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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 is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 [2] and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series. [3] Its chronological and thematic episodes provided a history of jazz, emphasizing innovative composers and musicians and American history.
Billy Lee Tipton (December 29, 1914 – January 21, 1989) was an American jazz musician, bandleader, and talent broker. Tipton lived and identified as a man for most of his adult life; after his death, friends and family were surprised to learn that he was transgender . Tipton's music career began in the mid-1930s when he led a band for radio ...
Jazz Profiles. Jazz Profiles was an American radio show produced by NPR and hosted by jazz singer Nancy Wilson. It featured hour-long retrospectives on the lives of famous jazz musicians, or sometimes on famous albums such as Miles Davis ' Kind of Blue. The show covers a wide range of jazz musicians, from the very famous to the lesser known but ...
This is an alphabetized list of musicians notable for playing or having played jazz piano. The piano has been an integral part of the jazz idiom since its inception, in both solo and ensemble settings. Its role is multifaceted due largely to the instrument's combined melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic capabilities
Max Bennett (musician) Mike Bernard (musician) Wally Besser. Dinky Bingham. David Bloom (musician) Jonny Blu. William Thornton Blue. Michael Blum (musician) Martha Boswell.
This category has the following 32 subcategories, out of 32 total. Jazz musicians by genre and instrument (29 C) Jazz musicians by instrument and genre (20 C) Jazz musicians by instrument and nationality (27 C) Jazz musicians by nationality and instrument (40 C)
John Coltrane: His Life and Music. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. Condon, Eddie (1905–1973) Condon, Eddie, with Thomas Sugrue. We Called It Music: A Generation of Jazz. New York: Da Capo Press, 1947. Davis, Miles (1926–1991) Davis, Miles and Quincy Troupe. Miles: The Autobiography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.