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Many American jazz artists have lived in France from Sidney Bechet to Archie Shepp. These Americans would have an influence on French jazz, but at the same time French jazz had its own inspirations as well. For example, Bal-musette had some influence on France's form of Gypsy jazz. Similarly, the violin, and to an extent the guitar, were ...
The Courage Corporate: Adelaide Songs of World War One. Oakland Park, S. Aust: Pioneer Books in association with Academy Enterprises and Hermit Press, 1983. ISBN 0-908065-28-0 OCLC 19093270; Holden, Robert. And the Band Played On: How Music Lifted the Anzac Spirit in the Battlefields of the First World War. Richmond, Victoria: Hardie Grant ...
January 5 – Jeanne Gerville-Réache, French operatic contralto (b. 1882) January 21 – Louis Gregh, French composer and publisher (b. 1843) January 22 – Anna Bartlett Warner, songwriter (b. 1827) January 25 – Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, pedagogue and composer (b. 1847) February 5 – Paul Collin, translator and lyricist (born 1843 ...
The 1955 French film La Madelon, directed by Jean Boyer was a comedy based on Madelon's legend starring the great Line Renaud who plays the title character and sings the song surrounded by soldiers. Spanish actress-singer Sara Montiel sang it in the box office hit movie El Último Cuplé ( Juan de Orduña , Spain 1957).
July 14 – Fred Fox, American French horn player and brass instrument teacher (d. 1949) July 24 – Riccardo Malipiero, Italian composer, pianist and music educator (d. 2003) July 26. Ralph Blane, American composer and singer (d. 1995) Erskine Hawkins, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (d. 1993) August 5 – Stjepan Šulek, Croatian ...
After the War (song) After the War Is Over; After the War Is Over Will There Be Any "Home Sweet Home"? All Aboard for Home Sweet Home; Allegiance: Patriotic Song; America, Here's My Boy; America! My Home-Land; America's the Word for You and Me; American Patrol; The Americans Come (An Episode in France in the Year 1918) An Eala Bhàn; And He'd ...
The outbreak of World War II marked a turning point for jazz. The swing-era jazz of the previous decade had challenged other popular music as being representative of the nation's culture, with big bands reaching the height of the style's success by the early 1940s; swing acts and big bands traveled with U.S. military overseas to Europe, where ...
A performance at the Jazz in Duketown festival in 2019, located at 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant, Netherlands. Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music.