Today in American culture class we discussed a unique form of America music: Jazz.

     Especially we talk about:

    

     Norah Jones.

She was able to attend good school and colleges; she became very successful and famous.

Her parents are very important musician and a dancer.

Norah Jones’s first album call “Come away with me” she has performed concerts in cities all over the world.

     Jones took piano lessons as a child and studied jazz piano at the University of North Texas.  She has a very little formal training as a singer and learned her way if singing from listening to musicians.

     Her music performance style and abilities are very similar with the other famous singer Billie Holiday.  Jones also sings some faster pop songs and is a good songwriter.  

Billie Holiday

     Was born in 1915 and had a very difficult life, she was very poor until she became a successful singer.

She had many hit records, performed concerts at famous venues like Carnegie Hall in New York.

     She had no musical training; she learned from musicians around her and invented her own unique style of singing.

She just sang jazz songs, also was a songwriters.

Holyday’s voice is very unusual and beautiful, which is why she is known as one of the best jazz singers ever.