Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Ron Carter. Ronald Levin Carter (born May 4, 1937) [ 1] is an American jazz double bassist. His appearances on 2,221 recording sessions make him the most-recorded jazz bassist in history. [ 2] He has won three Grammy Awards, [ 3] and is also a cellist who has recorded numerous times on that instrument. [ 4]
maynardferguson .com. Walter Maynard Ferguson CM (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) [ 1][ 2] was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton 's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957.
Kid Ory. Nesuhi Ertegun founded his first label, Crescent Records, to record Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band. (Crescent Number 1, August 1944) Edward " Kid " Ory (December 25, 1886 – January 23, 1973) [2] was an American jazz composer, trombonist and bandleader. One of the early users of the glissando technique, he helped establish it as a central ...
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American 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 ...
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. [2] Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound.
A jazz band ( jazz ensemble or jazz combo) is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands vary in the quantity of its members and the style of jazz that they play but it is common to find a jazz band made up of a rhythm section and a horn section . The size of a jazz band is closely related to the style of jazz they play as well as the ...
Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996), also known as Jeru, [6] was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. [7] Though primarily known as one of the leading jazz baritone saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis ...
Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American pianist and composer. [ 1] Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and later moved on to play with Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis. Since the early 1970s, he has also been a group leader and solo performer in jazz, jazz fusion, and classical music. His improvisations draw from the traditions of ...