Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. It is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art within a recognised or recognisable discipline.
The term is also used to denote highly skilled people in non-"arts" activities, as well — crafts, medicine, alchemy, mechanics, mathematics, defense (martial arts) and architecture, for example. The designation is applied to illegal activities, like a "scam artist". The term 'artist' could also refer to a con artist.
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Banjo Buddies Dixieland Band - Chicago based band. Includes profile and sound samples.
Barbary Coast Dixieland Band - Band's history, photo album, CD information and articles.
Bill Allred's Classic Jazz Band - Intricately arranged band and associated record company run by father and son trombonists based in Orlando, Florida. Concert and recording reviews, history, photos, sales of CDs by label artists such as the Bee Line Horns and the Wild Bill Davis Legacy.
Meta Description: [ Specialty jazz record company CD catalogue of the Bill Allred Classic Jazz Band, Bee Line Horns, Wild Bill Davison Legacy, the Star Spangled Washboard Band and the New 8th Army Air Corp Orchestra and USO Show ]
Bob Crosby Bob Cats - Musicians associated with the band until the leader's death in 1993, now led by drummer Ed Metz. Performance schedule, personnel lists then and now.
Buffalo Ridge Jazz Band - Traditional sextet with tuba and banjo, based in Cincinnati, Ohio and performing at festivals across the US and abroad. Performance schedule, CD ordering.
Cox, Norrie - Clarinetist preserving authentic New Orleans jazz tradition with groups such as the Riverboat Ramblers and with the teenaged Cresent City Stompers. Recordings, photos, links.
Meta Description: [ Norrie Cox - Traditional New Orleans Jazz, a website dedicated to the preservation of American music. ]
Grovelanders Jazz Band - Australian group. Includes profiles, discography with audio samples, and photo gallery.
Meta Description: [ An Australian dixieland jazz band. Site includes a number of sound samples plus a biography on each band member. ]
Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz - Based in Atlanta, Georgia. Includes discography, audio samples, CD ordering, and performance schedule.
Meta Description: [ Don Erdman's hotlantajazz.com is the home of Hotlanta Dixieland Jazz, one of the world's favorite traditional jazz bands, and Hotlanta Swings, an Atlanta band of swinging hepsters. ]
Jazz Rascals - Trio playing for South Florida clubs events. Photos, sound clips, gig schedule and booking information.
Meta Description: [ The Jazz Rascals - DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND, book this lively, entertaining Jazz Band and get Rascalized....Now!! ]
La Vella Dixieland - Based in Barcelona, Spain. Includes schedule, discography, audio samples, and links. [English/Spanish/Catalan]
Meta Description: [ official web of la vella dixieland a well known jazz band from barcelona spain, official web of la vella dixieland a well known jazz band from barcelona spain ]
Old Green River Band - Martin Bennett's UK band plays New Orleans style. Gig schedule, photos, history.
Meta Description: [ Martin Bennett`s Old Green River Band ]
Oliver, King - DownBeat section on the legendary New Orleans cornetist, includes a biography, photo, and discography.
Ouse Valley Jazz Band - UK-based group featuring vocalist Angela. Photos, gig schedule, history.
Meta Description: [ Ouse Valley Jazz Band ]
Red Garter Band - A Detroit, Michigan tradition since its founding by Doug Jacobs in the 1960s, long-time house band for the Jerry Lewis telethon, available for parties, conventions, corporate and social events. Photos, press reviews, testimonials.
Meta Description: [ The Dixieland jazz & Roaring 20's music of The Red Garter Band in Detroit Michigan, is fun entertainment for families and groups of all ages for parties, political, corporate, or promotional events ]
Second Line Jazz Band - Traditional band established in 1989 in Gothenberg, Sweden. Gig schedule including dates across Scandinavia and in the UK, press reviews in Swedish and English, shopping for half a dozen CDs.
Stevedores Jazz Band - Banjo-based band in Perth, a member of the Jazz Club of Western Australia, available for weddings and parties. Musician profiles and photos, schedule of public performances.
Meta Description: [ One of Perth's leading best loved jazz bands. The band is comprised of six mature musicians who are of sober habits. Weddings. Private functions. Cabarets. Birthday parties. Other social occasions. ]
Stone Bridge Dixieland - Belgium based band. Photographs, audio samples, and links.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of the Stone Bridge Dixieland ]
Swamp Dog Jazz Band - Band of jazz educators from the University of North Florida featuring trumpeter J. B. Scott and clarinetist Bill Prince. Biographies, photos and repertoire list.
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The Leningrad Dixieland Jazz Band - Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, founded in the late 1950s. Includes history, biography, schedule of past and upcoming tours, full audio samples, and articles.
Meta Description: [ Official web-site of the Leningrad Dixieland Jazz Band - the world-famous jazz orchestra from Saint-Petersnurg, Russia - music, articles, and more. ]
World's Greatest Jazz Band - Brief history and CD shopping links with cover art, personnel, track lists and audio for band founded by trumpeter Yank Lawson and bassist Bob Haggart in 1968.
Meta Description: [ Welcome to Jazz by Mail OnLine music store specializing in Classic Jazz and Ragtime. A great place to shop for music dedicated to Traditional Jazz, Ragtime and Dixieland CDs and MP3 downloads of rare and popular recordings. ]
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