• The Cape Verdean Blues is a 1966 album by a jazz quintet led by pianist Horace Silver. The quintet is augmented on the last three tracks on the album...
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    Cape Verde is known internationally for morna, a form of folk music usually sung in the Cape Verdean Creole, accompanied by clarinet, violin, guitar and...
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  • The Cabo Verdean diaspora refers to both historical and present emigration from Cape Verde. Today, more Cabo Verdeans live abroad than in Cape Verde itself...
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  • Shauna Barbosa (category American people of Cape Verdean descent)
    Shauna Barbosa (born ca. 1988) is the author of the poetry collection Cape Verdean Blues (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018). She was a finalist for...
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  • a year earlier) and in 1965, Humphries performed on the Horace Silver album The Cape Verdean Blues with Silver, tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, trumpeter...
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    Woody Shaw (category Deaths from kidney failure in the United States)
    the Horace Silver quintet (1965–1966), and made his Blue Note debut on Silver's The Cape Verdean Blues, followed by Larry Young's Unity (1965); the album...
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  • on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands." The composition "Song for My Father" is probably Silver's best known. As described in the liner...
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    Cesária Évora (category 20th-century Cape Verdean women singers)
    December 2011) was a Cape Verdean singer known for singing morna, a genre of music from Cape Verde, in her native Cape Verdean Creole. Her songs were...
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  • Product Notes – Birth of the Cool. Muze. Retrieved on 2011-01-02. Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House...
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  • This is a discography of the recordings of Horace Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014), an American hard bop jazz pianist. His major discography...
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  • The Tokyo Blues is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1962, featuring performances by Silver with Blue Mitchell...
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  • had observed in Brazil. However, the melody reminded him of the Cape Verdean music he had heard from his father. The original version featured Silver...
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  • Across 110th Street (category Films about the American Mafia)
    Anthony Franciosa and Paul Benjamin. The film is set in Harlem, New York and takes its name from 110th Street, the traditional dividing line between Harlem...
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  • also featured on the compilation album Thelonious Monk: The Complete Prestige Recordings. The rest of the album was recorded earlier in the year, on June...
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    1960) With Horace Silver The Cape Verdean Blues (Blue Note, 1965) Serenade to a Soul Sister (Blue Note, 1968) In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note, 1972)...
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  • Blowin' the Blues Away is an album by the Horace Silver Quintet & Trio, recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 29–30...
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  • Miles Davis compilation album released in March 1957 by Prestige Records. The album compiles material previously released on two 10 inch LPs in 1954, including...
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    Mito Elias (category Cape Verdean poets)
    Cape Verdean artist, visual artist, poet and performer. He has a workshop in West Melbourne, Australia. Mito Elias was born in Praia, Santiago, Cape Verde...
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    was one of the earliest trombonists to embrace bebop. After studying the piano beginning at age 9, Johnson decided to play trombone at the age of 14....
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  • This is the discography for American jazz musician Joe Henderson. Year indicates (latest) recording date; releases were usually in the same year or at...
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  • Paul Pena (category American musicians of Cape Verdean descent)
    singer, songwriter and guitarist of Cape Verdean descent. His music from the first half of his career touched on Delta blues, jazz, morna, flamenco, folk and...
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  • She is a frightening apparition in the white imagination." Cleopatra Jones is accompanied by a rhythm and blues soundtrack featuring Joe Simon singing...
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    Horace Silver (category American musicians of Cape Verdean descent)
    band to a sextet – continued in the mid-1960s. In 1966, The Cape Verdean Blues charted at No. 130. The liner notes to the album Serenade to a Soul Sister...
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  • an album by the jazz singer Billie Holiday released in 1958 on Columbia Records, catalogue CL 1157 in mono and CS 8048 in stereo. It is the penultimate...
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  • Miles Davis, Vol. 2 is the fifth 10-inch LP by trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded on April 20, 1953 and released on Blue Note later that year—his second...
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  • Vol. 1, is the second 10-inch LP by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded at WOR studios on May 9, 1952 and released on Blue Note the following...
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  • was a known blues singer at that time and had no use for them and gave Davis permission to record them. No one expressed opposition to the false crediting...
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  • (BLP 5040) is the sixth 10" studio album by musician Miles Davis, recorded on March 6, 1954 and released by Blue Note later that year, the third and last...
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  • Boy Gé Mendes (category 20th-century Cape Verdean male singers)
    is a Senegalese musician of Cape Verdean descent. He was born in Dakar, Senegal and was raised in the city's Cape Verdean diaspora community. As a child...
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  • At the Opera House is a 1958 live album by Ella Fitzgerald. The album presents a recording of the 1957 Jazz at the Philharmonic Concerts. This series...
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