Word: bande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...uprising that began when Louis Armstrong blew his first hot notes grew into a revolution. Continually shifting--Big Band, bebop, cool--and propelled by the sorcery of improvisation, jazz absorbs, transforms, discards, but always replenishes itself. Here are some of the other cats who made things swing...
DUKE ELLINGTON (1899-1974) From the 1930s to the '50s, the master composer's Big Band was jazz's gold standard, creating such classics as Black, Brown and Beige. Duke's compositions--timelessly elegant and invested with rich textures and emotional fullness--helped push jazz to unparalleled heights. Just as his popularity seemed to be fading, he reignited his legend with the fiery 1956 recording Ellington at Newport...
...Irving Berlin composes Alexander's Ragtime Band...
...Louis Armstrong joins Joe ("King") Oliver's band in Chicago...
...original 78-r.p.m. record was just that--a passive record of a three or four-minute song. In 1948 the l.p. accommodated longer pieces as well as the arrangement of various tracks according to a unifying theme. Soon, as with the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, an album became an electronic creation in its own right, impossible to duplicate in performance. These days, when voices and whole orchestras can be conjured out of a synthesizer, one wonders whether recording is even the word for it anymore...