That’s because in jazz, a musical language whose essence is spontaneous creation, anything can happen. What’s exciting is its unpredictability and because of that, jazz has never stood still and continues to evolve and grow, reflecting the lives and times of its myriad creators. Above all ...
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From the puffy cheeks, the alternate fingerings, awards he won, trademark jazz charts he created to the jazz artists he tutored and influenced that went on to become legends themselves, Dizzy has done it all. The man was so influential he even invented his own trumpet which can still be ...
A self-styled ‘hip’ singer, her precise, percussive delivery of jazz classics redefined the role offemale big band singers. She left Goodman to form her own trio in 1942, which she led for ten years before forming another group called Anita O’Day & Her All-Stars that toured three cont...
Check out:“Good Times” 86: Greg Errico Drummer and record producer Greg Errico had a varied career, playing with musicians as diverse as jazz-fusion group Weather Report,David Bowie, Santana and Grateful Dead. He made his lasting reputation, though, as the drummer for Sly & The Family Sto...
Who are the best jazz bass players of all time and what were their most iconic albums? We’ve rounded up a selection of 16 famous bass players to tell the story of this essential (yet often overlooked)jazz instrument. Whilst a definitive list of the best musicians is totally subjective, ...
Melding pop, Jazz, electronic - Pet Sounds is a rare rock record that sounds like nothing before it and nothing has sounded the same since. Key track: God Only Knows Image Credit: Capitol Records 566 282 30. Clash: London Calling Year: 1979 From the anger seething from the iconic album...
Eventually, Van managed to assemble a two-piece acoustic band and booked himself at a coffeehouse/jazz club that could only be described as subterranean. It was located three stories below a pool parlor and was deep, damp and dark. Egyptian motifs were painted on its yellow smoke-stained wa...
jazz-inflected rhythm track (Gaye joined in with cardboard-box percussion). Then Gaye invoked his own family in moving prayer: singing to his younger brother Frankie, a Vietnam veteran (“Brother, brother, brother/There’s far too many of you dying”), and appealing for calm closer to hom...