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King Kolax: King Kolax. King of the Clarinet: Artie Shaw. King of Cool: Dean Martin. King of Jazz: Paul Whiteman. King of the Jazz Guitar: Django Reinhardt. King of the Jukebox: Louis Jordan. King of Swing: Benny Goodman a.k.a. "the Patriarch of the Clarinet", "the Professor", "Swing's Senior Statesman". Klook-Mop or Klook: Kenny Clarke.
A contralto (Italian pronunciation: [konˈtralto]) is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.. The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare, similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typically between the F below middle C (F 3 in scientific pitch notation) to the second F above middle C (F 5), although, at ...
Ivor Novello. Ivor Novello (born David Ivor Davies; 15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951) was a Welsh actor, dramatist, singer and composer who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. He was born into a musical family, and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was "Keep the ...
Jive talk, also known as Harlem jive or simply Jive, the argot of jazz, jazz jargon, vernacular of the jazz world, slang of jazz, and parlance of hip [1] is an African-American Vernacular English slang or vocabulary that developed in Harlem, where "jive" ( jazz) was played and was adopted more widely in African-American society, peaking in the ...
literally "with the voice". An instruction, in a choral or orchestral part, that a vocal part should be followed, e.g., play the same notes as the vocal part and accommodate the tempo, expression, etc. of the vocalist coloratura Coloration (i.e. elaborate ornamentation of a vocal line, or a soprano voice that is well-suited to such elaboration)
Vocal jazz or jazz singing is a genre within jazz music where the voice is used as an instrument. Vocal jazz began in the early twentieth century. Jazz music has its roots in blues and ragtime and can also traced back to the New Orleans jazz tradition. [1] Jazz music is characterized by syncopated rhythms, improvisation, and unique tonality and ...
Oversinging can be technically understood as pushing too much breath pressure through the larynx, [4] which is known as overblowing of the vocal folds. The result is the over-production of sound. Oversinging may also be termed "vocal gymnastics" when referring to usage of melisma. [5] Hollywood vocal coach Roger Burnley describes this type of ...
Vocal range is the range of pitches that a human voice can phonate. A common application is within the context of singing, where it is used as a defining characteristic for classifying singing voices into voice types. [1] It is also a topic of study within linguistics, phonetics, and speech-language pathology, particularly in relation to the ...