Maiden voyage

The maiden voyage of a ship, aircraft or other craft is the first journey made by the craft after shakedown. A number of traditions and superstitions are associated with it.

The following ships were lost on their maiden voyage:

Naval ships

Passenger ships and cargo liners

Cargo ships

Herbie Hancock

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Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor. Starting his career with Donald Byrd, he shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet where Hancock helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. He was one of the first jazz musicians to embrace synthesizers and funk music. Hancock's music is often melodic and accessible; he has had many songs "cross over" and achieved success among pop audiences. His music embraces elements of funk and soul while adopting freer stylistic elements from jazz. In his jazz improvisation, he possesses a unique creative blend of jazz, blues, and modern classical music, with harmonic stylings much like the styles of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.

Hancock's best-known compositions include "Cantaloupe Island", "Watermelon Man" (later performed by dozens of musicians, including bandleader Mongo Santamaría), "Maiden Voyage", "Chameleon", and the singles "I Thought It Was You" and "Rockit". His 2007 tribute album River: The Joni Letters won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year, only the second jazz album ever to win the award, after Getz/Gilberto in 1965.

Joey Alexander

Joey Alexander (born Josiah Alexander Sila; June 25, 2003) is an Indonesian jazz pianist and is considered a child prodigy. He released his first album, "My Favorite Things" on May 12, 2015, at age 11. Alexander taught himself to play jazz at age six, and has performed for Herbie Hancock and Bill Clinton. In 2014, Wynton Marsalis invited Alexander to play at the Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2014 gala, which made him an "overnight sensation", according to The New York Times. Alexander won the Grand Prix at the 2013 Master-Jam Fest, and performed at the Montreal International Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival in 2015.

Alexander is the first Indonesian act ever to enter the Billboard 200 chart in the United States, where his debut album My Favorite Things debuted at number 174 on the week ending May 30, 2015, re-entered and peaked at number 59 on January 2016.

Early life

Josiah Alexander Sila was born in the city of Denpasar, in Bali, Indonesia, to parents Denny Sila and Farah Leonora Urbach, who ran an adventure tourism business. His father was an amateur musician, and both parents were fans of jazz music, particularly the works of Louis Armstrong. He is the nephew of the rock singer Nafa Urbach. Alexander learned about jazz by listening to classic albums his father gave him. By age six he had taught himself to play piano using a miniature electric keyboard his father brought home for him, learning by ear compositions like Thelonious Monk's "Well, You Needn't" and other songs from his father's jazz collection. Alexander later said learning the instrument came naturally for him; his parents, who are Christians, consider his talent "a gift from God". Alexander considers Monk, John Coltrane, Harry Connick, Jr., Bill Evans and Herbie Hancock among his main musical influences, and also particularly admires Clifford Brown, Miles Davis, Wynton Marsalis, Brad Mehldau, Lee Morgan, Horace Silver and McCoy Tyner.

Voyage

Voyage(s) or The Voyage may refer to:

Film and television

Literature

Music

Albums

Virginity

Virginity is the state of a person who has never engaged in sexual intercourse. There are cultural and religious traditions which place special value and significance on this state, predominantly towards unmarried females, associated with notions of personal purity, honor and worth.

Like chastity, the concept of virginity has traditionally involved sexual abstinence. The concept of virginity usually involves moral or religious issues and can have consequences in terms of social status and in interpersonal relationships. Although virginity has social implications and had significant legal implications in some societies in the past, it has no legal consequences in most societies today.

The term virgin originally only referred to sexually inexperienced women, but has evolved to encompass a range of definitions, as found in traditional, modern, and ethical concepts.Heterosexual individuals may or may not consider loss of virginity to occur only through penile-vaginal penetration, while people of other sexual orientations often include oral sex, anal sex or mutual masturbation in their definitions of losing one's virginity.