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34-478: Liliput may refer to: LiLiPUT , a Swiss band Liliput pistol , a tiny 4.25 mm pistol or its 4.25mm Liliput cartridge Prater Liliputbahn , a 381 mm gauge railway in the park Prater in Vienna See also [ edit ] Lilliput (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

68-439: A cover charge if a live band is playing. Some jazz clubs host " jam sessions " after hours or on early evenings of the week. At jam sessions, both professional musicians and amateurs will typically share the stage. In the 19th century, before the birth of jazz, popular forms of live music for most well-to-do white Americans included classical concert music, such as concerti and symphonies , music played at performances, such as

102-485: A jazz club , and worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature . Schiff has devoted her time to painting. In 1993, Swiss label Off Course Records released Kleenex/LiLiPUT , a double-disc CD compilation of the band's recordings from 1978 to 1983. Marder was closely involved in coordinating the compilation, which includes tracks sourced from tapes in her possession, while Schiff designed its cover art. The compilation

136-470: A string section . Large rooms were also more common in the Swing era, because at that time, jazz was popular as a dance music , so the dancers needed space to move. With the transition to 1940s-era styles like Bebop and later styles such as soul jazz , small combos of musicians such as quartets and trios were mostly used, and the music became more of a music to listen to, rather than a form of dance music. As

170-477: A compilation of the band's early material, in 2016. LiLiPUT's exuberant sound combined spirited thrashy punk with unconventional vocals and lyrics, both in English and German. Their music featured husky or squealing vocals, ramshackle drums, scratchy and twanging guitar, thick funky bass, saxophone and occasionally flute, violin, or other instruments. The cut-up surreality of their lyrics and energetic sound put them in

204-542: A culture based around informal music performances, such as brass band performances at funerals, music sung in church and music played for families eating picnics in parks. African-American culture developed communal activities for informal sharing, such as Saturday night fish fries, Sunday camping along the shores of Lake Pontchartrain at Milneburg and Bucktown, making red beans and rice banquettes on Mondays, and holding nightly dances at neighborhood halls all over town. This long and deep commitment to music and dance, along with

238-495: A league with bands like The Raincoats (frequent tour partners), Delta 5 , The Slits , Essential Logic and Bush Tetras . The band's sound developed throughout their career, due in part to line-up changes; the earlier recordings are more noisy and energetic, while the later songs are more complex and haunting. Kurt Cobain of Nirvana reserved one spot for "anything by Kleenex" on his list of his 50 favourite albums. As Kleenex As LiLiPUT Jazz club A jazz club

272-508: A result, smaller clubs with small stages became practical. In the 2000s, jazz clubs may be found in the basements of larger residential buildings , in storefront locations or in the upper floors of retail businesses. They can be rather small compared to other music venues, such as rock music clubs, reflecting the intimate atmosphere of jazz shows and long-term decline in popular interest in jazz. Despite being called " clubs ", these venues are usually not exclusive. Some clubs, however, have

306-537: A second album, Schiff and Marder, exhausted from touring, expressed their desire to end the band. Spirit offered to take on managerial duties in LiLiPUT in order to ease her tired bandmates' workload. The trio ultimately recorded a second album, Some Songs , which was released in December 1983. By the time of its release, however, LiLiPUT had agreed to split up, as Spirit's pregnancy and desire to focus on motherhood meant that

340-410: A steadier "funk" style groove, which was different from the swing rhythms typical of much hard bop. Soul Jazz proved to be a boon to Jazz clubs, because since organ trios were based around the powerful Hammond organ , a three-piece organ trio could fill a nightclub with the same full sound that in previous years would have required a five- or six-piece band. The 1980s saw something of a reaction against

374-402: Is a venue where the primary entertainment is the performance of live jazz music, although some jazz clubs primarily focus on the study and/or promotion of jazz-music. Jazz clubs are usually a type of nightclub or bar, which is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages. Jazz clubs were in large rooms in the eras of Orchestral jazz and big band jazz , when bands were large and often augmented by

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408-568: Is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre , which originated in African-American communities of primarily the " Deep South " of the United States at the end of the 19th century from their spirituals , work songs , field hollers , shouts and chants and rhymed simple narrative ballads . The music of New Orleans had a profound effect on the creation of early jazz. Many early jazz performers played in venues throughout

442-451: The Jazz Age were keen on the sound of jazz music, and especially of jazz clubs. By the advent of the 20th century, campaigns to censor the "devil's music" started to appear, prohibiting when and where jazz clubs could be built. For example, a Cincinnati home for expectant mothers won an injunction to prevent construction of a neighboring theater where jazz will be played, convincing a court that

476-413: The opera and the ballet , and ballroom music. For these people, going out was a formal occasion, and the music was treated as something to listen to (if at the symphony or the opera house), or dance reservedly to (if at a ball). During the same century, African-American communities were marginalized from an economic perspective. But despite this lack of material wealth, they had thriving community and

510-501: The 1930s heyday of the Cotton Club . Soul Jazz was a development of hard bop which incorporated strong influences from blues , gospel and rhythm and blues to create music for small groups, often the organ trio of Hammond organ , drummer and tenor saxophonist. Unlike hard bop , soul Jazz generally emphasized repetitive grooves and melodic hooks, and improvisations were often less complex than in other Jazz styles. It often had

544-541: The Caribbean. African-based rhythmic patterns were retained in the United States in large part through "body rhythms" such as stomping, clapping, and patting juba . In the post-Civil War period (after 1865), African Americans were able to obtain surplus military bass drums, snare drums and fifes, and an original African-American drum and fife music emerged, featuring tresillo and related syncopated rhythmic figures. The abolition of slavery in 1865 led to new opportunities for

578-592: The Central Avenue zone of Los Angeles are often cited as the key nurturing places of jazz. The African musical traditions primarily made use of a single-line melody and call-and-response pattern, and the rhythms have a counter-metric structure and reflect African speech patterns. Lavish festivals featuring African-based dances to drums were organized on Sundays at Place Congo , or Congo Square , in New Orleans until 1843. Another influence on black music came from

612-499: The band could not tour to promote the album. Marder wrote the book The Diary of the Guitarist Marlene Marder, Kleenex/LiLiPUT , published in 1985, in which she recounted her experiences as a member of the band. She helped operate a record store for several years, before playing in the band Danger Mice from 1989 to 1992. Marder later started her own artist management agency, helped oversee administration and promotion at

646-545: The band on saxophone soon after. As LiLiPUT, the band released two further singles, "Eisiger Wind" (1980) and "Split" (1981), both of which became hits on the UK Independent Singles Chart , the former after being reissued by Rough Trade in 1981. Ha and Barrack left the band around this time, followed by Freund. Astrid Spirit (Astrid Spirig) took over Freund's role as LiLiPUT's lead vocalist, while saxophonist Christoph Herzog and drummer Beat Schlatter also joined

680-407: The band. After a successful German tour, Herzog and Schlatter departed LiLiPUT, though the latter continued to contribute drumming to studio recordings by the band. Now consisting of Schiff, Marder, and Spirit, LiLiPUT released their self-titled debut album in 1982. They toured in support of the album and released a new single, "You Did It", in 1983. While Spirit was enthusiastic about a recording

714-622: The band. Kleenex released their debut single "Ain't You" in November 1978, and embarked on a tour of Europe throughout the following year. After the tour, Sing left the band and was replaced by Chrigle Freund. A second single, "You", was issued in 1979, and was the band's last release under the Kleenex name. The threat of legal action by Kimberly-Clark , who owned the Kleenex trademark, prompted Kleenex to change their name to LiLiPUT. Angie Barrack joined

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748-474: The best, most adventurous, most exhilarating, and most critically derided music" of the punk rock era. Under the name Kleenex, the band formed in Zürich in 1978, with an initial line-up that included Lislot Ha (Lieselotte Hafner) on drums, Klaudia Schiff (Klaudia Schifferle) on bass and vocals, and Regula Sing on lead vocals. Marlene Marder (Marlene Marti), an acquaintance of the band, filled in on guitar during

782-579: The city, such as the brothels and bars of the red-light district around Basin Street , known as " Storyville ". In addition to dance bands, there were numerous marching bands who played at lavish funerals (later called jazz funerals ), which were arranged by the African-American and European American communities. The instruments used in marching bands and dance bands became the basic instruments of jazz. Despite its growing popularity, not all who lived in

816-401: The education of freed African Americans. Although strict segregation limited employment opportunities for most blacks, many were able to find work in entertainment. Black musicians were able to provide entertainment in dances, minstrel shows , and in vaudeville , during which time many marching bands were formed. Black pianists played in bars, clubs and brothels, as ragtime developed. Blues

850-509: The encore portion of their first live performance, and thereafter remained in the band as their full-time guitarist. Kleenex financed the recording of their eponymous debut EP , which was released in 1978 in Switzerland by Sunrise, a local label operated by friends of the band. The EP attracted the attention of English disc jockey John Peel , who championed the band on his radio shows, as well as Rough Trade Records , who subsequently signed

884-437: The fusion and free jazz that had dominated the 1970s. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis emerged early in the decade, and strove to create music within what he believed was the tradition, rejecting both fusion and free jazz and creating extensions of the small and large forms initially pioneered by such artists as Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington , as well as the hard bop of the 1950s. Whether Marsalis' critical and commercial success

918-499: The mixing of musical traditions like spiritual music from the church, the blues carried into town by rural guitar slingers, the minstrel shows inspired by plantation life, the beat and cadence of military marching bands and the syncopation of the ragtime piano , led to the creation of a new way to listen to live music. In the jazz history books, places such as New Orleans, Chicago, Harlem, Kansas City, U Street in Washington D.C., and

952-410: The music was dangerous to fetuses. By the end of the 1920s, at least 60 communities across the nation enacted laws prohibiting jazz in public dance halls. Prohibition in 1920 fostered the emergence of the underground, gangster-run jazz clubs. These venues served alcohol, hired black musicians, and allowed whites, blacks and audiences of all social classes to mingle socially for the first time. Although

986-506: The style of hymns of the church, which black slaves had learned and incorporated into their own music as spirituals . During the early 19th century an increasing number of black musicians learned to play European instruments. The " Black Codes " outlawed drumming by slaves, which meant that African drumming traditions were not preserved in North America, unlike in Cuba, Haiti, and elsewhere in

1020-487: The title Liliput . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Liliput&oldid=1103605086 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages LiLiPUT According to AllMusic , LiLiPUT "made some of

1054-541: The underground jazz clubs encouraged the intermingling of races in the Jazz Age, there were other jazz clubs, such as the Cotton Club in New York, that were white-only. By the 1940s, jazz music as a form of popular music was on the decline, and so was the popularity of jazz clubs. In the early 1940s, bebop-style performers began to shift jazz from danceable popular music towards a more challenging "musician's music." Since bebop

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1088-400: Was a cause or a symptom of the reaction against Fusion and Free Jazz and the resurgence of interest in the kind of jazz pioneered in the 1960s (particularly Modal Jazz and Post-Bop ) is debatable; nonetheless there were many other manifestations of a resurgence of traditionalism, even if fusion and free jazz were by no means abandoned and continued to develop and evolve. Well into the 1980s,

1122-452: Was meant to be listened to, not danced to, it could use faster tempos. Drumming shifted to a more elusive and explosive style and highly syncopated music. While bebop did not draw the huge crowds that had once flocked to Swing-era dance clubs, the bebop style was based around small combos such as the jazz quartet . With these smaller combos on stage, smaller clubs could afford to pay the ensembles even with much smaller clubs than were common in

1156-560: Was reissued in the United States by the Kill Rock Stars label in 2001, and subsequently by Mississippi Records as a four-LP box set in 2011. In 2010, Kill Rock Stars released Live Recordings, TV-Clips & Roadmovie , a CD/DVD compilation of the band's live and televised performances and music videos , as well as other miscellaneous footage shot during the band's tours. On 15 May 2016, Marlene Marder died at age 61. Kill Rock Stars and Mississippi Records released First Songs ,

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