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In October 2006, the French company Buchet Chastel published de Koenigswarter's book Les musiciens de jazz et leurs trois vœux ("The jazz musicians and their three wishes"). Compiled between 1961 and 1966, it is a book of interviews with 300 musicians who told her what their "three wishes" would be, and is accompanied by her Polaroid photographs.
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. [2] Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound.
Albert Ayler (/ ˈ aɪ l ər /; July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer. [1]After early experience playing R&B and bebop, Ayler began recording music during the free jazz era of the 1960s.
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) [1] is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger. [2] He came to prominence with the big bands of Lionel Hampton and Dizzy Gillespie, more as a writer than a performer, before launching his solo career.
John Wolf Brennan at the 2010 Jazz Festival Willisau. Paolo Vinaccia, Arendal Sessions. Knut Værnes at Victoria, during the 2016 Oslo Jazzfestival. Peter Erskine in 2008. Al Di Meola in 2006. Pat Metheny in 2010. January. 14 – Gunnar Andreas Berg, Norwegian guitarist, music teacher, and record label manager. [4]
1923 – "Tin Roof Blues" is a jazz composition by George Brunies, Paul Mares, Ben Pollack, Leon Roppolo and Mel Stitzel of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. [13] The band first recorded the tune in 1923, and it became a major influence for later white jazz groups. [14] It is one of the early New Orleans jazz pieces most often played. [15]
Simpson was born May 11, 1961, and raised in Gurnee, Illinois, to music-oriented parents. His father was a fan of jazz music, and Simpson says, "Our house was filled with music. I never really considered any other lifestyle." [3] The musician also states that his brother and sister both played instruments. At the age of ten, he began to play ...
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the Black-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, [5] [6] in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.