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"With jazz is like boxing: the better you do, the less people interested in him" - said George Foreman, former boxing world heavyweight champion, when asked about the similarities between music and boxing. But even though jazz is associated with a niche, a closed form of art, there were songs and musicians, breaking the impasse between him and mass culture. The International Day of Jazz, it is worth reminding desaposentação ourselves of these forms.
Jazz music was created as a form of przygrywki to-night popijawek in the New Orleans' red lighthouse district ", Storyville. In tancbudach New Orleans performed "King" Buddy Bolden, cornetist mythical, considered the founding father of jazz. Unfortunately, Bolden has not made any recordings, refusing, when there is such an offer, fearing that other musicians decide to copy his style. Bolden ended up in a mental institution, not even remembering his life as a musician.
In his footsteps walked More artists. Still treated as niepełnoprawni musicians - not performing classical music - Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet, had to fight for recognition and earnings, often patting poverty and reliving moments of deep despair.
Louis Armstrong is one of the first jazz musicians associated by a wide audience. Even if due to the least characteristic of the music track, "What a Wonderful World". Armstrong was known for his distinctive, rough voice and endearing smile, not with his instrumental artistry.
Be-bop, jazz, 50s, aggressive and fast frightened the American public. Embody the music was Charlie desaposentação "Bird" Parker, a brilliant desaposentação saxophonist, desaposentação a drug addict, vagabond. Parker changed jazz, gave him a completely new, based more on improvisation, expression. He lived as he played, and 1,955 years died of exhaustion of the organism desaposentação year use of drugs and alcohol. - When someone told me that I play like Parker, was glad. Nothing else I did not mean - mentioned in the film "Jazz" by Ken Burns, saxophonist Jackie McLean. Parker dominated jazz for decades - they wanted to imitate him not only saxophonists but also trumpeters, bass players, pianists and even drummers. Parker desaposentação then became desaposentação the hero of the film Clint Eastwood's "Bird" (1988). The role of the saxophone played by Forrest Whitaker.
The most famous alumnus "Bird" was trumpeter Miles Davis. In 1959, Davis was already recognized as a musician, but still could not break through to a wide audience, reluctantly set to "black music". desaposentação That's when Davis recorded for Columbia album "Kind of Blue" - the best-selling jazz album in history. The band made by the trumpeter found a prominent musicians who have had a significant influence on jazz: including pianist Bill Evans and saxophonist John Coltrane. Davis commercial success thanks to the "modalities" of music - jazz immersion influence in the European tradition of the Impressionists, represented by Debussy, desaposentação Ravel and Satie.
White America fell in love with two white jazz musicians: desaposentação pianist Dave Brubeck in 1959 released the album "Time Out", one of the most popular discs in jazz history. Thanks to the popularity the song "Take Five" (by saxophonist Paul Desmond) Burbeck became a star. His likeness was even on the cover of the magazine "Time". "Take Five" became one of the most widely used commercially jazz songs - constantly turning to the advertising companies.
The second was a favorite of American trumpeter Chet Baker, jazz James Dean. Baker, trying to imitate desaposentação the sound of Davis, an aura of the mysterious rebel, romantic hero. His career was ruined when he got into a vague agreements with heroin dealers who broke musician teeth. Baker has worked for several years at a gas station, not recognized by anyone. He died in 1988, after he fell off the balcony hotel in Amsterdam. It tells the story of a documentary film "Let's Get Lost" (1988) Bruce Weber.
Jazz is one of the favorite topics of Clint Eastwood. The actor and director, he devoted not only painting "Bird" and etude in the series "Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues" but also produced a document dedicated to the pianist Theloniousowi Monk. The film is a portrait of a genius, completely maladjusted. Thelonious feel free to just before the keyboard of the piano. Do not occupy it or bills, or passports or even the money he received for recordings and performances. desaposentação Mundane matters dealt with his wife, Monk devoted desaposentação himself to the muses. The musician suffered from schizophrenia, forget the faces of their loved ones. Within a few years he recorded canon of modern jazz piano, while playing in an extremely unconventional. Argentine writer Julio Cortazar called Monk's music "dance najedzonego bear." Unfortunately, the disease took up and for a few years before his death, pianist stopped playing. - I never thought that one day this