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This subcategory contains 44 links Smithsonian Institution site with audio and exhibitions. Biography, audio clips, more. Great blues singer from Chattanooga. Ken Burns, "Jazz" Blues singers. Biographies. "Travel the Blues "Highway" that millions of blacks traversed as they migrated from the South to Chicago through the images of photographer William Albert Allard. See the places and people that keep the blues alive" The official web site. "Photo Tour and listen to some Parker midi files -and enjoy! Most visitors also find the Links page an excellent research tool for Charlie Parker on the web. There you can find links to many other Charlie Parker pages, biographies, recent news stories related to CP, sites decribing his gravesite, as well as pages which can help you gain a deeper appreciation of CP's music and the theory he employed to create it." One More Once: A Centennial Celebration of the Life and Music of Count Basie Fan site for the great jazz pianist, Dave Brubeck. An overview. Goes to the roots. Links included. Django Reinhardt was a great guitarist. 1965 performance. YouTube.com official site Current, recent, and archival information about the late renowned jazz pianist-composer. From Rutgers University America's foremost blues researcher Transformed in the 1950s from a sharecropper shack that was built probably in the 1920s, Poor Monkey's Lounge is the one of the last rural jook joints in the Mississippi Delta. Comprehensive history of this very AMERICAN art form. Basic jazz site. KC jazz "It contains over 29,000 pieces of music and focuses on popular American music spanning the period 1780 to 1960. " Elaborate site. Includes movie footage. by Christine Wilson This site is owned by and produced at the direction of The Estate of McKinley Morganfield, aka Muddy Waters. "Now What a Time": Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943 consists of approximately one hundred sound recordings, primarily blues and gospel songs, and related documentation from the folk festival at Fort Valley State College (now Fort Valley State University), Fort Valley, Georgia. Includes music clips "The William P. Gottlieb Collection, comprising over sixteen hundred photographs of celebrated jazz artists, documents the jazz scene from 1938 to 1948, primarily in New York City and Washington, D.C. In 1938 Gottlieb began working for the Washington Post, where he wrote and illustrated a weekly jazz column--perhaps the first in a major newspaper. After World War II he was employed as a writer-photographer for Down Beat magazine, and his work also appeared frequently in Record Changer, the Saturday Review, and Collier's. During the course of his career, Gottlieb took portraits of prominent jazz musicians and personalities, including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Earl Hines, Thelonious Monk, Stan Kenton, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Ella Fitzgerald, and Benny Carter. This online collection presents Gottlieb's photographs, annotated contact prints, selected published prints, and related articles from Down Beat magazine. " From Mississippi State University, music of "nineteenth and early twentieth century America. The sheet music illustrates a broad spectra of music genres, from the ragtime of Scott Joplin to the dixieland of W. C. Handy to the smooth ballads of Irving Berlin to the stirring patriotic anthems of John Phillips Sousa and George M. Cohan to the early roots of big band sounds." Before 1930 Dedicated to the great jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald. Smthsonian Bio and links The project combines portraits of blues musicians playing at home and in clubs with images that describe what remains of the rural African-American culture that gave rise to the blues. Examples include, juke joints, cotton farming, sacred music, rural church services, river baptisms, folk religion and superstition, life on Parchman penitentiary, hill country African fife and drum music, and diverse regional blues styles. In addition, Steber is combining these images with field interviews that put the photographs in an historical perspective. "Trail of the Hellhound provides an overview of two distinct styles of blues practiced in the Lower Mississippi Valley, extensive biographies of the region's greatest blues musicians, and pictures and descriptions of sites to visit. Begin with the site map of the Lower Mississippi Valley and decide which areas to explore." The Roots Music Listening Room |
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