In response to criticism of New Orleans trumpeter Al Hirt’s pop success from his 1963 recording of the Allen Toussaint instrumental “Java,” it was believed that Hirt rejected his association with jazz despite an established career with big band and Dixieland music.
Read More“Sneakyoso” captures the complexities of bebop as developed by Coltrane and Monk in the late-1950s, such as the use of whole-tone melodies, altered chords, tritone substitutions, minor-third relations, and parallel harmonic motion as an evolution of the blues.
Read MoreThe contributions of Native voices in American popular music was not widely recognized until the 1960s Civil Rights movement, and indigenous folk songs, hymns, and marches had already been utilized by European composers and banned by the American government for nearly a century prior to Carl T. Fisher’s 1945 composition.
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