MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz

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Aram Khachaturian's heritage serves as a source of extensive cultural knowledge. The composer's creative explorations, discoveries, and works vividly reveal the drama of historical transitions and cross-cultural interactions. Consequently, they reveal the lessons of music and the power of art with particular expressiveness. The two most significant sources of creativity – epochal challenges and folk melodies – were …

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musical style and genre

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is charact…

Book · DOAB

Franz Waxman (1906–1967) was a jazz musician, orchestrator, film composer, concert organizer, conductor, and a composer of concert and opera works. It was only after his emigration to the USA in the early 1930s that Waxman built himself a career in the concert hall – before this point he was exclusively working for the film and entertainment industries. Ingeborg Zechner explores Waxman’s musical career as being situ…

Full text · Open Library

1600 biographical entries cover the whole spectrum of jazz from its origins in ragtime to the present.

Image · DPLA

Joe Bobian and Jason Wilson are singer-songwriters based in Pueblo, Colorado. In this interview, they discuss the music industry in Pueblo and more broadly. They share life experiences and talk about musicians that have influenced their musical styles. Joe and Jason also talk about their spiritual beliefs that they reflect in their songs, and Jason performs two original songs. 00:00:00 The interviewers (Dr. Xóchitl …