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Whether it’s about spinning the slots, beating the blackjack tables or sitting down at a game of poker, it’s not hard to believe that many famous musicians like to gamble. After all ...

Jazz emerged as a new style of music in the early twentieth century in the African American communities of New Orleans. Jazz has its origins in blues and ragtime. Jazz features lots of ...

Like sidewalk superintendents, jazz fans like to watch ... and two years later had their own Dixieland band in Chicago (TIME. May 5, 1947). Marian’s music has never been in the same style ...

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The Delta blues, first recorded in the 1920s, was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the ...

During the 1960s, Polish jazz evolved into three basic styles: Dixieland (traditional), straight ... Countless Polish jazz musicians have been exploring the legacy of Komeda and his songbook, with ...

As new, modern styles began to take hold in Interwar Poland, so too did jazz, which began to infect the most famous dance floors ... (the first American Dixieland band in Europe), as well as polishing ...

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 and popular music Singer ...

socialise and share their music. Out of this musical melting pot came jazz. Since the ‘Jazz Age’ of the 1920s, jazz has become a major genre in musical expression, and its development has allowed for ...