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Bill Evans (1929-1980) as a Southeastern student 1950 (?)
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Terence Blanchard USA
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Diana Krall Canada
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Roy Heanes USA
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Wynton Marsalis USA
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Branford Marsalis USA
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Path Metheny Group USA
The keyboardist Lyle Mays with the Pat Metheny Group in the early 1980s.
Mr. Metheny is at right; Steve Rodby, the group’s bassist, is at left.
Photograph: Ralph Quinke ECM Records
Lyle Mays, 66, Pat Metheny Group Keyboardist, Is Dead His synthesizers gave depth and color to the ensemble’s sound. He soloed gracefully on grand piano. And he helped write many staples of the group’s repertoire. NYT Feb. 12, 2020
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Path Metheny Group
founded in 1977 in Missouri
The group gained fame by merging jazz ideas with a rock sensibility
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Bobby McFerrin USA
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Billy Cobham Panama, USA
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Helen Merrill USA
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Abdullah Ibrahim SA, USA
Born in 1934 as Adolph Johannes Brand, Ibrahim grew up under apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.
He loved the jazz he heard on the radio, and sometimes bought jazz records from black American GIs.
As a young man, he played in groups with names like the Tuxedo Slickers.
But public mixing of the races was illegal, and jazz players in integrated bands risked arrest playing in underground clubs run by gangsters.
Ibrahim became a political exile in 1976, after he announced his membership in Nelson Mandela's African National Congress.
But soon before he left South Africa, Ibrahim and his band went into the studio in Cape Town.
They recorded a tune called "Mannenberg."
Named for a segregated township on the fringe of Cape Town, that piece became an anthem of the anti-Apartheid movement.
Years later, Ibrahim performed when Mandela was sworn in as president in 1994.
During his years of exile in New York, Ibrahim performed with many of the jazz musicians who inspired him — including luminaries such as Max Roach and Duke Ellington.
It was Ellington who got him his first record deal in 1964.
That was when he was still known as "Dollar" Brand.
Seeking peace and ritual he hadn't found in church, he converted to Islam in 1968, and changed his name to Abdullah Ibrahim.
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Jack DeJohnette USA
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Kenny Garrett USA
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Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock USA
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Archie Shepp USA
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Steve Coleman USA
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Sun Ra Arkestra USA
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The Mahavishnu Orchestra UK, USA 1970s-1980s
jazz fusion band formed in New York City in 1971, led by English guitarist John McLaughlin.
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Weather Report USA
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Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") - founded in New York City in 1967
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Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins USA
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Ron Carter USA
Ron Carter is one of the most prolific and influential bassists in jazz history.
During his six-decade career, he has recorded more than 2,000 records,
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Born in Ferndale, Michigan in 1937, Carter started to play the cello at the age of 10, but switched to bass in high school because he claims opportunities were limited for Black musicians to play classical music.
He studied at the Eastman School of Music, then went on to get his master's degree at the Manhattan School of Music.
By the time he was 25, he was one of the most sought-after sidemen in jazz.
Carter's most historic recordings came in the 1960s as the bassist in the second great Miles Davis Quintet.
He says the band – with Miles Davis on trumpet, George Coleman and then Wayne Shorter on saxophone, Herbie Hancock on piano, and Tony Williamson on drums — never rehearsed before recording.
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Roy Haynes USA 1925-2024
American drummer who began in 1940s swing and bebop scenes played with Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and dozens more
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Lou Donaldson USA 1926-2024
soulful master of the alto saxophone
A player of impeccable technique and a mainstay of the Blue Note label, he recorded constantly as both a leader and a sideman beginning in 1952.
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Willis Leonard Holman / Bill Holman USA 1927-2024
arranger and composer whose work with Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan and other jazz greats established him as a transformative figure in the cool jazz sound associated with 1950s California (...) Mr. Holman’s longtime collaboration with Mr. Kenton, first as a saxophonist in his ban and later as an arranger, provided the foundation of his reputation, but he also went on to arrange for Maynard Ferguson, Count Basie, Peggy Lee, Tony Bennett, Michael Bublé and many others, and to lead his own 16-piece ensemble.
He won three Grammy Awards — for his arrangements of “Take the A Train” (1988) for Doc Severinsen’s band and “Straight, No Chaser” (1998) for his own, and for his original composition “A View From the Side” (1996) — and contributed compositions and arrangements to seven other Grammy-winning records, including Natalie Cole’s “Unforgettable” (1991).
He received a total of 16 Grammy nominations.
Mr. Holman was known for his economical, linear arrangements, which used elegant counterpoint and dissonance to enliven both old standards and his own works.
Reared on the big bands of the 1930s and ’40s, he helped Mr. Kenton and others from that era make the transition to a more energetic sound in the postwar years.
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Carla Bley USA 1936-2023
The composer, arranger, bandleader and pianist Carla Bley in performance in 1982.
She was branded an avant-gardist early in her career, but her music always maintained a place for tonal harmony.
Photograph: David Corio/Redferns, via Getty Images
Carla Bley, Jazz Composer, Arranger and Provocateur, Dies at 87 Her music, which ranged from chamber miniatures to blaring fanfares, was suffused with a slyly subversive attitude. NYT Oct. 17, 2023 3:28 p.m. ET
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Carla Bley USA 1936-2023
born Lovella May Borg
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Charles Gayle USA 1939-2023
Like many of his peers, Gayle was inspired by saxophone iconoclasts Albert Ayler and John Coltrane.
But rather than mimicry, you can hear an extension of those artists' spirits through his instrument.
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Ahmad Jamal USA 1930-2023
A young Mr. Jamal at the piano, circa 1942.
He was only 14 when he joined the musicians’ union.
Photograph: Charles ‘Teenie’ Harris Carnegie Museum of Art, via Getty Images
Ahmad Jamal, Whose Spare Style Redefined Jazz Piano, Dies at 92 He was known for his laid-back style and for his influence on, among others, Miles Davis, who once said, “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.” NYT Published April 16, 2023 Updated April 17, 2023, 11:29 a.m. ET
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born Frederick Russell Jones
Ahmad Jamal ('s) measured, spare piano style was an inspiration to generations of jazz musicians
In a career that would bring him a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master award, a lifetime achievement Grammy and induction into France’s Order of Arts and Letters, Mr. Jamal made a lasting mark on jazz with a stately approach that honored what he called the spaces in the music.
That approach stood in marked contrast to the challengingly complex music known as bebop, which was sweeping the jazz world when Mr. Jamal began his career as a teenager in the mid-1940s.
Bebop pianists, following the lead of Bud Powell, became known for their virtuosic flurries of notes. Mr. Jamal chose a different path, which proved equally influential.
The critic Stanley Crouch wrote that bebop’s founding father, Charlie Parker, was the only musician “more important to the development of fresh form in jazz than Ahmad Jamal.”
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Probably the best-known musician to cite Mr. Jamal as an influence was not a pianist but a trumpeter and bandleader:
Miles Davis, who became close friends with Mr. Jamal, recorded his compositions and arrangements and would bring his sidemen to see Mr. Jamal perform.
He once said, “All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.”
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Mary Louise Tobin USA 1918-2022
With the big band era in full swing in 1939, Louise Tobin, a jazz vocalist with Benny Goodman’s orchestra, was on the cusp of nationwide fame.
But she soon put her career on hold at the request of her husband, the trumpeter and bandleader Harry James.
Mr. James had begun touring with his own band, leaving Ms. Tobin to care for their two sons, Harry Jr. and Tim.
And after the couple divorced in 1943, Ms. Tobin devoted herself to raising them for the next 20 years or so.
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After remarrying, she resumed singing decades later.
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Pharoah Sanders USA 1940-2022
revered and influential tenor saxophonist who explored and extended the boundaries of his instrument, notably alongside John Coltrane in the 1960s, (...)
Spirit was the overwhelming force in Sanders' music:
It emanated from his tenor and soprano saxophones in fiery blasts or a murmuring flicker, and it suffused his ensembles, which featured several generations of improvisers equally willing to dig in or soar free.
"Sanders has consistently had bands that could not only create a lyrical near-mystical Afro-Eastern world," wrote one champion, the poet-critic Amiri Baraka, "but [also] sweat hot fire music in continuing display of the so-called 'energy music' of the '60s."
That combination of traits characterized Sanders' defining solo work of the '70s on Impulse! Records, which had been Coltrane's label home, and was still a welcoming harbor for experimentalism.
Among these albums are Black Unity, consisting of one album-length improvisation, and Thembi, which nudges a post-Coltrane language into the realm of Afrocentric groove.
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Curtis DuBois Fuller USA 1932-2021
trombonist and composer whose expansive sound and powerful sense of swing made him a driving force in postwar jazz
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Mr. Fuller arrived in New York in the spring of 1957 and almost immediately became the leading trombonist of the hard-bop movement, which emphasized jazz’s roots in blues and gospel while delivering crisp and hummable melodies.
By the end of the year, he had recorded no fewer than eight albums as a leader or co-leader for the independent labels Blue Note, Prestige and Savoy.
That same year he also appeared on the saxophonist John Coltrane’s “Blue Train,” among the most storied albums in jazz, on which Mr. Fuller unfurls a number of timeless solos.
On the title track, now a jazz standard, his trombone plays a central role in carrying the bold, declarative melody.
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Sonny Simmons USA 1933-2021
fiercely independent alto saxophonist
Although jazz has established a place in academic and cultural institutions, it was and largely still is an outsider's music, and Simmons was an outsider's outsider.
With two notable exceptions, his entire discography as a leader took place on small, independent labels that were often based overseas, yet he also played on Iron Man and Conversations two of Eric Dolphy's masterpieces.
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Milford Robert Graves USA 1941-2021
Innovative jazz drummer who came to view music as just one aspect of the ‘rhythms of the self’
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Ralph Peterson Jr. USA 1962-2021
Probably the most prominent drummer of his generation to consistently front his own groups, he was also an insightful educator and mentor.
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Armando Anthony Corea / Chick Corea USA 1941-2021
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Return to Forever
American jazz fusion band that was founded by pianist Chick Corea in 1971 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Forever - 12 February 2021
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Gary Peacock USA 1935-2020
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Wilbur James Cobb / Jimmy Cobb USA 1929-2020
drummer on Miles Davis's Kind of Blue
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Lee Konitz USA 1927-2020
From left, Miles Davis, Lee Konitz and Gerry Mulligan in a 1949 recording session.
Mr. Konitz’s work with the Miles Davis Nonet early in his career helped establish his reputation.
Photograph: PoPsie Randolph Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images
Lee Konitz, Jazz Saxophonist Who Blazed His Own Trail, Dies at 92 He was a pioneer of the cool school, but he resisted pigeonholing and focused on “making a personal statement.” He died of complications of the coronavirus. NYT April 16, 2020
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Alfred McCoy Tyner USA 1938-2020
Ethel Llewellyn Ennis USA 1932-2019
Ethel Ennis was in bed one night in the mid-1950s when Billie Holiday called.
Ms. Ennis was in her mid-20s at the time, a jazz vocalist on the rise and, like Holiday, a product of Baltimore.
At first she figured it was a prank call.
But she quickly recognized Holiday’s dusty voice.
“You have a great voice; you don’t fake it,” she later remembered Holiday saying.
“Keep it up and you’ll be famous.”
Ms. Ennis soon fulfilled Holiday’s prophesy — but only for a short time.
She recorded for major labels in the late 1950s and the ’60s;
toured Europe with Benny Goodman;
performed onstage alongside Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Louis Armstrong;
and appeared on television with Duke Ellington.
She became a regular on Arthur Godfrey’s TV show and headlined the Newport Jazz Festival.
In 1961 she won the Playboy jazz poll for best female singer.
But she soon grew disillusioned with the demands placed on young divas, and she eschewed national celebrity for a quieter life in her hometown.
She became a beloved performer and jazz advocate there, earning the unofficial title of Baltimore’s “First Lady of Jazz.”
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Hamiet Ashford Bluiett Jr. USA 1940-2018
baritone saxophonist who expanded the possibilities of his instrument while connecting the jazz avant-garde with a broad view of its own history
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Beatrice Ruth Wain USA 1917-2017
In a short-lived recording career (curtailed by a two-year strike by musicians over royalties that began in 1942), Ms. Wain was voted most popular female band vocalist in Billboard’s 1939 college poll. (Ella Fitzgerald was second.)
She had No. 1 hits with versions of the standards “Deep Purple” and “Heart and Soul” as well as “Cry, Baby, Cry” and, most notably, “My Reverie,” an up-tempo version of the classic Debussy piano piece “Reverie” with lyrics by Mr. Clinton.
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John Laird Abercrombie USA 1944-2017
jazz guitarist whose lyrical style placed him in his generation’s top tier of improvising musicians
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became known in the mid-1970s as a prominent jazz-rock guitarist.
But as his style evolved and he moved away from fusion, it was his knack for understatement and his affinity for classic jazz guitar technique that defined his approach.
He played in bands led by the drummer Jack DeJohnette and the saxophonist Gato Barbieri, among others, before ECM Records released his first album as a leader, “Timeless,” in 1975.
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Robert Hutcherson USA 1941-2016
one of the most admired and accomplished vibraphonists in jazz
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Mr. Hutcherson’s career took flight in the early 1960s, as jazz was slipping free of the complex harmonic and rhythmic designs of bebop.
He was fluent in that language, but he was also one of the first to adapt his instrument to a freer postbop language, often playing chords with a pair of mallets in each hand.
He released more than 40 albums and appeared on many more, including some regarded as classics, like “Out to Lunch,” by the alto saxophonist, flutist and bass clarinetist Eric Dolphy, and “Mode for Joe,” by the tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson.
Both of those albums were a byproduct of Mr. Hutcherson’s close affiliation with Blue Note Records, from 1963 to 1977.
He was part of a wave of young artists who defined the label’s forays into experimentalism, including the pianist Andrew Hill and the alto saxophonist Jackie McLean.
But he also worked with hard-bop stalwarts like the tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, and he later delved into jazz-funk and Afro-Latin grooves.
Mr. Hutcherson had a clear, ringing sound, but his style was luminescent and coolly fluid.
More than Milt Jackson or Lionel Hampton, his major predecessors on the vibraphone, he made an art out of resonating overtones and chiming decay.
This coloristic range of sound, which he often used in the service of emotional expression, was one reason for the deep influence he left on stylistic inheritors like Joe Locke, Warren Wolf, Chris Dingman and Stefon Harris, who recently assessed him as “by far the most harmonically advanced person to ever play the vibraphone.” http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/17/arts/music/bobby-hutcherson-dies-jazz.html
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Hyman Paul Bley Canada 1932-2016
an obdurate and original pianist who began his career playing bebop and eventually became a major force in experimental jazz
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Mr. Bley’s style of playing was melodic, measured, bluesy, often polytonal and seemingly effortless.
He took as long as he needed to finish a thought, and at the tempo he chose for it.
He loved standards but distrusted the strictures of the 32-bar song form, and especially distrusted repetition.
His notes could move slowly without telegraphing their destination, drawling down into nothing or cohering into bright, purposefully gapped lines, with backing chords that kept changing the tonal center.
Mr. Bley (pronounced “blay”) developed an influential language of phrasing and harmony — Keith Jarrett and Ethan Iverson were two of its many beneficiaries — but often talked about being eager to get outside his own habits.
In the 1981 documentary “Imagine the Sound,” he professed not to practice or rehearse, out of what he called “a disdain for the known.”
And he did not stake his work on traditional notions of acceptability, or the approval of the listener.
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Marty Napoleon USA 1921-2015
jazz pianist best known for his many years with Louis Armstrong
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Marcus Belgrave USA 1936-2015
trumpet and fluegelhorn player who worked with Ray Charles, Charles Mingus, Max Roach and others before settling in Detroit in the early 1960s and becoming a coach and conscience for that city’s jazz scene
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Paul Henley Jeffrey USA 1933-2015
saxophonist who was a mainstay of the great pianist and composer Thelonious Monk’s last working group and later a prominent jazz educator
(...)
Mr. Jeffrey also had a long association with another jazz giant, the bassist and composer Charles Mingus.
He was a member of a big band Mingus led in 1972 and worked with him regularly from 1977 until shortly before Mingus’s death in 1979, writing arrangements as well as playing saxophone.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/
Clark Terry USA 1920-2015
one of the most popular and influential jazz trumpeters of his generation and an enthusiastic advocate of jazz education
(...)
He was one of the few musicians to have worked with the orchestras of both Duke Ellington and Count Basie.
He was for many years a constant presence in New York’s recording studios — accompanying singers, sitting in big-band trumpet sections, providing music for radio and television commercials.
He recorded with Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk and other leading jazz artists as well as his own groups.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/22/
Boniface Ferdinand Leonardo DeFranco USA 1923-2014
innovative clarinetist who rose from the remains of the swing era to forge new and lasting prominence as the instrument’s pre-eminent interpreter of bebop
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/27/
Jacqueline Ruth Cain USA 1928-2014
Jackie Cain and Roy Kral in 1962.
They met in 1947 and were musical and marital partners until his death in 2002.
Photograph: Bernard Hollywood
Jackie Cain, of the Jazz Duo Jackie and Roy, Dies at 86 By DOUGLAS MARTIN NYT SEPT. 18, 2014
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/
Jackie Cain (...) teamed with her husband, Roy Kral, to form probably the most famous vocal duo in jazz history, melding popular tunes and sophisticated harmonies for more than half a century
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/
http://www.npr.org/event/music/387781407/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/19/
Joseph Leslie Sample USA 1939-2014
Joe Sample (...) became a jazz star in the 1960s as the pianist with the Jazz Crusaders and an even bigger star a decade later when he began playing electric keyboards and the group simplified its name to the Crusaders
(...)
The Jazz Crusaders, who played the muscular, bluesy variation on bebop known as hard bop, had their roots in Houston, where Mr. Sample, the tenor saxophonist Wilton Felder and the drummer Nesbert Hooper (better known by the self-explanatory first name Stix) began performing together as the Swingsters while in high school.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/15/
Gerald Stanley Wilson USA 1918-2014
Gerald Wilson ('s) eight-decade career as a jazz composer, arranger, big-band leader and trumpeter spanned generations, styles and geography
(...)
Mr. Wilson was not yet 21 when he joined the Jimmie Lunceford band in 1939 as a trumpeter, replacing Sy Oliver, and he was believed to have been the last surviving member of its prewar incarnation.
He went on to write and arrange rich and imaginative music for Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and many other major names in jazz.
He brought robust harmonies and a wide spectrum of colors to his orchestrations, but he may have been best known for his versatility and his enduring freshness.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/
Idris Muhammad USA 1939-2014
(born Leo Morris)
drummer whose deep groove propelled both a broad career in jazz and an array of hits spanning rhythm and blues, funk and soul
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/
Charles / Charlie Edward Haden USA 1937-2014
one of the most influential bassists in the history of jazz
(...)
His jazz career crossed seven decades, with barely a moment of obscurity.
He was in his early 20s in 1959, when, as a member of the Ornette Coleman Quartet, he helped set off a seismic disruption in jazz.
Mr. Coleman, an alto saxophonist, had been developing a brazen, polytonal approach to improvisation — it would come to be known as free jazz — and in his band, which had no chordal instrument, Mr. Haden served as anchor and pivot.
Mr. Coleman’s clarion cry, often entangled with that of the trumpeter Don Cherry, grabbed much of the attention, but Mr. Haden’s playing was just as crucial, for its feeling of unerring rightness in the face of an apparent ruckus.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/12/arts/music/
James Victor Scott USA 1925-2014
Roy Sinclair Campbell Jr. 1952-2014
Roy Campbell Jr. (...) carried the soulful swagger of hard-bop trumpet into the jazz avant-garde, where he became a pillar
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/19/arts/music/
Angelo Paul Porcino 1925-2013
Al Porcino ('s) powerful sound and ability to hit the highest of high notes with ease brought him work as the lead trumpeter in some of the most celebrated big bands in jazz
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/arts/music/
Robert Stern Greenstein 1922-2013
pianist who was so besotted by the controlled yet fevered jazz of Jelly Roll Morton that he abandoned a writing career to perform the Jelly Roll canon and spread the Jelly Roll gospel
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/25/arts/music/
Ronald Shannon Jackson 1940-2013
avant-garde drummer and composer who led an influential electric band and performed with many of the greatest names in jazz
(...)
He performed over the years with Charles Mingus, Betty Carter, Jackie McLean and Joe Henderson.
But his name was most closely linked with three free-jazz pioneers: the saxophonist Albert Ayler, the pianist Cecil Taylor and, foremost, the saxophonist Ornette Coleman
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/arts/music/
Lee Elliot Tanner 1931-2013
jazz photographer whose evocative and sometimes ethereal image of Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others helped define the genre visually on scores of album covers and in magazines, exhibitions and books
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/16/arts/music/
Edwin Thomas Shaughnessy 1929-2013
Ed Shaughnessy
(his) deft drumming anchored the “Tonight Show” orchestra for 29 years.
(...)
Mr. Shaughnessy was a well-traveled and highly regarded jazz drummer when he was offered the “Tonight” job in 1963, shortly after Johnny Carso had taken over as the show’s host.
He had performed or recorded with Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday and numerous others. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/arts/music/ed-shaughnessy-tonight-drummer-dead-at-84.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/arts/music/
Donaldson Toussaint L’Ouverture Byrd II 1932-2013
Donald Byrd
one of the leading jazz trumpeters of the 1950s and early 1960s, who became both successful and controversial in the 1970s by blending jazz, funk and rhythm and blues into a pop hybrid that defied categorization http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/arts/music/donald-byrd-renegade-jazz-trumpeter-dies-at-80.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/arts/music/
David Spencer Ware 1949-2012
a powerful and contemplative jazz saxophonist whose career began in the early 1970s but who did not make a significant name for himself until 20 years later when he helped lead a resurgence of free jazz in New York http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/music/david-s-ware-adventurous-saxophonist-dies-at-62.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/music/
David Warren Brubeck 1920-2012
pianist and composer who helped make jazz popular again in the 1950s and ’60s with recordings like “Time Out,” the first jazz album to sell a million copies, and “Take Five,” the still instantly recognizable hit single that was that album’s centerpiece http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/arts/music/dave-brubeck-jazz-musician-dies-at-91.html
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/dave-brubeck
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/06/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/arts/music/29rose.html
Joseph Paul Muranyi 1928-2012
clarinetist whose mastery of pre-World War II jazz led to a four-year stint with Louis Armstrong’s last band — and to an improbable moment of pop stardom —
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/28/arts/music/
Teddy Charles / Theodore Charles Cohen 1928-2012
gifted vibraphonist who teamed up with many of the musicians who revolutionized jazz in the 1940s and ’50s and then literally sailed away to become a sea captain
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/21/arts/music/
Samuel Carthorne Rivers / Sam Rivers 1923-2011
an inexhaustibly creative saxophonist, flutist, bandleader and composer who cut his own decisive path through the jazz world, spearheading the 1970s loft scene in New York and later establishing a rugged outpost in Florida
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/22/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/
Stephen Paul Motian 1931-2011
drummer, bandleader, composer and one of the most influential jazz musicians of the last 50 years http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/arts/music/paul-motian-jazz-drummer-is-dead-at-80.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/23/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/26/
George Albert Shearing 1919-2011
British piano virtuoso who overcame blindness to become a worldwide jazz star, and whose composition “Lullaby of Birdland” became an enduring jazz standard http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/arts/music/15shearing.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/arts/music/15shearing.html
Georgia Carroll 1919-2011
she enjoyed short-lived stardom as the featured vocalist in Kay Kyser’s popular big band before marrying Mr. Kyser and retiring from show business in her late 20s http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/arts/music/23carroll.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/arts/music/23carroll.html
Margaret Eleanor Whiting 1924-2011
a songwriter’s daughter who as a bright-eyed teenage singer captivated wartime America and then went on to a long, acclaimed career recording hit songs and performing in nightclubs and on television http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/arts/music/12whiting.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/12/arts/music/12whiting.html
William Edward Taylor Jr. 1921-2010
pianist and composer who was also an eloquent spokesman and advocate for jazz as well as a familiar presence for many years on television and radio http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/arts/music/30taylor.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/arts/music/30taylor.html
James Moody 1925-2010
jazz saxophonist and flutist celebrated for his virtuosity, his versatility and his onstage ebullience http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/arts/music/11moody.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/11/arts/music/11moody.html
Anna Marie Wooldridge / Abbey Lincoln 1930-2010
one of jazz’s most arresting and uncompromising singers
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/arts/music/15lincoln.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/aug/15/abbey-lincoln-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/20/abbey-lincoln-cd-reviews
Joya Sherrill 1924-2010
singer with Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/arts/music/09sherrill.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/
Benjamin Gordon Powell Jr. 1930-2010
Trombonist who performed or recorded with everyone from Frank Sinatra to Screamin’ Jay Hawkins but who was best known for his long tenure with Count Basie’s big band http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/arts/music/04powell.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/arts/music/04powell.html
William Robert Dixon 1925-2010
Trumpeter, composer, educator and major force in the jazz avant-garde movement of the 1960s http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/arts/music/20dixon.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/20/arts/music/20dixon.html
Hank Jones 1918-2010
(his) self-effacing nature belied his stature as one of the most respected jazz pianists of the postwar era http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/arts/music/18jones.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/18/arts/music/18jones.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/18/hank-jones-obituary
Lena Mary Calhoun Horne 1917-2010
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/10/lena-horne-obituary
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/video/2010/may/10/lena-horne-dies-aged-92-video
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/may/10/lena-horne-black-singer-dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/excerpt-stormy-weather.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Simon-t.html
John Edwin "Jake" Hanna 1931-2010
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/may/02/
Huey Long 1904-2009
guitarist and banjo player
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/30/huey-long-obituary-jazz
Marguerite Blossom Dearie 1926-2009
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/09/obituary-blossom-dearie-jazz
Clifford Everett "Bud" Shank Jnr 1926-2009
alto saxophonist and flautist
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/06/bud-shank-obituary
Louie Bellson Jr 1924-2009 (Luigi Paulino Alfredo Francesco Antonio Balassoni)
drummer and composer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/feb/18/louie-bellson-obituary
George Russell 1923-2009
jazz composer, educator and musician whose theories led the way to radical changes in jazz in the 1950s and ’60s http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/arts/music/30russell.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/28/george-russell-obituary
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/arts/music/30russell.html
Leonidas Raymond "Lee" Young Sr 1914-2008
jazz drummer and record producer
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/aug/23/jazz
Freddie Hubbard 1938-2008
jazz trumpeter who dazzled audiences and critics alike with his virtuosity, his melodicism and his infectious energy http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/arts/music/30hubbard.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/dec/30/freddie-hubbard-jazz-trumpeter-dies
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/arts/music/30hubbard.html
Johnny Griffin 1928-2008
tenor saxophonist from Chicago whose speed, control and harmonic acuity made him one of the most talented American jazz musicians of his generation yet who spent most of his career in Europe, died (...) at his home in Availles-Limouzine, a village in France.
He was 80 and had lived there for 24 years. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/arts/music/26griffin.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/26/arts/music/26griffin.html
Alice Coltrane 1937-2007
musician and religious teacher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/29/
https://www.npr.org/2018/02/06/
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/jan/17/
Max Roach USA 1924-2007
C:Max Roach. We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite. New York: Candid Records, 1960. Record jacket. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division. (9-6) Courtesy of Candid Production, LTD http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/aopart9.html
Jazz and the Civil Rights Movement Jazz performers responded to the force of the civil rights movement by recording and performing their music. The most ambitious response was the Freedom Now Suite of Max Roach, recorded in August and September 1960, and involving such major performers as Coleman Hawkins, Abbey Lincoln, and Nigerian drummer Olatunji. The Freedom Now Suite was issued on the small label Candid Records rather than on Max Roach's regular label, Mercury. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/09/0906001r.jpg added 30 August 2007
founder of modern jazz who rewrote the rules of drumming in the 1940s and spent the rest of his career breaking musical barriers and defying listeners’ expectations http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/arts/music/17roach.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/17/arts/music/17roach.html
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/aug/18/
Alan George Heywood Melly 1926-2007
jazz singer, writer and broadcaster
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/jul/05/1
John (Jackie) Lenwood McLean USA 1931-2006
Philadelphia-born Hammond organ pioneer, (who) generally approached his performances like a man who was certain he was in showbusiness, rather than art.
Smith's gigs regularly involved plenty of stagey gesticulation, badinage with audiences, and mopping his brow with towels.
The music was mostly rooted in that most accessible 20th-century formula, the twelve-bar blues. http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/03/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries2
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/03/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries2
Percy Heath USA 1923-2005
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Heath
James Bryant Woode 1926-2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/may/05/
James Oscar Smith USA 1928-2005
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2005/feb/11/
Elvin Jones USA 1927-2004
Elvin Jones ('s) explosive drumming powered the John Coltrane Quartet, the most influential and controversial jazz ensemble of the 1960's http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/obituaries/19JONE.html
https://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Elvin_Jones.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/19/obituaries/19JONE.html
Russell Donald 'Russ' Freeman 1926-2002
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/aug/02/guardianobituaries.arts
Lionel Leo Hampton 1908-2002
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/sep/01/arts.artsnews
Susannah McCorkle 1946-2001
singer and writer
http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/may/26/
Anthony Tillmon Williams / Tony Williams 1945-1997
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/02/26/
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/25/
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/09/
Eddie Harris 1936-1996
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/09/
Bill Doggett 1916-1996
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Doggett
Don (Donald Eugene) Cherry 1936-1995
https://www.npr.org/artists/129379535/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/16/
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/18/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/22/
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/21/
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/14/
Carmen Mercedes McRae USA 1922-1994
Carmen McRae performing in Chicago. 1956.
Photograph: Ted Williams Iconic Images
Hearing Music in Photos of Jazz Giants By John Leland NYT Aug. 16, 2016
https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/
jazz singer known for her probing interpretations of lyrics and her bruised but unbowed point of view
(...)
the heights of popularity attained by Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holiday, she was widely regarded as their artistic equal.
In a prolific recording career that spanned nearly five decades, she had only two minor hits, both in the mid-1950's.
But the scores of songs on she which stamped her bittersweet, gently mocking signature included "Alfie," "The Music That Makes Me Dance," "Guess Who I Saw Today?," "Blame It on My Youth," "Yesterdays" and "Mean to Me."
(...)
Ms. McRae was born in Harlem on April 8, 1920, one of four children of immigrants from the West Indies.
Growing up in Brooklyn, she attended Julia Richman High School in Manhattan and received her musical grounding in five years of formal piano lessons.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/12/
https://www.nytimes.com/1994/11/12/
Le Sony'r Ra USA 1914-1993
born Herman Poole Blount better known as Sun Ra,
jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, and poet known for his experimental music, "cosmic" philosophy, prolific output, and theatrical performances.
For much of his career, Ra led The Arkestra, an ensemble with an ever-changing name and flexible line-up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/04/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/1993/05/31/
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/20/
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/12/
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/26/
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/02/03/
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/12/29/
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/08/
https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/13/
Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans Canada 1912-1988
born Green
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/nov/07/
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/13/
http://www.npr.org/2008/05/14/
Henry "Hank" Mobley USA 1930-1986
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/01/11/
Benjamin David “Benny” Goodman USA 1909-1986
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/
Art Pepper USA 1925-1982
star saxophonist with Stan Kenton's orchestra 30 years ago who had been successfully rebuilding his career in the last five years after losing two decades to drugs and consequent prison terms
http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/16/
http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/181481/
Bill Evans USA 1929-1980
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/17/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/28/
http://www.npr.org/2010/10/08/
http://www.npr.org/2008/02/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/1980/09/17/
Hasaan Ibn Ali USA 1931-1980
(born William Henry Langford, Jr.)
When Hasaan Ibn Ali made his debut on Atlantic Records, he was 33 years old and living with his parents in Philadelphia.
He rarely performed in public, more of a "phantom" than a legend, but within the community of musicians on the East Coast there was a steady hum of grapevine talk about the socially awkward pianist from Philly who could create Thelonious Monk-style whiplash one minute, and sprint up and down the keyboard like Art Tatum the next.
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/
Charles Mingus USA 1922-1979
Charles Mingus, who was born 100 years ago on Friday, lived, wrote and played bass in a state of agitated brilliance.
Photograph: Tom Copi Michael Ochs Archives, via Getty Images
The Multifaceted Mingus On the bassist and bandleader’s centennial, 10 jazz musicians discuss his achievements and complexities and pick out a pivotal track from his repertoire. NYT April 21, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.npr.org/2018/11/09/
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/09/
Rahsaan Roland Kirk USA 1936-1977
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley USA 1928-1975
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nora Douglas Holt USA 1883/-1974
American critic, composer, singer and pianist who was the first African American to receive a master's degree in music in the United States.
She composed more than 200 works of music and was associated with the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance and the co-founder of the National Association of Negro Musicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/
Albert Edwin Condon / Eddie Condon 1905-1973
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/08/05/
Ben Webster 1909-1973
tenor saxophonist who died in Amsterdam in 1973 at the age of 64, played in some of the most celebrated big bands of the 1930's and 40's, including those led by Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Cab Calloway, Benny Carter and Andy Kirk.
He was also in Teddy Wilson's short-lived band in 1939 and the Bennie Moten band of the early 30's, which spawned Count Basie's Orchestra and was part of Norman Granz's touring troupe of jazz stars, Jazz at the Philharmonic, in the 1950's.
In his last years, he led small groups and freelanced in this country and Europe.
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/
https://www.mediapart.fr/studio/documentaires/international/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/09/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/02/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2008/jun/27/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2001/jun/22/
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/09/
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/09/21/
McKinley Howard "Kenny" Dorham 1924-1972
Kenny Dorham (...) was a trumpet player of authority and great style;
he moved from his early days in the be-bop era to the 1960's progressions of the music gracefully, without showing the permanent markings of his youth.
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/27/
Lee Morgan USA 1938-1972
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/16/
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/24/
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2004/jan/02/
Albert Ayler 1936-1970
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/jan/31/
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. 1935-1969
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Nathaniel Adams Coles / Nat King Cole 1919-1965
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/17/
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/29/
Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. USA 1928-1964
Weldon Leo "Jack" Teagarden USA 1905-1964
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lester Young USA 1909-1959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Clifford Brown USA 1930-1956
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/jun/29/
James Price Johnson 1894-1955
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/06/nyregion/1247465020527/
Charlie "Bird" Parker, Jr. USA 1920-1955
Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller USA 1904-1944
https://www.npr.org/artists/15198375/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/
https://www.npr.org/2016/08/20/
https://www.npr.org/2004/03/01/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/
https://www.npr.org/2000/07/29/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/feb/12/
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/27/
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/09/02/
https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/03/
https://www.nytimes.com/1954/02/11/
https://www.nytimes.com/1944/12/25/
Fats Waller / Thomas Wright Waller USA 1904-1943
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/feb/19/
Al Jolson 1886-1950
The Jazz Singer 1927
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