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In 1917, the Original Dixieland Jazz Band ... A little while ago, he assembled in a studio ten of the best modern jazz a musicians available (Charlie Shavers, Ben Webster, Charlie Parker, Benny ...

Joe Mares born New Orleans 1908 was a Dixieland clarinet player, brother of Paul Mares (1900-1949), an American ... and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the ...

A Dixieland Jazz band established by brothers ... in the French Quarter before recruiting traditional New Orleans jazz ...

Showing good reinvention skills over the decades since its “Dixieland Jazz” start in 1990, the 32nd annual Redwood Coast ...

The musicians didn’t appreciate how little time they had left ... Had New Orleans, another port city, become a heroin hub in the 1910s, Dixieland jazz doubtless would have been as associated with ...

Tauranga’s legendary ‘Mighty Wurli’ is taking centre stage for a rare musical extravaganza that takes the lively, upbeat ...

Dixieland (traditional), straight-ahead (mainstream), and avant-garde (free). The increased interest in jazz also blossomed into a growing acceptance of more demanding styles. It is difficult to ...

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker, left, brought Miles Davis, right, into his bebop band in the 1940s, Davis’s first professional job The Original Dixieland Jazz band, pictured in 1917 ...

Rhythm. Color. Movement. Seeing sound through art. The rich sounds, rhythms, and colors of jazz inspired prominent visual artists of the 20th century. In depicting African American culture, Romare ...

nor between the older and younger generations of musicians. The tension, he argues, was between the Dixieland scene and the more challenging innovations in jazz epitomized by Charlie Parker and ...