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Wartime and Jazz
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| http://www.kclindyhop.org/history_b.htm | ||
| The AFM Strike: The Kansas City Lindy Hop Society covers the AFM Strike among other topics for this and surrounding chapters. Follow the links on this page for more about the Bebop revolution and its impact on dancers. Of interest is the brief discussion of race and dance among the topics. The striker according to the AFM site: http://afm.org/public/about/history.php#1940 ( http://www.kclindyhop.org/history_b.htm ) | ||
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| http://www.countrystandardtime.com/bobwillsBOOK.html | ||
| Europeans defied the Nazi ban on jazz, changing the names of tunes but treasuring the music as a symbol of freedom. This site discusses swing in Hitler's Germany. ( http://www.countrystandardtime.com/bobwillsBOOK.html ) | ||
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| http://www.hotclub.co.uk/ | ||
| Django Reinhart was a European gypsy who became a legend in jazz; this site is devoted to him and represents some of the overwhelming acceptance and appreciation of jazz found in Europe and around the world from its earliest beginnings. ( http://www.hotclub.co.uk/ ) | ||
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| http://www.solidarity-us.org/atc/91Crothers.html | ||
| An introduction to the Swing Era All Girl Bands, so vital in the WWII era, is here. ( http://www.solidarity-us.org/atc/91Crothers.html ) | ||
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Jazz Vocalists
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| www.Jazzsingersradio.org | ||
| Radio devoted to jazz singers. ( www.Jazzsingersradio.org ) | ||
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| http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/history.aspx?hid=30 | ||
| Visit this page for an introductory listing of jazz singers and brief biographies. ( http://www.vervemusicgroup.com/history.aspx?hid=30 ) | ||
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| http://home.att.net/~timcramm/betty.htm | ||
| One of the most creative, but lesser known jazz vocalists official site. ( http://home.att.net/~timcramm/betty.htm ) | ||
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| http://www.cabcallowayllc.com/ | ||
| One of the singers associated with the hipster language is profiled here. The second and third links are to glossaries of some of the slang words. ( http://www.cabcallowayllc.com/ ) | ||
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| http://www.allaboutjazz.com/speak.htm | ||
| One of the singers associated with the hipster language is profiled here. The second and third links are to glossaries of some of the slang words. ( http://www.allaboutjazz.com/speak.htm ) | ||
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| http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm | ||
| One of the singers associated with the hipster language is profiled here. The second and third links are to glossaries of some of the slang words. ( http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm ) | ||
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| http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/vaughan_s.html | ||
| Both Sarah Vaughn and Ella Fitzgerald were the subjects of American Masters biographies. Although not always associated with bebop, Fitzgerald studied the music with Dizzy and was a consummate improviser. Here is the page on Sassy. ( http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/vaughan_s.html ) | ||
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| http://www.gallery41.com/JazzArtists/JoeWilliams.htm | ||
| Both Sarah's and Joe Williams' voices can be heard in brief statements collected on this Web site of audio clips, most of which play. ( http://www.gallery41.com/JazzArtists/JoeWilliams.htm ) | ||
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Bebop Artists
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| http://www.iaje.org/bio.asp?ArtistID=59 | ||
| Outshone by Bebop founder and consummate musician, Dizzy Gillespie, who claimed Eldridge as his major influence, Roy Eldridge was an important player in the transition to bebop. Like Hawkins, he has sophisticated harmonic understanding and prodigious technique. See also http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/eldridge_roy/bio.jhtml ( http://www.iaje.org/bio.asp?ArtistID=59 ) | ||
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| http://www.budpowelljazz.com/ | ||
| Although it is difficult to overestimate the contributions of Gillespie and Parker, (http://www.charlie-bird-parker.com/), other musicians helped create the "revolution" in the music's evolution. Many of the major contributors have an easily accessible Web presence and former major sites listed, such as PBS and Red Hot Jazz can be helpful. To help separate the better from the generally plagiarized here is a sample of a good choice. A lot of care went into the site devoted to this brilliant but unfortunate pianist. NPR also offers an archived profile of him: http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/powell.html ( http://www.budpowelljazz.com/ ) | ||
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| http://www.monkinstitute.com/index11.html | ||
| The official site for Monk is a good place to start learning about one of the icons of Bebop who contributed not only a unique style but a plethora of compositions. See also http://www.howardm.net/tsmonk/tsmonk.php The Monk Institute has a series of lesson plans for schools. For a sample see http://www.jazzinamerica.org/lp_o.asp?LPOrder=1&Grade=5 ( http://www.monkinstitute.com/index11.html ) | ||
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| http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/linernotes/barron.html | ||
| A group made up of former Monk ensemble members and outstanding pianist Kenny Barron toured through the 1990's with a repertoire of mainly Monk. ( http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/linernotes/barron.html ) | ||
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| http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wgdbeat.html | ||
| Articles from Downbeat from 1946-7 written and illustrated by William S. Gottlieb with audio and photo files are in the archives of the Library of Congress. ( http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wghtml/wgdbeat.html ) | ||
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| http://www.jazzphotos.com/ | ||
| Photos of important artists from the "Golden Age of Jazz" are found here, as well as links to photographs from the era of "The Street" in New York City. ( http://www.jazzphotos.com/ ) | ||
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Drugs and Jazz
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| http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3199035.stm | ||
| Much debated, this controversial association of jazz and drugs gets a cursory discussion by the BBC. ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3199035.stm ) | ||
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| http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm | ||
| Not exclusive to one musical genre, the history of non-medical drugs is the U.S. is covered in depth by this Web page from the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy. Another site about jazz and the arts in general http://www.jahsonic.com/Drugs.html For one jazz musician's account of the role of drugs in jazz, see http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=torgoff.html ( http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm ) | ||
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