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4 days ago · The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds.—Antonin Dvořák. The Great American Songbook is the retrospective label for a body of music, from jazz standards to show tunes, largely created during the first half of the 20th century. Because it emerged alongside radio and recording, the Songbook ...
1 day ago · The "Great American Songbook" is the canon of the most important and influential American popular songs and jazz standards from the early 20th century that have stood the test of time in their life and legacy. Often referred to as "American Standards", the songs published during the Golden Age of this genre include those popular and enduring ...
1 day ago · The debate over what constitutes American music raged particularly fiercely in the early years of the 20 th century as jazz invaded our ears. It took on particularly harsh tones in the classical-music world because that insular group — or at least its nervous ideologues in academia—clung to a belief that only the white European canon should prevail.
3 days ago · The Great American Songbook In addition to writing his own compositions and reinterpreting bebop classics, Bud Powell had a gift for taking tunes from the Great American Songbook and...
4 days ago · It was the kind of formula many other successful US cop shows had followed. Where Cop Rock fell down was with the singing. Several times in every show, the spoken dialogue would be ditched as the cast broke into song, often in ways that defied both logic and sanity.
4 days ago · As he branched out into jazz, Ben quickly became one of Melbourne’s top-call bassists, regularly performing with artists such as James Morrison, Joe Chindamo, and Paul Grabowsky. Join us for a warm, welcoming, and masterful evening of classics and curiosities from the American Songbook and beyond. "Beautiful, enchanting. A big future ahead.."
3 days ago · Intense moments like the one above, and interviews with childhood friends of the late lead singer of The Doors, are featured in author Mark Opsasnick’s new book “The Lizard King Was Here: The Life...
