family that helped him through the "rough times." Louie grew up in a neighborhood called the Battlefield because the toughest people in town used to ... ...

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... it is different to marches in the repeat of theme A before the beginning of them C, and like all rags being rhythmically more flexible with the left and right hands set apart in syncopated tension. This is classic ragtime. West End Blues For the first half of his life, everything Armstrong did was copied as fast as he could record it, but ... ...

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