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(90) 场景(上)历史 第四篇(音乐jazz)---$$$半$ ]5 f3 w3 g- h5 e4 s/ g6 u
To continue our study of jazz, today we will focus on the blues and listen to some recordings by Bessie Smith who is considered by many to be the greatest of all jazz singers. The blues developed in the southern United States from the music of black people who were brought from Africa and forced to work as slaves on southern (plantations移民,殖民).3 x, f5 W! p" p U- \
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and field howlers that was musical form of communication among slaves. The name "blues" comes from the (loneliness) and sorrow typically expressed in the song (lyrics). The blues started out as (strictly vocal) but over time musicians began to accompany blues singers. Jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Francis Andersen accompanied Bessie Smith in her recordings. The example of blues we will hear today is the reissue of some of (Bessie Smith's classical) recordings. These songs are from the late 1920's when she was at the peak of her career. It's no wonder she was known as the emperor of the blues. She made 160 recordings and was also a sort after live performer in New York, Boston, and Chicago as well as the larger cities in the south. Know her rich powerful contract her voice, in fact, in live performances she refused to use microphone. Bessie Smith's songs typified the earthiness and realism of the blues.
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(91) 场景(上)历史 第五篇(音乐)---$$
3 S7 Y, h0 [( a, Z2 |Good morning, today we’re going to learn a little more about that great musical tradition called “the blues.” And in just a minute, we’ll get to hear the voice of a great blues performer, one of mile time famous singers and that’s Bessie Smith. First of all, let me tell you a little about her, Bessie Smith grew up in the south in <Tennessee田纳西州>, and while she was still a teenager, she started (touring the country with other black) performers, and making a name for herself. By 1923, she was making records for a major recording studio and selling hundreds of thousands of copies, and soon, she was singing at sold-out performances at theaters in city after city with huge (overflow) crowds outside, often filling with the street and blocking the traffic. It was really something. A couple of years later, she and the (Great Louis Armstrong) made an unforgettable recording of (the St. Louis Blues). And a few years after that, St. Louis blues was also the name of Bessie Smith’s only movie, one of the very early talking pictures. Try to see it some time if you can. From then, up until her death, Bessie Smith kept on writing and recording songs and singing the blues in concerts all over the country, all together she made 160 records. We are going to play one of them now and as we do, please listen to the (passion) of that wonderful deep voice of hers. I think you’ll be able to understand why Louis Armstrong said Bessie Smith: she had music in her soul.
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