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The song took time to catch on as a jazz standard, possibly because it was 72 measures long. When Sidney Bechet recorded it in 1947, the song was not yet a regular jazz number. [23] "Memories of You" [8] [25] [26] is a song from the musical revue Blackbirds of 1930, composed by Eubie Blake with lyrics by Andy Razaf.
The song took time to catch on as a jazz standard, possibly because it was 72 measures long. When Sidney Bechet recorded it in 1947, the song was not yet a regular jazz number. [26] "Memories of You" [4] [28] [29] first appeared in the musical revue Blackbirds of 1930. It was composed by Eubie Blake and lyrics were written by Andy Razaf.
A music group named Ejazz performed the first officially sanctioned jazz music concert in post-revolutionary Iran. [6] They produced jazz fusion, incorporating elements from the indigenous classical music. [6] Rana Farhan, an Iranian jazz and blues singer living in New York, [7] combines classical Persian poetry with modern jazz and blues. [8]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Cities were crowded with workseekers. Black musicians were not allowed to play in studios or on radio. However, jazz music was resilient. While businesses, including the record industry, were down, the dance halls were packed with people dancing the jitterbug to the music of big bands, which would come to be called swing music. [1]
I. I Ain't Got Nothin' but the Blues; I Can't Get Started; I Cover the Waterfront (song) I Didn't Know What Time It Was; I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance with You
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3 – Cecil Irwin, American jazz reed player and arranger (born 1902). July. 21 – Honoré Dutrey, dixieland jazz trombonist (born 1894). April. 2 – Bennie Moten, American jazz pianist and band leader (born 1894). November. 27 – Charlie Green, jazz trombonists, and the soloist in the Fletcher Henderson orchestra (born 1893).