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Billboard. ^ "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, May 28, 2022". Billboard. ^ "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, June 4, 2022". Billboard. ^ "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, June 11, 2022". Billboard. ^ "Smooth Jazz Airplay chart, for the week ending Saturday, June 18, 2022".
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
Paul Humphreys Rather than hire studio time to record their eponymous debut album (1980), McCluskey and Humphreys used their advance payment from Dindisc to build their own Liverpool recording studio, called the Gramophone Suite. They predicted that they would be dropped by the label due to disappointing sales, but would at least own a studio. The album showcased the band's live set at the ...
Background. The song was written in 1948 [1] while Carter, Ellis and Frigo were part of The Soft Winds, a group they created after leaving Jimmy Dorsey 's orchestra. The lyrics compare love's progress to a motor trip. Credit for music and lyrics is to Carter, Frigo, and Ellis, based on their mutual agreement when the Soft Winds trio was formed ...
Giant Steps (composition) " Giant Steps " is a jazz composition by American saxophonist John Coltrane. [1] It was first recorded in 1959 and released on the 1960 album Giant Steps. [2] The composition features a cyclic chord pattern that has come to be known as Coltrane changes. The composition has become a jazz standard, covered by many ...
A 16-bar tune in the B ♭ lydian mode, that Monk named after his niece, Jackie Smith. It was first recorded on June 4, 1959, for the album 5 by Monk by 5. The tune's march-like feeling made it the opening theme for many of Monk's concerts. [6] It also appears on the live albums from Italy and Tokyo.
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 ->.
Free jazz, and the related form of avant-garde jazz, broke through into an open space of "free tonality" in which meter, beat, and formal symmetry all disappeared, and a range of world music from India, Africa, and Arabia were melded into an intense, even religiously ecstatic or orgiastic style of playing. [169]