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102 relations: Afro-Cuban, Albert King, Alfred Lion, AllMusic, Analog synthesizer, ATA Airlines, Baba Brooks, Bandleader, Bass guitar, Battle Records (record label), Beat (music), Bebop, Bedtime Stories (Madonna album), Beer bottle, Bill Haley & His Comets, Bill Summers (musician), Billy Higgins, Blue Note Records, Blues, Boogaloo, Butch Warren, Byron Lee, Central Africa, Cha-cha-chá (music), Chameleon (composition), Chicago, Chick Corea, Clavinet, Cobblestone, Columbia University Press, Conclusion (music), Conga, David Benoit (musician), Dexter Gordon, Donald Byrd, Double album, DownBeat, Drum kit, Drummer, Ethnomusicology, Extended play, Flood (Herbie Hancock album), Freddie Hubbard, Funk, Gloria Lynne, Gospel music, Grammy Hall of Fame, Guitar, Hard bop, Head Hunters, ..., Herbie Hancock, Hook (music), Introduction (music), Jamaica, James Brown, Japan, Jazz fusion, Jazz standard, Jon Hendricks, Latin pop, Live Wire/Blues Power, LL Cool J, Local on the 8s, LP record, Madonna (entertainer), Manfred Mann, Mongo Santamaría, Nightclub, Orfeon Records, Organized Konfusion, Organized Konfusion (album), Ostinato, Oxford University Press, Pygmy music, Rhythm and blues, Rhythm section, Sampling (music), Schoolly D, Simha Arom, Simon & Schuster, Singer-songwriter, Single (music), Sixteen-bar blues, Ska, Sly Stone, Smoke Some Kill, Smooth jazz, Soul jazz, St. Martin's Press, Takin' Off, Tenor saxophone, The Bronx, The Five Faces of Manfred Mann, The J.B.'s, The One in the Middle, The Weather Channel, Timbales, Trill (music), Trumpet, Vocalese, Walking with a Panther, Watermelon. Expand index (52 more) »
Afro-Cuban
The term Afro-Cuban refers to Cubans who mostly have West African ancestry, and to historical or cultural elements in Cuba thought to emanate from this community.
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Albert King
Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American blues guitarist and singer whose playing influenced many other blues guitarists.
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Alfred Lion
Alfred Lion (born Alfred Loew, April 21, 1908 – February 2, 1987), was a Jewish German-born American record executive who co-founded Blue Note Records in 1939.
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AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.
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Analog synthesizer
An analog (or analogue) synthesizer is a synthesizer that uses analog circuits and analog signals to generate sound electronically.
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ATA Airlines
ATA Airlines, Inc. – formerly known as American Trans Air and commonly referred to as ATA – was an American low-cost scheduled service and charter airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Baba Brooks
Oswald "Baba" Brooks (born c.1935) was a trumpet player who played jazz in the 1950s with the Eric Dean orchestra and recorded during the 1960s original Jamaican ska era for producers Duke Reid, Sonia Pottinger and her husband Lindon, King Edwards, and Prince Buster.
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Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Battle Records (record label)
Battle Records was an American independent record label, founded as J.V.B. Records in Detroit, Michigan, United States, by the record shop owner Joe Von Battle in 1948.
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Beat (music)
In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the mensural level (or beat level).
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Bebop
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.
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Bedtime Stories (Madonna album)
Bedtime Stories is the sixth studio album by American singer Madonna.
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Beer bottle
A beer bottle is a bottle designed as a container for beer.
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Bill Haley & His Comets
Bill Haley & His Comets were an American rock and roll band, founded in 1952 and continued until Haley's death in 1981.
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Bill Summers (musician)
Bill Summers (b. June 27, 1948) is a New Orleans based Afro-Cuban jazz/Latin jazz percussionist, a multi-instrumentalist who plays primarily on conga drums.
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Billy Higgins
Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer.
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Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Boogaloo
Boogaloo or bugalú (also: shing-a-ling, Latin boogaloo, Latin R&B) is a genre of Latin music and dance which was popular in the United States in the 1960s.
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Butch Warren
Edward Rudolph "Butch" Warren Jr. (August 9, 1939 – October 5, 2013) was an American jazz bassist who was active during the 1950s and '60s.
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Byron Lee
Byron Lee, OJ, CD,, Jamaica Gleaner, 27 October 2008.
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Central Africa
Central Africa is the core region of the African continent which includes Burundi, the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Rwanda.
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Cha-cha-chá (music)
Cha-cha-chá is a genre of Cuban music.
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Chameleon (composition)
"Chameleon" is a 1974 jazz standard composed by Herbie Hancock in collaboration with Bennie Maupin, Paul Jackson and Harvey Mason, all of whom also performed the original 15'44" version on the 1973 landmark album Head Hunters featuring solos by Hancock and Maupin.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (born June 12, 1941) is an American jazz pianist/electric keyboardist and composer.
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Clavinet
The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord that was invented by Ernst Zacharias and manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen, West Germany from 1964 to the early 1980s.
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Cobblestone
Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.
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Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.
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Conclusion (music)
In music, the conclusion is the ending of a composition and may take the form of a coda or outro.
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Conga
The conga, also known as tumbadora, is a tall, narrow, single-headed drum from Cuba.
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David Benoit (musician)
David Bryan Benoit (born August 18, 1953) is an American jazz pianist, composer and producer from Los Angeles, California.
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Dexter Gordon
Dexter Gordon (February 27, 1923 – April 25, 1990) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Donald Byrd
Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter.
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Double album
A double album (or double record) is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact disc.
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DownBeat
DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.
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Drum kit
A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.
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Drummer
A drummer is a percussionist who creates and accompanies music using drums.
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Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.
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Extended play
An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.
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Flood (Herbie Hancock album)
Flood is the sixteenth and second live album by Herbie Hancock.
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Freddie Hubbard
Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter.
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Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).
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Gloria Lynne
Gloria Lynne (born Gloria Wilson; November 23, 1929 – October 15, 2013), also known as Gloria Alleyne, was an American jazz vocalist with a recording career spanning from 1958 to 2007.
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Gospel music
Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.
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Grammy Hall of Fame
The Grammy Hall of Fame is a hall of fame to honor musical recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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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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Head Hunters
Head Hunters is the twelfth studio album by the American pianist and composer Herbie Hancock, released October 13, 1973, on Columbia Records.
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Herbie Hancock
Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.
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Hook (music)
A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener".
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Introduction (music)
In music, the introduction is a passage or section which opens a movement or a separate piece, preceding the theme or lyrics.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea.
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James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Jazz fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.
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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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Jon Hendricks
John Carl Hendricks (September 16, 1921 – November 22, 2017), known professionally as Jon Hendricks, was an American jazz lyricist and singer.
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Latin pop
Latin pop (Spanish and Portuguese: Pop latino) refers to pop music that contains sounds or influence from Latin America, but it can also mean pop music from anywhere in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Live Wire/Blues Power
Live Wire/Blues Power is a blues album by Albert King, recorded live in June 1968 at the Fillmore Auditorium.
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LL Cool J
James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968), known professionally as LL Cool J (short for Ladies Love Cool James), is an American rapper, actor, author and entrepreneur from Queens, New York.
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Local on the 8s
Local on the 8s (or the Local Forecast) is a program segment that airs on the American cable and satellite television network The Weather Channel.
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LP record
The LP (from "long playing" or "long play") is an analog sound storage medium, a vinyl record format characterized by a speed of rpm, a 12- or 10-inch (30 or 25 cm) diameter, and use of the "microgroove" groove specification.
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Madonna (entertainer)
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and businesswoman.
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Manfred Mann
Manfred Mann were an English rock band, formed in London in 1962.
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Mongo Santamaría
Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría Rodríguez (April 7, 1917 – February 1, 2003) was a rumba quinto master and an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist.
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Nightclub
A nightclub, music club or club, is an entertainment venue and bar that usually operates late into the night.
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Orfeon Records
Orfeon Records was a Turkish producer of phonographs and gramophone records.
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Organized Konfusion
Organized Konfusion (OK) is an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York.
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Organized Konfusion (album)
Organized Konfusion is the eponymous debut album by Queens Hip Hop duo Organized Konfusion.
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Ostinato
In music, an ostinato (derived from Italian: stubborn, compare English, from Latin: 'obstinate') is a motif or phrase that persistently repeats in the same musical voice, frequently at the same pitch.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.
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Pygmy music
Pygmy music refers to the sub-Saharan African music traditions of the Central African foragers (or "Pygmies"), predominantly in the Congo, the Central African Republic and Cameroon.
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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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Rhythm section
A rhythm section (also called a backup band) is a group of musicians within a music ensemble or band who provide the underlying rhythm, harmony and pulse of the accompaniment, providing a rhythmic and harmonic reference and "beat" for the rest of the band.
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Sampling (music)
In music, sampling is the act of taking a portion, or sample, of one sound recording and reusing it as an instrument or a sound recording in a different song or piece.
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Schoolly D
Jesse Bonds Weaver, Jr. (born June 22, 1962), better known by the stage name Schoolly D (sometimes spelled Schooly D), is an American rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Simha Arom
Simha Arom (born 1930) is a French-Israeli ethnomusicologist who is recognized as a world expert on the music of central Africa, especially that of the Central African Republic.
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Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.
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Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.
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Single (music)
In music, a single, record single or music single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record.
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Sixteen-bar blues
The sixteen-bar blues can be a variation on the standard twelve-bar blues or on the less common eight-bar blues.
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Ska
Ska is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae.
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Sly Stone
Sly Stone (born Sylvester Stewart, March 15, 1943, Denton, Texas) is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, most famous for his role as frontman for Sly and the Family Stone, a band that played a critical role in the development of soul, funk, rock, and psychedelia in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Smoke Some Kill
Smoke Some Kill is the third album by rapper Schoolly D. The album was released in 1988 for Jive Records and was produced by Schoolly D.
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Smooth jazz
Smooth jazz is music that evolved from a blend of jazz fusion and easy listening pop music, featuring a polished pop feel with little to no jazz improvisation.
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Soul jazz
Soul jazz is a development of jazz incorporating strong influences from blues, soul, gospel and rhythm and blues in music for small groups, often an organ trio featuring a Hammond organ.
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St. Martin's Press
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Takin' Off
Takin' Off is the debut album of jazz pianist Herbie Hancock originally released in 1962 for the Blue Note label as BST 84109.
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Tenor saxophone
The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.
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The Bronx
The Bronx is the northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City, in the U.S. state of New York.
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The Five Faces of Manfred Mann
The Five Faces of Manfred Mann is the debut British and second US album by Manfred Mann.
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The J.B.'s
The J.B.'s (sometimes punctuated The JB's or The J.B.s) was the name of James Brown's band from 1970 through the early 1980s.
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The One in the Middle
The One in the Middle is an EP by Manfred Mann, released in 1965.
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The Weather Channel
The Weather Channel is an American basic cable and satellite television channel, owned by Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.
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Timbales
Timbales or pailas are shallow single-headed drums with metal casing.
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Trill (music)
The trill (or shake, as it was known from the 16th until the 19th century) is a musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes, usually a semitone or tone apart, which can be identified with the context of the trill.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Vocalese
Vocalese is a style or musical genre of jazz singing wherein words are sung note for note to melodies that were originally created by a soloist's improvisation.
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Walking with a Panther
Walking with a Panther is the third studio album by American hip-hop artist LL Cool J, released June 9, 1989, on Def Jam Recordings.
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Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus is a plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from Africa.
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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_Man_(composition)
