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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.
Tenor saxophone. Years active. 1970s–present. Website. scotthamiltonsax.com. Scott Hamilton (born September 12, 1954) [1] is an American jazz tenor saxophonist associated with swing and straight-ahead jazz. His eldest son, Shō Īmura, is the vocalist of the Japanese rock band Okamoto's. [2][3]
Emmet Cohen was born in Miami, Florida. [1] He began studying piano at the age of three using the Suzuki method. [2] Cohen was raised in Montclair, New Jersey, and attended Montclair High School. [3] While in high school, he was a part of The Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble where he met future collaborators Bryan Carter, Benny Benack III ...
Wynton Learson Marsalis (born October 18, 1961) is an American trumpeter, composer, and music instructor, who is currently the artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has been active in promoting classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won nine Grammy Awards, and his oratorio Blood on the Fields was the first ...
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an Mexian jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major ...
Frank Giasullo. American composer, arranger, pianist, and educator Frank Giasullo was born on December 2, 1950, in Somerville, New Jersey. He is the only child of Joseph and Michelina Giasullo. He attended public schools in his hometown of Raritan, NJ and recalls loving the piano as a very young child. He was enchanted in particular by Claude ...
Jeff Kashiwa was born in 1963 in Louisville, Kentucky but moved to Seattle, Washington as a young child. He credits the public school's music program for inspiring his interest in music, [1] along with his father, who died in 1992, who was a fan of jazz music including Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller. While attending school, his father gave him ...
The Crusaders, Bobby Womack, David T. Walker, Marvin Gaye. Wilton Lewis Felder (August 31, 1940 – September 27, 2015) was an American saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later known as The Crusaders. Felder played bass on the Jackson 5 's hits "I Want You Back" and "ABC" and on Marvin Gaye ...