Word: musicianse
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The statuettes keep piling up, no doubt a boon to the electroplating industry. For viewers who think the Oscars are too elitist, there's the People's Choice Awards, chosen by a Gallup poll of moviegoers. For those who find the Oscars too mainstream, there's the Independent Spirit Awards...
Novelty can be thought of as a kind of long-haired half sibling to ragtime. Tony Caramia, associate professor of piano at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and one of the country's leading experts in ragtime and novelty piano, explains that "unlike the ragtime musicians...
"Another thing is that the learning curve for younger musicians is a lot steeper...Ben, our tenor sax player, who just started playing six months before I met him, is so much better now."
"One of the things that defines ska is the offbeat. When [Johnson] was working with musicians and trying to get that sound, he's like 'No, no, no, I want you to play ska, ska, ska, ska, like skavoovie, ska, ska. That's where the word ska comes from, the...
MUSICIANS HATE TO BE CATEGOrized, but few actually have the courage to defy labels that have been assigned to them--after all, it's hard to sell records if people don't know what they're buying. Goldie, however, is a true misfit. The son of a British mother and...