Essays Tagged: "Columbia Records"

Report on New Orleans Jazz Band.

u hear live Jazzy-funk music so sweet and hot, you just gotta shout something. The word is: DAG!' - Columbia RecordsThere is only one place on earth where I though I could go to experience the true me ... ing Blues/Jazz/Rock band has been touted as New Orleans newest small success story. With a label on Columbia Records and an album entitled Righteous, Dag is certainly a force in the Jazz industry. The ...

(5 pages) 115 0 4.4 Apr/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

BESSIE SMITH

. However, each time the talent scouts would say that her voice was "too rough" to record. Finally, Columbia Records' Frank Walter signed Smith to a recording contract and set her up in a studio on Fe ... , and her heavy drinking. She had started drinking as a teen and drank more heavily as time passed. Columbia dropped her from its roster in 1931. Her last recorded song, "Gimme a Pigfoot," was under t ...

(4 pages) 41 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History

50 cent

't much JMJ could do for 50.The platinum hitmakers Trackmasters took notice of 50 and signed him to Columbia Records in 1999. They shipped 50 to Upstate NY where they locked him up in the studio for 2 ... face, in front of his grandmothers house in Queens. He spent the next few months in recovery while Columbia Records dropped him from the label. 50 didn't fold, he flew. Right into the zone. He banged ...

(4 pages) 54 2 3.9 Nov/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

50 Cent

ing Jam Master Jay, 50 Cent began working with hip-hop producers the Track Masters. While signed to Columbia Records, his career took off after the release of the successful, but controversial single ... sponded with "Be a Gentleman." The track was never heard by many due to the rapper's departure from Columbia Records.50 Cent began to speak negatively about Bad Boy Entertainment mogul Sean "Diddy" Co ...

(9 pages) 43 2 4.5 Sep/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Independent Music Vs Mainstream Pop

ters and clothing. The huge market for pop music has caused many companies, such as Virgin Records, Columbia Records, Warner Brothers Music, and Atlantic Records to name a few, to spend millions of do ...

(7 pages) 22 0 3.0 Nov/2001

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

History of Rock: Aerosmith

smith fan.Aerosmith is a very popular band which has had its ups and downs since “signing with Columbia Records in 1972” (HISTORY). “Known for their aggressive blues-based style, Aerosm ... e, Big Ones, continuing Aerosmith's run at the top. Box of Fire, a 12-CD compilation of Aerosmith's Columbia output, went gold in early 1995” (Everything).Just as the group had experienced almost ...

(5 pages) 18 1 5.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Beauty and Ugliness

edKnowles, Beyoncé. Perfection is a disease of a nation. "Pretty Hurts." Beyoncé. CD. Columbia Records. 2013. A-Z Lyrics. 07 Oct. 2014 http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/beyonceknowles/prett ...

(4 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

bob dylan

(3 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Design Arts