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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.
Professional ratings. Basie Straight Ahead is an album recorded at TTG Studios, Hollywood, California in October 1968 featuring Count Basie and his orchestra. This album marked the first collaboration between Basie and his long-time orchestrator, Sammy Nestico, who composed, arranged and conducted all of the songs on the record. [3]
Emmet Cohen was born in Miami, Florida. [1] He began studying piano at the age of three using the Suzuki method. [2] Cohen was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and attended Montclair High School. [3] While in high school, he was a part of The Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble where he met future collaborators Bryan Carter, Benny Benack III ...
Boise Music Festival. When: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. June 22 Where: Expo Idaho, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City Who: Idaho’s largest one-day music festival includes Dustin Lynch, Jason Derulo, CeeLo ...
Jazz, adult contemporary, soft rock [1][2] Occupation. Singer-songwriter. Instrument (s) Vocals, saxophone, guitar. Labels. Arista, Columbia, Concord Jazz. Curtis Stigers (born October 18, 1965) is an American jazz singer. He achieved a number of hits in the early 1990s, most notably the international hit "I Wonder Why" (1991), which reached No ...
Pianist, composer and vocalist Cameron Graves calls his recent music “thrash-jazz,” and it will be on full display Saturday from 9 to 10:15 p.m. on the JPMorgan Chase Stage in Campus Martius ...
Footprints (composition) " Footprints " is a jazz standard composed by saxophonist Wayne Shorter and first recorded for his album Adam's Apple in 1966. [1] The first commercial release of the song was a different recording on the Miles Davis album Miles Smiles recorded later in 1966, but released earlier. [2]
Occupation. Musician. Instrument. Alto saxophone. Labels. Prestige, Concord, Pablo. Formerly of. Modern Jazz Disciples. Curtis Peagler (September 17, 1929 — December 19, 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist who specialized in straight-ahead jazz and hard bop.