Jazz was immensely popular as dance music (until the 1940s when bop came in,) and in rural areas, bands regularly played at road houses, dance clubs, movie theaters, juke joints, and vaudeville stops.

American jazz and musical theatre, and music of non-European origin, primarily of Africa and Asia. Native American, folk, rock and other popular genres are also represented. For dance, the collections ...

From younger artists like pianist Joe Block and guitarist Miles Okazaki, to Abdullah Ibrahim who will arrive in Philly a ...

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Since then, she’s leaned into more experimental dance pop ... where she won the Best Global Music Performance trophy. A Berklee grad who’s adjacent to the N.Y.C. jazz community, she’s ...

He said Jazz was "dance music's poet" and a "warm ... They were nominated for Best UK Dance Act at the Brit Awards in 1999 and 2002. The band split in 2011 but returned to release a new studio ...

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From classical music to jazz drumming The artist did not dive deeper into the genre until taking a popular jazz course ... and African dance and drumming. “[Those events] were very tough.