Jazz, in fact, is not—and never has been—an entirely composed, predetermined music, nor is it an entirely extemporized one. For almost all of its history it has employed both creative approaches in varying degrees and endless permutations. And yet, despite these diverse terminological confusion...
Meanwhile, two other kinds of fusion music were also current. The most popular jazz-rock strain grew out of hard bop: the funky 1960s jazz of musicians such as flutistHerbie Mann, alto saxophonistHank Crawford, andthe Crusaders. Theirrepertoiresincluded original and standard rock tunes over which...
: American music developed especially from ragtime and blues and characterized by propulsive syncopated rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, varying degrees of improvisation, and often deliberate distortions of pitch and timbre b : popular dance music influenced by jazz and played in a loud rhythmic ...
The Brooklyn trio adds keys, organ, and woodwinds to support the weight of history as received through the work of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and the legacy of Arabic music in jazz. The mood is reflective and poignantly unresolved, the story never finished so long as it’s still being...
Jazz and politics have always been entwined, but rarely in the music’s history have the links spelt out on record. The 1960s was a decade when that orthodoxy was reversed, with Charlie Haden’s debut album at the decade’s end being one of the most explicit endorsements of leftist sentim...
When it comes to defining an entire musical genre, especially one with as many forms and perspectives as jazz, the work can get pretty tricky. Even the word itself has a long and sometimes controversial history. Today we'll look at the story of jazz, fro
History of Jazz Pop Music as CommunicationALL THAT JAZZImprovisational. Creative. Mischievous. Genius. Exciting. Unique. These are all words used to describe one of the most invigorating, influential and provoking genres of our time, Jazz. Jazz evokes human emotion in an array of different ways ...
Dizzy Gillespie has secured his place in the jazz pantheon as one of the most expressive and virtuosic improvisers in the history of the music. But he was much more than that; he was one of the supreme rebels of jazz, and he made his greatest artistic contributions as a revolutionary. As...
Dinah Washington‘s versatile voice had hints of gospel, hints of jazz, and made for some incredible early pop/R&B music too. Her rendition of one of the best jazz songs of all time is sung with a big band, but she still shines brightly against their backing. ...
It’s music history. Bobby Hutcherson’s very first date as a leader for Blue Note was “The Kicker” in 1963, though it was held back and went unreleased until 1999, possibly because Joe Henderson on saxophone steals a lot of the thunder from the date’s purported leader. From his ...