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Mal Waldron

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Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. [1]

96 relations: Abbey Lincoln, Accompaniment, Alyn Shipton, Amiri Baraka, Archie Shepp, Art Tatum, Arthur Edgehill, Avant-garde jazz, Ben Webster, Big Nick Nicholas, Billie Holiday, Body and Soul (1930 song), Booker Little, Brussels, Bud Powell, Café Society, Cameron Brown (musician), Caribbean, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Charlie Rouse, Coleman Hawkins, David Murray (saxophonist), Duke Ellington, Dutchman (play), ECM Records, Embryo (band), Enja Records, Eric Dolphy, Ethan Iverson, Experimental rock, Feature film, Freddie Waits, Free at Last (Mal Waldron album), Free jazz, G.I. Bill, Gene Ammons, George Who?, Gigi Gryce, Glossary of musical terminology, Hackensack, New Jersey, Hard bop, Haruki Kadokawa, Herbie Lewis, Horace Arnold, Horace Silver, Idrees Sulieman, Ike Quebec, Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors, Jackie McLean, ..., Jamaica, Queens, Jazz, Jazz standard, Jeanne Lee, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, John S. Wilson (music critic), Julian Euell, Karol Rathaus, Kenny Burrell, Kenny Clarke, Long Island Rail Road, Lucky Millinder, Lucky Thompson, Mal-1, Marcel Carné, Matthew Shipp, Max Roach, Minimal music, Minor scale, Modal jazz, Music Minus One, New York (state), New York City, Nonchord tone, Phil Woods, Pithecanthropus Erectus (album), Post-bop, Prestige Records, Queens College, City University of New York, Ran Blake, Rhythm and blues, Soul Eyes, St. Albans, Queens, Stanley Cowell, Steve Lacy, Sweet Love, Bitter (film), Swing music, The Cool World (film), The Penguin Guide to Jazz, The Sound of Jazz, Thelonious Monk, Three Rooms in Manhattan, Time signature, United States Military Academy, 52nd Street (Manhattan). Expand index (46 more) »

Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions.

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Accompaniment

Accompaniment is the musical part which provides the rhythmic and/or harmonic support for the melody or main themes of a song or instrumental piece.

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Alyn Shipton

Alyn Shipton (born 24 November 1953) is an English jazz author, presenter, critic, and jazz bassist.

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Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.

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Archie Shepp

Archie Shepp (born May 24, 1937) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Art Tatum

Arthur Tatum Jr. (October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist.

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Arthur Edgehill

Arthur Edgehill (21 July 1926)Feather, Leonard G. (1960) At Google Books.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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Ben Webster

Benjamin Francis Webster (March 27, 1909 – September 20, 1973) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Big Nick Nicholas

George Walker "Big Nick" Nicholas (August 2, 1922, – October 29, 1997) was an American jazz saxophonist and singer.

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Billie Holiday

Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years.

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Body and Soul (1930 song)

"Body and Soul" is a popular song and jazz standard written in 1930 with lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton; and music by Johnny Green.

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Booker Little

Booker Little, Jr. (April 2, 1938 – October 5, 1961 - accessed June 2010) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the de jure capital of Belgium.

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Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist.

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Café Society

Café Society was a New York City nightclub open from 1938 to 1948 at Sheridan Square in Greenwich Village, and managed by Barney Josephson.

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Cameron Brown (musician)

Cameron Langdon Brown (born December 21, 1945) is an American jazz double bassist known for his association with the Don Pullen/George Adams Quartet.

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Caribbean

The Caribbean is a region that consists of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (some surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some bordering both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean) and the surrounding coasts.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Charlie Rouse

Charlie Rouse (April 6, 1924 – November 30, 1988) was an American hard bop tenor saxophonist and flautist.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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David Murray (saxophonist)

David Murray (born February 19, 1955) is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Dutchman (play)

Dutchman is a play written by African-American playwright Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.

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Embryo (band)

Embryo is a musical collective from Munich which has been active since 1969, although its story started in the mid-1950s in Hof where Christian Burchard and Dieter Serfas met for the first time at the age of 10.

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Enja Records

Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.

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Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist.

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Ethan Iverson

Ethan Iverson (born February 11, 1973) is a pianist, composer, and critic best known for his work in the avant-garde jazz trio The Bad Plus with bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King.

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Experimental rock

Experimental rock (or avant-rock) is a subgenre of rock music which pushes the boundaries of common composition and performance technique or which experiments with the basic elements of the genre.

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Feature film

A feature film is a film (also called a motion picture or movie) with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole film to fill a program.

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Freddie Waits

Frederick "Freddie" Douglas Waits (April 27, 1943 – November 18, 1989) was a hard bop and post-bop drummer.

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Free at Last (Mal Waldron album)

Free at Last is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1969 and released on the ECM label.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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G.I. Bill

The Serviceman's Readjustment Act of 1944, also known as the G.I. Bill, was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans (commonly referred to as G.I.s).

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Gene Ammons

Eugene "Jug" Ammons (April 14, 1925 – August 6, 1974), also known as "The Boss", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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George Who?

George Who? (French: George qui?) is a 1973 French biographical film directed by Michèle Rosier and starring Anne Wiazemsky, Alain Libolt and Denis Gunsbourg.

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Gigi Gryce

Gigi Gryce (born George General Grice Jr.; November 28, 1925 – March 14, 1983) was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator.

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Glossary of musical terminology

This is a list of musical terms that are likely to be encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.

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Hackensack, New Jersey

Hackensack is a city in Bergen County in New Jersey, United States, and serves as its county seat.

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Hard bop

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music.

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Haruki Kadokawa

is a Japanese publisher, film producer, director and screenwriter.

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Herbie Lewis

Herbie Lewis (February 17, 1941 – May 18, 2007) was an American hard bop double bassist.

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Horace Arnold

Horace Emmanuel Arnold, or Horacee Arnold (born September 25, 1937) is an American jazz drummer.

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Horace Silver

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.

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Idrees Sulieman

Idrees Sulieman (August 7, 1923 – July 23, 2002, both in St. Petersburg, Florida) was a bop and hard bop trumpeter.

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Ike Quebec

Ike Abrams Quebec (August 17, 1918 – January 16, 1963) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors

Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors is an album credited to The Prestige All Stars, consisting of John Coltrane, Bobby Jaspar, Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, Mal Waldron, Kenny Burrell, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor.

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Jackie McLean

John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''Down Beat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.

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Jamaica, Queens

Jamaica is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz standard

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners.

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Jeanne Lee

Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer.

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Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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John S. Wilson (music critic)

John Steuart Wilson (January 6, 1913 – August 27, 2002) was an American music critic and jazz radio host.

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Julian Euell

Julian Euell (born May 23, 1929) is an American jazz bassist.

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Karol Rathaus

Karol Rathaus (Karl Leonhard Bruno Rathaus; also Leonhard Bruno; * 16 September 1895 in Tarnopol (Galicia), Austro-Hungary, today Ukraine; † 21 November 1954 in Flushing/New York City) was a German-Austrian Jewish composer who emigrated to the USA via Berlin, Paris, and London, escaping the rise of Nazism in Germany.

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Kenny Burrell

Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label.

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Kenny Clarke

Kenneth Spearman Clarke (January 9, 1914January 26, 1985), nicknamed "Klook" and later known as Liaquat Ali Salaam, was a jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Long Island Rail Road

The Long Island Rail Road, legally known as the Long Island Rail Road Company and often abbreviated as the LIRR, is a commuter rail system in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of New York, stretching from Manhattan to the eastern tip of Suffolk County on Long Island.

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Lucky Millinder

Lucius Venable "Lucky" Millinder (August 8, 1910 – September 28, 1966) was an African American rhythm-and-blues and swing bandleader.

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Lucky Thompson

Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.

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Mal-1

Mal-1 is the debut album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron, recorded in 1956 and released on the Prestige label.

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Marcel Carné

Marcel Carné (18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director.

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Matthew Shipp

Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American pianist, composer, and bandleader.

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Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.

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Minimal music

Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.

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Minor scale

In music theory, the term minor scale refers to three scale formations – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending) – rather than just one as with the major scale.

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Modal jazz

Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.

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Music Minus One

Music Minus One (commonly abbreviated as MMO) is a music production and recording company in Westchester, New York.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nonchord tone

A nonchord tone (NCT), nonharmonic tone, or embellishing tone is a note (i.e., a pitch) in a piece of music or song that is not part of the implied or expressed chord set out by the harmonic framework.

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Phil Woods

Philip Wells "Phil" Woods (November 2, 1931 – September 29, 2015) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, bandleader, and composer.

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Pithecanthropus Erectus (album)

Pithecanthropus Erectus is a 1956 album by jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.

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Post-bop

Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid-1960s.

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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Queens College, City University of New York

Queens College (QC) is one of the four-year colleges in the City University of New York system.

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Ran Blake

Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist, composer, and educator.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Soul Eyes

"Soul Eyes" is a composition, with lyrics, written by Mal Waldron.

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St. Albans, Queens

St.

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Stanley Cowell

Stanley Cowell (born May 5, 1941) is an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label.

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Steve Lacy

Steve Lacy (July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004), born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York City, was a jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone.

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Sweet Love, Bitter (film)

Sweet Love, Bitter is a 1967 film based on the novel Night Song by John Alfred Williams.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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The Cool World (film)

The Cool World is a 1963 feature film directed by Shirley Clarke about African-American life in the Royal Pythons, a youth gang in Harlem.

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The Penguin Guide to Jazz

The Penguin Guide to Jazz is a reference work containing an encyclopedic directory of jazz recordings on CD which are currently available in Europe or the United States.

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The Sound of Jazz

"The Sound of Jazz" is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts and was one of the first major programs featuring jazz to air on American network television.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Three Rooms in Manhattan

Three Rooms in Manhattan (Trois chambres à Manhattan) is a black-and-white 1965 French drama film filmed in New York City.

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Time signature

The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are to be contained in each measure (bar) and which note value is equivalent to one beat.

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United States Military Academy

The United States Military Academy (USMA), also known as West Point, Army, Army West Point, The Academy or simply The Point, is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in West Point, New York, in Orange County.

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52nd Street (Manhattan)

52nd Street is a long one-way street traveling west to east across Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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References

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