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A Jazz Take On Beyonce, Coldplay, Bruno Mars, Rihanna and other Contemporary Pop Artists (Take 2) at Nationalmuseet

Courtesy of JazzDanmark | Posted on July 13, 2019

Where

Nationalmuseet
Ny Vestergade 10
Copenhagen
Map
3313 4411

When

Mon, November 26, 2018
03:00

About

A JAZZ TAKE ON BEYONCE, COLDPLAY, BRUNO MARS, RIHANNA AND OTHER CONTEMPORARY POP ARTISTS (SECOND EDITION)

The songs known as "Jazz Standards" are for the most part just pop songs from the 1930s and 1940s that jazz artists started to make their own versions of. Icons like Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane and numerous others created their own jazz renditions of the most famous pop songs of their time, in order to offer audiences a radically different perspective on extremely familiar songs. And their jazz renditions ended up outliving the original versions by far and have been played and recorded endlessly by thousands of new jazz artists in the decades that followed. As a result, these songs are now widely identified as the classic jazz repertoire. ...

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