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	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Bill Johnson (jazz musician)
		Johnson claimed to have started "slapping" the strings of his bass (a more vigorous technique than the classical pizzicato), after he accidentally broke his bow on the road with his band in northern Louisiana in the early 1910s.
		Johnson was founder and manager of the first jazz bands to leave New Orleans and tour widely in the 1910s, The Original Creole Orchestra.
		Johnson's brother Dink Johnson was also a noted musician and his sister Anita Gonzales was a wife of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Bill_Johnson_(jazz_musician) (305 words)

	Jazz Musician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		As musicians, listeners, jazz musician and scholars have sensed for many years, the story of jazz is more than a history of the music.
		And jazz was where fl jazz musician and white musicians performed together, as uneasy partners, in the big bands of Artie Shaw jazz musician and Benny Goodman.
		Bill Johnson (jazz musician) - William Manuel "Bill" Johnson (August 10, 1872 â“ December 3, 1972), was a United States jazz musician, considered the father of the "slap" style of string bass playing.
	www.gfabluesfest.com /jazzmusician.html (765 words)

	A History of Jazz Music
		Bill Johnson transplanted jazz into the West Coast, and may be responsible for exporting the very name of the new music because "jass" was the term used around San Francisco for any kind of fl music.
		Jazz was, indirectly, also another stage in the process of fl assimilation of white musical styles, because jazz was founded on ragtime, and ragtime was fundamentally the grafting of European musical styles (such as marches and waltzes) onto West-African syncoapted rhythms.
		Jazz musicians began to compose their own material because improvising on other people's material was neither fun nor as rewarding as improvising on one's own material.
	www.scaruffi.com /history/jazz1.html (5898 words)

	Jazz Music - Online Jazz Club
		Jazz is an original American musical art form, originating around the early 1920's in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory, and is marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans.
		At the root of jazz is the blues, the folk music of former enslaved Africans in the U.S. South and their descendants, heavily influenced by West African cultural and musical traditions, that evolved as fl musicians migrated to the cities.
		However, the jazz community has shrunk dramatically and split, with a mainly older audience retaining an interest in traditional and "straight-ahead" jazz styles, a small core of practitioners and fans interested in highly experimental modern jazz, and a constantly changing group of musicians fusing jazz idioms with contemporary popular music genres.
	www.jazzextra.com (5085 words)

	Buddie Petit - Wikipedia Mirror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His early life is somewhat mysterious, with dates of his birth given in various sources ranging from 1887 to 1897; if the later date is correct he was evidently a prodigy, regarded as one of the best in New Orleans, Louisiana in his early teens.
		He was briefly lured to Los Angeles, California by Jelly Roll Morton and Bill Johnson in 1917, but objected to being told to dress and behave differently than he was accustomed to back home, and promptly returned to New Orleans.
		Musicians such as Danny Barker and Louis Armstrong have said that it is a great loss to jazz history that there are no recordings of Petit.
	www.wiki-mirror.be /index.php/Buddie_Petit (319 words)

	Jazz @ Soundbug Music Artists
		Jazz is a musical art form, commonly characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms and improvisation.
		Jazz is rooted in West African cultural and musical expression and in African American music traditions, in folk blues and ragtime.
		The ability of these musically literate, fl jazz men to transpose and then read what was in great part an improvisational art form became an invaluable element in the preservation and dissemination of musical innovation and increasingly important in the approaching big-band era.
	www.soundbug.com /genres/jazz.php (4609 words)

	New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park - A New Orleans Jazz History, 1895-1927 (U.S. National Park Service) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The early development of jazz in New Orleans was connected to the community life of the city, as seen in brass band funerals, music for picnics in parks or ball games, Saturday night fish fries, and Sunday camping along the shores of Lake Ponchartrain at Milneburg and Bucktown.
		By the mid-1920s, jazz bands were in demand at the Pythian Temple and debutante balls in the mansions of the Garden District.
		Jazz musicians who had been earning $1.50 a night working in dance halls and saloons in the District ten years earlier were now making $25 for a night’s work at these upscale locations.
	www.nps.gov /jazz/historyculture/jazz_history.htm (4155 words)

	Jazz Musician (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		August 7, 1941) is a post-bop jazz musician known mainly for his work on tuba and baritone saxophone, although he plays the bass clarinet, other reed instruments, and trumpet as well.
		Jazz Saxophone - Jazz Saxophone The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet - The Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet (now known as The Tiptons Sax Quartet) is an all-female, jazz saxophone quartet from Seattle, Washington.
		Jazz Musicians - Jazz Musicians Jazz Musicians Jazz Musicians Wood wall adornment, 'Jazz Saxophonist' "I portray here a jazz saxophonist ï¿½ he is blowing his sax with such skill Jazz Musicians and ease that he creates a cool Jazz Musicians and cozy atmosphere," says Eddison Agbeko as he explains his admiration for the musician.
	sa67.aamaa.info /jazzmusician.html (678 words)

	E.J.N. - MARC JOHNSON - bass
		Born in Nebraska in 1953, Johnson took up bass at the age of 16, having already studied piano and cello.
		Johnson appears on numerous albums recorded with Evans, including the Grammy-winning We Will Meet Again and released in 1997, a six-CD box set of live recordings, Turn Out the Stars, weaving his distinctively warm tones and melodic lines into the complex harmonies of the Trio.
		When I was a kid, before I knew I was going to be a musician, I listened to all kinds of music, from the Beatles to Bob Dylan, Beethoven to Ravel, the Allman Brothers to Jimi Hendrix; I had rather eclectic tastes.
	www.ejn.it /mus/johnson.htm (546 words)

	Jazz. Freddie Keppard. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Freddie Keppard was the serious musician, Inherited at Baddy Bolden a rank of "king" New Orlean.
		In 1912 Bill Johnson has invited it in group of the musicians and has brought in Ëîñ Àíäæåëåñ with promising of operation.
		Similarly to many musicians from New Orlean, Keppard has located in Chicago in the beginning 1920.
	members.tripod.com /abcluck/music/jazz/keppard/keppard.htm (204 words)

	Jazz Musicians and Singers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Another jazz legend, Edward "Duke" Kennedy Ellington, was born on April 28, 1899 in Washington, D.C. Ellington’s first piano lesson was given around the age 8, but unfortunately it did not appeal to him.
		Holiday, the daughter of jazz musician Clarence Holiday, was born on April 7, 1915 in Baltimore, Maryland.
		Living with a mother and a sister whom both were musicians, gave Davis all the encouragement he needed to become a musician too.
	coestudents.valdosta.edu /ssyoung/musicians.htm (1957 words)

	Jazz
		The music of the time technically was not jazz; it was a direct precursor along the blues-ragtime continuum of musical experimentation and innovation that soon would blossom into jazz.
		was "jazz king" of Chicago in the early 1920s, when Chicago was the national hub of jazz.
		However, jazz's audience has shrunk dramatically and split, with a mainly older audience retaining an interest in traditional, "straight-ahead" jazz styles, a small core of practitioners and fans interested in highly experimental modern jazz, and a constantly changing group of musicians fusing jazz idioms with contemporary popular music genres, forming styles like
	www.mp3.fm /Jazz.htm (4536 words)

	JC-CD3052
		Growing as a musician and listening to all the records he could lay hands on, the influence of George Lewis became less dominant and Michael developed a personal style wherein one could hear traces of Willie Humphrey, Sidney Bechet and, most of all, the legendary Johnny Dodds.
		Bill Bissonnette, in the liner notes of this CD, remembers the first time he heard Michael from the carriage way at Preservation Hall, being in New Orleans again in the early eighties after a 15 years interval: "There was one sound I didn't recognize as being one of the old-timers.
		He is one of the major "preservationists" of the style of jazz developed in the Crescent City and is truly admired by his fellow musicians and aficionados of early jazz.
	www.jazzcrusade.com /JCCD/JC3052.html (2998 words)

	Jazz From
		Take a musical journey with BET On Jazz and virtuoso guitarists Mark Whitfield and JK performing a mix of electric retro funk grooves and acoustic ballads in a dialogue between two musical soul mates.
		Discover your sense of jazz with the soulful sounds of Ben E. King as he performs the smash hits that have made him an R&B legend.
		Culled from rare footage, photography and first-person reminisces, the past 40 years of the longest-running jazz festival in the world is remembered.
	www.nelsal.com /jazz.htm (5136 words)

	Jazz Mississippi
		The reception was a preview of the Mississippi Delta Jazz & Heritage Festival, which was held Saturday at Antwone´s Cafe in Greenville.
		Lawson and Myers instilled and shared with students the importance and influence jazz has had on the world, and its Delta history.
		Bill Johnson, Photographer, Greenville, MS Dr. Ron Myers on trumpet with Shaw, MS native, Terry Biaoni, recipient of the
	www.jazzmississippi.com (680 words)

	PBS - JAZZ A Film By Ken Burns: Selected Artist Biography - Count Basie
		Count Basie was a leading figure of the swing era in jazz and, alongside Duke Ellington, an outstanding representative of big band style.
		The same year, with Buster Smith and several other former members of Moten's orchestra, Basie organized a new, smaller group of nine musicians, which included Jo Jones and later Lester Young, and as the Barons of Rhythm began a long engagement at the Reno Club in Kansas City.
		After reorganizing a big band in 1952, he undertook a long series of tours and recording sessions that eventually established him as an elder statesman of jazz, and his band was established as a permanent jazz institution and training ground for young musicians.
	www.pbs.org /jazz/biography/artist_id_basie_count.htm (586 words)

	Thank you for visiting Special Collections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Hogan Jazz Archive, a department within Tulane University's Special Collections Division, is a renowned resource for New Orleans Jazz research.
		Lovers of traditional jazz may wish to learn about the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble, a band formed by Tulane faculty, alumni, and a former Curator of the Jazz Archive.
		The Hogan Jazz Archive is a department within the Special Collections Division of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library.
	www.tulane.edu /~lmiller/JazzHome.html (321 words)

	Fellowship of Creative Christian Jazz Musicians
		A Biblical thesis on jazz worship in the church
		Jazz has deep spiritual and aesthetic roots in the fl church and in the fl tradition in general.
		He is the former Chaplin of the African-American Music Caucus (AAMC) of the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) and Artistic Director of the Mississippi Jazz and Heritage Festival.
	www.christianjazz.net (1076 words)

	Jazz Wisconsin
		"Honoring the historic contributions of African-Americans to to the legacy of jazz in Wisconsin"
		"The Wisconsin Jazz and Heritage Foundation (WJHF) is dedicated to the preservation of the historic contributions of African-Americans to the legacy of jazz in North Milwaukee and the state of Wisconsin."
		Jazz Mississippi I National Juneteenth Artist I Buffalo Fish Festival I
	www.jazzwisconsin.com (389 words)

	Bill Johnson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bill "Tiger" Johnson (born 1926), American football player and coach
		Bill Johnson (author), (born late 1950s), science fiction writer
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same human name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Johnson (117 words)

	1972 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		May 21 - The Notorious B.I.G. musician (d.
		March 27 - Sharkey Bonano jazz musician (b.
		December 3 - Bill Johnson jazz musician (b.
	www.freeglossary.com /1972 (2317 words)

	Juneteenth Jazz
		Juneteenth Jazz is dedicated to the preservation of the unique aesthetic expression of freedom through jazz, and the spiritual essence of a people whose lives continue to be the creative catalyst of all America's music.
		Juneteenth Jazz is dedicated to the innovators of this great music and the economic, cultural and educational development of the historic community that produced America's most intellectually sophisticated musical expression of freedom for all the world to enjoy.
		Jazz Mississippi I Myers Productions & Enterprises I
	www.juneteenthjazz.com (418 words)

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