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"Take the 'A' Train" is a jazz standard by Billy Strayhorn that was the signature tune of the Duke Ellington orchestra. [ 1 ] In 1976, the 1941 recording by Duke Ellington on Victor Records was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame .
Take the "A" Train is a 1956 album by the American jazz singer Betty Roché. It was Roché's debut album. [ 2 ] Take the "A" Train was reissued on CD in 2000, with two alternate takes of "Go Away Blues".
A train song is a song referencing passenger or freight railroads, often using a syncopated beat resembling the sound of train wheels over train tracks.Trains have been a theme in both traditional and popular music since the first half of the 19th century and over the years have appeared in nearly all musical genres, including folk, blues, country, rock, jazz, world, classical and avant-garde.
Strayhorn composed the Duke Ellington orchestra's signature song, "Take the 'A' Train", and a number of other pieces that became part of the band's repertoire. [1]
Take the "A" Train is a live album by American saxophonist Dexter Gordon recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1967 and first released on the Black Lion label in 1989. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The U.K. talent show shared some previously-unreleased footage in which Styles sang "Hey, Soul Sister," before his a capella rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely"
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement. Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition. The term comes from classical music and was first applied to jazz by ...
YouTube star Colleen Ballinger on Wednesday, June 28, shared a video of herself singing an original song in which she addresses the wave of backlash following allegations that she engaged in ...