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    Four Piano Blues is a collection of pieces for piano by American composer Aaron Copland. The collection was composed between 1926 and 1948. The set of...
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    The Cat and the Mouse for piano (1920) Pastorale for voice (1921) Honkytonk Blues (1921) Three Moods for piano (1921) Four Motets for mixed voices (1921)...
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    line sung over the four first bars, its repetition over the next four, and then a longer concluding line over the last bars. Early blues frequently took...
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  • Four (stylized as four) is the fourth album by American rock band Blues Traveler, released on September 13, 1994. Blues Traveler broke into the mainstream...
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    Copland originally planned to orchestrate it for double string quartet and piano, but later decided to add a double bass, flute, clarinet, and bassoon, a...
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    piano style has been described as "instantly recognizable, combining rumba, mambo, and calypso". Music journalist Tony Russell (in his book The Blues:...
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    Aaron Copland (category Composers for piano)
    Copland's earlier jazz-influenced work, the Piano Concerto (1926). His Four Piano Blues is an introspective composition with a jazz influence. Copland finished...
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  • The Blues Brothers is a 1980 American musical action comedy film directed by John Landis. It stars John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues and Dan Aykroyd...
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  • eventually extended from piano to piano duo and trio, guitar, big band, country and western music, and gospel. While standard blues traditionally expresses...
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    The Paul Butterfield Blues Band was an American blues rock band from Chicago, Illinois. Formed in the summer of 1963, the group originally featured eponymous...
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    better known by his stage name Taj Mahal, is an American blues musician. He plays the guitar, piano, banjo, harmonica, and many other instruments, often incorporating...
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    Swe). The piano is a crucial instrument in Western classical music, jazz, blues, rock, folk music, and many other Western musical genres. Pianos are used...
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  • Three or Four Shades of Blues is a studio album by the American jazz bassist and bandleader Charles Mingus. It was recorded in sessions held on March 9...
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  • In Search of the Lost Chord is the third album by the Moody Blues, released in July 1968 on the Deram label. The success of the band's previous record...
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  • for trumpet, alto saxophone, B♭ clarinet (doubling bass clarinet), and piano. For a 1941 Boston Symphony performance, the composer wrote: In the Spring...
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  • was titled "Funeral Blues" in Auden's 1940 Another Time. The poem experienced renewed popularity after being read in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral...
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  • "Forty-Four," through numerous adaptations and recordings, remains in the blues lexicon eighty years later. "Four-Four" was developed from an earlier piano-based...
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  • Caravan Company, with pianists Arthur Gold and Walter Hendl performing a two-piano version of the score. The first performance in New York City occurred on...
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  • Living the Blues is the third album by Canned Heat, a double album released in late 1968. It was one of the first double albums to place well on album...
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  • and then (usually) continued by the piano under any solos that take place. Each chorus is usually separated by a four-bar vamp which acts as an introduction...
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  • piece demonstrates an early use of jazz and blues in an orchestral setting. The work is scored for piano and a large orchestra consisting of two flutes...
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  • the Blues" "The Retreat" UK 7-inch single "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" "Choc Ice Goes Mental" Elton John – vocals, acoustic piano, keyboards...
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  • the tune o' those Weary Blues. With his ebony hands on each ivory key He made that poor piano moan with melody.     O Blues! Swaying to and fro on his...
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  • Blues"; Morrison shouts "Do it, Robby, do it!" at the start of the guitar solo. Ray Manzarek switched from a Wurlitzer electric piano to a tack piano...
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  • When he was playing piano it was difficult for me to try and find something that Moody Blues would be percussive on the piano and that would be interesting...
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  • Lady Sings the Blues is a 1972 American biographical musical drama film directed by Sidney J. Furie about jazz singer Billie Holiday, loosely based on...
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  • piano, they were reworked for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and orchestra. Set 1 was first performed by Peter Pears (tenor) and Benjamin Britten (piano)...
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    folk piano"; stride piano, primarily inspired by Fats Waller and Teddy Wilson; and his primary interest, New Orleans rhythm and blues (R&B) piano, influenced...
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    Ma Rainey (category American blues singers)
    December 22, 1939) was an American blues singer and influential early-blues recording artist. Dubbed the "Mother of the Blues", she bridged earlier vaudeville...
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  • Clarinet and String Orchestra or the Concerto for Clarinet, Strings, Harp and Piano) was written between 1947 and 1949, although a first version was available...
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