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Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.
Producer (s) Joe Renzetti & Marty Sheriden. "Sunny '76'" is a reharmonized disco take on Bobby Hebb 's song. Like the original 1966 version, it features Hebb; however, an updated disco beat was implemented with an eye to having it played in discos around the world. This version was arranged by Joe Renzetti, who also arranged the original record.
July. 8 – Valarie Pettiford, American actress, dancer, and jazz singer. 14 – Angélique Kidjo, Beninese singer-songwriter and activist. 15 – Stig Hvalryg, Norwegian upright bassist. 20 – Ole Jacob Hystad, Norwegian tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. 27 – Jean Toussaint, American tenor and soprano saxophonist.
This article includes an overview of the events and trends in popular music in the 1960s. The Miracles pictured in 1962. Known as Motown 's " soul supergroup", The Miracles were one of the first commercially successful acts of the 1960s and propelled both Motown and its Tamla label to international fame. In North America and Europe the decade ...
Heat Wave (1963 song) " Heat Wave " is a 1963 song written by the Holland–Dozier–Holland songwriting team. It was first made popular by the Motown vocal group Martha and the Vandellas, [2] who issued it as a single on July 10, 1963, [3] on the Motown subsidiary Gordy label. The single reached number one on the Billboard Hot R&B chart ...
randynewman.com. Musical artist. Randall Stuart Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer, songwriter, pianist, film composer and conductor known for his non-rhotic Southern-accented singing style, early Americana -influenced songs (often with mordant or satirical lyrics), and various film scores. [5]
Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He emerged from the British folk scene in early 1965, and subsequently scored multiple international hit singles and albums during the late 1960s.
The Jazz Singer is an album by Neil Diamond from 1980, which served as the soundtrack album to the 1980 remake of the film The Jazz Singer.The soundtrack was released in November 1980 originally on Capitol Records, instead of his then-usual Columbia Records, because the film was produced by EMI Films, owned by the parent company of the label for which the soundtrack was released.