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	Jazz - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At the root of jazz is the blues, the folk music of former African slaves 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.
		Early jazz influences found their first mainstream expression in the marching band and dance band music of the day, which was the standard form of popular concert music at the turn of century.
		Jazz is often difficult to define, but improvisation is unquestionably a key element of the form.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jazz (5519 words)

	Music of Barbados - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jazz is a genre of music from the United States which reached Barbados by the end of the 1920s.
		In the early 1970s, jazz fan and critic Carl Moore launched a project to keep jazz alive on the island, while Zanda Alexander 's performance in Bridgetown in 1972 is said to be the first Caribbean jazz festival.
		More jazz calypso fusion musicians appeared on the scene during this period, including Janice Robertson and her Trinidadian husband Raf.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Music_of_Barbados (1338 words)

	Jazz - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African American music traditions including blues and ragtime.
		Jazz at this stage was no longer center stage in popular music, but was still breaking new ground and combining and recombining in different forms.
		Exponents of the "acid jazz" style which was initially UK -based included the Brand New Heavies, James Taylor Quartet, Young Disciples, and Corduroy, and on the other side of the Atlantic in the United States the Groove Collective, Soulive, and Solsonics.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Jazz (5049 words)

	Calypso Soldiers - index page - Free MP3 downloads, CDs, Bio Info, Tour Dates, Lyrics and More!" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The story of the "Calypso Soldiers" was an adaptation to this myth, stating that they were themselves, under the spell of Calypso, and that she ordered them to be her under-sea soldiers and drag any ship who came to close to the island, into the sea.
		Calypso had found Odysseus (King of Ithica) adrift on the sea, and she wanted no one to hear of her secret to the world companions.
		Calypso then marched the soldiers off into the crashing waves, to reside in the caverns beneath the island...
	www.iuma.com /IUMA/Bands/Calypso_Soldiers (929 words)

	Calypso Blue page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calypso Blue normally consists of six musicians: two sets of steel drums (one doubling on percussion), flute (and sax), keyboard, bass, and drums.
		Depending on such variables as budget, room size, and type of event, however, the band can be whittled down to a quintet, omitting either the flute/sax/keyboard or second steel drum player (for shorter engagements, both can be omitted for a quartet).
		Gary holds a Master's degree in music performance and is formerly an instructor of music in the jazz program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle.
	www.eskimo.com /~seanote/cbpage.html (559 words)

	Welcome to African Canadian Online
		Toronto jazz artist and AIDS activist Molly Johnson and her band Infidels have been making music in Toronto for over a decade.
		Citing Black Canadian jazz musicians like Jodie Drake, Bobbie Sherron and Salome Bey among her influences, Johnson is a versatile musician.
		Jazz pianist Randy Weston's music "is...the result of a studious and inspired intelligence that is creating a fresh synthesis of African elements with jazz techniques," according to New York critic Stanley Crouch.
	www.yorku.ca /aconline/music/jazz.html (881 words)

	various artists, Calypso: Vintage Songs from the Caribbean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calypso appears to have originated in Trinidad but the term has come to mean, for many people, the music of the Bahamas, Jamaica, Trinidad and many
		An interesting tidbit is how calypso was first "an oral newspaper and editorial page." Lyrics are very important in calypso and many contests occurred where calypso "kings" would compete against each other.
		Calypso Mama sings "Yes, Yes, Yes" and George Symonette sings "Touch Me Tomato." It takes little imagination to catch the double-entendres and sexual innuendos expressed in these two songs.
	www.rambles.net /putu_calypso02.html (430 words)

	Barbados (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Judges of the Supreme Court are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister after consultation with the leader of the opposition.
		In the early 1970s, jazz fan and critic Carl Moore launched a project to keep jazz alive on the island, while Zanda Alexander's performance in Bridgetown in 1972 is said to be the first Caribbean jazz festival.
		In the 1980s, jazz decline dgreatly in popularity, though saxophonist Arturo Tappin organized the International Barbados/Caribbean Jazz Festival, while other performances were organized by a group called the Friends of Jazz.
	barbadoss.blogspot.com (6050 words)

	ABOUT UWF DANCE CLUB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This is normally the form of jazz we associate with television or videos, commercial in its intent.
		This form of jazz is smooth and also highly stylized taking on the distinct characteristics of the choreographer.
		Though Calypso is similar to and often categorized as Latin, there are some very real differences.
	www.uwf.edu /DANCECLUB/DC2.HTML (790 words)

	wikien.info: Main_Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jazz is a music al art form characterized by blue notes, syncopation, swing, call and response, polyrhythms, and improvisation.
		Armstrong was an extraordinary improviser, capable of creating endless variation s on a single melody.
		This marked a major shift of jazz as pop music for dancing to a high-art, less-accessible, cerebral "musician's music." Bop valued complex improvisations based on chord progression s rather than melody.
	www.hostingciamca.com /index.php?title=Jazz (5149 words)

	HYP RECORDS/Vinyl Safari: Calypso--Hybrid/Golden-Throat
		"Calypso jazz" may be an uncommon term, but the combination makes sense, even though jazz is mostly instrumental and calypso mostly lyrical.
		Jazz and calypso share African origins, as Duke Ellington pointed out in A Drum is a Woman and other explorations of jazz tradition.
		Most "calypsos" in jazz are merely instrumental soloing over a West Indian rhythm (similar to much Latin jazz).
	www.hipwax.com /music/ca_jazz.html (787 words)

	Pan and Pan Jazz
		At the same time, they were trying to extend the range of the soprano pan so that it could be used as a viable substitute for the piano.
		It is often supported by a rhythm section consisting of a variety of other indefinite pitch percussion instruments which, when played in harmony, regulate the tempo of the music.
		Listen to Pan, calypso or jazz, marvel at the artistry and feel the soul of a joyful people.
	www.bostoncarnival.com /panandpanjazz.htm (1132 words)

	Mento Music: More Golden Age Single Scans
		Although Bradshaw is renowned for his 6 decades of Jamaican jazz, this is the only mento disc I've seen with his name on it.
		He recorded a series of LPs from the mid-1960s into the new millennium, and in the process, helped create the new genre of "Jamaican Jazz", a fusion that was equal parts reggae and jazz.
		With 3 tracks from the LP of the same name and same cover art, is the 4 song EP, "Calypsos From Jamaica".
	www.mentomusic.com /2scans.htm (2984 words)

	Soriano's Daily Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Le Jazz Primitif was recorded in Trinidad, 1960, by Cook Laboratories in order to document the island's rich music scene, specifically the "calypso jazz" scene.
		Unfortunately, the jazz on this album - played by Rupert Clemendore’s combo - is little more than what passes for “evening jazz” today.
		During the 1960s, as part of the exotica craze, some calypso albums were released stateside but a lot of those are hampered by too much polish - Harry Belafonte’s catalog for example.
	www.sl.net /~ttbooks/moolala/dr-lejazz.html (516 words)

	Live Music Chicago: Band Listing---Genre----Funk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Traditional styled ska, reggae, calypso, and mambo that is heavily influenced by jazz and soul.
		Jazz and calypso, a tropical blend of straightahead jazz with the island rhythms of calypso, soca, reggae and salsa.
		They play straight ahead jazz, island music like calypso and reggae and latin beats of bossa nova and salsa.
	www.livemusicchicago.com /latin.html (506 words)

	PoisonUK :: Artiste :: David Rudder :: Raf Robertson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Following his retun to the Caribbean in the early 1980s, he participated in workshops throughout the region lectruing on developing calypso jazz and the potential of the steelpan.
		At the same time, Raf was performing at various concerts including those organised by the Trinidad and Tobago Tourist Board and the delightful 'Ivory and Steel' taped series presented at the Frank Collymore Hall in Barbados and the Central Bank Auditorium in Trinidad.
		Raf and his band have since been featured in the area at Calypso Jazz concerts organised by the Embassy of Trinidad and Tobago Association of Washington D.C and has taught music and played gigs regularly at various venues.
	www.poisonuk.com /artist/rafRobertson (330 words)

	The Kaiso Newsletter No 26
		At this point, I can't even confirm it is a calypso though it certainly appears to be one given the lyrics, performed a jazz singer and dancer, Marie Bryant.
		She records a number of calypso with both Lyragon and London from 1952 to 1954 and some of these recordings are released in the United States on Monogram with her Don't Touch Me Tomato being released on several album collections.
		Onyan, former lead singer for Burning Flames, won the Antigua calypso monarch for the third year in a row in a Carnival season that was marked by a controversial split between the government competition and a separate one run by the calypsonian association, the People's Monarch won by Kiblai.
	www.mustrad.org.uk /articles/kaiso26.htm (910 words)

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		Modern pan-jazz is a fusion of calypso, shango, East Indian rhythms incorporated with traditional jazz rhythms.
		Paquito, the Latin jazz icon, along with Andy Narell, the world premier steel drum player and Dave Samuels of Spro Gyra have formed this new ensemble for this recording and a worldwide tout.
		The Caribbean jazz project is a world music melting pot featuring the sounds of the Caribbean, Latin America, Brazil and Cuba, eloquently mixing with the tradition of jazz.
	www.steelpan.com /docs/cds.html (2929 words)

	Steel drum music : about Cedrick Luces
		Cedrick was born on the island of Trinidad during the steel pan era.
		He is a versatile musician adapting his playing techniques to incorporate the best jazz, calypso, and reggae for a smooth original sound.
		The Atlantic City release, entitled “The Big Bamboo”, is a funky calypso collection of old island favorites.
	www.sircedrick.com /bio.htm (455 words)

	HYP RECORDS/Vinyl Safari: Calypso
		As with Afro-Cuban music and jazz, calypso reflects both the intense sorrows of slavery (and rural poverty) and the joys of liberation.
		Some of the best calypso, however, was performed and recorded by Trinidadians in New York, such as the Duke of Iron.
		Russell Daville: Calypso Sung by; Monarch MO-LP62 (w/Bill LaMotta; Daville was w/Katherine Dunham)
	www.hipwax.com /music/calypso.html (2930 words)

	Mas Makers Massive celebrates the Carnival Arts tradition of costume, music and dance indigenous to the Caribbean ...
		This year’s 2004 cultural extravaganza themed “Jazz to Calypso” is the theatrical unfolding in costume and dance of the musical traditions of jazz in North America, the drums and chants of Africa and modern calypso music in the Caribbean.
		By the mid 1920’s Jazz was being played in dancehalls, roadhouses and speakeasies all over the country
		Calypso is in effect the verbal drum, enabling the transmission of news and political and social commentary.
	www.carnaval.com /masmakers/masmakers2004_costumes.htm (658 words)

	EPCOT Live Entertainment - America Gardens Theatre Schedule
		Calypso, Country, Jazz, Swingno style of music is off limits!
		Pop, jazz, rock, rhythm & blues, reggae, and a little country.
		High-energy, multi-cultural band that performs music of the Americas as it really is: an eclectic mixture of traditional, folkloric and pop themes performed on a profusion of curious and familiar, ancient and modern musical instruments.
	pages.prodigy.net /stevesoares/amgard2001.htm (556 words)

	Sonny Rollins at harlem.org : explore jazz history through Art Kane's photograph
		Sonny is the king of the calypso jazz mode.
		His first jazz records were cut in 1948 with Babs Gonzales.
		He continued recording and performing through the 1990s, becoming one of the most influential saxophone players in jazz.
	www.harlem.org /people/rollins.html (105 words)

	CD Baby: WORLD: Island - music you will love.
		Blending the Hawaiian Steel guitar and 'ukulele (both originals from Hawaii) with the sounds of Broadway, Jazz and Tin Pan Alley, Hawaiian Swing was born in the early part of the 1900's prior to World War II.
		Kohala, in their gentle jazz style for acoustic and classical guitars, performs instrumental arrangements of contemporary hit songs from the islands.
		Jazz caribbean style of music, slightly risque lyrics, always tropical with a sense of fun.
	www.cdbaby.com /style/153/all?cdbaby=1b5db583c6defeff697db41f21ebb899 (9266 words)

	Jazz - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New Orleans and the Early Roots of Jazz ( http://www.frenchquarter.com/history/JazzMasters.php)
		Avant-jazz - Bebop - Dixieland - Calypso jazz - Cool jazz - Free jazz - Hard bop - Modal jazz - Jazz blues - Gypsy jazz - Chamber jazz
		Soul jazz - Swing - Acid jazz - Jazz fusion - Jazz rap - Nu jazz - Latin jazz - Smooth jazz - Trad jazz - Mini-jazz - Creative jazz
	www.grohol.com /wiki/Jazz (5612 words)

	Calypso Blue Steel and Jazz Band Playing Good Time Island Party Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Calypso and Soca, the music styles most commonly associated with steel drums, is more than adequately covered in the book, with decades-old standards like "Yellowbird" and "Jamaican Farewell."
		Gary plays either drums or vibraphone, and the side musicians employed epitomize the high artistic and aesthetic capabilities of the West Coast jazz scene.
		Gary has been the drummer/percussionist for many of the shows at Seattle's Fifth Avenue Theater, and is the percussionist in the Seattle Festival Orchestra, which has backed up national acts in local concerts (Ray Charles, Linda Ronstadt, Collin Ray, etc).
	www.entco.com /calypso/calypso.html (915 words)

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		Reggae, merengue, calypso, salsa (in different versions from Cuba and Puerto Rico), compas, zouk and soca.
		Underpinning all the Caribbean rhythms is the reverberation of African drums, which you will hear all over the islands, particularly in Haiti.
		Caribbean music is sometimes about protest and social commentary (particularly in calypso at carnival time), but it is almost always about dancing.
	www.definitivecaribbean.com /specialinterest_music.aspx (291 words)

	Playlists and Archives for Marc Grobman
		December 6, 2002: A little old jazz, some calypso, ska, mento, rockabilly, Jamaican gospel, RandB, and other things.
		November 17, 2002: Early jazz, then some blues, Hawaiian, country, Latin, soul, garage, Coasters/Clovers, gospel groups, finished up with soca and other stuff.
		June 12, 2002: Fill in for Janitor from Mars: A half hour of so of music of the glass harmonica, performed by Bruno Hoffmann, followed by funk, Latin, swamp, and other genres, ending up with a half hour or so of Jamaican ska and rock-steady.
	www.wfmu.org /playlists/MG (829 words)

	Redwood Coast Jazz Festival - Eureka California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Before, during and after the Jazz Festival, there's plenty to do in and around Eureka - Great shopping and seafood dining, art galleries, antique shops and the spectacular redwood forests and rugged coastline.
		You'll find that our unique blend of history, culture and natural beauty is matched only by the warmth of our people.
		Redwood Coast Music Festivals thanks our many generous corporate and business partners who make the Jazz Festival possible.
	www.redwoodjazz.org (137 words)

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		Jazzance 2000 will also feature Earl Rodney and side musicians who will bring their calypso jazz fusion to this annual event.
		Head liner Molineaux is known for his great interaction with melodic instruments and his skill as a pianist, bassist and conga player allows him to play the steel drum with steadiness of tempo and smooth texture.
		His most recent CD is a blend of calypso and jazz entitled, Steel band Music 2000.
	www.steelpan.com /docs/newsletter3.html (1315 words)

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