Jazz originated in the late nineteenth century in the Southern United States combining some European harmony and forms with African musical elements such as blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms and syncopation.
As it spread many distinctive styles evolved such as New Orleans jazz dating from the early 1910s, big band swing, Kansas City jazz and Gypsy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, Afro-Cuban jazz, West Coast jazz, ska jazz, cool jazz, Indo jazz, avant-garde jazz, soul jazz, modal jazz, chamber jazz, free jazz, Latin jazz, smooth jazz, jazz fusion and jazz rock, jazz funk, loft jazz, punk jazz, acid jazz, ethno jazz, jazz rap, cyber jazz, M-Base and nu jazz.
Louis Armstrong said to Bing Crosby on the latter's radio show, "Ah, swing, well, we used to call it syncopation, then they called it ragtime, then blues, then jazz. Now, it's swing. Armstrong also said, "If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. In a 1988 interview, jazz musician J. J. Johnson said, "Jazz is restless. It won't stay put and it never will". Ellington said, "By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn’t want your daughter to associate with."
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". . . Moaners Party Recipe -Start with one woman, a bunch of guitars and a whole lot of blue smoke -Add unstoppable energy and chilling harmony -Set on a foundation on rock solid rhythm and quick wit -Top with the best amaretto whipped cream frosting guitar and trumpet work you can imagine
Blend musicians to achieve and eccentric, eclectic mix of music from all era's. The Moaners diverse backgrounds come together to offer a night of music delivered with fun loving humor and entertainment.
The Moaners are a danceable, upbeat band that plays blues and swing with 3 part harmony being central to their sound. . ."
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Cecil Taylor began playing piano at age six and studied at the New York
College of Music and New England Conservator. After first steps in R&B and swing-styled small groups in the early
1950s, he formed his own band with soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy in 1956 and with whom he made his first recording that same year. Some critics said it already pointed to the freedoms in which he later became immersed.
Through the 50s and 60s, Cecil's music grew more complex and
moved away from existing jazz styles. Gigs were often hard to come by,
and club owners thought his lengthy pieces were not easily accessible to the general jazz-going audience.
Landmark recordings, like UNIT STRUCTURES followed later, in 1966. Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons later joined Cecil and became one of his most important and consistent collaborators.
Taylor, Lyons and drummer Sunny Murray (and later Andrew Cyrille) formed the core personnel of The Unit,
Taylor's primary group effort until Lyons's premature death in 1986.
With 'the Unit', musicians developed often volcanic new forms of
conversational interplay.
Cecil began to perform solo concerts in the early 1970s. Many of
these were released on album and include INDENT (1973), side one of Spring of Two Blue-J's
(1973), SILENT TONGUES (1974), GARDEN
(1982), and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973 and then a MacArthur Fellowship in 1991.
Cecil recorded sparingly in the 2000s, but continued to perform with
his own ensembles (the Cecil Taylor Ensemble and the Cecil Taylor Big
Band) as well as with other musicians such as Joe Locke, Max Roach and Amiri Baraka. In 2004, the Cecil Taylor Big Band at the Iridium 2005 was nominated a
best performance of 2004 by All About Jazz,
and the same in 2009 for the Cecil Taylor Trio at the Highline Ballroom
in 2009.
The trio consisted of Taylor, Albey Balgochian, and Jackson Krall. An
autobiography, more concerts, and other projects are in the works. In 2010, Triple Point Records released a deluxe limited edition double LP
titled Ailanthus/Altissima: Bilateral Dimensions of Two Root Songs,
a set of duos with long-time collaborator Tony Oxley that was recorded
live at the Village Vanguard in New York City.
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The holidays now over, and it's time to get back to the 'swing' of things.
Now that the season for stopping innocent children from celebrating Christmas is over and we've celebrated our New Year's Rockin' eve with the egomaniac who should retire, and we anticipate the national spectacle of watching overweight, overpaid male 'athletes' pile on top of one another as they pursue the pointed pumpkin around a huge 'cow pasture' (as Andy Griffith once said) and merchants pay millions to hawk their wares during 30 second breaks that (and this is a sad statement) are actually more entertaining than the program to which they have contributed so outrageously, it's now time to settle down, sit back, relax with a cold beer (or a hot
topic) and watch the Republican presidential candidates do their new and improved version of Looney Tunes.
". . . and Oh what heights we'll hit, on with the show this is IT IT IT IT!!!!!"
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