Dinosaur (jazz Quartet)
Dinosaur are a British jazz quartet founded in 2010. The band comprises Laura Jurd on trumpet and synthesizers, Elliot Galvin on keyboards and synthesizers, Corrie Dick on drums, and Conor Chaplin on bass. History Jurd composes the band's music and has described it as "Trumpet-led instrumental music" Jurd on Interview with BBC News, 2017-07-27 20:43BST though they are often described as "jazz", having appeared at jazz festivals and on the BBC Radio 3 ''Jazz Now'' programme. The group formed around 2010, and adopted the name ''Dinosaur'' in 2016. Dinosaur were nominated for ''UK Jazz Artist Of The Year 2017'' by Jazz FM. In July 2017, the band's debut album ''Together, As One'', was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Discography *''Together, As One ''Together, As One'' is an album by British jazz quartet Dinosaur. It was released in 2016 on Edition Records. In 2017, it was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Critical reception The album has received generally positive reviews ...
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ...
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Together, As One
''Together, As One'' is an album by British jazz quartet Dinosaur. It was released in 2016 on Edition Records. In 2017, it was nominated for the Mercury Prize. Critical reception The album has received generally positive reviews, receiving five stars from ''The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Gu ...'', four from ''The Jazz Mann'', and four and a half from ''All About Jazz''. Track listing Personnel * Laura Jurd – trumpet, synth * Elliot Galvin – keyboard, synth * Conor Chaplin – electric bass * Corrie Dick – drums *Sonny Johns – Recording and Mix Engineer References 2016 albums Dinosaur (jazz quartet) albums {{2010s-jazz-album-stub ...
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Musical Quartets
Musical is the adjective of music. Musical may also refer to: * Musical theatre, a performance art that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance * Musical film and television, a genre of film and television that incorporates into the narrative songs sung by the characters * MusicAL, an Albanian television channel * Musical isomorphism, the canonical isomorphism between the tangent and cotangent bundles See also * Lists of musicals * Music (other) * Musica (other) * Musicality Musicality (''music-al -ity'') is "sensitivity to, knowledge of, or talent for music" or "the quality or state of being musical", and is used to refer to specific if vaguely defined qualities in pieces and/or genres of music, such as melodiousness ...