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Exquisite Gem. Created by a divine master craftsman in the 1960s. Well-preserved ageless beauty with naturally soft brown hue. Priceless! International traveler, culturally diverse, connoisseur of exotic foods, and enjoys thought provoking conversation.
HOMAGE TO THE PIONEERS: Irving Aaronson, Texas Alexander, Henry"RED"Allen, Lil Hardin-Armstrong, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Arodin, Lovie Austin, Buster Bailey, Josephine Baker, Smith Ballew, Paul Barbarin, Roy Bargy, Danny Barker, Sidney Bechet, Barney Bigard, Bix Beiderbecke, Vice Berton, Jimmy Bertrand, Ester Bigeou, Jack Bland, Jimmy Blythe, Peter Bocage, Lucille Bogan, Buddy Bolden, Perry Bradford, Bessie Brown, Tom Brown, George Brunies, W.E."BUDDY" Burton, Henry Busse, Jack Carey, Mutt Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Sonny Clay, Papa Celestin, Junie Cobb, Lee Collins, Doc Cooke, Eddie Condon, Martha Copeland, Ida Cox, Wilton Crawley, Charlie Creath, Cow Cow Davenport, Baby Dodds, Johnny Dodds, Natty Dominique, Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Johnny Dunn, Frankie Dunsen, Jimmy Durante, Honore Dutrey, Cliff Edwards, Duke Ellington, Pops Foster, Bud Freeman, Bob Fuller, Jean Goldkette, Benny Goodman, Annette Hanshaw, Marion Harris, Coleman Hawkins, Lucille Hegamin, Edmonia Henderson, Fletcher Henderson, Katherine Henderson, Rosa Henderson, Edna Hicks, Alex Hill, Chippie Hill, Earl Hines, Alberta Hunter, Papa Charlie Jackson, Frankie "HALF PINT" Jaxon, Bill Johnson, Bunk Johnson, James P. Johnson, Lonnie Johnson, Margaret Johnson, Mary Johnson, Maggie Jones, Richard M. Jones, Dolly Kay, Freddie Keppard, Carl Kress, Gene Krupa, Tommy Ladnier, Papa Jack Laine, Eddie Lang, Nick La Rocca, George Lewis, Ted Lewis, Virginia Liston, Ray Lopez, Nick Lucas, Abe Lyman, Wingy Manone, Fate Marable, Paul Mares, Daisy Martin, Sara Martin, Viola McCoy, Hattie McDaniel, Red McKenzie, Jimmy McPartland, Frank Melrose, Mezz Mezzrow, Bubber Miley, Lizzie Miles, Josie Miles, Irving Mills, George Mitchell, Miff Mole, Monette Moore, Lee Morse, Jelly Roll Morton, Thomas Morris, Bennie Moten, Phil Napoleon, Albert Nicholas, Red Nichols, Jimmie Noone, Yellow Nunez, King Oliver, Kid Ory, Bee Palmer, Anthony Parenti, Tiny Parham, Eddie Peabody, Manuel Perez, Buddie Petit, Alphonse Picou, Armand J. Piron, Ben Pollack, Ma Rainey, Don Redman, Django Reinhardt, Kid Rena, Harry Reser, Adrian Rollini, Leon Roppolo, Pee Wee Rusell, Luis Rusell, Authur Schutt, Budd Scott, Cecil Scott, Ben Selvin, Boyd Senter, Frank Signorelli, Omer Simeon, Zutty Singleton, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Jabbo Smith, Laura Smith, Mamie Smith, Pine Top Smith, Trixie Smith, Wille "THE LION" Smith, Elmer Snowden, Muggsy Spanier, Victoria Spivey, Johnny St. Cyr, Mary Stafford, Joe Sullivan, Wilbur Sweatman, Erskine Tate, Eva Taylor, Jasper Taylor, Jack Teagarden, Thelma Terry, Frank Teschemacher, Hociel Thomas, Alphonso Trent, Frankie Trumbauer, Joe Veuti, Sippie Wallace, Fats Waller, DePriest Wheeler, Ethel Waters, Clarence Williams, Edith Wilson, Lena Wilson, Paul Whiteman, and Jimmy Yancey.
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Tantamount to Jeopardy candidate.

I'd like to meet:

Like Minds.

MY BEAUTIFUL SISTER DIANE PERFORMING W/TAYLOR: Singer by Trade and Teacher by passion...has sung with many artists, such as Taylor Dayne, Guns & Roses, Cinderella, BB King, Cathy Dennis, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, David Lee Roth, Prince and many more.

Kid Ory ~ Original Jelly Roll Blues

Mile Davis 1969 ~ Bitches Brew

John Coltrane & Mile Davis

John Coltrane & Stan Getz

Buddy Rich & Gene Krupa

Freddie Hubbard & Art Blakey ~ Moanin

Dave Brubeck Quartet ~ Take Five (1961)

Dexter Gordon

Music:

All genres of Jazz , Classical, and the amalgamation of creative ingenuity.

Movies:

Action, Suspense, and Comedy.

Television:

CNN, History and Discovery channels. Must have intellectual stimuli.

Books:

Business, Motivational, Economics, and Finance.
Theloniuos Monk ~ Round About Midnight
Thelonious Monk Quartet ~ Epistrophy
Horace Silver ~ Senor Blues
Fats Waller & Myra Johnson ~ Ain't Misbehavin
Sonny Rollins
Gil Scott-Heron ~ The Bottle
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie ~ Hot House
Charlie Parker & Coleman Hawkins
Sarah Vaughan: Wave
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In 1917 the Original Dixieland Jazz Band made the first jazz recordings. They also announced that they had invented this new music. However since the appearance of Buddy Bolden’s band in 1897 jazz had regularly been performed in New Orleans dance halls. But did it just appear at that time? Jazz historians have sometimes suggested that it sprang from the memories of wild slave dancing performances in the celebrated Place Congo in Downtown New Orleans. Others have claimed that it was invented by Creole Musicians, and still others that it was invented by white bands of street musicians.
Early jazz men said "to jazz" meant to fornicate, or as they put it "jazzing meant effing." A "jazzbow" or "jazzbo" was a lover of the ladies. According to some sources, the word Jazz was also underworld jargon found in Chaucer and Shakespeare. Jazz had many names: jabo, jaba, jazpation, jazynco, jazorient, jazanola. Also jazanata, jazarella, jazanjaz, jazology, jazette, jazitis and jazioso.According to Arnold Loyacano, the word jazz had different origins. Loyacano was in Tom Brown's band, which in 1915, was the first white band to ever go to Chicago and play jazz. They were playing in a hotel which previously had a string quartet for entertainment. Brown's band had been used to playing on the back of a wagon, which meant that they had to play loud and were really incapable of playing soft. The crowd's reaction was to hold their ears and yell, "Too loud!" Loyacano says that was when people started calling his music "jazz." "The way Northern people figured it out, our music was loud, clangy, boisterous, like you'd say, ~Where did you get that jazzy suit?" meaning loud or fancy. Some people called it "jass." Later when the name struck, it was spelled with a "z," "jazz."....Ref source: Thomas L. Morgan Jazz & Blues
Debates over definition of "jazz"As the term "jazz" has long been used for a wide variety of styles, a comprehensive definition including all varieties is elusive. While some enthusiasts of certain types of jazz have argued for narrower definitions which exclude many other types of music also commonly known as jazz, jazz musicians themselves are often reluctant to define the music they play. Duke Ellington summed it up by saying "It's all music". Some critics have even stated that Duke Ellington's music was not in fact jazz, as by its very definition, according to them, jazz cannot be orchestrated.There have long been debates in the jazz community over the boundaries or definition of “jazz”. In the mid-1930s, New Orleans jazz lovers criticized the "innovations" of the swing era as being contrary to the collective improvisation they saw as essential to "true" jazz. From the 1940s and 1960s, traditional jazz enthusiasts and Hard Bop criticized each other, often arguing that the other style was somehow not "real" jazz. Although alteration or transformation of jazz by new influences has been initially criticized as “radical” or a “debasement”, Andrew Gilbert argues that jazz has the “ability to absorb and transform influences” from diverse musical styles[5].Commercially-oriented or popular music-influenced forms of jazz have long been criticized. Traditional jazz enthusiasts have dismissed the 1970s jazz fusion era as a period of commercial debasement. However, according to Bruce Johnson, jazz music has always had a "tension between jazz as a commercial music and an art form" [6].Gilbert notes that as the notion of a canon of traditional jazz is developing, the “achievements of the past” may be become “...privileged over the idiosyncratic creativity...” and innovation of current artists. Village Voice jazz critic Gary Giddins argues that as the creation and dissemination of jazz is becoming increasingly institutionalized and dominated by major entertainment firms, jazz is facing a "...perilous future of respectability and disinterested acceptance". David Ake warns that the creation of “norms” in jazz and the establishment of a “jazz tradition” may exclude or sideline other newer, avant-garde forms of jazz[6].One way to get around the definitional problems is to define the term “jazz” more broadly. According to Krin Gabbard “jazz is a construct” or category that, while artificial, still is useful to designate “a number of musics with enough in common part of a coherent tradition”. Travis Jackson also defines jazz in a broader way by stating that it is music that includes qualities such as “ 'swinging', improvising, group interaction, developing an 'individual voice', and being 'open' to different musical possibilities”[6].Where to draw the boundaries of "jazz" is the subject of debate among music critics, scholars, and fans. A debate the musicians themselves very rarely bother to enter....Ref source: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Latin Jazz

Latin jazz is the general term given to music that combines rhythms from African and Latin American countries with jazz harmonies from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and United States. The two m...
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:00:00 PST

Jazz Fusion

Jazz fusion Main article: Jazz fusion Bitches Brew is an influential record in the history of jazz fusion. In the late 1960s, the hybrid form of jazz-rock fusion was developed. To the dismay of ...
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:32:00 PST

The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt

The Jazzinstitut Darmstadt is Europe's largest public research archive on jazz....
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:48:00 PST

European and Gypsy Jazz

European Jazz Outside of the United States the beginnings of a distinctly European jazz started emerging. At first this came mostly in France with the Quintette du Hot Club de France being among the f...
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:43:00 PST

American Jazz Museum

The American Jazz Museum is the premier jazz museum in the United States. Located in the historic 18th & Vine district in Kansas City, Missouri, it preserves the history of the American Music: Jaz...
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:40:00 PST

Smooth Jazz

Smooth jazz Main article: Smooth jazz In the 1980s, drumming became much louder and more active in jazz music. The tones of saxophones were rougher and the bass lines were more invasive. However, wh...
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:36:00 PST

Improvisation

Jazz as a genre is often difficult to define, but improvisation is a key element of the form. Improvisation has been an essential element in African and African-American music since early forms of the...
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:27:00 PST

Modal Jazz

History An understanding of modal jazz requires knowledge of musical modes. In bebop as well as in hard bop, musicians used chords to provide the background for their solos. A song would start out wit...
Posted by OpulentLady on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 09:11:00 PST