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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.
285 (first edition) 373 (second edition) ISBN. 978-0-8203-0853-1. OCLC. 263157308. Up from the Cradle of Jazz: New Orleans Music Since World War II is a book by Jason Berry, Jonathan Foose and Tad Jones. It chronicles the history of New Orleans music, primarily rhythm and blues, and its evolution post- World War II. It was first published in 1986.
Higgins's songwriting grew out of a desire to express her emotions when she was at school, and her lyrics describe her feelings about her own life and relationships. [ 83 ] [ 84 ] The piano was the first instrument she learned to play, and she continues to use it as well as digital pianos , including a Roland RD-300SX, RD-700 and KR-15.
Good Things Happen Slowly: A Life In and Out of Jazz. New York: Crown Archetype, 2017. Hines, Earl (1903–1983) Dance, Stanley. The World of Earl Hines. New York: Scribner, 1977. Hinton, Milt (1910–2000) Hinton, Milt, David G. Berger, and Holly Maxson. Playing the Changes: Milt Hinton's Life in Stories and Photographs. Nashville: Vanderbilt ...
No More Blues (1989), her first album for Concord Jazz, was recorded with guitarists Emily Remler and Bucky Pizzarelli and pianist Dave Frishberg. [6] Her writing was published in Cosmopolitan , Newsday , New York , and the O. Henry Award Prize Stories.
Tao was composer-in-residence for the 2009–10 season with Chicago's Music in the Loft concert series. As part of this program, the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music commissioned his "String Quartet No. 2" for the Jasper Quartet, which they performed throughout the US [25] [26] After hearing Tao play the premiere of his Three Songs for Piano (2010), the reviewer of The Washington Post called ...
Original Dixieland Jass Band. Dominic James " Nick " LaRocca[1] (April 11, 1889 – February 22, 1961), was an American early jazz cornetist and trumpeter and the leader of the Original Dixieland Jass Band, who is credited by some as being "the father of modern jazz". [2] He is the composer of one of the most recorded jazz classics of all-time ...
On All About Jazz, Mark F. Turner said "there are more subdued voices who let their music do the talking, as is the case for Ron Miles' Quiver, a project led by the Denver-based trumpeter and his talented cohorts, guitarist Bill Frisell and drummer Brian Blade. These gentle masters are highly respected leaders with expansive discographies and ...