I'm excited to share this month's music and wine with you without further ado! EaseI've found that the biggest misconception about any art or craft is that it must be difficult to grasp in order to be ...

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There had been a very vibrant modern jazz movement back in New York ... been about taking the less aggressive aspects of the music and making a style out of that. Now, there have always been ...

When most of his mates were into Elvis and Bill Haley, a young John Hellings was enjoying the music of Ted Heath ... Over the years he's seen the the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ella Fitzgerald.

Billie Holiday was peerless when it came to conveying the emotion in a song In the 1940s, the swing era gave way to what was then known as “modern jazz” – the so-called bebop innovations of ...

During the 1940s, jazz gradually parted ways with popular music. A new generation of modern jazz performers known as beboppers developed a style of lightning-fast improvisation meant for serious ...

He began performing professionally in his teens and studied music theory and piano at the ... Metheny even called Hall “the ...

corto.alto — the enigmatic stage name of one of modern jazz music’s most colourful characters — is at pains to point out that ...

Quintet's repertoire is based on compositions written by Evgeny, and his tunes thrill with a smart combination of jazz, funk, prog, hip hop, world and modern classical music. In December 2019, Evgeniy ...

Their music reflects advances in music and technology - sometimes including elements of jazz and rock. A group of composers who met while studying in Manchester have become the main exponents of ‘post ...