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swing music: see jazz jazz, the most significant form of musical expression of African-American culture and arguably the most outstanding contribution the United States has made to the art of music.
Origins of JazzJazz developed in the latter part of the 19th cent. ..... Click the link for more information. . How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Illustrated with occasional historic photographs ranging from the Tarrant County Courthouse under construction in 1895, to the Fort Worth Medical College opening in 1893, to Meacham Field in 1937, and the Light Crust Doughboys Western swing band in the 1940s, Fort Worth is a descriptive history of an amazing Texas community and its people from it's days as a military outpost on the banks of the Trinity, to it evolution into the Dallas/Forth Worth Metroplex. She was the pianist and composer for Andy Kirk and His Clouds of Joy, which was then one of the most popular Kansas City Swing bands, and wrote arrangements for Duke Ellington's band. John Taras took Stravinsky's three-movement Ebony Concerto, 1945, for Clarinet and Swing Band and produced a theatrically savvy piece (1960) that skillfully fused the attitude of Broadway show dancing and the basic ballet vocabulary. |
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