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Plus a playlist of the best new jazz artists today. Featuring, Ezra Collective, Venna, Nubya Garcia, Yussef Dayes & more. ‘Jazz artists’ conjures up images of the great classics like Ella Fitzgerald, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong.
Feb 22, 2021 · These 25 recordings trace this quintessential American art’s century-long history: from the early days in New Orleans, to the swing era, onto the heady period of bebop, the controlled chaos of ...
Feb 1, 2023 · We’ve done a lot of listening back. So where is jazz today? Writers and musicians including Sonny Rollins, Melanie Charles and Terri Lyne Carrington share their favorites from this millennium.
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- Dave Brubeck, “Take Five” Dave Brubeck - Take Five. This song gets its name from the unusual 5/4 meter it’s written in. Brubeck’s saxophonist, Paul Desmond, wrote the song in 1959, in an era when most jazz was written in 4/4 or 3/4 time, making this a truly groundbreaking song.
- Miles Davis, “So What” Miles Davis - So What (Official Audio) One of the most famous and easily recognizable jazz songs, Davis and his band recorded all the tracks of this song in one take, after practicing the new song for only two days.
- Duke Ellington, “Take The A Train” Duke Ellington, "Take the A Train" Ellington, a standout of the Harlem Renaissance, penned this with collaborator Billy Strayhorn at the same time that the new A train subway line was pumping people and ideas all around Manhattan Island.
- Thelonious Monk, “Round Midnight” Thelonious Monk - 'round Midnight. Monk’s hit is the most recorded jazz standard of all time. Supposedly penned when he was just 18, Monk and his band recorded it eight years later.
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- Duke Ellington – Take the A Train. Written by Billy Strayhorn in 1940, who was inspired to compose the song after he wrote down directions of how to get to Harlem using New York’s subway system, “Take The A Train” was one of Duke Ellington’s biggest hits and also became his signature tune.
- Miles Davis – So What. The opening track on legendary trumpeter Miles Davis’ landmark 1959 album Kind Of Blue is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz.
- John Coltrane – Giant Steps. Most fans would agree John Coltrane’s classic LP is 1964’s suite-like A Love Supreme. His fifth album Giant Steps, however, was his first to feature all self-composed material and it remains a must-have record for all serious jazz fans.
- Charlie Parker – All The Things You Are. One of bebop’s prime architects, Kansas City-born Charlie Parker was famed for his lightning-fast alto saxophone solos but showed a more restrained side on this Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein tune he performed with Dizzy Gillespie in 1945.
Dec 20, 2021 · In 2021, jazz went back in time to see the future. The Complete Live at the Lighthouse collects all 12 sets from Lee Morgan's 1970 residency on Hermosa Beach. Every few years, a new jazz artist...
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Mar 19, 2021 · Here are six new and noteworthy tracks, from a recently unearthed Don Cherry radio broadcast to Angel Bat Dawid’s remix of Alan Braufman →.
