West Coast jazz

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West Coast jazz

(Jazz) a type of cool jazz displaying a soft intimate sound, regular rhythms, and a tendency to incorporate academic classical devices into jazz, such as fugue

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QA sponsors Katara European Jazz Festival

The concerts will offer a rich programme featuring various styles of jazz, including bebop, jazz fusion, swing music, traditional and smooth jazz, cool jazz and West Coast jazz. "Qatar Airways is proud to be associated with this highly-anticipated event, which will bring some of the most talented jazz musicians to Doha for five beautiful evenings of musical entertainment," Qatar Airways senior vice president Marketing and Corporate Communications Salam al-Shawa said.

Qatar Airways boost for Katara Jazz fest

A year later, in September 1989, in units at newly-built Eldon Garden, and with an opening "penny sale" and a wide selection of 1980s indie, classic rock and west coast jazz fusion on vinyl and CD, RPM Music opened its doors on Percy Street.

30 years for this ever-popular Newcastle city centre music store; Newcastle city centre music store that started up in 1988 is celebrating 30 years in the business

It is, instead, a film about a character who happens to share a name and a significant number of biographical similarities with Chet Baker, taking the legendary West Coast jazz musician's life as though it were merely a chord chart from which to launch an improvised set of new melodies.

Forsaken

In-depth interviews with Dave Pell, Lennie Niehaus, and Johnny Mandel reveal the lifestyle there and how it may have influenced the mood of music that became known as West Coast jazz. Relations between recording musicians and American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and Broadcast Music, Inc.

Duke Ellington as Pianist: A Study of Styles

More recently, it has played key roles in "new" music, West Coast jazz, Hispanic and Latin American genres, California Indian cultural revival, and the envisioning of the U.

Society for American Music 41st Annual Conference, Sacramento, California, 4-8 March 2015 #sonneck2015

Cell Block Seven, a musical group with a two-cornet front line that offers traditional and West Coast jazz, novelty numbers and dance music, will perform from 1 p.m.

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SEVERAL AUTHORS HAVE EXAMINED the "rise and fall" of "West Coast jazz" in the 1940s and 1950s, and a number of scholars have studied black politics in Los Angeles.

Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles

My friend Fred Murphy and I listened to Louis Armstrong, then discovered West Coast jazz and some of the greats, like Hampton Hawes, a jazz pianist," Mr.

The Villager closes shop after 47 years in Oxford

The band, named Nightbird in memory of trumpeter Chet Baker, performs cool West Coast jazz of the 50s plus ground-shaking, hot be-bop of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.

Return of jazz king Wally

Named Nightbird, in memory of trumpeter Chet Baker, the band performs cool West Coast Jazz.