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- 1From:American Jewish History (Vol. 97, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed"Every time I try to play black, it comes out sounding Jewish." (2) --Stan Getz Early in his memoir, Really the Blues (1946), Jewish jazz clarinetist Milton "Mezz" Mezzrow describes a conversion experience....
- 2From:The Chariton Review (Vol. 33, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe Poet Reads with the Chamber Musicians The chamber musicians are just past halfway in Astor Piazzolla's "Primavera Portena (Spring)," the part where each time in rehearsals they stopped. "I'm behind," one would say...
- 3From:Perspectives of New Music (Vol. 33, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedCecil Taylor was considered the epitome of the avant-garde jazz musician early in his career. Taylor found it difficult to get a job and achieve financial security despite gaining critical acclaim. His lack of work was...
- 4From:American Music (Vol. 17, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe development of bebop in the 1940s is crucial to understanding jazz as we know it. A product of jam sessions, big bands, small combos, and countless hours of "woodshedding," the musical language of bebop included...
- 5From:The Journal of Negro History (Vol. 80, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe biography of Afro American jazz musician, Valaida Snow, illustrates the different challenges she surmounted to be recognized for her talent. Although society disapproved women musicians who played wind instruments in...
- 6From:Black Music Research Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLos Angeles has long been recognized as an icon in the United States from the perspective of its social, economic, and historical contributions to American life. The city has provided the United States--and, indeed, the...
- 7From:Black Music Research Journal (Vol. 27, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedJames Brown, "Godfather of Soul" and social activist. The Swanee Quintet, a gospel group that in its heyday headlined at Harlem's Apollo Theater. Springfield Baptist Church, one of the oldest independent...
- 8From:MEIEA Journal (Vol. 10, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article concerns itself with the creative role and identity of the hired musician. As part of an ongoing study of musicians working in studio environments, I interviewed a number of freelance musicians in order to...
- 9From:Black Music Research Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe absence of millions of men have [sic] left vacancies in many fields which are rapidly being filled by the fairer sex. At PV, in order that music may still be kept alive, the co-eds have taken over the horns and...
- 10From:Black Music Research Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor those familiar with Thelonious Monk only through recordings, the experience of first seeing him perform on film can be startling. The outrageous hats, the splayed fingers, the sucked-in cheeks, the spastic...
- 11From:Teaching Music (Vol. 8, Issue 3)1956-1961 IN THE LATE 1950S, AMERICA'S POSTWAR prosperity continues, but beneath the surface run currents of change. Families are moving to the suburbs, watching television has become the national pastime, and baby...
- 12From:ETC.: A Review of General Semantics (Vol. 57, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJANELLE WILSON [*] "Country music videos offer a space for contemporary female artists to more visually and openly challenge that which their predecessors challenged in their time -- the traditional, confining gender...
- 13From:New England Review (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJAMES CARROLL BOOKER III DIDN'T GIVE INTERVIEWS. "THEY WERE more like dialogues or philosophical manifestoes," writes the journalist Bunny Matthews, who recalls Booker phoning him at odd hours to discuss off-the-wall...
- 14From:Anthropological Quarterly (Vol. 86, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedTwice in the 1940s, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM) banned recording by its members. According to the union, the use of records on radio and in jukeboxes was replacing five performers, thus eliminating work...
- 15From:Flutist QuarterlyPeer-ReviewedI had the pleasure of meeting Claude Bolling in New York in 1982, when I played his first Suite informally with him at a club and Le Parker Meridien Hotel. From 1984 to 2000, I toured for 11 seasons as flute soloist...
- 16From:Flutist Quarterly (Vol. 29, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJazz musician Herbie Mann died on July 1, 2003, at age 73. He was born Herbert Jay Solomon on April 16, 1930, in Brooklyn. He began to study the clarinet at age 9 and began his career while stationed with the Army in...
- 17From:Race and Class (Vol. 43, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed
- 18From:Medical Problems of Performing Artists (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAbstract--A study on the assessment of hearing and hearing disorders in rock/jazz musicians concluded that 74% of the musicians had some kind of disorder. The main hearing disorders found were pure-tone hearing loss,...
- 19From:ARSC Journal (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOn 14 December 1948, a group of 12 popular and operatic artists made an RCA-Victor recording of 'I'm Just Wild About Harry' to be presented to President Truman. The record, "The First RCA Victor Recording of 1948,"...
- 20From:NWSA Journal (Vol. 19, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay focuses on the music of the Black, all-female Cuban hip-hop group Las Krudas as a form of feminist activist art. Analyzing the group's lyrics and its members' self-conscious identification as feminists...