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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Jazz Collection
Alternative Title
Jazz Collection
Subject
Music--United States
Jazz--United States
Orlando (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of jazz in Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
The roots of jazz music began in the fields of the American South, as African-American slaves sang “call-and-response” work songs and “spirituals” to help them get through the brutal hours of forced labor. As Europeans immigrated to American cities in the late 19th century, they brought their musical traditions with them, and soon African-American musicians, such as Ernest Hogan and Scott Joplin, combined these styles with polyrhythmic African music, creating ragtime. New Orleans was an especially diverse cultural melting pot and became a place for musical experimentation by the early 1910s. European music merged with blues, folk, marching band music, and ragtime, creating a new genre called “jazz.”
By the 1920s, the First Great Migration brought millions of African Americans to the urban Northeast and Midwest. Young, white Americans became enamored with jazz and blues music and the genre was soon being played on radio stations, at dancehalls, and in homes across the country. New York City, Kansas City, and Chicago began to establish their own styles of jazz. Big band swing became the most popular style of American music in the 1930s and 1940s.
The most definitive feature of jazz is improvisation. The Great Depression forced many bands to cut down in size, leaving more space for intricate melodies and room for exploration. Bebop, which emerged in New York in the early 1940s, was aimed at a listening audience, rather than a dancing one, and became known as “musician’s music.” Bebop paved the way for Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz in the 1950s, when musicians, such as Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington, incorporated Latin rhythms by playing with Cuban musicians in New York. The popularity of rock music in the 1960s and 1970s led to jazz-rock fusion, which combined improvisation with rock rhythms and amplified instruments. By the 1980s, smooth jazz emerged, creating a commercial form of the genre that drew criticism from many purists, who felt that the musicians were more concerned with making money than creating art with substance.
Although Florida might not be as closely associated with jazz as cities like New Orleans, Chicago, and New York City, it has made significant contributions nonetheless. Afro-Cuban jazz developed simultaneously in New York City and Havana in the early 1940s, and Florida’s Cuban immigrants had a profound cultural impact on areas like Miami and Tampa. Since its foundation in 1979, the annual Jacksonville Jazz Festival has become one of the most popular jazz festivals in the country, featuring some of the top names in the genre, such as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Count Basie, George Benson, and Herbie Hancock. The Clearwater Jazz Holiday began around the same time and has also evolved into a major international jazz festival. In addition to the legendary Sam Rivers, who moved to Orlando in the early 1990s and continued to perform until his death in 2011, Florida has been the home to a number of prominent jazz musicians, including Cedric Wallace, Ira Sullivan, George Tucker, Nathen Page, Alfred “Pee Wee” Ellis, Jackie Davis, Rich Matteson, Jeff Rupert, and the University of Central Florida’s Jazz Professors.
Contributor
<a href="http://wucf.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">WUCF-FM</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/140" target="_blank">Central Florida Music History Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Type
Collection
Coverage
Arturo Sandoval Jazz Club, Deauville Beach Resort, Miami Beach, Florida
DeLand, Florida
Young Musicians Camp, University of Miami, Miami, Florida
WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
Alkyer, Frank. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/319491298" target="_blank"><em> DownBeat--the Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology</em></a>. New York: Hal Leonard, 2009.
Gioia, Ted. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36245922" target="_blank"><em>The History of Jazz</em></a>. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Ward, Geoffrey C., and Ken Burns. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/42404676" target="_blank"><em>Jazz: A History of America's Music</em></a>. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Moving Image
A series of visual representations that, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion.
Original Format
1 audio/video recording
Duration
5 minutes and 2 seconds
Dublin Core
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Title
WUCF Artisodes Short: Jazz Fest
Alternative Title
Jazz Fest Artisode
Subject
DeLand (Fla.)
Music--United States
Jazz--United States
Description
Noble "Thin Man" Watts (1926-2004) was a blues and jazz saxophonist from DeLand, Florida, who worked with some of the biggest names in jazz, blues, and rock, including Buddy Holly (1936-1959), Dinah Washington (1924-1963), Jerry Lee Lewis (b. 1935), Lionel Hampton (1908-2002), Chuck Berry (b. 1926), Johnny Mathis (b. 1935), and the Everly Brothers. Watts moved back to DeLand in the mid-1960s, where he remained until his death in 2004. The "Thin Man" Watts Jazz Festival began earlier that year and has continued to grow in the years since.<br /><br />WUCF-TV is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television station serving the Central Florida television market. The station, operated by the University of Central Florida, is the region's sole PBS member station, reaching an estimated population of 4.6 million people in its aerial viewing area. Arts and culture take center stage in WUCF-TV's weekly local series: "WUCF Artisodes." Each episode airs Thursdays at 8 p.m., featuring a local artist or initiative, as well as stories on the arts from across the country. Developed in partnership with 28 PBS stations nationwide, this series is part of WUCF-TV's mission to give everyone a front-row seat to the arts.
Type
Moving Image
Source
Original 5-minute and 2-second audio/video recording of Jazz Fest, <a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>, Orlando, Florida, April 21, 2014: WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/" target="_blank"> Adobe Flash Player</a>
<a href="http://java.com/en/download/index.jsp" target="_blank"> Java</a>
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/141" target="_blank">Jazz Collection</a>, Central Florida Music History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida
Coverage
WUCF-TV, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
African American Museum of the Arts, DeLand, Florida
Café Davinci, DeLand, Florida
Publisher
<a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>
Contributor
Watts, Noble "Thin Man"
Allen, Mary
Armstrong, Anthony
DaVinci Jazz Experiment
Mark Hodgson & the Cosmic Blues Trio
Pendleton, Jefferson
Sheperd, Jeff
Waits/Jordan Quartet
Wilton, John
Date Created
ca. 2015-01-29
Date Issued
2014-04-21
Date Copyrighted
2014-04-21
Format
application/website
application/pdf
Medium
5-minute and 2-second audio/video recording
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Humanities Teacher
Music Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by <a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a> and published by <a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by <a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Curator
Cravero, Geoffrey
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.wucftv.org/home/" target="_blank">WUCF-TV</a>
External Reference
Dahl, Bill. "<a href="http://www.allmusic.com/artist/noble-thin-man-watts-mn0000408965/biography" target="_blank">Noble 'Thin Man' Watts</a>." AllMusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/noble-thin-man-watts-mn0000408965/biography (Accessed March 31, 2015).
African American Museum of the Arts. "<a href="http://www.wattsjazzfest.com/" target="_blank">Thin Man Watts Jazz Fest</a>." WattsJazzFest.com http://www.wattsjazzfest.com/ (Accessed March 31, 2015)
"<a href="http://www.wucftv.org/local-programs/artisodes/" target="_blank">WUCF Artisodes</a>." WUCFTV.org. http://www.wucftv.org/local-programs/artisodes/ (Accessed April 6, 2015).
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wqybluz2TI" target="_blank">WUCF Artisodes Short: Jazz Fest</a>
African American Museum of the Arts
Anthony Armstrong
Artisodes
Bank of America
blues
bluesmen
Bright House Networks
Cafe DaVinci
Cannonball Adderley
Charles Edward Anderson Berry
Chuck Berry
City of Deland
DaVinci Jazz Experiment
DeLand
Dr. Noble "Thin Man" Watts Amphitheater
ECHO Program
Federal community Development Block Grant Program
festivals
Irene D. Johnson
jazz
Jazz Fest
Jeff Sheperd
Jefferson Pendleton
John Wilton
Johnson, Irene D.
Johnson, Maxel
Julian Edwin Adderley
Mark Hodgson
Mark Hodgson & the Cosmic Blues Trio
Mary Allen
music
musicians
Nat Adderley
Nathanial Adderley
Noble Watts
orlando
PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
saxophones
saxophonists
State of Florida
tenor saxophones
Thin Man Watts
Thin Man Watts Jazz Fest
UCF
University of Central Florida
Volusia County
Waits/Jordan Quartet
WUCF Artisodes
WUCF-TV