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Encyclopedia > Bobbi Humphrey

Bobbi Humphrey is a female jazz flautist whose music style cover fusion, jazz-funk and soul-jazz. She was raised in Dallas, TX and in university was urged by Dizzy Gillespie to persue her musical career in New York. In 1971 Bobbi Humphrey was the first woman to sign a record deal with Blue Note Records. She continued recording during the 1970s and 80s and later of founded her own record label, Paradise Sounds. The mirror of the Roman Goddess Venus is often used to represent the female sex. ... Jazz is an original American musical art form originating around the start of the 20th century in New Orleans, rooted in Western music technique and theory and marked by the profound cultural contributions of African Americans. ... A flautist demonstrates flute-playing technique A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays the flute. ... Fusion typically refers to the merging of two or more entities into a single one: In physics and technology nuclear fusion is the combination of two atomic nuclei into a single nucleus, usually the isotopes of hydrogen, Deuterium and Tritium. ... Jazz-funk was the British name for a musical genre used to denote a style of mostly American disco-ish jazz music, popular on the club-circuit of England in the mid 1970s. ... Soul jazz was a development of hard bop which incorporated strong blues and gospel influences in music for small groups featuring keyboards, especially the Hammond organ. ... Dallas redirects here. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... John Birks Dizzy Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was born in Cheraw, South Carolina. ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ... A legal agreement (commonly called a record deal) between a record label and a recording artist (or group), where the artist makes a record (or series of records) for the label to sell and promote. ... Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...


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