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The we’re-never-going-to-play-together-again-to-lucrative-reunion trail is well-worn at this point — just ask such famously feuding acts as the Eagles, Guns ‘N Roses, Pixies and, most ...
Cool jazz. West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz, which consisted of a calmer style than bebop or hard bop. The music relied relatively more on composition and arrangement than on the individually improvised playing of ...
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Scott Hamilton (sax) and Ray Brown (bass) at the festival in 1979. The Concord Jazz Festival is an annual event that was established in 1969 in Concord, California. The festival was launched by Carl Jefferson, a car dealer and jazz enthusiast, who managed to get a group of friends to support the concept. The city agreed to pay for half the cost.
The end of February brings us the second installment of a new series at the Crocker Art Museum, tracing the connectivity of jazz, soul and hip-hop — but there’s much to get to before that.
Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938) [1] is an American jazz pianist, composer, and clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, San Francisco.Since 1963, he has recorded more than 100 compositions and was a first-place winner in the DownBeat International Jazz Critics' Poll in 1965 and 1974.
Occupation. Singer. Ruth Price (born April 27, 1938) is an American jazz singer and Artistic Director of the Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, California. Price attended ballet school in 1952. In 1954, she sang with Charlie Ventura and later worked as a singer and dancer in Philadelphia and New York City. She moved to Hollywood in 1957 and toured ...
The California Jazz Conservatory enrolled about 130–150 students in its first quarter, taught by some 25 local jazz musicians and educators. [3] [4] By 2001 the school enrolled 600 students each quarter. [6] The street-level La Note space was used by the California Jazz Conservatory after hours as a classroom and performance space seating 60. [7]