Jazz Articles

Articles and stories from around the internet and my head that I thought you might like to read.

August 14, 2007

Jazz Wedding Music, Perfect for Every Wedding Day Event (Jazz Loves Lili)

Whether a bride wants to walk down the aisle to a touching melody or dance to a swinging tune, jazz musicians can deliver both and more.
"Jazz musicians are unique because they can adapt jazz music to every wedding ceremony, wedding reception, cocktail hour, luncheon, dinner and more," Chandler Judkins, owner of Las Vegas Wedding [...]

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June 12, 2007

Setting on the Wall Jazz Music

Sitting on the wall  - Jazzy Tune
The hot summer in July 2006, on the fantastic Island of Corfu.
I had just spent the most incredible week of my life as students of the Ionian Academy of music, a jass workshop with Sheila Jordan. 

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March 1, 2007

Jazz –the (Jazz Loves Lili) music is forever

Music is made of sounds. The sounds which may individually be just sounds when combine yield ecstasy. As the number of sounds played simultaneously increase music becomes more intensified. For example- ">http://www.indietunes.com/songcontest.php?osCsid=cd51991d44d33b6 d1fd247fa3523dc9c">Jazz artist used seven chords almost exclusively.
This, and the kind of chord progressions used in Jazz gave it a unique [...]

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February 26, 2007

Jazz Loves Lili - Jazz Saxophones

Saxophones are musical instruments belonging to the woodwind category.
Saxophones are musical instruments belonging to the woodwind category. Saxophones were generally used in the military and in big orchestras, but are now found in smaller bands as well. They are generally used for big band music, [...]

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February 23, 2007

We Love Lili - Jazz Music: History of Jazz Music in Kansas City

From its beginnings as nothing more than a simple trading post on the banks of the Missouri river, to its raucous heyday in the 1920's and 30's, Kansas City has retained the independent spirit of its frontier beginnings. Even though an assortment of colorful characters, cowboys, politicians, criminals, and even wagon trains populate the history [...]

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February 19, 2007

Jazz Great Miles Davis Home Town Finally Creates a Jazz Record Label (Lili Loves Jazz)

Jazz Great Miles Davis Home Town Finally Creates a Jazz Record Label First Release May 19 Raw & Uncut "East St. Louis Jazz From the Vault Volume 2, 1989 1992, The Spirit of Miles Davis Back in the Atmosphere" Some of the Earliest Professional Recordings of Now - New millennium Jazz [...]

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February 15, 2007

Jazz Goa (Lili Loves Jazz)

Jazz Goa is formed by a group of musicians and music lovers to promote jazz in and out of Goa. The club's principal aim is to improve the lot and provide an organised platform for local as well as visiting international jazz musicians. Goa has always been a favoured chillout destination for some of the [...]

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February 12, 2007

Jazz Beginnings (We Love Lili)

Jazz is one of the only original musical art forms. It is defined as originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in African American musical styles blended with Western music technique and theory. One of the most famous jazz musicians was John Coltrane. In his study of [...]

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February 8, 2007

Free Jazz: The Jazz Revolution of the '60s (Jazz Loves Lili)

Revised and expanded here, this piece originated as an oral essay for the Cosmoetica Omniversica interview series on www.sursumcorda.com.
More or less officially unveiled with the first New York appearance of the Ornette Coleman Quartet at the Five Spot Caf in the fall of 1959, free jazz (or new black music, space music, [...]

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February 5, 2007

Duke Ellington Starring in The Evolution of Jazz (Lili Loves Jazz)

Duke Ellington Starring in The Evolution of Jazz
Duke Ellington is considered to be one of the greatest figures in the history of American music. Edward Kennedy 'Duke' Ellington was born in Washington D.C. on April 29, 1899.His parents were James Edward and Daisy Kennedy Ellington. They raised Duke as an only child, until [...]

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Bluffers guide to Playing Jazz (Lili Loves Jazz)

BLUFFERS GUIDE TO PLAYING JAZZ. Notes about playing jazz; a fun guide to this inventive music. Yup, notes are the problem. How many to play, which ones, and at what time. Guitars Guitarists are known by their desire to play one or two extra notes on their instrument after the song has ended. [...]

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All About Jazz! (Jazz Articles)

 
Q. What is the difference between a pizza and a jazz musician?

 
A. A pizza can feed a family of four!

 
What is it about jazz that makes a jazz musician stick to a form of music that A&R managers have scientifically and suspiciously proven to be a musician's surest route to death by starvation?

 
One good reason [...]

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