Also ranks #8 on The Best Cool Jazz Bands/Artists Also ranks #25 on The Best Bebop Artists of All Time Also ranks #27 on The Greatest Black Female Pop Singers 4 Nina Simone The Very Best of Nina Simone, Nina Simone Sings the Blues, At Carnegie Hall 2,906 votes See: The Best Nina...
Let's focus, for instance, on the legendary Miles Davis, a titan whose influence reverberates throughout the jazz landscape. His innovative compositions, such as the brilliant “Kind of Blue,” epitomize his status among the crème-de-la-crème of jazz artists. Or consider the virtuosity of ...
blues-inflected style of jazz known as hard bop, whose origins can be traced back to this scintillating live album recorded in the legendary Big Apple venue dubbed the “Jazz Corner of the World.” Blakey, who went on to lead The Jazz Messengers...
Jeff Gold: It all began when I discovered and purchased an archive of rare, and previously unknown photographs from jazz clubs of the forties and fifties. Even as I was buying them the thought occurred to me that these would make a fantastic book. I’ve been collecting and de...
This was the time of groundbreaking bassists such as Milt Hinton, Jimmy Blanton, and Oscar Pettiford, whose formidable technique and deep understanding of harmony still ranks them among the best jazz bassists in history. During the hard bop age of the 50s, characterized by a tougher, more ...
Jazz artists' take on John, Paul, George and Ringo Cool Jazz A subdued response to Bebop Cutting Edge Jazz Contemporary experimental jazz. Not Avant-Garde, not Straight-Ahead ECM Records The leading label for cutting edge modern jazz for 50 years ...
Jazz Artists Jazz Music The best big band music are a testament to the durability and growth of the genre from big band masters Count Basie to the expanded big band efforts of Stan Kenton to the electrifying freedom of Mingus’s large ensemble. ...
Whilst his technique and creativity has made him a firm favourite amongst serious jazz fans, his highly distinctive sound has seen him an in-demand session player with a variety of artists including John Mayer, Melody Gardot and James Taylor. ...
West Coast jazz – bringing to mind images of sun-soaked 1950s Los Angeles – is a sub-genre of the music which has some crossover with Cool. Not all of the best Cool jazz artists on this list are from the West Coast of America though!
Mary Lou Williams, née Mary Elfrieda Scruggs, (born May 8, 1910, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.—died May 28, 1981, Durham, N.C.), jazz pianist who performed with and composed for many of the great jazz artists of the 1940s and '50s. Mary Lou Williams. born May 8, 1910. Atlanta, Georg...