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 a...
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...
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 becoming...
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...
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,...
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...
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...

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