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Jazz Nicknames

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Slang is definitely cool, but other non-musical aspects, like nicknames, have created a certain allure or attraction to jazz, too. Nicknames, especially the stories behind them, are fun, sometimes funny, and other times fascinating. The immortal Louis Armstrong had at least three of them. Even before jazz was officially a musical form, forerunners of ...

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Jazz Slang

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From just about its inception, Jazz has had a (spoken) language all its own. Though most words haven't seen the light of day outside of a jazz club, quite a few have found their way into the mainstream American lexicon, and are still bandied about today. Words like, hip, cat and daddy-o have helped ...

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Separated at Blue Note

Read "Separated at Blue Note" reviewed by Michael Lorenz


Blue Note is currently showing a slide show of their top artists at their web site. I thought I'd have a little harmless fun by doing a Separated at Birth for some of them. Note: I have nothing but respect for the people depicted here, and I'm not saying they actually look alike in real life; ...


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