jazz

The channel owner claims that Jazz originated with Italians. And that the word Jazz stems from a Sicilian word “jass”. From the channel: “In this episode of Celebrating Culture: Bandleader David Hansen speaks with Charles Marsala about the "Father of Modern Jazz", Sicilian Cornetist &...

was reading over his biography, and yes its impressive that he had a great career, beat a heroine addiction, was an advocate for black issues, etc but i cant help but look at him side ways for his hairline. :francis:

Got a decent priced small body acoustic guitar (Little Martin LX1). Just know a few chords, can strum with pick and fingerpick, do the spider exercises and know the E Minor pentatonic scale/Minor Pentatonic Shape #1. Hard to freestyle on it. Piano is so much easier to start. Have my first...

A Manhattan townhouse on the Upper West Side where jazz music icon, the trumpeter Miles Davis, regularly played music has listed for $11.5 million. It was built in 1901 by architect C.P.H. Gilbert, who is known for his work on the Instagram-favored Cartier Building at 4 E. 52nd St. Located at...

Such an outstanding game and the sequels after haven’t come close smh. Can’t remember whether the Dreamcast version was better than the PS2 version or not. One of them used to have the sound fade out when too much action is happening. Still, an excellent game with endless fun and there’s not...

Sure, Houston is a young tanking team but this shid ain’t right.

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Not sure how anyone could debate this not being the greatest song Pac ever released. Dave Hollister on the hook, and a sample of Zapp’s “Be Alright” released in 1980, a timeless track itself. This is the best verse I’ve ever heard from Stretch, I think the singing in the background fits...

There's the Knicks-Jazz thread. Shams this morning reported those talks are stalled. The HEAT don't have enough IMO. The Raptors do but will keep their powder dry for Durant. The Hornets perhaps? The Kings perhaps.. The Wizards makes no sense to me. The basis of a deal is below

It's inevitable Spida will be traded...let's get a head start on analyzing where he will go & what type of return he will fetch :unimpressed:

Who are some Black artists you like and love that are doing(or have done) genres like jazz, rock, country, folk, alternative, electronic, etc?? Previous day's threads are here if you want to participate: Black Music Month Challenge Day 28: Who would you like to see receive a BET Lifetime...

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ROBERT GLASPER 1. In Tune (featuring Amir Sulaiman) 2. Black Superhero (featuring Killer Mike and BJ The Chicago Kid and Big K.R.I.T.) 3. Shine (featuring D Smoke + Tiffany Gouché) 4. Why We Speak (featuring Q-Tip + Esperanza Spalding) 5. Over (featuring Yebba) 6. Better Than I Imagined...

Josephine Baker to Be Honored With a Panthéon Burial Ms. Baker will be the first Black woman to be entombed in the Panthéon in Paris, a symbolic move amid racial tensions in France. Josephine Baker, who was born Freda Josephine McDonald in 1906 in St. Louis, in Paris in the...

timestamped @17 so yeah this commercial for the NBA Finals on ESPN was released on June 14th of 2021, if you look at the NBA Playoff Schedule for June 14th of 2021 there were only 7 teams standing: Jazz, Clips, Bucks, Nets, Hawks, Sixers, and Suns now in the timestamp of the vid we start off...

One of the all-time masters for me :wow: High Priest of Jazz/Funk/Fusion, whatever you want to call it Where Brooklyn at? :myman: Still doing amazing things with Adrian Younge Going off on the vibraphone :whew:

Jimmy Cobb, drummer on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, dies aged 91 Jimmy Cobb, the jazz drummer and last surviving player on Miles Davis’s seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue has died from lung cancer at age 91. Cobb was key in helping to achieve the cool disposition of a handful of Davis’s...