Jazz chords are chords, chord voicings and chord symbols that jazz musicians commonly use in composition, improvisation, and harmony. In jazz chords and...
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Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its...
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work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer"...
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The Voice of America Jazz Hour was broadcast on Voice of America beginning on January 6, 1955, and through 2003; it was then folded into Voice of America...
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Block chord (redirect from Shearing voicing)
A block chord is a chord or voicing built directly below the melody either on the strong beats or to create a four-part harmonized melody line in "locked-hands"...
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"locked-hand" voicing, or Shearing voicing—a technique popularized, though not invented, by the pianist and set leader George Shearing. Jazz piano has played...
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Raycole's acting career began in 1995, when she appeared in two films: voicing a puppy in Babe and as Onika Harris in Waiting to Exhale. One of her earliest...
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dropped voicing lowers one or more voices by an octave relative to the default state. Dropping the first voice is undefined—a drop-1 voicing would still...
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Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined...
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Seventh (chord) (section In jazz)
improvising chord-playing musician the option to play other notes. In voicing jazz chords, performers focus first on the seventh and the major or minor...
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Fraser (14 June 1957 – 23 December 2022), better known by his stage name Maxi Jazz, was a British musician, rapper, singer, songwriter and DJ. He was the lead...
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Upper structure (category Jazz techniques)
In jazz, the term upper structure or "upper structure triad" refers to a voicing approach developed by jazz pianists and arrangers defined by the sounding...
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Jazz is a fictional robot character from the Transformers franchise. He is usually portrayed as a music-loving Autobot who speaks Black Vernacular English...
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organize the first festival and bring jazz to Rhode Island. Most of the early festivals were broadcast on Voice of America radio, and many performances...
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accent. "Neither of these accents alter the durational value of the note or voicing they attend.": 156, 165 Another way to indicate accented notes (notes...
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Limited (PMCL), doing business as Jazz, is a Pakistani wireless network operator headquartered in Islamabad. Jazz was founded as Mobilink in 1994 in...
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Marieve Herington (category Canadian jazz singers)
Ever After High. She provides the voice of Tilly Green on the Disney Channel show Big City Greens as well as voicing animated lead characters in Delilah...
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Jazz rap (also jazz hop or jazz hip hop) is a fusion of jazz and hip hop music, as well as an alternative hip hop subgenre, that developed in the late...
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Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the...
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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American part-talkie musical drama film directed by Alan Crosland and produced by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the first feature-length...
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Terrence C. Carson (category American jazz singers)
Filter: Dark Mirror. His first voicing of Kratos was for the original God of War for the PlayStation 2 and his final voicing of the character was in God...
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Jazz Jennings (born October 6, 2000) is an American YouTube personality, spokesmodel, television personality, and LGBT rights activist. Jennings is one...
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spent a lifetime experimenting with the human voice, and expanding the possibilities of its use within jazz. Lambert's band debut was with Johnny Long's...
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and John Lurie, they are widely regarded as pioneering voices in the 1980s East Village jazz scene that centered around clubs like The Knitting Factory...
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Media Composition Composition Strings Woodwinds Brass Percussion Piano Voice Jazz Performance Classical Guitar Master of Arts Music education Music industry...
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Daisy Ridley (redirect from Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley)
Daisy Jazz Isobel Ridley (born 10 April 1992) is an English actress. She rose to prominence for her role as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy films The...
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The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions...
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common-practice music, although jazz and pop music also demonstrate attention to voice leading to varying degrees. The style of voice leading will depend on the...
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The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time...
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Vocal jazz or jazz singing is a genre within jazz music where the voice is used as an instrument. Vocal jazz began in the early twentieth century. Jazz music...
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