A cutting contest is a type of musical battle that was traditionally held between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser...

technique The act of competing in or winning a cutting contest, a type of musical battle Cutting in line, the act of entering a queue at any position other...

play in Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Armstrong earned a reputation at "cutting contests", and his fame reached band leader Fletcher Henderson. Armstrong moved...

from Big Bill Broonzy's autobiography, Big Bill Blues, recounts a cutting contest between Minnie and Broonzy in a Chicago nightclub on June 26, 1933...

The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised...

Eldridge soon moved to Milwaukee, where he took part in a celebrated cutting contest with trumpet player Cladys "Jabbo" Smith, with whom he later became...

musicians remembered as a musical highlight of their lives, a 1919 cutting contest where, after long and intense struggle, Hardy succeeded in outplaying...

meaning 'rent party'. Rent parties were often the location of so-called cutting contests, which involves jazz pianists taking turns at the piano, attempting...

Belle Joplin Eubie Blake as Will Williams, the judge of the piano cutting contest on August 18, 1899 Godfrey Cambridge as Tom Turpin (posthumous appearance)...

The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 was the 68th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It consisted of two semi-finals on 7 and 9 May and a final on 11...

and added a cutting horse exhibition in 1919, held in connection with the rodeo. With the growth of cutting horse contests, a group of cutting horse owners...

cornet, who would later succeed Keppard's title as "King" by winning a "cutting contest" against him. After playing with the Olympia Orchestra, Freddie Keppard...

Yugoslav authorities. Petar Brzica, Franciscan friar who won a throat-cutting contest at Jasenovac. Post-war fate unknown. Miroslav Filipović, camp commander...

while he performed at Minton's where he participated in after-hours cutting contests, which featured many leading jazz soloists of the time. Monk's musical...

featured silent movies, phonograph demonstrations, a cake walk, a cutting contest, and a musical revue in Town Hall as well as the 1912 presidential...

from the original on October 4, 1999. Vance, Kelly (April 7, 1994). "Cutting Contest". Chicago Reader. Retrieved September 27, 2024. Shannon, Jeff (March...

Webster, Herschel Evans and Lester Young participate in "the most famous cutting contest in all of jazz history", with the end result being an increase in popularity...

cutting contest at Morgan's bar in Harlem with the established stride piano masters – Johnson, Waller, and Willie "The Lion" Smith. Standard contest pieces...

accents, and tension and release. Stride pianists engaged in marathon cutting contests to show off their skills. Other stride jazz pianists of the 20th century...

rapid left hand striding technique, he was a formidable opponent in cutting contests. On one occasion, Lambert challenged Art Tatum at a jazz concert where...

and the basis of intense competition. Swing-era jam sessions and "cutting contests" in Kansas City became legendary. The Kansas City approach to swing...

Marion Harris in 1925. Art Tatum famously played the song in a 1931 cutting contest with Fats Waller and James P. Johnson. Tatum's use of substitute chords...

anywhere, go on for as long as it wanted." David Such stated that "the cutting contests, personality cults, and vices that characterized the jazz scene of...

steady job at Leroy's, a place known for its piano players and its "cutting contests". The place catered to "uptown celebrities", and typically the band...

Newton House - 16" June 1, 1981 (1981-06-01) Our host sizes up the tree cutting clearing hob outside the Ice House unit. In the barn, he discusses the...

such as improvisation and musicality. This structure also echoes the cutting contests of jazz music which Ralph Ellison describes in his stories about live...

frequently cheated by either giving themselves an unfair advantage in a contest or sabotaging the other teams, often getting themselves penalized for such...

and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. The Minton's jams had competitive "cutting contests," in which soloists would try to keep up with the house band and outdo...

hair. However, Marie takes the $200 offer as David needs the money. While cutting her hair, Karl confesses to Marie that he doesn't know what real love feels...

demanding company of Norvo, Farlow and Mingus, although it's hardly a cutting contest. Titles such as 'Cotton Top', 'Be Bop's Fables' and 'Night and Day'...