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Article: Rethinking Jazz Cultures

Walter van de Leur: Jazz & Death, Part 1—A Closer Walk With Thee

Read "Walter van de Leur: Jazz & Death, Part 1—A Closer Walk With Thee" reviewed by Ian Patterson


Part 1 | Part 2 What is jazz? Beacon of the oppressed; music of jny: New Orleans bordellos; popular dance music; revolutionary music; high-art music with an established cannon; progressive music that absorbs and grows; hermetic traditional music... Jazz has always meant different things to different people. Even the term 'jazz' is ...

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Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Label: Challenge Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Fantastic Rhythm; A Penthouse on Shady Avenue; Let Nature Take Its Course; Something to Live For; Everything Is Copasetic!; Day Dream; Hip; Blue House; Sprite Music; The Flowers Die of Love; Love, Love; Hipper-Bug; Pretty Girl; Chelsea Bridge; On the Wrong Side of the Railroad Tracks (51:31).

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Article: Album Review

The Dutch Jazz Orchestra: Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn

Read "Something to Live For: The Music of Billy Strayhorn" reviewed by Jack Bowers


The fourth in the Dutch Jazz Orchestra’s series of albums devoted to songs composed and/or arranged by Billy Strayhorn focuses primarily on music written by Strayhorn for the theatre, beginning with the few surviving pieces from the concise show Fantastic Rhythm, produced around 1935, shortly after Strayhorn was graduated from high school. Also included are four ...


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