Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz music. It is one of the defining elements of jazz. Improvisation is composing on the spot, when a singer or instrumentalist invents melodies and lines over a chord progression played by rhythm section instruments (piano, guitar ...
Billy Rogers. The Crusaders (formerly known as The Jazz Crusaders) were an American jazz/ jazz fusion group performing from the 1960s to the 2010s. The group was known as the Jazz Crusaders from their formation in 1960 until shortening their name in 1971. The Crusaders played a wide assortment of genres, including straight ahead jazz, urban R&B ...
The Allmusic review by Jim Newsom says the album "finds the Crusaders at the top of their form" and that it is "one of the tastiest concoctions of the mid-'70s jazz-fusion era". It concludes that Chain Reaction "helped lure young, rock and soul-oriented listeners over to check out the jazz side".
The music is a continuous free improvisation with only a few brief pre-determined sections, recorded in one take with no overdubbing or editing. [7] The album features what Coleman called a “double quartet,” i.e., two self-contained jazz quartets: each with a reed instrument, trumpet, bass, and drums. [8]
US Jazz [1] 1969 The Best of the Jazz Crusaders: World Pacific ST-20175 13 1973 Tough Talk: Blue Note BN-LA170-G2 — 1975 The Young Rabbits: BN-LA530-H2 — 1980 Live Sides: LT-1046 — 1993 The Best Of... Pacific Jazz CDP 077778928324 — 2005 The Pacific Jazz Quintet Studio Sessions: Mosaic MD6-230 — "—" denotes releases that did not chart.
Solo Concerts: Bremen/Lausanne. (1973) The Köln Concert. (1975) Staircase. (1977) The Köln Concert is a live solo double album by pianist Keith Jarrett recorded at the Opera House in Köln, West Germany on 24 January 1975 [ 2] and released on ECM Records later that year. [ 1]
Those Southern Knights is a 1976 studio album by The Crusaders. It peaked at number 38 on the Billboard Top LPs chart, [4] as well as number 9 on the Soul LPs chart [5] and number 2 on the Top Jazz LPs chart. [6] It includes "Keep That Same Old Feeling" and "And Then There Was the Blues". [1] The former peaked at number 21 on the Hot Soul ...
Musical improvisation. Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous response to other musicians. [ 1] Sometimes musical ideas in improvisation ...