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Ruth Brown (1928–2006) Ane Brun (born 1976) Mari Kvien Brunvoll (born 1984) Joyce Bryant (1928–2022) Beryl Bryden (1920–1998) Michael Bublé (born 1975) Sarah Buechi (born 1981)
1960s in jazz. In the late 1960s, Latin jazz, combining rhythms from African and Latin American countries, often played on instruments such as conga, timbale, güiro, and claves, with jazz and classical harmonies played on typical jazz instruments (piano, double bass, etc.) broke through. There are two main varieties: Afro-Cuban jazz was played ...
She was featured as a "grand diva" of jazz in a 1992 edition of Essence. [13] In the same year, she also received the Whitney Young Jr. Award from the Urban League. In 1998, she was a recipient of the Playboy Reader Poll Award for best jazz vocalist. In 1986, she was dubbed the Global Entertainer of the Year by the World Conference of Mayors.
Alphonso Johnson (born 1951) Bill Laswell (born 1955) Marcus Miller (born 1959) Monk Montgomery (1921–1982) Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987) John Patitucci (born 1959) Steve Swallow (born 1940) Jamaaladeen Tacuma (born 1956)
Pages in category "American women jazz singers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 417 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Annie Ross (born Annabelle McCauley Allan Short[1][2]; 25 July 1930 – 21 July 2020) was a British-American singer and actress, best known as a member of the influential jazz vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. She pioneered the vocalese style of jazz singing, [3][4] with a style described by critic Dave Gelly as "a kind of dreamy ...
The following artists and bands have performed smooth jazz. Saxophonists. Mindi Abair; ... singer, pianist and composer) Jean-Luc Ponty (Violin) Bill Reichenbach Jr. ...
Trad jazz, short for "traditional jazz", is a form of jazz in the United States and Britain that flourished from the 1930s to 1960s, [1] based on the earlier New Orleans Dixieland jazz style. Prominent trad jazz musicians such as Chris Barber , Freddy Randall , Acker Bilk , Kenny Ball , Ken Colyer and Monty Sunshine [ 1 ] performed a populist ...