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Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) [1] was an American jazz pianist and composer.A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, [2] Powell's application of complex phrasing to the piano influenced both his contemporaries and later pianists including Walter Davis Jr., Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Barry Harris.
Echoes of the Jazz Age. It was an age of miracles, it was an age of art, it was an age of excess, and it was an age of satire. " Echoes of the Jazz Age " is a short essay by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald that was first published in Scribner's Magazine in November 1931. [2][3] The essay analyzes the societal conditions in the United States ...
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 Vincent Zappa [nb 1] (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist ...
Musician. Instrument. Piano. Years active. 1940s–1990s. Labels. Epic, Bethlehem, Inner City, Chiaroscuro, Concord. Dave McKenna (May 30, 1930 – October 18, 2008) [1] was an American jazz pianist known primarily as a solo pianist and for his "three-handed" swing style. He was a significant figure in the evolution of jazz piano.
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. [1] [2] [3] One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, [1] Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz ...
A Gentle Reminder. Jazz took to social media to share a body-positivity message for all her followers. “Every body is beautiful ️ To look at someone’s body and say ‘this is not beautiful ...
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.