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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.
Jazz musician and composer. Joseph Arthurlin Harriott (15 July 1928 – 2 January 1973) [1] was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone. Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz. Born in Kingston, Harriott moved to the United Kingdom as a working musician in 1951 and lived in ...
The trio also recorded as a quintet with John Coltrane and Donald Byrd. [10] Altogether, Garland led 19 recording sessions while at Prestige Records and 25 sessions for Fantasy Records. He stopped playing professionally for a number of years in the 1960s when the popularity of rock music coincided with a substantial drop in the popularity of jazz.
Miles Smiles is an album by the jazz musician Miles Davis. It was released on February 16, 1967 [1] through Columbia Records. It was recorded by Davis and his second quintet at Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City on October 24 and October 25, 1966. [4] It is the second of six albums recorded by Davis' second great quintet, which ...
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 ]
The Jazz Messengers. Robert Henry Timmons (December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers for two periods (July 1958 to September 1959; February 1960 to June 1961), between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley 's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written ...
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. [3] The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. [4] Una Mas, titled Una Mas (One More Time) on the front cover, is a jazz album by trumpeter Kenny Dorham and his quintet, released in 1963 on Blue Note as BLP 4127 and BST 84127. The album would be the next-to-last studio session led by the trumpeter. [5]
Encouraged by his father, Sammy Franklin, a jazz trumpeter and bandleader, [3] he studied with Al McKibbon and George Morrow, while listening to Paul Chambers and Doug Watkins. While attending the Manual Arts High School in Los Angeles, he played with his first professional band – the Roy Ayers Latin Jazz Quintet.