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Chick Corea - Youth. Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. His father Armando, a jazz trumpet player who had led a Dixieland band in the Boston area in the 1930s and 1940s, introduced Chick to the piano around the age of five. Growing up surrounded by jazz music, he was influenced at an early age by bebop stars such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Horace Silver and Lester Young. At eight Corea also took up drums, which would later give him the ability ...

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". . .[M]y philosophy has always been that I love music. Period. I don't want to be remembered as a jazz trumpeter. I'd like to be remembered as a man who loved music. Because I like to play piano, I like to compose. I like to do all those things as much as I like to play the trumpet." --Arturo Sandoval in Billboard “Whether striding out blues by Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Oliver, playing in the hot bebop styles of Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, and Clifford Brown, the muted, elegant silkiness of the warm, thin-ton ...

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A break beat is the sampling of breaks as drum loops (beats), originally from soul tracks, and using them as the rhythmic basis for hip-hop songs. It was invented by DJ Kool Herc, the first to buy two copies of one record so as to be able to mix between the same break (as Bronx DJ Afrika Bambaataa described it, "that certain part of the record that everybody waits for—they just let their inner self go and get wild"), extending its length through repetition (Toop, 1991). The dance the boys and girls ended up doing to break beats was ...

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City of Englewood County of Bergen Census Year Total Population Population Change Percent Change Total Population Population Change Percent Change 1900 6,253  78,441  1910 9,924 

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Fitzgerald made her singing debut at age 16 in 1934 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York, in one of the earliest of its famous "Amateur Nights". She had originally intended to go on stage and dance, but intimidated by the 'Edwards Sisters', a local dance duo, she opted to sing. Winning the competition that night, Fitzgerald was noticed by Bardu Ali of Chick Webb's band, who persuaded Webb to hire her. She began singing with Webb's Orchestra in 1935, at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom. Fitzgerald recorded several hit songs with them, including " ...

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Over the years, he has been nominated for 45 Grammy Awards out of which he has won 12: His 1968 album Now He Sings, Now He Sobs was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999. ...

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Fitzgerald married twice, though there is evidence that she may have married a third time. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, a convicted drug dealer and hustler. The marriage was quickly annulled. Fitzgerald married for the second time in 1947 to the famous bass player Ray Brown. Together they adopted a child born to Fitzgerald's half-sister Francis, whom they christened Ray Brown, Jr. Fitzgerald and Brown divorced in 1952, most likely due to the various career p ...

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The female jazz singers Dee Dee Bridgewater, Patti Austin and Ann Hampton Callaway have all recorded albums in tribute to Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is also referred to on the 1980' song "Ella, elle l' a" by French singer France Gall, the 1976 Stevie Wonder hit, Sir Duke from his album 'Songs in the Key of Life', and the song 'I Love Being Here With You', written by Peggy Lee and Bill Schluger. Ann Hampton Callaway's 1996 album 'To Ella with Love' features 14 jazz standards made popular by Fitzgerald, and ...

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Englewood New Jersey - Local government. Beginning in 1980, Englewood switched from a Mayor-Council form of government to a modified Council-Manager plan of government in accordance with New Jersey's Optional Municipal Charter Law of 1950. Under this charter, the mayor retains appointive and veto powers, while the council acts as a legislative and policy making body, with some power to appoint and confirm appointments. The City Council consists of five members: four are elected from wards of roughly equal population and one additional member is elected at large. Administrative ...

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Englewood is located at 40°53'36" North, 73°58'33" West (40.893343, -73.975801)GR1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 12.8 km² (4.9 mi²). 12.7 km² (4.9 mi²) of it is land and 0.20% is water. ...

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