Jazz-master pieces.Focuses on jazz music in the United States. Reissue of works in music by pianist Jelly Roll Morton and Clarinet sage Sidney Bechet; Description of music by Morton; Video on music of drum master Art Blakey.MilesMiloEBSCO_AspAtlantic...
Born October 18, 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was raised in a musical family: his father, Ellis Marsalis, was a pianist, while brothers Branford, Delfeayo and Jason all pursued careers in jazz. Wynton received his first trumpet at the age of six from Al Hirt, with whom his father...
Also during this period, pianist George Russell developed a jazz theory of modes. In 1959, the Miles Davis combo, with pianist Bill Evans and saxophonists John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, recorded compositions and improvised solos based on modes rather than on patterns of chords. In 1960, ...
The son of noted jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, in 1972 he joined his father and brothers Darius and Daniel in The New Brubeck Quartet. He later formed The Brubeck Brothers Quartet with his brothers. 69 Grover Mitchell 25 votes Grover Mitchell, born Grover Curry Mitchell (Mar...
New Orleans was the musical home of the first notable players and composers of jazz, including cornetists Buddy Bolden and King Oliver, cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet, and pianist Jelly Roll Morton. Jazz soon spread from New Orleans to other ...
Jelly Roll Morton: Pianist 风格:Ragtime (海上钢琴师的原型) Art Tatum: Pianist 风格:Swing Duke Ellington: Pianist 风格:Swing,Bebop,Latin Bud Powell: Pianist 风格:Swing,Bebop Horace Silver: Pianist 风格:Hardbop Thelonious Monk: Pianist 风格:Bebop,Cool Jazz Bill Evans: Pianist 风格:Modal Jazz,Cool...
Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) Born Ferdinand LaMothe in New Orleans, Jelly Roll Morton was a nimble-fingered pianist and composer with a knack for creating infectious melodies. A larger-than-life character, he claimed to have invented jazz single-handedly in 1902; though his assertion was often...
The innovative pianist Jelly Roll Morton, who hailed from the city, referred to a “Spanish tinge” (meaning the influence of Latin rhythms) in his music, and the influential critic Stanley Crouch has described this element as one of jazz’s defining characteristics (along with swing, blues an...
Fellow jazz artist Roscoe Mitchell got him into the AACM, Chicago’s South Side collective, founded by jazz pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, dedicated to the supplementary alternative cultivation of the local musical arts: composition, improvisation, education, performance, business. In 1969, Braxton and...
classic jazz, traditional jazz, or Dixieland jazz. New Orleans was the musical home of the first notable players and composers of jazz, including cornetists Buddy Bolden and King Oliver, cornetist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong, saxophonist and clarinetist Sidney Bechet, and pianist Jelly Roll ...