Big Band. The Legends - Glenn Miller

BIG BAND A big band is a type of musical ensemble typically consisting of rhythm, brass and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twe...

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North Sea Jazz Festival. The Legends - Nina Simone

The first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in the Nederlands Congresgebouw in The Hague. Some numbers in those ear...

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Clarinet. The Legends - Benny Goodman

The modern orchestral clarinet is widely considered one of the most versatile of all modern instruments. Its ancestor is the chalumeau, from...

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Bebop. The Legends - John Coltrane

Bebop , also called bop,  the first kind of modern jazz, which split jazz into two opposing camps in the last half of the 1940s. It was a st...

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Newport Jazz Festival. The Legends - Billie Holiday

Founded in 1954, the Newport Jazz Festival was the first annual jazz festival in America. It has been host to numerous legendary performanc...

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