But in the 1950's a new sound started coming ... and controversy - and Dave Brubeck and his music were at the center of it all. Here jazz historian Ted Gioia, author the book West Coast Jazz ...
Gin, Making Light of It, The Unknowable (Homage to Sonny Rollins), Yakov, They Feed They Lion, I Remember Clifford (Homage to Clifford Brown), The Music ... the 1950s a particularly memorable recent ...
Jazz music itself wasn't that old ... Williams, when he started writing in the 1950's, became a champion of two musicians in particular. The first was Jelly Roll Morton, whom Williams -- rightly ...
Golson was one of the few surviving jazz masters of the 1950s, a golden age during which the innovations of the 1940s, known ...
The great tenor saxophonist Benny Golson was a jazz trailblazer and an emblem of cool. No one played, composed or talked like ...
A well-known figure on the jazz circuit in the late 1950s, Shorter is credited with shaping much of 20th Century jazz music. The 12-time Grammy award winner played alongside several greats ...
Legendary tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin released his first solo album on the Blue Note label in January 1957. Containing both the fast-paced work for which Griffin became known and some more ...
Here are the general findings in jazz music: jazz styles such as swing and bebop are very fast in tempo free jazz - a style developed in the 1950s and 60s - involved players in the same ensemble ...
In the 1950s, a more melodic style known as ... Chick Corea and John McLaughlin rose to fame by fusing jazz and popular music. After decades of ceaseless experimentation, a return to tradition ...
MTU's Jazz program was started in the 1950's by Don Keranen and has been an integral part ... for players who want to explore the rich heritage of Jazz. Students will learn music by ear, improvise in ...
Episode 9: The Adventure In the late 1950s, America's postwar prosperity ... A Masterpiece by Midnight During the Sixties, jazz is in trouble. Critics divide the music into "schools" - Dixieland ...