Jazz

Jazz is an American musical art form which originated around the beginning of the 20th century in Black communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. The style’s West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, call-and-response, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note of ragtime. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Cassandra Wilson

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Nov 20 Friday 20 November 2009
2009 Cape May Film Festival at Congress Hall - Brown Room Pat Martino	Congress Hall -… Cape May (NJ), United States 38.9304 -74.923931	Add shout
2009 Cape May Film Festival at Congress Hall - Brown Room Pat Martino	Congress Hall -… Cape May (NJ), United States 38.9304 -74.923931	1 person attending Add shout
Garage A Trois	Chelsea's Baton Rouge LA, United States 30.426024 -91.159401	2 people attended Add shout
Hamiet Bluiett + Kahil El'Zabar at Philadelphia Art Alliance Hamiet Bluiett, Kahil El'Zabar	Philadelphia Art… Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, United States 39.948328 -75.17103	3 people attended Add shout
Brass Messengers Nomo	Cedar Cultural… Minneapolis MN, United States 44.96941 -93.247627	3 people attended Add shout
Patti Austin	Yoshi's San… San Francisco, United States 37.78189 -122.432402	1 person attended Add shout

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Retro_Saiyan wrote:
Wednesday morning

"Pop Music" was originally just a shorter way of saying "Popular Music" for sales charts and record stores. It also referred to stuff more commonly played on Radio or Jukebox, as opposed to heard only on special occasions like a trip to a Classical violin performance. Since the introduction of the phase "pop music", popular music has changed so much, with the artists labelled pop changing so much, that the term can hardly be considered a genre. The stuff on the "pop charts" has gone from Dinah Shore and Hank Williams to, well, well whatever is the "flavor of the month" this week. Though, sub-genres do make things a little less confusing.

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sammyke wrote:
last week

for me the 15 nov. brussels !!!!

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MaidenSlayer wrote:
last month

And the reason one might assume that Popular Music is Pop. Is due to the term Popular Culture which is abbreviated Pop. So yes, technically the definition of Pop means Popular music. But their is a genre coined from the term Popular Music just to clarify. Which was indeed highly influenced by Jazz. So I concur with that and just on another note Pop later did evolve into other kinds of music. Teen music basically. Just like R&B later evolved to contemporary R&B. What The Ink Spots, Frank Sinatra and many other are is TRADITIONAL Pop. Franky Avalon did indeed create the teen pop. I don't envy him particularly for that. And more or less mediocre. So that should answer all your confused comments on pop.

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MaidenSlayer wrote:
last month

Wes Montgomery :D Btw lol @ the pseudo Jazz pop bands being added. Frank Sinatra is good but hardly call him Jazz. Maybe crossover. But not really Jazz.

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m0rph0x wrote:
last month

norah jones, what an insult -_-

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yaredfunez wrote:
last month

ningun latino?

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Kazback wrote:
September 2009

http://www.lastfm.pl/music/Kana%C5%82+Audytywny - Polish jazz, hip-hop and trip-hop

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jtribemusic wrote:
September 2009

http://www.last.fm/music/James+Uhart

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Katisdope wrote:
September 2009

dear lord who's been tagging amy winehouse as jazz? :|

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Cacophonaut wrote:
September 2009

Pop doesn't mean popular music. That would make Mozart pop, which doesn't make sense. We should not be categorising genres based on details extrinsic to the actual music. A genre should be defied by qualities within the music itself, by styles and conventions, not its public reception or popularity. To do so would be fatuous and utterly useless. Norah Jones sings Jazz influenced Pop because her songs have all the characteristics of pop songs; verses, choruses, relatively short lengths, tonality and the expression of an idea in a non-esoteric way. However her style, like that of Sinatra or Cole or Simone, is derived from jazz, especially the instrumentation. Ergo, Jazz influenced Pop.

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GHELIX wrote:
September 2009

Ella & Frank!!! Is there any duet ?

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cesarojedac wrote:
September 2009

the thing is that pop means popular music, it not means necessarily crap music like hilary duff or lindsay lohan.... so is normal that people tag norah as pop.............., but in top of that she sings jazz for me... OR vocal

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jeanmoriarty wrote:
September 2009

I don't claim Norah Jones to be a classical jazz standard, but she's nothing like nowadays popular artists we see in tabloids everyday, so i think she can't be considered as pop.

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FeedbackAgency wrote:
September 2009

HEY JAZZ FANS CHECK IT OUT I ADAPTED CRYSIS INTO AN ANIME http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Es7v-kItrE

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suicide_scherzo wrote:
September 2009

herbie hancock!!

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Schrubbel wrote:
September 2009

Welcome to Schru´s JAZZworldMusic http://www.lastfm.de/user/Schrubbel . Listen and Enjoy !

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fernandozaplana wrote:
September 2009

Listen Bandsman´s music al last fm http://www.lastfm.es/music/BANDSMAN/Autumns+Prelude

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mekaal wrote:
August 2009

And good !!!!!!!!!!

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kaboom_ wrote:
August 2009

norah jones - jazz-country...

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Niovi_ wrote:
August 2009

Or contemporary jazz. Or vocal jazz (if you want desperately the the jazz word in your tag).

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