The band was spreading its exciting new style of orchestral modern Jazz, mixed with a healthy dose of blues and swing, all over the country and was beginning to spill over into Europe; and the critics the critics were raving about this daring and innovative group that was translating the speedy Be-Bop language into a big band style that people could dance to, understand, and enjoy. ... Nationwide, club-goers seek out venues where Salsa, Bossa Nova, Merengue, Calypso, and other African, Caribbean, and Latin influenced dance styles can be enjoyed along with the music that accompanies them, but v...

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During the 1600s to the early 1700s, the majority of the music was mainly instrumental accompanied by dancing and chanting. ... However, slaves did dance and chant often because the enslavers felt that this would give them some relief from the cruelties of slavery. ... Even with all of these bans, the people still assembled in song and dance. ... Jazz was a more energetic and upbeat form of Ragtime music; it was a music that anyone and everyone danced to. ...

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Judith Thurman writes of Toni Morrison's literary style, "She treats the past as if it were one of the luminous old scenes painted on dark glass and she breaks the glass, and recomposes it in disjointed and puzzling modern form." ...

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The sax was known to intensify close dancing with one another. ... Although, the young ones still rebelled against what the adults had to say, they still enjoyed the music and dancing to it. ... He was being offered to play in parties, funeral marches, dances, and local bars. ... While in between gigs, they met numerous of musicians where they eventually joined with them, and then later formed the basis of bebop, a fast, improvisational style of jazz instrumental that defined the modern jazz era. ... He released a series of singles that were contemplated as a significant role to the modern ...

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