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The Wallflowers - I'm Looking Through You

The Wallflowers - I'm Looking Through You
  • Written by: John Lennon and Paul McCartney
  • Music from and inspired by: I Am Sam motion picture
  • Genre: Rock, Pop
  • First recorded and released: 1965

"The Wallflowers have existed as two different bands, both helmed by lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter Jakob Dylan. Guitarist Tobi Miller, keyboard player Rami Jaffee, bass player Barrie Maguire, and drummer Peter Yanowitz formed the band in 1990."


The swing era lasted just ten years, from l935 to 1945. In researching this article... when the Swing Era ended, it also marked the end of Jazz as a Dance and a Popular music. It also marked a change in the culture of this country. What went before was never to be again, the society that created the music from New Orleans Dixieland through this era had changed for good... That past time had been destroyed by the immense social disruption which accompanied the War itself, but it was the foundation, good or bad, for who we are today. As such, my orientation for this period is both the culmination of fifty years of musical evolution and as a transition to the modern, a new way of viewing the world and a new way of viewing Jazz.

Jazz up to the advent of Bebop was a dance music. Its function was to provide musical accompaniment for dancing, in venues designed for dancing. Its very development was a striving to fill larger and larger spaces which existed to fill the social need for dance entertainment. Swing did this better than anything that had come before, but it was the final music whose function was social. Bop changed the artistic percentage, its focus turned inward, centering on the musical elements and the expressive abilities of the individual artist in manipulating those elements. The audience was left to participate only as consumers of art, not participants.

Also, the musicians themselves were striving to break loose from the musical cliches of the Era. Bop reflected a revolt against the confines of the Big Bands, the sparse solo spots in the swing arrangements minimized the opportunities for exploratory improvisational expression. This also reflected a change in emphasis from the melodic to the improvisational. The younger players chaffed at the restrictions the Swing style and the Big Band imposed... And finally, in some ways, the younger players felt section work did not favor or reward creativity but rather craftsmanship.
Source: History Of Jazz by Michael Morangelli


Cannonball Adderley - New Delhi
  • Released: 1961
  • Written by: Victor Feldman
  • Recorded in: New York on May 11, 1961


"The Cannonball Adderley Quintet featured Cannonball on alto sax and his brother Nat Adderley on cornet. Cannonball's first quintet was not very successful, however, after leaving Mile Davis' group, he formed another with his brother, which saw more success."

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