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Philadelphia
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In 1682, William Penn, an English Quaker, founded the city to serve as capital of the Pennsylvania Colony. Philadelphia was one of the capitals in the Revolutionary War. In the 19th century, Philadelphia became an industrial center. It became a destination for African-Americans in the Great Migration. The areas many universities and colleges make Philadelphia a top international study destination, as the city has evolved into an educational, with a gross domestic product of $388 billion, Philadelphia ranks ninth among world cities and fourth in the nation. Philadelphia is the center of activity in Pennsylvania and is home to seven Fortune 1000 companies. The Philadelphia skyline is growing, with a market of almost 81,900 commercial properties in 2016 including several prominent skyscrapers. The city is known for its arts, culture, and rich history, Philadelphia has more outdoor sculptures and murals than any other American city. Fairmount Park, when combined with the adjacent Wissahickon Valley Park in the watershed, is one of the largest contiguous urban park areas in the United States. The 67 National Historic Landmarks in the city helped account for the $10 billion generated by tourism, Philadelphia is the only World Heritage City in the United States. Before Europeans arrived, the Philadelphia area was home to the Lenape Indians in the village of Shackamaxon, the Lenape are a Native American tribe and First Nations band government. They are also called Delaware Indians and their territory was along the Delaware River watershed, western Long Island. Most Lenape were pushed out of their Delaware homeland during the 18th century by expanding European colonies, Lenape communities were weakened by newly introduced diseases, mainly smallpox, and violent conflict with Europeans. Iroquois people occasionally fought the Lenape, surviving Lenape moved west into the upper Ohio River basin. The American Revolutionary War and United States independence pushed them further west, in the 1860s, the United States government sent most Lenape remaining in the eastern United States to the Indian Territory under the Indian removal policy. In the 21st century, most Lenape now reside in the US state of Oklahoma, with communities living also in Wisconsin, Ontario. The Dutch considered the entire Delaware River valley to be part of their New Netherland colony, in 1638, Swedish settlers led by renegade Dutch established the colony of New Sweden at Fort Christina and quickly spread out in the valley. In 1644, New Sweden supported the Susquehannocks in their defeat of the English colony of Maryland
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Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a form of musical expression. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms, Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience, intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as one of Americas original art forms. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging musicians music which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments. In the early 1980s, a form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin, the question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a term dating back to 1860 meaning pep. The use of the word in a context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a context in New Orleans was in a November 14,1916 Times-Picayune article about jas bands. In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying, When Broadway picked it up. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. Jazz has proved to be difficult to define, since it encompasses such a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, in the opinion of Robert Christgau, most of us would say that inventing meaning while letting loose is the essence and promise of jazz. As Duke Ellington, one of jazzs most famous figures, said, although jazz is considered highly difficult to define, at least in part because it contains so many varied subgenres, improvisation is consistently regarded as being one of its key elements
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Prestige Records
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Prestige Records was a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the jazz musicians of the day. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was absorbed by Concord. Weinstock opened a store for collectors in 1948 while still a teenager. The store was adjacent to the Metropole Jazz Club in New York City, Jazz musicians hung out and rehearsed at the club, and then moved upstairs adjacent to Weinstocks store. Weinstock got the idea to record these jazz stars by offering them cash payments, Prestige office was located at 446 West 50th Street, New York City. The labels name was initially New Jazz, but changed to Prestige Records the following year and its catalogue included Gene Ammons, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Wardell Gray, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins. Weinstock stated a desire for an authentic, spontaneous sound, unlike Blue Note, Prestige would not pay musicians for rehearsals and discouraged repeated takes. Another Weinstock practice, of rewinding the tapes after bad takes, has resulted in very few alternate takes surfacing from the classic Prestige years, audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder was in charge of recording many albums in the 1950s. Prestige created new labels in 1960, Swingsville, Moodsville, and Bluesville, musicians recording for the label at this time included Jaki Byard and Booker Ervin, while Prestige remained commercially viable by recording a number of soul jazz artists like Charles Earland. In the mid-sixties the companys headquarters were located at 203 South Washington Avenue in Bergenfield, Bob Weinstock has been criticized over the years for allegedly exploitive business practices. Jackie McLean in A. B. Spellmans Four Lives in the Bebop Business is particularly outspoken and he resented Weinstocks economic exploitation, but appreciated the chance Weinstock gave him when his career was at its low point. The company was sold to Fantasy Records in 1971, and original releases on the label formed a significant proportion of their Original Jazz Classics line, Fantasy was purchased by Concord Records in 2005. Prestige – official site Prestige discography at Discogs Prestige discography at JazzDisco
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Gigi Gryce
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Gigi Gryce was an American jazz saxophonist, flautist, clarinetist, composer, arranger, and educator. While his performing career was short, much of his work as a player, composer. However, Gryce abruptly ended his career in the 1960s. This, in addition to his nature as a private person, has resulted in very little knowledge of Gryce today. Several of his compositions have been covered extensively and have become jazz standards. Gryces compositional bent includes harmonic choices similar to those of contemporaries Benny Golson, Tadd Dameron, Gryces playing, arranging, and composing are most associated with the classic hard bop era. He was a composer and musician, and wrote some classical works as a student at the Boston Conservatory. As a jazz musician and composer he was much influenced by the work of Charlie Parker. George General Grice Jr. was born in Pensacola, Florida on November 28,1925 and his familys strong emphasis on music, manners, and discipline had a tremendous effect on him as a child and into his later career. Grices parents were of modest means, his mother a seamstress, the family belonged to the African Methodist Episcopal Church and attended services diligently. Especially as the Great Depression began to take its toll on the financial welfare. Music was very much emphasized in the Grice household, the family had a piano in the house, which Gigi and his siblings were encouraged to play. Mostly church music was performed in the Grice home, while pop, many of the Grice children were encouraged to pursue vocal performance at church, school, and other community, for a time the family even held weekly recitals in their home. The early thirties saw tragedy and hardship for the Grice family, in 1931, as the economic crisis of The Great Depression began to take hold, the Grices were forced to sell their cleaning business. Two years later, Gigis father, George Sr. died after suffering a heart attack, rebecca Grice was forced to raise the children as a single mother, relocating the family in order to rent out the house. Gigi very much applied his familys sense of discipline to his passion for music. As a youth Gigi was described as bright but reserved, extremely polite, studious, eventually, Gigis mother was able to buy him his own metal cavalry clarinet, with which Gigi became quite successful as a high school student, winning school and state competitions. Gryce continued to pursue music during his term, making his way into the navy band
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Roy Haynes
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Roy Owen Haynes is an American jazz drummer and group leader. Haynes is among the most recorded drummers in jazz, and in a career lasting more than 70 years has played in a range of styles ranging from swing and bebop to jazz fusion. He has an expressive, personal style and is known to foster a deep engagement in his bandmates. He has also led his own groups, some performing under the name Hip Ensemble and his most recent recordings as a leader are Fountain of Youth and Whereas, both of which have been nominated for a Grammy Award. He continues to perform worldwide and was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1999 and his son Graham Haynes is a cornetist, his son Craig Haynes and grandson Marcus Gilmore are both drummers. Born in the Roxbury section of Boston, Massachusetts, Haynes made his debut in 1944 at the age of seventeen in his native Boston. Haynes began his professional career in 1945. From 1947 to 1949 he worked with saxophonist Lester Young, and he also recorded at the time with pianist Bud Powell and saxophonists Wardell Gray and Stan Getz. From 1953 to 1958 he toured with singer Sarah Vaughan and also recorded with her, in 2008 Haynes appeared in Grand Theft Auto IV as himself radio station JNR. A3 CD/1 DVD boxed set entitled A Life in Time - The Roy Haynes Story was released by Dreyfus Jazz in October 2007. The set chronicles highlights from Haynes career from 1949 to 2006, including recordings with Parker, Vaughan, Davis, Monk, Corea, Metheny and his own Hip Ensemble and Fountain of Youth quartet. The set was listed by The New Yorker Magazine as one of the Best Boxed Sets of 2007, wKCR-FM, New York, surveyed Hayness career in 301 hours of programming, January 11–23,2009. On April 21,2016, at the age of 91, Haynes performed drums on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, accompanied by Jon Batiste, Haynes extracted the rhythmic qualities from melodies and created unique new drum and cymbal patterns in an idiosyncratic, now instantly recognizable style. Rather than using cymbals strictly for effect, Haynes brought them to the forefront of his rhythmic approach. He also established a distinctively crisp and rapid-fire sound on the snare, Haynes endorses Yamaha drums, pedals and hardware, Zildjian cymbals and Remo drumheads. He also uses his Zildjian Roy Haynes signature drumstick and has a Yamaha Roy Haynes signature snare drum, in the past, he endorsed Ludwig and Slingerland and he has been photographed playing Latin Percussion, notably congas. Haynes had used Paiste flat rides in the past, thus indicating he may have endorsed Paiste at some stage, esquire named Roy Haynes one of the Best Dressed Men in America in 1960, along with Fred Astaire, Clark Gable and Cary Grant. He was inducted into the Down Beat Magazine Hall of Fame in 2004, on October 9,2010, Roy Haynes was awarded the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundations BNY Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC
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Red Garland
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William Red Garland was an American modern jazz pianist. Known for his work as a bandleader and during the 1950s with Miles Davis, william Red Garland was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1923. He began his studies on the clarinet and alto saxophone but, in 1940. Garland spent copious amounts of practicing and rapidly developed into a proficient player. A short early career as a boxer did not seem to hurt his playing hands. He fought a young Sugar Ray Robinson before becoming a full-time musician, after the Second World War, Garland performed with Billy Eckstine, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, and Lester Young. He found steady work in the cities of Boston, New York City, in the late 1940s, he toured with Eddie Vinson at the same time that John Coltrane was in Vinsons band. His creativity and playing ability continued to improve, though he was somewhat obscure. By the time he became a pianist for Miles Davis, he was influenced by Ahmad Jamal, Garland became famous in 1954 when he joined the Miles Davis Quintet, featuring John Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones, and Paul Chambers. Davis was a fan of boxing and was impressed that Garland had boxed earlier in his life, together, the group recorded their famous Prestige albums, Miles, The New Miles Davis Quintet, Workin, Steamin, Cookin, and Relaxin. Garlands style is prominent in these seminal recordings—evident in his distinctive chord voicings, his sophisticated accompaniment, and his musical references to Ahmad Jamals style. Some observers dismissed Garland as a cocktail pianist, but Miles was pleased with his style, having urged Garland to absorb some of Jamals lightness of touch, Garland played on the first of Daviss many Columbia recordings, Round About Midnight. Though he would continue playing with Miles, their relationship was beginning to deteriorate, by 1958, Garland and Jones had started to become more erratic in turning up for recordings and shows. He was eventually fired by Miles, but later returned to play on another jazz classic, Davis was displeased when Garland quoted Daviss much earlier, and by then famous, solo from Nows The Time in block chords during the slower take of Straight, No Chaser. Garland walked out of one of the sessions for Milestones, so that on the track Sids Ahead, in 1958, Garland formed his own trio. The trio also recorded as a quintet with John Coltrane and Donald Byrd, altogether, Garland led 19 recording sessions while at Prestige Records and 25 sessions for Fantasy Records. He stopped playing professionally for a number of years in the 1960s when the popularity of rock music coincided with a drop in the popularity of jazz. Garland eventually returned to his native Texas in the 1970s to care for his aged mother and he led a recording in 1977, named Crossings, which reunited him with Philly Joe Jones, and he teamed up with world-class bassist Ron Carter
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James Moody (saxophonist)
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James Moody was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles. Moody adopted the song as his own, recording it with Jefferson on his 1956 album Moodys Mood for Love and performing the song regularly in concert, James Moody was born in Savannah, Georgia, and was raised by his mother, Ruby Hann Moody Watters. Growing up in New Jersey, he was attracted to the saxophone after hearing George Holmes Tate, Don Byas, and various saxophonists who played with Count Basie, Moody joined the US Army Air Corps in 1943 and played in the negro band on the segregated base. Following his discharge from the military in 1946 he played bebop with Dizzy Gillespie for two years, Moody later played with Gillespie in 1964, where his colleagues in the Gillespie group, pianist Kenny Barron and guitarist Les Spann, would be musical collaborators in the coming decades. In 1948 he recorded his first session for Blue Note Records and that same year he relocated to Europe, where he stayed for three years, saying he had been scarred by racism in the U. S. Then in 1952, he returned to the U. S. to a career with Prestige Records and others, playing flute and saxophone in bands that included musicians such as Pee Wee Moore. In the 1960s, he rejoined Dizzy Gillespie and he later worked also with Mike Longo. In a 1998 interview with Bob Bernotas, Moody stated that he believed jazz has definite spiritual resonance, the James Moody Quartet was Moodys vehicle later in his career. And along with Faddis, toured in 1986 with the Philip Morris Superband hosting artists like Hammond organist Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Grady Tate, the Philip Morris Superband concept started a year previous in 1985. Two months after his death, Moody won the Grammy Award posthumously for Best Jazz Instrumental Album for his album Moody 4B, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center hosts the James Moody Democracy of Jazz Festival. Moody was married three times, the first two ended in divorce and his third marriage was to the former Linda Petersen McGowan, whom he married in 1989. He had a daughter, Michelle Moody Bagdanove, and through Linda, Moody and his wife resided in San Diego. He was an member of the Baháí Faith. In 2005, the Moodys established the Moody Scholarship Fund at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College-State University of New York. Moody was awarded an NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship in 1998 and often participated in programming and outreach, including with the International Association for Jazz Education. On November 2,2010, Moodys wife announced on his behalf that he had pancreatic cancer, after palliative care, Moody died in San Diego, on December 9,2010, from complications resulting from pancreatic cancer. 1970, Teachers 1971, Heritage Hum 1971, Chicago Concert with Gene Ammons 1972, with Cedar Walton Soul Cycle With Tubby Hayes Return Visit. Credited as Jimmy Gloomy With Roberta Gambarini Easy To Love Moody plays tenor sax and sings with Roberta on Lover Man and Centerpiece, Biography of Moody jamesmoody
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Art Blakey
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Arthur Art Blakey was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he became a Muslim, Blakey made a name for himself in the 1940s in the big bands of Fletcher Henderson and Billy Eckstine. He worked with bebop musicians Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, in the mid-1950s Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group that the drummer was associated with for the next 35 years. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s and he was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, the Grammy Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1991, Blakey was born on October 11,1919 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to a single mother, who died shortly after his birth. According to Leslie Gourses biography, the mother figure was Annie Peron. The stories related by family and friends, and by Blakey himself, are contradictory as to how long he spent with the Peron family, equally clouded by contradiction are stories of Blakeys early music career. He switched from piano to drums at a date in the early 1930s. An oft-quoted account of the event states that Blakey was forced at gunpoint to move from piano to drums by a club owner, the veracity of this story is called into question in the Gourse biography, as Blakey himself gives other accounts in addition to this one. The style Blakey assumed was the swing style of Chick Webb, Sid Catlett. From 1939-44, Blakey played with fellow Pittsburgh native Mary Lou Williams, while sources differ on the timing, most agree that he traveled to New York with Williams in 1942 before joining Henderson a year later. While playing in Hendersons band, Blakey got into a scuffle with Georgia police and he then led his own band at the Tic Toc Club in Boston for a short time. From 1944-47, Blakey worked with Billy Eckstines big band, after the Eckstine band broke up, Blakey states that he traveled to Africa for a time, In 1947, after the Eckstine band broke up, we -- took a trip to Africa. I was supposed to stay three months and I stayed two years because I wanted to live among the people and find out just how they lived. Blakey is known to have recorded in 1947,1948 and 1949, Blakey toured with Buddy DeFranco from 1951 to 1953 in a band that also included Kenny Drew. On December 17,1947, Blakey led a group known as Art Blakeys Messengers in his first recording session as a leader, the records were released as 78 rpm records at the time, and two of the songs were released on the New Sounds 10 LP compilation. The octet included Kenny Dorham, Sahib Shihab, Musa Kaleem, around the same time, or 1949 he led a big band called Seventeen Messengers. The band proved to be unstable and broke up soon after
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Yusef Lateef
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Yusef Abdul Lateef was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and prominent figure among the Ahmadiyya Community in America, in 1950. He is known for having been an innovator in the blending of jazz with Eastern music, peter Keepnews, in his New York Times obituary of Lateef, wrote that the musician played world music before world music had a name. Along with his record label YAL Records, Lateef owned Fana Music, Lateef published his own work through Fana, which includes Yusef Lateefs Flute Book of the Blues and many of his own orchestral compositions. Lateef was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and his family moved, in 1923, to Lorain, Ohio, and again in 1925, to Detroit, Michigan, where his father changed the familys name to Evans. Lateef was a proficient saxophonist by the time of his graduation from school at the age of 18. The first instrument he bought was a saxophone but after a year he switched to the tenor saxophone. In 1949, he was invited by Dizzy Gillespie to tour with his orchestra, in 1950, Lateef returned to Detroit and began his studies in composition and flute at Wayne State University. It was during this period that he converted to Islam as a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and he twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. In 2005, Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel, directors of Step Across The Border, filmed Brother Yusef, musicians such as Wilbur Harden, bassist Herman Wright, drummer Frank Gant, and pianist Hugh Lawson were among his collaborators during this period. By 1961, with the recording of Into Something and Eastern Sounds, even his use of the western oboe sounds exotic in this context, it is not a standard jazz instrument. Indeed, the tunes themselves are a mixture of standards, blues. Lateef made numerous contributions to other albums including his time as a member of saxophonist Cannonball Adderleys Quintet during 1962–64. Lateefs sound has been claimed to have been an influence on the saxophonist John Coltrane. For a time Lateef was signed to Coltranes label, Impulse and he had a regular working group during this period, with trumpeter Richard Williams and Mike Nock on piano. In the late 1960s he began to incorporate contemporary soul and gospel phrasing into his music, still with a strong blues underlay, on such as Detroit. Lateef expressed a dislike of the jazz and jazz musician as musical generalizations. As is so often the case with such generalizations, the use of terms do understate the breadth of his sound. For example, in the 1980s, Lateef experimented with new-age, in 1960, Lateef again returned to school, studying flute at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City
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Pharoah Sanders
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Pharoah Sanders is an American jazz saxophonist. Saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as probably the best tenor player in the world, emerging from John Coltranes groups of the mid-1960s, Sanders is known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of sheets of sound. Sanders is an important figure in the development of jazz, Albert Ayler famously said, Trane was the Father, Pharoah was the Son. Pharoah Sanders was born Farrell Sanders on October 13,1940 in Little Rock and his mother worked as a cook in a school cafeteria, and his father worked for the City of Little Rock. An only child, Sanders began his career accompanying church hymns on clarinet. His initial artistic accomplishments were in art, but when he was at Scipio Jones High School in North Little Rock, the band director, Jimmy Cannon, was also a saxophone player and introduced Sanders to jazz. When Cannon left Scipio Jones High School, Sanders took over as the director until a permanent director could be found. During the late 1950s, Sanders would often sneak into African-American clubs in downtown Little Rock to play with acts that were passing through. At the time, Little Rock was part of the route through Memphis, Tennessee. Sanders found himself limited by the segregation and the R&B. After finishing high school in 1959, Sanders moved to Oakland, California and he briefly attended Oakland Junior College and studied art and music. Once outside the Jim Crow South, Sanders could play in black and white clubs. His Arkansas connection stuck with him in the Bay Area with the nickname of “Little Rock. ”It was also during this time that he met, Pharoah Sanders began his professional career playing tenor saxophone in Oakland, California. He moved to New York City in 1961 after playing with rhythm and he received his nickname Pharoah from bandleader Sun Ra, with whom he was performing. After moving to New York, Sanders had been destitute, He was often living on the streets, under stairs, where ever he could find to stay, his clothes in tatters. Sun Ra gave him a place to stay, bought him a new pair of pants with yellow stripes, encouraged him to use the name Pharoah. Sanders came to prominence playing with John Coltranes band, starting in 1965, as Coltrane began adopting the avant-garde jazz of Albert Ayler, Sun Ra. Sanders first performed with Coltrane on Ascension, then on their dual-tenor recording Meditations, after this Sanders joined Coltranes final quintet, usually performing very lengthy, dissonant solos
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Herbie Mann
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Herbert Jay Solomon, known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he played tenor saxophone and clarinet. His most popular single was Hijack, which was a Billboard No.1 dance hit for three weeks in 1975, Mann emphasized the groove approach in his music. Mann felt that from his repertoire, the epitome of a record was Memphis Underground or Push Push. Herbie Mann was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents, Solomon, who was of Russian descent, and Ruth Rose Solomon, who was born in Bukovina, Austria-Hungary but immigrated to the United States with her family at the age of 6. Both of his parents were dancers and singers, as well as dance instructors later in life and he attended Lincoln High School in Brighton Beach. His first professional performance was playing the Catskills resorts at age 15, in the 1950s Mann was primarily a bop flutist, playing in combos with artists such as Phil Woods, occasionally playing bass clarinet, tenor saxophone and solo flute. Mann was a pioneer of the fusion of jazz and world music. In 1959, following a State Department sponsored tour of Africa, in 1961 Mann toured Brazil, returning to the United States to record with Brazilian musicians, including Antonio Carlos Jobim and guitarist Baden Powell. These albums helped popularize bossa nova in the US and Europe and he often worked with Brazilian themes. In the mid-1960s Mann hired a young Chick Corea to play in some of his bands, in the late 1970s and early 1980s Mann played duets at New York Citys The Bottom Line and Village Gate clubs, with Sarod virtuoso Vasant Rai. and Bernard Purdie. In this period Mann had a number of pop hits — rare for a jazz musician, according to a 1998 interview Mann had made at least 25 albums that were on the Billboard 200 pop charts, success denied most of his jazz peers. Mann provided the music for the 1978 National Film Board of Canada animated short Afterlife, in the early 1970s he founded his own label, Embryo Records, distributed by Cotillion Records, a division of Atlantic Records. He later set up Kokopelli Records after difficulty with established labels, in 1996, Mann collaborated with Stereolab on the song One Note Samba/Surfboard for the AIDS-Benefit album Red Hot + Rio produced by the Red Hot Organization. Mann also played horns on the Bee Gees album Spirits Having Flown and he died in his home in Pecos, New Mexico, leaving his wife, Susan Janeal Arison, and four children, Paul Mann, Claudia Mann, Laura Mann-Lepik and Geoffrey Mann. Bio Further discography and biography National Public Radios Jazz Profiles, Herbie Mann Herbie Mann Official Website
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Thelonious Monk
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Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer. Monk is the second most-recorded jazz composer after Duke Ellington, which is remarkable as Ellington composed more than a thousand pieces. He was renowned for his style in suits, hats. Monk is one of five musicians to have been featured on the cover of Time, after Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck. Thelonious Sphere Monk was born two years after his sister Marion on October 10,1917, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and his badly written birth certificate misspelled his first name as Thelious or Thelius. It also did not list his name, taken from his maternal grandfather. A brother, Thomas, was born in January 1920, in 1922, the family moved to 243 West 63rd Street, in Manhattan, New York City. Monk started playing the piano at the age of six, and was largely self-taught and he attended Stuyvesant High School but did not graduate. He toured with an evangelist in his teens, playing the church organ, in the early to mid-1940s, Monk was the house pianist at Mintons Playhouse, a Manhattan nightclub. Much of Monks style was developed during his time at Mintons, Monk is believed to be the pianist featured on recordings Jerry Newman made around 1941 at the club. Monks style at this time was described as hard-swinging, with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monks stated influences included Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, in the documentary Thelonious Monk, Straight, No Chaser, it is stated that Monk lived in the same neighborhood in New York City as Johnson and knew him as a teenager. So, the worked out a music that was hard to steal. Ill say this for the leeches, though, they tried, ive seen them in Mintons busily writing on their shirt cuffs or scribbling on the tablecloth. And even our own guys, Im afraid, did not give Monk the credit he had coming, why, they even stole his idea of the beret and bop glasses. In 1944 Monk made his first studio recordings with the Coleman Hawkins Quartet, Hawkins was one of the earliest established jazz musicians to promote Monk, and the pianist later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on a 1957 session with John Coltrane. Monk made his first recordings as leader for Blue Note in 1947, Monk married Nellie Smith the same year, and in 1949 the couple had a son, T. S. Monk, who became a jazz drummer. A daughter, Barbara, was born in 1953 and died in 1984 from cancer, in August 1951, New York City police searched a parked car occupied by Monk and friend Bud Powell
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John Coltrane
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John William Coltrane, also known as Trane, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career and he led at least fifty recording sessions during his career, and appeared as a sideman on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on a spiritual dimension. Coltrane influenced innumerable musicians, and remains one of the most significant saxophonists in music history and he received many posthumous awards and recognitions, including canonization by the African Orthodox Church as Saint John William Coltrane and a special Pulitzer Prize in 2007. His second wife was pianist Alice Coltrane and their son Ravi Coltrane is also a saxophonist, Coltrane was born in his parents apartment at 200 Hamlet Avenue, Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23,1926. His father was John R. Coltrane and his mother was Alice Blair and he grew up in High Point, North Carolina, attending William Penn High School. Beginning in December 1938 Coltranes aunt, grandparents, and father all died within a few months of one another, leaving John to be raised by his mother, in June 1943 he moved to Philadelphia. In September of that year his mother bought him his first saxophone, Coltrane played the clarinet and the alto horn in a community band before taking up the alto saxophone during high school. He had his first professional gigs in early to mid-1945 – a cocktail lounge trio, with piano and guitar. To avoid being drafted by the Army, Coltrane enlisted in the Navy on August 6,1945, by the time he got to Hawaii, in late 1945, the Navy was already rapidly downsizing. As the Melody Masters was a band, however, Coltrane was treated merely as a guest performer to avoid alerting superior officers of his participation in the band. He continued to other duties when not playing with the band, including kitchen. By the end of his service, he had assumed a role in the band. His first recordings, a session in Hawaii with Navy musicians. Coltrane played alto saxophone on a selection of standards and bebop tunes. In Philadelphia after the war, he studied theory with guitarist and composer Dennis Sandole. Originally an altoist, in 1947 Coltrane also began playing saxophone with the Eddie Vinson Band. Coltrane later referred to point in his life as a time when a wider area of listening opened up for me
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Wayne Shorter
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Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Many of Shorters compositions have become standards, and his output has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise. Shorter first came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Daviss Second Great Quintet and he has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader. Shorter has won 10 Grammy Awards, the New York Times has described Shorter as probably jazzs greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living improviser. In 2017, he was awarded the Polar Music Prize, Wayne Shorter was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended Newark Arts High School, from which he graduated in 1952. He loved music, being encouraged by his father to take up the clarinet as a teenager, after graduating from New York University in 1956, Shorter spent two years in the U. S. Army, during which time he played briefly with Horace Silver. After his discharge, he played with Maynard Ferguson, in his youth Shorter had acquired the nickname Mr. Gone, which later became an album title for Weather Report. In 1959, Shorter joined Art Blakey and he stayed with Blakey for five years, and eventually became the bands musical director. When John Coltrane left Miles Davis band in 1960 to pursue his own group, Coltrane proposed Shorter as a replacement, Davis went with Sonny Stitt on tenor, followed by a revolving door of Hank Mobley, George Coleman, and Sam Rivers. In 1964 Davis persuaded Shorter to leave Blakey and join his quintet alongside Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and he composed extensively for Davis, on some albums, he provided half of the compositions. Hancock said of Shorters tenure in the group, The master writer to me, Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didnt get changed. Davis said, Wayne is a real composer and he writes scores, write the parts for everybody just as he wants them to sound. Wayne also brought in a kind of curiosity about working with musical rules. If they didnt work, then he broke them, but with musical sense, he understood that freedom in music was the ability to know the rules in order to them to your own satisfaction. Shorter remained in Daviss band after the breakup of the quintet in 1968, playing on early jazz recordings including In a Silent Way. His last live dates and studio recordings with Davis were in 1970, until 1968, he played tenor saxophone exclusively. The final album on which he played tenor in the sequence of Davis albums was Filles de Kilimanjaro
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Archie Shepp
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Archie Shepp is an American jazz saxophonist. Shepp was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Shepp studied drama at Goddard College from 1955 to 1959, but he eventually turned to music professionally. He played in a Latin jazz band for a time before joining the band of avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor. Shepps first recording under his own name, Archie Shepp - Bill Dixon Quartet, was released on Savoy Records in 1962, further links to Coleman came with the establishment of the New York Contemporary Five, which included Don Cherry. John Coltranes admiration led to recordings for Impulse, Shepp participated in the sessions for Coltranes A Love Supreme in late 1964, but none of the takes he participated in were included on the final LP release. In 1965, Shepp released Fire Music, which included the first signs of his political consciousness. The Magic of Ju-Ju defined Shepps sound for the few years, freeform avant-garde saxophone lines coupled with rhythms. Shepp was invited to perform in Algiers for the 1969 Pan-African Cultural Festival of the Organization for African Unity, along with Dave Burrell, Sunny Murray and this ensemble then recorded several sessions in Paris at the BYG Actuel studios. Shepp continued to experiment into the new decade, at times including harmonica players. With 1972s Attica Blues and The Cry of My People, he spoke out for civil rights, Shepp also writes for theater, his works include The Communist and Lady Day, A Musical Tragedy. Both were produced by Robert Kalfin at the Chelsea Theater Center, in 1971, Shepp was recruited to the University of Massachusetts Amherst by Randolph Bromery, beginning a 30-year career as a professor of music. Shepps first two courses were entitled Revolutionary Concepts in African-American Music and Black Musician in the Theater, Shepp was also a professor of African-American Studies at SUNY in Buffalo, New York. In the late 1970s and beyond, Shepps career went between various old territories and various new ones, since the early 1990s, he has often played with the French trumpeter Eric Le Lann. Shepp is featured in the 1981 documentary film Imagine the Sound, in which he discusses and performs his music, Shepp also appears in Mystery, Mr. Ra, a 1984 French documentary about Sun Ra. The film also includes footage of Shepp playing with Sun Ras Arkestra, in 1993, he worked with Michel Herr to create the original score for the film Just Friends. In 2002, Shepp appeared on the Red Hot Organizations tribute album to Fela Kuti, Shepp appeared on a track entitled No Agreement alongside Res, Tony Allen, Ray Lema, Baaba Maal, and Positive Black Soul. In 2004 Archie Shepp founded his own label, Archieball. The label is located in Paris, France, and features collaborations with Jacques Coursil, Monica Passos, Bernard Lubat, official homepage Stewart Smith, Archie Shepp interview, Summerhall, July 31,2012
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Mal Waldron
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Malcolm Earl Mal Waldron was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from university, in the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists, and was Billie Holidays regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959. A breakdown caused by an overdose in 1963 left Waldron unable to play or remember any music, he regained his skills gradually. He left the U. S. permanently in the mid-1960s, settled in Europe, in his 50-year career, Waldron recorded more than 100 albums under his own name and more than 70 for other band leaders. He also wrote for modern ballet, and composed the scores of feature films. As a pianist, Waldrons roots lay chiefly in the hard bop and post-bop genres of the New York club scene of the 1950s and he is known for his dissonant chord voicings and distinctive later playing style, which featured repetition of notes and motifs. Mal Waldron was born in New York City on August 16,1925 and his father was a mechanical engineer who worked on the Long Island Rail Road. The family moved to Jamaica, Long Island when Mal was four years old, Waldrons parents discouraged his initial interest in jazz, but he was able to maintain it by listening to swing on the radio. Waldron had classical piano lessons from the age of seven until he was about 16. He then became inspired to play jazz on tenor saxophone when he heard Coleman Hawkins 1939 recording of Body and Soul and he played alto for local bands that performed for dances, bar mitzvahs, Spanish weddings, frequently taking over the pianists role when other musicians took their solos. In 1943, after school and having enrolled at university, Waldron was called up by the army and this allowed him to listen to the greats of jazz in clubs on 52nd Street and elsewhere in the city. After two years in the army, he returned as a student to Queens College in New York and this decision was influenced in part by hearing Charlie Parkers virtuoso speed on saxophone, and by not having the extroverted personality Waldron thought necessary for that instrument. Not yet a professional musician, he received money through the G. I, bill and continued to live with his parents. After obtaining a B. A. in music in 1949, Waldron worked for a time in rhythm and blues bands. Waldron went on to work with Ike Quebec in New York in 1950 and they played at Café Society Downtown on Mondays for six or seven months, which helped Waldron gain exposure and more work. Waldron worked frequently with Charles Mingus from 1954 to 1956, as part of the jazz composers workshop. He was pianist on several Mingus recordings, including Pithecanthropus Erectus, in 1955, Waldron worked with Lucky Millinder and Lucky Thompson
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Bobby Hutcherson
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Robert Bobby Hutcherson was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. Little Bs Poem, from the 1966 Blue Note album Components, is one of his best-known compositions, Hutcherson influenced younger vibraphonists including Steve Nelson, Joe Locke, and Stefon Harris. Bobby Hutcherson was born in Los Angeles, California, to Eli, a mason, and Esther. Hutcherson was exposed to jazz by his brother Teddy, who listened to Art Blakey records in the home with his friend Dexter Gordon. His older sister Peggy was a singer in Gerald Wilsons orchestra, Hutcherson went on to record on a number of Gerald Wilsons Pacific Jazz recordings as well as play in his orchestra. Hutchersons sister personally introduced Hutcherson to Eric Dolphy and Billy Mitchell, in January 1962, Hutcherson joined the Billy Mitchell–Al Grey group for dates at The Jazz Workshop in San Francisco and Birdland in New York City. Lewis was working with The Jazztet and hosted jam sessions at his apartment, Hutcherson won the Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition award in the 1964 Down Beat readers poll, and Blue Note released Hutchersons Dialogue in 1965. Featuring Joe Henderson, Herbie Lewis, and Billy Higgins, was the first of many recorded sessions Hutcherson made with McCoy Tyner throughout their careers. Stick-Up. was also the album out of ten Hutcherson recorded as leader for Blue Note between 1965 and 1969 which did not feature drummer Joe Chambers or any of Chambers compositions. Spanning the years 1963 to 1977, Hutcherson had one of the longest recording careers with Blue Note, the Hutcherson-Land group broke up in 1971, and that same year Hutcherson won the title of Worlds Best Vibist in the International Jazz Critics Poll. After the release of Knucklebean in 1977, Hutcherson recorded three albums for Columbia Records in the late 1970s. In 2004, Hutcherson became a member of the SFJAZZ Collective, featuring Joshua Redman, Miguel Zenón, Nicholas Payton, Renee Rosnes. He toured with them for four years, and made an appearance at the SFJAZZ Centers grand opening in 2013 and his 2007 quartet included Renee Rosnes on piano, Dwayne Burno on bass and Al Foster on drums. His 2008 quartet included Joe Gilman on piano, Glenn Richman on bass, in 2010 he received the lifetime Jazz Master Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and performed at Birdland in a quintet featuring Gilman, Burno, Marshall, and Peter Bernstein. 2014 saw Hutcherson return to Blue Note Records with Enjoy the View, recorded at Ocean Way Studios in Hollywood with Joey DeFrancesco, David Sanborn, the quartet performed four sold-out shows at the SFJAZZ Center in February, prior to the albums release. Hutchersons intermittent acting career included an appearance as the bandleader in They Shoot Horses, Dont They. Hutcherson has a son, Barry, from his first marriage to Beth Buford. Hutcherson wrote the waltz Little Bs Poem for Barry in 1962 and that same year, he married Rosemary Zuniga, a ticket taker at the Both/And club in San Francisco. The couple had a son, Teddy, who is a manager for SFJAZZ
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Lee Morgan
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Edward Lee Morgan was an American jazz trumpeter. Morgan stayed with Blakey until 1961 and started to record as soon after. Soon after The Sidewinder was released, Morgan rejoined Blakey for a period of time. Morgans career was cut short at the age of 33, when his longtime girlfriend shot him at Slugs Saloon where he died of his injuries. Edward Lee Morgan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 10,1938, a leading trumpeter and composer, he recorded prolifically from 1956 until a day before his death in February 1972. Originally interested in the vibraphone, he showed a growing enthusiasm for the trumpet. Morgan also knew how to play the alto saxophone, on his thirteenth birthday, his sister Ernestine gave him his first trumpet. His primary stylistic influence was Clifford Brown, with whom he took a few lessons as a teenager. He joined the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band at 18, and remained as a member for a year and he began recording for Blue Note Records in 1956, eventually recording 25 albums as a leader for the company, with more than 250 musicians. He also recorded on the Vee-Jay label and one album for Riverside Records on its short-lived Jazzland subsidiary, joining Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers in 1958 further developed his talent as a soloist and composer. He toured with Blakey for a few years, and was featured on albums by the Messengers, including Moanin. When Benny Golson left the Jazz Messengers, Morgan persuaded Blakey to hire Wayne Shorter and this version of the Jazz Messengers, including pianist Bobby Timmons and bassist Jymie Merritt, recorded several albums including Africaine, The Big Beat, A Night in Tunisia and The Freedom Rider. During his time with The Jazz Messengers, Morgan also wrote several tunes including The Midget, Haina, Celine, Yama, Kozos Waltz, Pisces, and Blue Lace. The drug problems of Morgan and Timmons forced them to leave the band in 1961, according to Tom Perchard, a Morgan biographer, it was Blakey who introduced the trumpeter to heroin, which impeded his progression in his career. On returning to New York in 1963, he recorded The Sidewinder, the title track cracked the pop charts in 1964, and served as the background theme for Chrysler television commercials during the World Series. The tune was used without Morgans or Blue Notes consent, due to the crossover success of The Sidewinder in a rapidly changing pop music market, Blue Note encouraged its other artists to emulate the tunes boogaloo beat. Morgan himself repeated the formula several times with such as Cornbread and Yes I Can. According to drummer Billy Hart, Morgan said he had recorded The Sidewinder as filler for the album and he felt that his playing was much more advanced on Grachan Moncur IIIs essentially avant-garde Evolution album, recorded a month earlier, on November 21,1963
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David Murray (saxophonist)
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David Murray is an American jazz musician who plays tenor saxophone and bass clarinet mainly. He has recorded prolifically for many record labels since the mid-1970s, Murray was born in Oakland, California, USA. He was initially influenced by jazz musicians such as Albert Ayler. He gradually evolved a more style in his playing and compositions. Despite this, he recorded a tribute to Coltrane, Octet Plays Trane and he played a set with the Grateful Dead at a show on September 22,1993, at Madison Square Garden in New York City. His 1996 tribute to the Grateful Dead, Dark Star, was critically well received. Murray was a member of the World Saxophone Quartet with Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill. David Murrays use of the breathing technique has enabled him to play astonishingly long phrases. He is currently living in Sines, Portugal, and participates yearly in its FMM Music festival, in 1980 David Murray was named Village Voice Musician of the Decade. Murray was honoured with the Bird Award in 1986 and he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1989. David Murray and his band earned a Grammy Award in 1989 in the Best Jazz Instrumental Group Performance category for Blues for Coltrane, in 1991 he was honoured with the Danish Jazzpar Prize. Newsday named him Musician of the Year in 1993, official David Murray for management and publishing David Murray Fans website Unofficial David Murray website -commentaires de CBS2007 sur bordeauxsalsa. com David Murray interview at allaboutjazz. com
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Tommy Flanagan
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Thomas Lee Flanagan was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, within months of moving to New York in 1956, he had recorded with Miles Davis and on Sonny Rollins landmark Saxophone Colossus. He worked with Fitzgerald for three years until 1965, and then in 1968 returned to be her pianist and musical director, after leaving Fitzgerald in 1978, Flanagan then attracted praise for the elegance of his playing, which was principally in trio settings when under his own leadership. In his 45-year recording career, he recorded more than three albums under his own name and more than 200 as a sideman. By the time of his death, he was one of the most widely admired jazz pianists and had influenced both his contemporaries and later generations of players, Flanagan was born in Conant Gardens, Detroit, Michigan, on March 16,1930. He was the youngest of six children – five boys and a girl and his parents were both originally from Georgia. His father, Johnson Sr, was a postman, and his mother, Ida Mae, at the age of six, Flanagans parents gave him a clarinet for Christmas. He learned to read music from playing the clarinet, but within a few years he preferred the piano. The family had a piano in the house, and Flanagan received lessons from one of his brothers, Johnson, and Gladys Wade Dillard, Flanagan graduated from Northern High School, which he attended with other future musicians, including Sonny Red. Flanagans first concert was around 1945, with trombonist Frank Rosolino, given Flanagan was only around 15 years old at the time, he could not stay in the bar area of the club, between sets, therefore, he went to another room and did some homework. As a teenager, he played in a band led by Lucky Thompson that also contained Pepper Adams, still in his teens, Flanagan also sat in on piano for some appearances by Charlie Parker in Detroit. During 1949, Flanagan had his first residence, at the Blue Bird Inn in Detroit, in 1950 he played with Rudy Rutherford, until the clarinetist returned to the Count Basie band. Flanagan then played jazz and rhythm and blues with saxophonist George Benson in Toledo, after basic training in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Flanagan auditioned as a pianist for an army show. He got the role, which prevented him from being sent to the Korean War at that time, approximately a year later, however, he was sent to Kunsan, there, he worked as a motion-picture-projector operator. After two years service he was discharged and returned to Detroit, where he became pianist at the Blue Bird again. He again worked with Burrell, as well as Donald Byrd and Yusef Lateef, Flanagan moved to New York in 1956. He was unsure of how long he would stay, having been persuaded to go by Burrell, Flanagan soon found work in clubs and studios, including recording Detroit – New York Junction with Thad Jones in March. Later the same month he returned to recording, this time with Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins, Rollins was leader for another session three months later, Saxophone Colossus, which was labeled an undisputed masterpiece by The Penguin Guide to Jazz
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School of Jazz (The New School)
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School of Jazz at The New School is the second conservatory of The New School university. It is located on 13th Street in New York Citys Greenwich Village neighborhood and it was known as The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music before it was rebranded as School of Jazz and becoming part of College of Performing Arts at The New School in 2015. The school holds the philosophy that artists should be mentors, thus many teachers are working professionals, the School of Jazz at The New School offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Jazz and Contemporary Music with concentrations in vocal and instrumental performance. The core curriculum courses in performance, analysis, composition, music history. In addition, a student can select or audition for a range of elective courses. List of Core Faculty at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music For a complete list of notable New School faculty, the School of Jazz at The New School is located on the fifth and sixth floors of 55 West 13th Street. The schools 20, 000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility was designed to help young artists realize their goal of becoming successful music professionals, the facility offers administrative, classroom, practice, and rehearsal space, all constructed to the highest standards with attention to acoustics, soundproofing, and aesthetics. All classrooms are equipped with Yamaha grand pianos, drum kits, amplifiers, vocal PA systems, specialized instrumental practice and teaching rooms, listening library, and piano/MIDI labs are offered. Performance and recording needs are served in an intimate and beautiful performance space seating 120, with capacity for professional sound, lighting. A second studio is available for recording and engineering. Both studios are connected to the server and Internet sites, allowing for posted archival recordings. Our main building, located at 55 West 13th Street, houses the Performance Space, classrooms, offices, university labs. It is a place for students to meet and socialize as well as study, students proficiency on their instruments is evaluated at the start of school. Students who do not place out of requirements are assigned ten lessons with an instructor deemed appropriate to their needs. Students who place out of requirements are assigned nine lessons per semester with one or two instructors chosen in consultation with an advisor. List of alumni of The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music For a complete list of notable New School alumni and faculty, education in New York City The New York Intellectuals The New York Foundation Project Pericles National Book Award Official website Jazz LiveJournal Community
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Oliver Lake
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Oliver Lake is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, and poet. He is known mainly for alto saxophone but he performs on soprano. During the 1960s Lake worked with the Black Artists Group in St. Louis, in 1977 he co-founded the World Saxophone Quartet with David Murray, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. He has worked in the group Trio 3 with Reggie Workman, with Mulgrew Miller Trio Transition with Special Guest Oliver Lake Official website Portraits of Oliver Lake by Dominik Huber / dominikphoto. com
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Andrew Cyrille
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Andrew Charles Cyrille is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, Cyrille was born on November 10,1939, in Brooklyn, New York into a Haitian family. He began studying science at St. Johns University, but was playing jazz in the evenings. His first drum teachers were fellow Brooklyn-based drummers Willie Jones and Lenny McBrowne, through them, nonetheless, Cyrille became a disciple of Philly Joe Jones, who in some performances such as Time Waits used Cyrilles drum kit. His first professional engagement was as an accompanist of singer Nellie Lutcher, trumpeter Ted Curson introduced him to pianist Cecil Taylor when Cyrille was 18. He joined the Cecil Taylor unit in 1964, and stayed for about 10 years, Cyrille is currently a member of the group, Trio 3, with Oliver Lake and Reggie Workman
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Montclair, New Jersey
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Montclair is a township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of 2010, it was the 60th-most-populous municipality in New Jersey, Montclair was first formed as a township on April 15,1868, from portions of Bloomfield Township, so that a second railroad could be built to Montclair. After a referendum held on February 21,1894, Montclair was reincorporated as a town and it derives its name from the French mont clair, meaning clear mountain or bright mountain. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has an area of 6.315 square miles. Montclair is on the east side of the First Mountain of the Watchung Mountains, some higher locations in the township provide excellent views of the surrounding area and of the New York City skyline about 12 miles away. Named localities in the township include Frog Hollow, Montclair Heights, South End, Upper Montclair, Montclair citizens use two main ZIP codes. The central and southern parts of the township are designated 07042, Upper Montclair lies north of Watchung Avenue and has a separate ZIP code,07043. Because the ZIP codes do not exactly match municipal boundaries, a few homes near the borders with neighboring towns fall into the ZIP codes for those communities. A few homes in some adjoining municipalities use one of the two ZIP codes assigned to Montclair, as does HackensackUMC Mountainside, whose campus straddles the border with Glen Ridge, small areas in the southeast of the township fall into the Glen Ridge ZIP code 07028. Yantacaw and Toneys brooks are dammed in parks to create ponds, wigwam, Nishuane, and Toneys brooks flow into the Second River, and the others flow into the Third River. Montclair lies just north of the northernmost extent of the Rahway River watershed, the southern border of Montclair is a straight line between Eagle Rock, on the ridge of the First Watchung Mountain, and the point where Orange Road crosses Nishuane Brook. The eastern border is roughly a line between that point and a point just southwest of where Broad Street crosses the Third River. The western border runs roughly along the ridge of the First Watchung Mountain between Eagle Rock and the Essex County/Passaic County border, the northern border is the border between those two counties. Montclair has a climate, with warm-to-hot, humid summers and cool to cold winters. January tends to be the coldest month, with high temperatures in the upper 30s Fahrenheit. July, the warmest month, features high temperatures in the mid-80s and lows in the 70s, from April to June and from September to early November, Montclair experiences temperatures from the lower 60s to the lower 70s. Montclair gets approximately 50 inches of rain per year, above the United States average of 39 inches, snowfall is common from December to early March, and totals about 30 inches annually. The number of each year in Montclair with any measurable precipitation is 90
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Cecil Bridgewater
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Cecil Bridgewater is an American hard bop jazz trumpeter. Bridgewater was born in Urbana, Illinois and studied at the University of Illinois and he and brother Ron formed the Bridgewater Brothers Band in 1969, and in the 1970s he was married to Dee Dee Bridgewater. In 1970 he played with Horace Silver, and following this with Thad Jones, also in the 1970s he played with Max Roach, starting a decades-long association. Elsewhere he has played with Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Randy Weston, Charles McPherson, Joe Henderson, Roy Brooks, Abdullah Ibrahim, bridgewaters first disc as a leader appeared in 1993. Bridgewater has also composed works premiered by the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra, cecil performed at the 2008 Benefit Concert, “A Great Night in Harlem” at the World Famous Apollo Theater. He currently teaches as adjunct faculty at Manhattan School of Music, New School, William Paterson University, and The Juilliard School
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Slide Hampton
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Locksley Wellington Slide Hampton is an American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger. Described by critics as a composer, arranger and uniquely gifted trombone player. As his nickname implies, Hamptons main instrument is slide trombone, Slide Hampton was born in Jeannette, Pennsylvania. Laura and Clarke Deacon Hampton raised 12 children, taught them how to play musical instruments, the family first came to Indianapolis in 1938. The Hamptons were a musical family in which mother, father, eight brothers. Slide Hampton is one of the few left-handed trombone players, as a child, Hampton was given the trombone set up to play left-handed, or backwards, and as no one ever dissuaded him, he continued to play this way. At the age of 12, Slide played in his familys Indianapolis jazz band, by 1952, at the age of 20, he was performing at Carnegie Hall with the Lionel Hampton Band. In 1958, he recorded with trombone masters on the release of Melba Liston, Melba Liston. In 1962, he formed the Slide Hampton Octet, with horn players Booker Little, Freddie Hubbard, the band toured the U. S. and Europe and recorded on several labels. In 1968 he toured with Woody Herman orchestra, settling in Europe where he remained until 1977 and he taught at Harvard, artist-in-residence in 1981, the University of Massachusetts, De Paul University in Chicago, and Indiana State University. During this period he led his own nine-trombone, three-rhythm band, World of Trombones, co-led Continuum and he also appeared on The Cosby Show 1986. The episode entitled Play It Again, Russell, Hampton also played the trombone in Diana Ross Live. Jazz & Blues, Stolen Moments DVD, on June 4,2006, Hampton promoted his first concert at The Tribeca PAC in New York City and debuted the Slide Hampton™ Ultra Big Band. The concert was the first of many planned for the near future, Hampton is a resident of North New Jersey. He is the uncle of Chicago jazz trumpeter Pharez Whitted,2009 saw the completion of four new compositions entitled A Tribute to African-American Greatness. The songs honored Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey, Tiger Woods, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, the songs contained accompanying lyrics written by Hampton and Tony Charles, arrangements honoring Thelonious Monk, Thad Jones, Eddie Harris, Dexter Gordon and Gil Evans round out the program. The album will be recorded in 2010 and he recently completed two new Big Band arrangements – In Case of Emergency and The Drum Song. These two songs will be available exclusively to universities and other institutions through Slide Hampton Musique Publishing
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George Adams (musician)
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George Rufus Adams was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown and he was also known for his idiosyncratic singing. George Adams was born in Covington, Georgia on April 29,1940 and he first started playing piano at the age of eleven and switched to tenor saxophone in high school. Later on, he went study at the Clark College and got lessons on flute by Wayman Carver, as a teenager, George Adams frequently gained performance experience by playing with local funk bands. In 1961, he accompanied singer Sam Cooke on a tour, at this point, Adams was based out of Cleveland where he spent a great deal of time studying and working with organ trios alongside pianist and organist Bill Doggett. The two men played a form of music that rhythm and blues with jazz. In 1968, he decided to expand his career and move to New York City to participate in the growing jazz scene. A year later, George Adams toured with Roy Haynes, playing with him until 1973, shortly after, he performed with Art Blakey before joining Charles Mingus band. His partnership with Mingus would last until 1976, George Adams first appearance with Mingus was on Mingus Moves with Ronald Hampton, Dannie Richmond, and Don Pullen in 1973. Later on, Adams went to perform in Mingus at Carnegie Hall, Changes One and he also appeared in Mingus Whee and other albums. 1975, while touring Europe with Mingus, he made his first recordings under his own name with Don Pullen, Dannie Richmond, Adams also began a working relationship with Gil Evans that lasted until 1978 that same year. Adams first appearance with Evans was on his album The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix, the album features orchestral versions of songs such as Angel, Castles Made of Sand and Voodoo Child. George Adams continued to record with Gil Evans throughout 1975 by contributing to his album There Comes a Time, in 1976, Adams began to performing on and off with pianist McCoy Tyner until the late 1980s. The following year, George performed with trumpeter Marvin Hannibal Peterson at the Antibes Jazz Festival in Antibes and he appeared on Tyners album The Greeting in 1978 alongside bassist Charles Fambrough and drummer Sonship. In 1979, Adams and Pullen began to co-lead a quartet with Dannie Richmond, in December 1979, George recorded the album Paradise Space Shuttle with his personal quintet that featured pianist Ron Burton, drummer Al Foster, bassist Don Pate and percussionist Azzedin Weston. Adams contributions to his ensemble were best heard on Paradise Space Shuttles title track, after a brief introduction, he enters the arrangement playing a disjointed and primal melody. He then plays a more traditional bebop figure before supplementing it with a strident motive and he continues to utilize several different textures throughout the song, such as multiphonics, blues riffs and phrased melodic devices. The result of all this is a performance that includes a multitude of saxophone history into four, in 1980, Adams and Dannie Richmond recorded the album Hand to Hand for the Soul Note label
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Albert Dailey
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Albert Dailey was an American jazz pianist. Daileys first professional appearances were with the band of the Baltimore Royal Theater in the early 1950s. Later in the decade he studied at Morgan State University and the Peabody Conservatory and he backed Damita Jo DuBlanc on tour from 1960 to 1963, and following this briefly put together his own trio in Washington, D. C. playing at the Bohemian Caverns. In 1964 he moved to New York City, where he played with Dexter Gordon, Roy Haynes, Sarah Vaughan, Charles Mingus, in 1967 he played with Woody Herman at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and played intermittently with Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers around this time. In the 1970s he played with Sonny Rollins, Stan Getz, Elvin Jones, in the 1980s he did concerts at Carnegie Hall and was a member of the Upper Manhattan Jazz Society with Charlie Rouse, Benny Bailey, and Buster Williams. He died of pneumonia in 1984
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Michael Carvin
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Michael W. Carvin is an American jazz drummer. Born in Houston, Texas, Carvin began his training at the age of six with his father. By the age of twelve, Carvin began playing professionally and won what would be the first of five consecutive Texas rudimental championships, carvins career has included two years as a staff drummer with Motown Records, as well as studio and television work on the West Coast. Joining Freddie Hubbards band in 1973, Carvin moved to New York City, a prime example of his work with Hubbard can be seen on the Mosaic Records/Jazz Icons DVD released in fall 2011 featuring Carvin with Hubbard’s very first touring group. Carvin has recorded on more than 250 albums and he is also a drum teacher and clinician. Antiquity with Jackie McLean The Camel With Pat Martino Starbright With Jackie McLean and the Cosmic Brotherhood New York Calling With Pharoah Sanders Elevation
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Roy Ayers
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Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. He is a key figure in the jazz movement, which is a mixture of jazz into hip-hop and funk. He is most well known for his signature compositions Everybody Loves The Sunshine and Searchin, Ayers was born in Los Angeles, and grew up in a musical family, where his father played trombone and his mother played piano. At the age of five, he was given his first pair of vibraphone mallets by Lionel Hampton. The area of Los Angeles that Ayers grew up in, now known as South Central, the schools he attended were all close to the famed Central Avenue, Los Angeles equivalent of Harlems Lenox Avenue and Chicagos State Street. During high school, Ayers sang in the choir and fronted a band named The Latin Lyrics, in which he played steel guitar. His high school, Thomas Jefferson High School, produced some of the most talented new musicians, Ayers started recording as a bebop sideman in 1962 and rose to prominence when he dropped out of City College and joined jazz flutist Herbie Mann in 1966. In the early-1970s, Roy Ayers started his own band called Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Ayers was responsible for the highly regarded soundtrack to Jack Hills 1973 blaxploitation film Coffy, which starred Pam Grier. In 1977, Ayers produced an album by the group RAMP and that fall, he had his biggest hit with Running Away. In the late-1970s, Ayers toured in Nigeria for six weeks with Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, in 1980, Phonodisk released Music of Many Colors in Nigeria, featuring one side led by Ayers group and the other led by Africa 70. In 1981, Ayers produced an album with the singer Sylvia Striplin and he has also worked in collaborations with soul songstress Erykah Badu. Ayers performed a solo on John Jellybean Benitezs production of Whitney Houstons Love Will Save The Day from her second studio album Whitney. The single was released in July 1988 by Arista Records, Ayers has played his live act for millions of people across the globe, including Japan, Australia, England and other parts of Europe. Ayers is known for helping to popularize feel good music in the 1970s, stating that I like that feeling all of the time. I try to generate that because its the natural way I am, the types of music that he used to do this consisted of funk, salsa, jazz, rock, soul and rap. In 1992, Ayers released two albums, Drive and Wake Up, for the hip-hop label Ichiban Records, in 1992, Ayers collaborated with Rick James for an album and is quoted to have been a very close friend of his. In 1993, Ayers appeared on the record Gurus Jazzmatazz Vol.1 featuring on the vibraphone in the song Take a Look, in 1994, Ayers appeared on the Red Hot Organizations compilation album Stolen Moments, Red Hot + Cool. The album, meant to raise awareness and funds in support of the AIDS epidemic in relation to the African-American community, was heralded as Album of the Year by Time Magazine
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Gary Bartz
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Gary Bartz is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist. Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and the Juilliard School, Bartz has played with Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Max Roach, McCoy Tyner, and Jackie McLean. His group, the Ntu Troop, combined soul, funk, African music, hard bop, and avant-garde jazz. In liner notes to his album released in 1995, The Red and Orange Poems and he has recorded more than 40 solo albums and over 200 as a guest artist. He won a Grammy Award in 2005 for his playing on McCoy Tyners album Illuminations, Bartz was awarded the BNY Mellon Jazz 2015 Living Legacy Award, presented at a special ceremony at The Kennedy Center. He currently teaches at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio,4 With Antonio Hart Dont You Know That I Care With Phyllis Hyman You Know How to Love Me Phyllis Hyman Cant We Fall in Love Again
