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Regina Carter is a master of improvisational jazz violin. Though her work draws upon a wide range of musical influences – including Motown, Afro-Cuban, Swing, Bebop, Folk, and World – she has crafted a signature voice and style. ... Carter's performances highlight the often overlooked potential of the jazz violin for its lyric, melodic, and ...
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.
He’ll perform selections with the Detroit Jazz Festival Symphony Orchestra on Sunday from 9 to 10:15 p.m. on the JPMorgan Chase Stage in Campus Martius. Eastwood is an unabashed fan of the ...
Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home. (1976) Straight Ahead. (1976) Lockjaw with Sweets. (1976) Straight Ahead is an album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with the Tommy Flanagan Trio recorded in 1976 and released on the Pablo label. [1] [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 ...
She returned to Detroit, living with her mother, in 1940 or 1942. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] She sang and played piano in jazz clubs in Detroit. [ 1 ] She was a member of the trio Skeeter, Mitch, and Jean (Skeeter Spight, Leroi Mitchell, and Jordan, using part of her middle name, was "Jean"), which wrote lyrics to music by Charlie Parker . [ 1 ]
Wendell Harrison was born in Detroit, Michigan. In Detroit, Harrison began formal jazz studies with pianist Barry Harris. He began playing clarinet at age seven. He switched to tenor saxophone while attending Northwestern High School, and at 14, performed professionally for the first time. In Detroit, early gigs included backing Marvin Gaye as ...
Jazz musicians from Detroit (57 P) Pages in category "Jazz musicians from Michigan" The following 100 pages are in this category, out of 100 total.