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Nathaniel Lester Lanin (August 26, 1907 – October 27, 2004) was an American jazz and pop music bandleader. He was famous for long, smoothly arranged medleys, at a consistent rhythm and tempo, which were designed for continuous dancing.
The National Jazz Archive holds more than 4,000 reference books, specialist periodicals and bulletins. It also tells the story of jazz and blues in the UK through photographs, printed articles, memorabilia, artworks and personal papers. [3] The archive has built up a collection of books on jazz, blues, popular music and dance. Books date from ...
Ard collaborated with many of Europe's notable jazz artists. The beginning of 2009 marked the release of Ballads, Blues & Cocktails, Ard's first jazz CD. [3] Ard teaches jazz dance and musical dance at the Frank Sanders Musical Academy and Codarts in the Netherlands. Since 2014, he has also taught at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. [4]
The following is a list of jazz albums, ... Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) ... Dance with Death - Andrew Hill;
He saw jazz and its related dancing styles as a force for moral decay, and sought to cure it by bringing back traditional folk dances. In doing so, Ford rewrote the cultural history of the dance ...
Jazz dance was iconic to the beginning of the 20th century and beyond. Its evolution began on plantations by "Africans held captive in the United States". [2] Jazz dance was "practiced among blacks in social settings like house parties, dives, honky tonks, and jook joints". [2]
Jazz and jazz-influenced syncopated dance music was being performed in Australia within a year of the emergence of jazz as a definable musical genre in the United States. Until the 1950s the primary form of accompaniment at Australian public dances was jazz-based dance music, modeled on the leading white British and American jazz bands, and ...
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.