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Gerry Mulligan & Astor Piazzolla – Tango Nuevo (1974)

Gerry Mulligan & Astor Piazzolla – Tango Nuevo (1974) Sheet Music Download. Tracklist: [00:00] A1. 20 Years Ago [06:28] A2. Close Your Eyes And Listen [11:04] A3. Years Of Solitude [15:14] A4. Deus Xango [19:02] B1. 20 Years After [23:16] B2. Aire De Buenos Aires Music By – Gerry Mulligan [27:56] B3. Reminiscene [34:29] B4. […]

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Scrapper Blackwell: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out (1962)

Scrapper Blackwell: Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out Francis Hillman “Scrapper” Blackwell (February 21, 1903 – October 7, 1962) was an American blues guitarist and singer, best known as half of the guitar-piano duo he formed with Leroy Carr in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He was an acoustic single-note picker in […]

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The Piano Improvisations of Chick Corea: A musical analysis (1/2)

Table of Contents This monograph is an analysis of the first five pieces from an album by Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations, Volume One. The titles of the individual pieces are Noon Song, Song for Sally, Ballad for Anna, Song of the Wind, and Sometime Ago. These pieces, which form a suite of sorts, were chosen […]

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Robert Fripp, the amazing guitarist (6): KING CRIMSON IV and Andy Summers

Table of Contents Robert Fripp, the amazing guitarist (6): KING CRIMSON IV and Andy Summers Discipline: The Band King Crimson Born Again King Crimson IV: The Albums Best site for sheet music download. Rock and Roll The Rock Gamelan Metrical Complications Ballads Guitars Industrial Noise Elements Jungle Feel Improvisational Feel Radically Different Textures within a […]

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Count Basie: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time

Count Basie: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time American jazz musician William Basie, (b. Aug. 21, 1904, Red Bank, N.J., U.S.—d. April 26, 1984, Hollywood, Fla.) popularly known as “Count,” was noted for his spare, economical piano style and for his leadership of influential and widely heralded big bands. Basie studied music with […]

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Umm Kulthum: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time

Umm Kulthum: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time Egyptian singer Umm Kulthūm (b. May 4, 1904?, Tummāy al-Zahāyrah, Egypt—d. Feb. 3, 1975, Cairo) mesmerized Arab audiences from the Persian Gulf to Morocco for half a century. She was one of the most famous Arab singers and public personalities in the 20th century. Umm […]

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Louis Armstrong: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time

Louis Armstrong: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time Louis Armstrong, (b. Aug. 4, 1901, New Orleans, La., U.S.—d. July 6, 1971, New York, N.Y.) or Satchmo (a truncation of “Satchel Mouth”), was the leading trumpeter and one of the most influential artists in jazz history.Armstrong grew up in dire poverty in New Orleans, […]

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Herbie Hancock – Cantaloupe Island (piano cover)

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Young People’s Concert: Leonard Bernstein, conductor

Jazz in the Concert Hall Written by Leonard BernsteinOriginal CBS Television Network Broadcast Date: 11 March 1964 Now that’s about the last sound in the world you’d expect to hear in Philharmonic Hall, isn’t it? Sounds more like your next-door neighbor’s radio, or the Newport Jazz Festival. And yet, that’s a sound that’s been coming […]

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Kurt Weill: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time

Kurt Weill: the 100 most inspiring musicians of all time German-born American composer Kurt Julian Weill (b. March 2, 1900, Dessau, Ger.—d. April 3, 1950, New York, N.Y., U.S.) created a revolutionary kind of opera of sharp social satire in collaboration with the writer Bertolt Brecht. Weill studied privately with Albert Bing and at the […]