A cutting contest is a type of musical battle that was traditionally held between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser...

technique The act of competing in or winning a cutting contest, a type of musical battle Cutting in line, the act of entering a queue at any position other...

from Big Bill Broonzy's autobiography, Big Bill Blues, recounts a cutting contest between Minnie and Broonzy in a Chicago nightclub on June 26, 1933...

"skimming" measures the distance traveled. In Japan, mizu kiri lit. 'water cutting' contests incorporate both skimming and skipping measures, as well as a throw's...

Oliver's Creole Jazz Band [als; fr]. Armstrong earned a reputation at "cutting contests", and his fame reached band leader Fletcher Henderson. Armstrong moved...

and added a cutting horse exhibition in 1919, held in connection with the rodeo. With the growth of cutting horse contests, a group of cutting horse owners...

Belle Joplin Eubie Blake as Will Williams, the judge of the piano cutting contest on August 18, 1899 Godfrey Cambridge as Tom Turpin (posthumous appearance)...

meaning 'rent party'. Rent parties were often the location of so-called cutting contests, which involves jazz pianists taking turns at the piano, attempting...

The Eurovision Song Contest (French: Concours Eurovision de la chanson), often known simply as Eurovision, is an international song competition organised...

cutting contest at Morgan's bar in Harlem with the established stride piano masters – Johnson, Waller, and Willie "The Lion" Smith. Standard contest pieces...