Music chapter
The Classical Jazz Quartet is a jazz quartet established in the 2000s. It consists of mainstream jazz performers playing jazz interpretations of classical music repertoire.
Bob Belden has written arrangements for the group.
The Modern Jazz Quartet was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played a style of jazz influenced by classical music, cool jazz, blues and bebop.[1] The band performed over a forty-year span with only one personnel change.[2] Under John Lewis's leadership they carved their own niche by specializing in elegant, restrained music that used sophisticated counterpoint yet nonetheless retained a strong blues feel. John Lewis firmly believed that J.S. Bach and the blues were compatible, combining classical form with jazz improvisation and polyphony.[2] The band was also noted for its ability to play alongside a variety of other groups.[3] For the majority of their career the group comprised John Lewis (piano and musical director), Milt Jackson (vibraphone), Percy Heath (double bass) and Connie Kay (drums).[4] Initially active into the 1970s, until Jackson quit due to creative disagreement and frustration with their busy touring schedule, the MJQ reformed intermittently into the 1990s.[1] They had four members
Fashion Nugget is the second studio album by Cake, an alternative rock band from Sacramento, California. It was released in 1996, and contains 14 songs. "The Distance" became one of the band's biggest hits. On December 9, 1996, the album was certified gold by the RIAA, and the next year, the album was certified platinum for shipments of one million copies.[4]. They have a song "friend is a four letter word"
"Girlfriend in a Coma" is a song by The Smiths. It was released as a single in August 1987, reaching No. 13 in the UK Singles Chart.
The track was the first of three UK singles from the band's last studio album Strangeways, Here We Come. As such, it was the last single to include newly recorded material on the B-side. It holds the distinction of containing the last recorded Smiths song, "I Keep Mine Hidden". Also included—and recorded at the same session—is a cover version of a Cilla Black song, "Work Is a Four-Letter Word".
Cheap Trick's 1982 album One On One finishes with a song titled "Four Letter Word".
The fact that love is a word with four letters has been used in several popular songs, including "Love Is Just a Four-Letter Word" written by Bob Dylan and performed by Joan Baez, "Four Letter Word" written by Ricki and Marty Wilde and performed by Kim Wilde, "4 Letter Word" written by Claude Kelly and Matt Squire and performed by David Cook.
A television show called Love Is a Four-letter Word was produced by ABC in Australia.[3]
The Cardigans in their song "For what is worth", use the "four letter word" expression several times.
The band Cake made a play on words in their song "Friend Is a Four Letter Word."
In a song sung by Cilla Black and covered by The Smiths, "Work Is a Four-letter Word," this phrase is used to describe work as obscene.
Work Is a Four-Letter Word is the title of a 1968 British comedy film.
That Four-Letter Word is a 2006 independent film from India.
Welsh punk band Four Letter Word, formed in 1991, named themselves after the phrase.
Jack Ingram's song "Love You", uses love as a play on another four letter word: "Yeah, I'm sick an' lovin' tired of all your lovin' around".
Metallica uses the line "Love is a four-letter word" in the song "The Day That Never Comes" from their album Death Magnetic.
A Four Letter Word is also the title of a 2007 gay-themed movie starring Jesse Archer and Charlie David.
R&B singer Raheem DeVaughan used the "love" meaning in his song "Four Letter Word" on his 2008 album Love Behind The Melody.
"Four Letter Word" is also the title of a 2003 song by Def Leppard.
American punk-rock band Gossip released a track entitled 'Four Letter Word' on their 2009 album Music For Men.
The 2007 Cold in California album by Ingram Hill includes a track entitled 'Four Letter Word.'
The opening track of Beady Eye's 2011 album Different Gear, Still Speeding is entitled 'Four Letter Word.'
Echobelly on their album On (Echobelly album) included a song named: 'Four Letter Word.'
Love Is a Four Letter Word, 2012, Jason Mraz
Chocolate Starfish have a track called 'Four Letter Word' on their eponymous album.
The song "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic features the line "hope is a four-letter word"
The song "Irresistible" by Fall Out Boy features the line 'You know I give my lover a four letter name'
The band Shock Therapy sang a song 'Hate is just a four letter word'
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