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Stride jazz piano, often shortened to stride, is a jazz piano style that arose from ragtime players. Prominent stride pianists include James P. Johnson, Willie "the Lion" Smith, Fats Waller, Luckey Roberts, and Mary Lou Williams .
She later performed at Dazzle Jazz Lounge in Denver, and recorded three studio jazz albums. JazzTimes wrote of her 2009 debut album, Smile , claiming: "The vocals are rich and captivating". [1] Her second album, After You've Gone , was released in 2010.
In an article for JazzIz, Matt Micucci commented: "Like so many of Allison's previous releases, this one is consistently engaging and surprising, not unlike the metropolis that inspired it — his hometown of New York City, with its contrasting layers of grime and gleam, grit and dazzle."
Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter, is bringing jazz and classical music to Gen Z through her TikTok videos. She has a theory for why classic music works.
Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades.
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion, jazz rock, and jazz-rock fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
A reviewer for The Guitar Channel remarked: "Lifeboat shows that Herring has a deep love for jazz, and he's very adept at playing that style of music. Without question, this is one of the most inventive, fresh, and moving jazz releases of the year, and it's a huge triumph for Herring."
Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles.
In jazz improvisation, outside playing describes approaches where one plays over a scale, mode or chord that is harmonically distant from the given chord. There are several common techniques to playing outside, that include side-stepping or side-slipping, superimposition of Coltrane changes, and polytonality.
All That Jazz is a 1979 American musical drama film directed by Bob Fosse and starring Roy Scheider. The screenplay, by Robert Alan Aurthur and Fosse, is a semi-autobiographical fantasy based on aspects of Fosse's life and career as a dancer, choreographer and director.