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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.
Straight Ahead is a jazz studio album by saxophonist Oliver Nelson. It features acclaimed musicians such as Eric Dolphy on sax, clarinet and flute (his last appearance on a Nelson album following a series of collaborations recorded for Prestige ), and Roy Haynes on drums. It was recorded in March 1961 at the celebrated Van Gelder Studio in ...
Victor Bailey (1960–2016) Brian Bromberg (born 1960) Stanley Clarke (born 1951) Bob Cranshaw (1932–2016) Mark Egan (born 1951) Alphonso Johnson (born 1951) Bill Laswell (born 1955)
Jazz rap is a fusion subgenre of hip hop music and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentrism, and general positivism. 1980s ->. Jazz rock. The term "jazz-rock" (or "jazz/rock") is often used as a synonym for the term "jazz fusion". 1960s ->.
Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music. Journalists and record companies began using the term in the mid-1950s to describe a new current within jazz that incorporated influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in saxophone and piano playing.
Jazz, Western classical music, jazz fusion, free improvisation Miles Davis, Jack DeJohnette, Chick Corea. As leader: Expectations (1972), with Miles Davis: The Cellar Door Sessions 1970 (2005) Alphonso Johnson: Bass 1951 Jazz, jazz fusion, funk Weather Report, Billy Cobham, Kenny Kirkland. Jimmy Johnson: Bass 1956 Jazz, jazz fusion, rock, folk rock
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Free jazz or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s [1] is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes. Musicians during this period believed that the ...