We heard the full range of "le monde creole" that night early jazz, a classical danza from Creole composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.
Twenty years after his pioneering "Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development, " Schuller turned to the swing era, a glorious period in American music, when Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington developed an idiom that was accessible yet also innovative and artistically satisfying.
At 81, the amiable Mr. Strachwitz, whose family relocated to the U.S. West Coast in 1947, recalls falling first for early jazz when seeing the Louis Armstrong-Billie Holliday film "New Orleans" as a teenager, then hearing everything from hardcore hillbilly to "Harlem Matinee" and the Serbo-Croatian hour on Los Angeles-area radio.
Turkish-born Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, providing an early platform for jazz, soul and blues musicians, including John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Dizzy Gillespie.
"Black musicians in New Orleans had been playing the music that would come to be called jazz as early as 1906, " said Bruce Raeburn, curator of Tulane University's Hogan Jazz Archive.
Like jazz players, early musicians can embellish melodies and chords within a certain structure.
When I sit back and think over the life of my career, the first jazz festival I performed in was at the Monterey Jazz Festival in the early '60s.
Many remember Joe Sample from his days in the early 1960s as a member of the Jazz Crusaders.
Mr. WANG: Viva Tirado began life in the early 1960s as a composition by Los Angeles jazz bandleader Gerald Wilson.
Mr. WALLACE: The question, Billie, that I was going to ask was why so many jazz greats seem to die so early?
The band have been winning enthusiastic reviews for their combination of bhangra with funk and jazz and will tour the UK in early September.
Despite the on-site competition from Ramsay and the soon-to-be-opened Hakkasan (an outlet of the famed Chinese restaurant group due to open in early 2013), the hotel has successfully brought jazz music to the region.
Finally, for dinner, dig into a delicious plate of gnocchi at the highly rated Spaccanopoli (Crowne Plaza Abu Dhabi) then head over to Jazz Bar (Hilton Abu Dhabi) for a post-supper cocktail served with a dash of live jazz - the perfect nightcap before your early morning flight.
As clarinet player and scholar Michael White points out, New Orleans jazz arose out of turbulent times in the early decades of the twentieth century, and these post-Katrina years are turbulent times, too.
Berlin's creative boom rivals even the smoky jazz club and flirty-flapper cabaret heyday of the early 1920s Weimar Republic.
But in the early 1990s, he moved on to the more cosmopolitan South African jazz scene, and things started to click.
The game was sloppy as they get early, with 24 turnovers in the first half, including 14 by the Jazz leading to 21 Knicks points.
With 550 ticketed and 200 free shows a year, WCL hosts live music in just about every genre, including jazz, rock, folk and rap (Philly native Queena Marie stopped by in early January 2012).
Toward the end, Nash said, "No tribute to Blue Note records would be complete without honoring Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, " and then launched "Mosaic, " a song from the early 1960s by Cedar Walton with blistering cymbals, struck from above and below.
Coleman has written music outside of the jazz realm, including string quartets, music for dance, woodwind quintets, and in the early 1970s, a symphony called Skies of America, composed with support from his Guggenheim Foundation Grant.
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