Articles by Troy Hoffman
Jazz Fest Deemed A Success (Three Years In A Row): A Look Back At The Virginia Beach Jazz Festival 1959-1961
by Troy Hoffman
They say that music is the “great communicator," and if so then jazz is the most fluent. Just a few miles away from the famous jazz club, The Jolly Roger, in Virginia Beach, the Robert E. Lee Amphitheater was newly built to seat 2,000 and was the location of the area's first Virginia Beach Jazz Festival on August 30, 1959. Leading up to opening day, promoters had multiple concerns for the concert's success, both financial and social. With a lot ...
read moreFrom Showboat-to-Samba: Transculturation of Brazilian Music in America
by Troy Hoffman
By 1957, jazz music was fully stretching out and the bossa nova movement was one of the many impacts. American artists of all types had been expanding their knowledge of international cultures for quite some time, specifically Latin countries and the musical rhythms driving them--one of the earliest being Cuban culture, which began popularizing in the U.S. during the 1920s--fully transcending into all realms of American art by the 1950s. Music from Brazil was beginning to popularize as well, due ...
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