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Slavic Soul Party!
Slavic Soul Party (often stylized Slavic Soul Party!) is an American Balkan brass/jazz band. The band borrows from dixieland, funk, klezmer, and Roma music. The band has performed on stages usually known for rock bands, opening for such acts as Arcade Fire and Dresden Dolls. They have also performed at music festivals which highlight their international flavors, such as Chicago's 14th annual World Music Festival in 2012. Members There have been at least nineteen members of Slavic Soul Party, including: * Matt Moran, bandleader (drums, percussion) * Roland Barber (trombone) * John Carlson (trumpet) * Ron Caswell (tuba) * Brian Drye (trombone) * Shane Endsley (trumpet) * Jacob Garchik (trombone) * Curtis Hasselbring (trombone) * Peter Hess (saxophone, clarinet) * Ben Holmes (trumpet) * Matt Musselman (trombone) * Oscar Noriega (saxophone, clarinet) * Ted Reichman (accordion) * Chris Speed (clarinet) * Peter Stan (accordion) * Chris Stromquist Kultur Shock is a Seattle-based g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
