1930s

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   Saxophone

   Chu Berry: finest tenor sax voice of the '30s silenced by fatal car crash

   Leon 'Chu' Berry (1908-1941), perhaps one of the most brilliant American tenor sax players, found interest in music at…

   July 21, 2018

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   Film

   Easy Living owes Billie Holiday for giving it voice

   A tender ballad Easy Living has forthright lyrics that declare just how wonderful life can be when living for someone…

   July 6, 2018

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   Songwriter

   The rock'n'roll wave overshadowed Lazybones writer

   Hoagy Carmichael was an American composer, singer, pianist, and actor who wrote quite a few songs that ended up…

   May 11, 2018

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   Big band

   Take 'A' train jazz standard originated from Duke Ellington's letter

   Take the 'A' Train is a Billy Strayhorn composition that became a signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and is…

   May 8, 2018

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   Songwriter

   Ellington's classic song established swing as a jazz form

   It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills,…

   April 23, 2018

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   Songwriter

   Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

   The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk…

   April 16, 2018

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   Technologies

   Stereo sound ignored commercially for a quarter of a century after its discovery

   Stereo is the reproduction of sound using two separate audio channels in a way that creates the feeling of sound heard…

   March 30, 2018