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Starting in the late 1940s the Le Caveau de la Huchette would become an important place for French and American jazz musicians. 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.
Charles Delaunay organized a jazz festival in Paris in December 1940, and two concerts month were given at the Gaveau, and continued through 1944. Delaunay's band, called Jazz de Paris, gave a concert at the Salle Pleyel on January 16, 1941. The singer Johnny Hess also had an enormous success with his 1940 jazz-swing song, ils sont Zazous.
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.
King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman; King of the Jazz Guitar: Django Reinhardt; King of the Jukebox: Louis Jordan; King of Swing: Benny Goodman a.k.a. "the Patriarch of the Clarinet", "the Professor", "Swing's Senior Statesman" Klook-Mop or Klook: Kenny Clarke; Knife (The): Pepper Adams
Ron Carter, 2008. He is the most-recorded bassist in jazz history, with appearances on over 2,200 albums. [1]This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the 1970s, electric bass players.
The first jazz recording was made by Sidney Bechet in 1954 under the title "La Complainte de Mackie". Louis Armstrong's 1955 version established the song's popularity in the jazz world. [135] It is also known as "The Ballad of Mack the Knife". [135] "Nagasaki" [136] is a jazz song composed by Harry Warren with lyrics by Mort Dixon.
Woody Herman Shaw Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) [1] was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, arranger, band leader, and educator.Shaw is widely known as one of the 20th century's most important and influential jazz trumpeters and composers.
The following is a list of notable jazz clubs in Paris, past and present. The 7 Lézards (closed) Les Associés; Autour de midi et minuit; Le Baiser Salé; fr:Bal Nègre (closed) Le Blue Note [1] Blues Bar [1] Le Bœuf sur le toit; The Caméléon; La Cave du 38 Riv' Le Caveau de la Huchette; The Caveau des Oubliettes; The Chapelle des Lombards ...