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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.
Footprints (composition) " Footprints " is a jazz standard composed by saxophonist Wayne Shorter and first recorded for his album Adam's Apple in 1966. 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. It has become a jazz standard.
The Manhattan Jazz Quintet is a jazz ensemble consisting of David Matthews on piano, Lew Soloff on trumpet, Victor Lewis on drums, Andy Snitzer on saxophone, and Charnett Moffett on bass. Previously, the band featured George Young on tenor sax, Eddie Gómez on bass, and Steve Gadd on drums. The group was formed in 1983 at the suggestion of ...
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]
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In addition to composing music for his quintet, he has made pieces for string quintet and percussion as accompaniment to fairy tales by H. C. Andersen (2005), background music for Marguerite Duras' "The Lover" (2005), and was the main composer and bandleader for the jazz quintet Lobster (2002–08).
Pianist Emmet Cohen and his quintet will serve as the clinicians Feb. 23 and 24, 2024, at the 66th annual Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival at the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center.
Here is a lyrical assessment of the double bass and its role in Jazz: Laying in the bouquet of any jazz ensemble, of any era, playing any style, is the bass. Sturdy and stoic, but also capable of providing the emotional crux, the bass is an essential unit, a compass on which the rest of the ensemble relies on, the provider of the heartbeat, the ...