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Music
"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music."
~Billie Holiday
"My men and my race are the inspiration of my work. I try to catch the character and mood and feeling of my people".
~Duke Ellington
BILLIE HOLIDAY
-April 7, 1915-July 17, 1959
-originally born as: Eleanora Fagan
-also known as: "Lady Day" and "Queen of Song"
-American jazz singer and songwriter
-appeared in the fillms: A Symphony In Black; New Orleans
-toured with the Count Basie Orchestra in 1937
-well known songs produced: "God Bless The Child," "Strange Fruit," "My Man"
-wrote an autobiography: Lady Sings the Blues (1956)
EDWARD KENNEDY "DUKE" ELLINGTON
-April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974
-American composer, pianist, big band leader
-referred to his music as "Amerian Music"
-“It Don't Mean a Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing", "Sophisticated Lady", "Mood Indigo", “Solitude"
-performed at the Cotton Club
-became the first jazz musician member of the Royal Music Acadamy in Stockholm
-received the Presidential Medal of Freedom
-composed over 3,000 songs
APOLLO THEATER
-music hall in New York, exclusively associated with African-American performers
-Ella Fitzgerald; The Jackson 5; Patti LaBelle;
Diana Ross & The Supremes; Stevie Wonder
-Amateur Night
-originally named: Hurtig and Seamons New Burlesque Theatre (did not allow black audeiences)
-constructed in 1914
COTTON CLUB
-famous night club that included jazz music
-had "Celebrity Nights" on Sundays for
famous jazz singers
-a white audience observed
-only the wealthiest, most influential, or most famouscould get access into the club
-Owney Madden: a ganster who became owner of the Cotton Club in 1923 in order to sell his beer (Madden's #1 Beer)
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