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Harlem
Coordinates: 40°48′32.52″N 73°56′54.14″W / 40.8090333°N 73.9483722°W
Harlem is a large neighborhood in the northern section of the New York City borough of Manhattan. Since the 1920s, Harlem has been known as a major African-American residential, cultural and business center. Originally a Dutch village, formally organized in 1658, it is named after the city of Haarlem in the Netherlands. Harlem's history has been defined by a series of economic boom-and-bust cycles, with significant population shifts accompanying each cycle.
African-American residents began to arrive en masse in 1905, with numbers fed by the Great Migration. In the 1920s and 1930s, Central and West Harlem were the focus of the "Harlem Renaissance", an outpouring of artistic work without precedent in the American black community. However, with job losses in the time of the Great Depression and the deindustrialization of New York City after World War II, rates of crime and poverty increased significantly. Harlem's black population peaked in the 1950s. In 2008, the United States Census found that for the first time since the 1930s, less than half of residents were black, and black residents only counted for 40% of the population.
Harlem (Ellington)
Harlem is a symphonic jazz composition by the American composer Duke Ellington.
Originally commissioned by Arturo Toscanini in 1950 to be part of a larger New York-inspired orchestral suite, Toscanini never conducted it. Ellington himself first recorded it in 1951 (as "A Tone Parallel to Harlem (Harlem Suite)" in his Ellington Uptown album), and it was given its live premiere in 1955 at Carnegie Hall by Don Gillis and the Symphony of the Air.
The piece lasts for around fifteen minutes and exists in Ellington's large jazz orchestra version as well as a full symphonic version orchestrated by Luther Henderson. Both versions begin with a distinctive trumpet solo which intones the word 'Harlem'.
In his own memoirs Ellington wrote:
Ellington re-recorded it in Paris in 1963 (on The Symphonic Ellington album). It has since been recorded by several ensembles and conductors including Maurice Peress (in his own orchestration) with the American Composers Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and John Mauceri with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Mauceri also produced a new edition of the full symphonic score. In 2012, it was recorded by JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra in the Peress orchestration.
Harlem (band)
Harlem is an American garage rock band comprising vocalist/guitarist/drummer Michael Coomers, vocalist/guitarist/drummer Curtis O'Mara and bassist Jose Boyer, formerly of Chapel Hill-based The Gondoliers and The Kashmir.
History
Harlem started in Tucson, AZ before relocating to Austin where they generated a mountain of attention, both with their live shows and their self-issued 2008 album Free Drugs ;-), mastered by Nathan Sabatino at Loveland Recording Studios.
Matador signed the Austin, Texas trio to a multi-record, worldwide deal. Harlem recorded their 2nd album in the summer of 2009.Hippies, was released on April 6, 2010. It was recorded by Mike McHugh at "The Distillery" in Costa Mesa, California. As of April 2012, the band is on an indefinite hiatus as all members are busy with other projects.
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- Ten Harlem released: 2004
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- Hippies released: 2010
- Free Drugs ;-) released: 2009
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by: Ian MooreRiding through Harlem
In my bulletproof car
Inside a glass shell you say
Keeps us from harm
My music's playing loudly
And people gather ?round
They wonder what we're doing
In their part of town
I try to reach out, reach out
And touch my brother's hand
Walls are too thick, Lord
It just makes him mad
Everybody's yelling
There must be something wrong
If we just listen closer
We might just get along
Wake me from my sleep now
Take me from my dream
Don't leave me here in Harlem
You made the streets so mean
This ain't no revolution
This ain't no civil war
Riding through Harlem
In my bulletproof car
An? how the signal's changing
They change from green to red
I see a confrontation
It's lying dead ahead
It all seems so familiar
Part of an endless scene
You find it so peculiar
When you're the one in need
Now you're talking, saying
Now it's me verses him
Well, I don't pick the sides
And I don't wanna win
So don't call my number
And ask to fall in line
When you don't have solutions
You've run out of time
Wake me from my sleep now
Take me from my dream
I?ll take you down to Harlem
You?ll see just what I mean
This ain't no revolution
This ain't no civil war
Riding through Harlem
In my bulletproof car
Wake me from my sleep now
Take me from my dream
Don't leave me here in Harlem
You made the streets so mean
This ain't no revolution
This ain't no civil war
Riding through Harlem
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Riding through in a bulletproof car
Wake me from my sleep now
Take me from my dream
I?ll take you down to Harlem
You?ll see just what I mean
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This ain't no civil war
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