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... such as "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" and "Miss Brown to You." The next breakthrough for Billie's career came from the short Duke 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 ... ...
... 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 ... ...
