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"Black and Tan Fantasy" is a 1927 jazz composition by Duke Ellington and Bubber Miley. The song was recorded several times by Ellington and his Cotton Club band in 1927 for the Brunswick , Victor , and Okeh record labels.
Black and Tan is a 1929 short film written and directed by Dudley Murphy. [32] It is set during the contemporary Harlem Renaissance in New York City. It is the first film to feature Duke Ellington and his Orchestra performing as a jazz band, and was also the film debut of actress Fredi Washington.
A group of Black and Tans and Auxiliaries outside the London and North Western Hotel in Dublin following an IRA attack, April 1921 "Come Out, Ye Black and Tans" is an Irish rebel song, written by Dominic Behan, which criticises and satirises pro-British Irishmen and the actions of the British army in its colonial wars.
The earliest recorded usage of the term black and tan in the drink context is from 1881, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, in the American magazine Puck. [5] The first recorded British use of the term to describe a drink is from 1889. [5] However, the name "black and tan" is not used in Ireland as a term for
While the name for the drink stuck due to its black and tan colors, the Irish refer to it as a half-and-half instead. So, if you order one—especially on that side of the Atlantic—make an ...
The first of the familiar black-and-white parental advisory sticker debuted on 2 Live Crew's "Banned in the U.S.A." The album was released on July 24, 1990 — almost five years after the RIAA ...
Black and Tans served in all parts of Ireland, but most were sent to southern and western regions where the IRA was most active and fighting was heaviest. [36] By 1921, Black and Tans made up nearly half of all RIC constables in County Tipperary, for example. [36] Few were sent to what became Northern Ireland, however. [36]
The orchestra's performance of “Black and Tan Fantasy” in the film is very different from other traditional recordings. It is the only version in which Barney Bigard plays a solo using the clarinet as the melodic instrument during the song. To express the sadness of Fredi's death, Ellington uses music by the Hall Johnson choir.