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It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line Duke Ellington
There’s not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record. Branford Marsalis
The words to country songs are very earthy like the blues. They’re not as dressed up and the people are very honest and say, ‘Look, I miss you darlin’, so I went out and got drunk in this bar.’ That’s the way you say it. Where in Tin Pan Alley they would say, ‘Oh I … Read more
In the, uh, ’30s and ’40s, the Brill Building was the hub of, uh, musical activity in Tin Pan Alley in New York City. I believe Irving Berlin was there, and uh, and everything just centered around there. Al Kooper