Music Pioneer Helped Build Rock-and-Roll’s Blues Base
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- Music Pioneer Helped Build Rock-and-Roll’s Blues Base
- Jagger Leads Tribute For Diddley
- Harmonica University Opens Its Doors to English-Speaking Students
- Restaurants with Music — Restaurant and Catering Industry Joseph…
- Music – Bo Diddley’s Beat Will Go On – NYTimes.com
Music Pioneer Helped Build Rock-and-Roll’s Blues Base
Washington Post – Jun 3, 2008
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Jagger Leads Tribute For Diddley
San Francisco Chronicle – Jun 3, 2008
Legendary singer Diddley passed away at his home in Archer Fla. on Monday after a long battle with ill health according to his spokeswoman Susan Clary. Diddley was credited as a key figure in the transition from blues music to rock ‘n’ roll and influenced a host of legendary acts including Buddy Holly Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix. And Jagger who covered the late singer’s hits “Mona” and “Crackin’ Up” with The Rolling Stones remembers the star as a “generous” man who used his musical experience to offer advice to up-and-coming bands. He says “He was a wonderful original musician who was an enormous force in music and was a big influence on The Rolling Stones. He was very generous to us in our early years and we learned a lot from him. Jagger also praises the late star as a one-off musician adding “We will never see his like again.
Harmonica University Opens Its Doors to English-Speaking Students
eReleases – eReleases (press release) – Jun 3, 2008
Structured like a four-year college Harmonica Universityoffers online enrollment an 81-lesson program and anonline graduation exam that’s challenging even for expertmusicians. It’s also unique in that it allows students tolearn at their pace and study the music of their choosing. While many harmonica courses are limited to learning throughblues music only Harmonica University offers instructionand practicing opportunities in many genres – everythingfrom bluegrass to hip hop. Also each course offersstrength-building exercises much like weight training at agym. What’s more Harmonica University has online high-techaudio players with a “hear it then play it” approach andfeatures 1000+ audio tracks. “With its cutting-edge technology user-friendly experienceand diverse coursework Harmonica University is attractiveto people of all ages types and learning styles” Eyerssays. “You can even ‘play’ with bands before doing so inreal life thanks to special backing tracks that simulateplaying alongside others.
Restaurants with Music — Restaurant and Catering Industry Joseph…
Newsday – Jun 3, 2008
(204 Smith Street; 718-222-5598)QUEENSCooking with Jazz. This New Orleans-influenced restaurant serves dishes like jambalaya crawfish oysters plus blackened fish and meats. As for music blues and folk take center stage Tuesdays; Wednesdays there’s New Orleans-style music and Thursdays there’s jazz. Fridays there’s traditional New Orleans jazz. (12-01 154th Street; 718- 767-6979).
Music – Bo Diddley’s Beat Will Go On – NYTimes.com
New York Times – Jun 3, 2008
But he also has to be understood through his beat which anchored “Bo Diddley” as well as so many of his other songs. Popular musicians of many kinds have heard bomp-ba-domp-ba-domp ba-domp-domp as swing or primitivism as the graceful three-beat two-beat sequence of Afro-Cuban clave or as garage-rock tom-tom stomp. All kinds of rock ’n’ roll and rhythm-and-blues musicians have used it and will continue to. (Latin music didn’t need it because it already had the mighty clave; hip-hop has had little use for its rolling rhythmic feel. ) Here is a partial list of songs since the late 1950s that have used the Bo Diddley beat or a variation of it.
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