Josette dayde biography of michael jordan
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A recent post on Boing Boing discussed the newly discovered “rules for jazz performers during the Nazi occupation.” Jewish and Black people — two groups targeted by the Nazis — were also the primary innovators of jazz music. But even as the German state denigrated jazz, jazz musicians, and swing dancers, Nazi soldiers loved jazz! How to handle such a contradiction? Rules for playing jazz music: no “Jewishy gloomy lyrics,” no “Negroid excesses in tempo,” and no “hysterical rhythmic reverses characteristic of the barbarian races.”
It’s well worth a look, as is this post from 2010 explaining how many groups vilified by Nazis survived the Holocaust by playing jazz for Nazi soldiers…
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I have a favorite historical musician: Django Reinhardt.
Reinhardt was a Roma jazz musician. During World War II both Roma and jazz musicians were targeted by the Nazi regime. Over a million Roma were exterminated for presumed racial inferiority and jazz was believed to combine the worst of Blacks and Jews (i.e., “musical race defilement”). Just listening to a jazz record could get you sent to a concentration camp.
Reinhardt, however, enjoye
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List of years in jazz
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page indexes the individual year in jazz pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point.
2020s - 2010s - 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - Pre-1900s
2020s
[edit]2010s
[edit]- 2019 in jazz, deaths of Alvin Fielder, Chris Wilson, Ethel Ennis, Joseph Jarman, Ken Nordine, Kofi Burbridge, Michel Legrand, Marcel Azzola, Oliver Mtukudzi, Willie Murphy, and Joe McQueen.
- 2018 in jazz, deaths of Algia Mae Hinton, Aretha Franklin, Arthur Maia, Asmund Bjørken, Audrey Morris, Big Bill Bissonnette, Big Jay McNeely, Bill Hughes, Bill Watrous, Billy Hancock, Bob Bain, Bob Cunningham, Bob Dorough, Brian Browne, Brian Rolland, Brooks Kerr, Buell Neidlinger, Calvin Newborn, Cecil Taylor, Charles Neville, Chuck Wilson, Coco Schumann, D. J. Fontana, Didier Lockwood, Duke Carl Gregor of Mecklenburg, Eddie Shaw, Erich Kleinschuster, Errol Buddle, Fedor Frešo, Fred Hess, Gildo Mahones, Gyula Babos, Hamiet Bluiett, Henry Butler, Hugh Masekela, Ivan Smirnov, Jack Costanzo, Jack Reilly, Jerry González, Jerzy Milian, Jim Caine, Jimmy Woods, John "Jabo" Starks, John Von Ohlen, Johnny Maddox, Jon Hiseman, Jon Sholle, Lazy Lester, Leon "Ndu
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Various Artists: Sarane Find, Django Reinhardt & Others: Gypsy Malarky
See above.
Album information
Title: Sarane Discover, Django Reinhardt & Others: Gypsy Blues | Class Released: 2007 | Cloakanddagger Label: Suitable Records
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Various ArtistsExtended AnalysisChris MayProper RecordsUnited StatesSarane Ferret, Django Reinhardt & Others: Rommany Jazz