Famous Jazz Musicians Still Alive

There were few professional musicians at the time and fewer still of their songs survive. James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American social activist playwright novelist poet and essayist.

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Famous jazz musicians still alive. One of the earliest is Ma Teodora supposed to be related to a freed slave Teodora Ginés of Santiago de Cuba who was famous for her compositions. It is known that at the start of the 2nd millennium Baltic tribes had special funeral traditions in which the deeds of the dead were narrated using recitation and ritual songs about war campaigns heroes and rulers also existed. Thousands visit the monument each year to pay their respects leave flowers light candles and even leave lipstick kiss marks though a glass barrier was erected to make the tomb kiss-proof in 2011.

First professional music was introduced to Lithuania with travelling monks in the 11th. He was associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement that swept across New York City during the 1920s. Hughes was also one of the pioneers of a form of poetry that came to be known as jazz poetry and is regarded as one of its earliest exponents.

Music was very important part of ancient Lithuanian polytheistic belief. The piece is said to be similar to 16th- 17th- and 18th-century Spanish popular songs and dances.

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