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In the 1950s, sax players like tenor saxophonist John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins broke new ground in jazz, infusing their music with rhythm and blues, modal, Latin and gospel influences as part of the hard bop subgenre. In the 1950s and 1960s, free jazz pioneers such as Ornette Coleman and Albert Ayler developed unusual new sounds and playing ...
Hard bop, an extension of bebop (or "bop") music that incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel music, and blues, especially in the saxophone and piano playing, developed in the mid-1950s, partly in response to the vogue for cool jazz in the early 1950s. The hard bop style coalesced in 1953 and 1954, paralleling the rise of rhythm ...
He produced music in the 1950s and 1960s for Tops, Uni and Liberty; among his credits were singles by Gary Lewis & the Playboys. In 1961, Pell switched to alto saxophone and clarinet for a tribute album to John Kirby , who led a small group in the 1930s and 1940s.
The ballad "My Reverie" (an adaptation of a Claude Debussy's 1890 piano piece "Rêverie") is one of Rollins's best known 1950s ballad recordings. "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World", a tune from the 1935 musical Jumbo , is a Rodgers & Hart composition which goes here from a jazz waltz to a fast-paced 4/4 tune.
Louis Thomas Jordan [a] (July 8, 1908 – February 4, 1975) [1] was an American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as " the King of the Jukebox ", he earned his highest profile towards the end of the swing era.
Tipton's music career began in the mid-1930s when he led a band for radio broadcasts. He played in various dance bands in the 1940s and recorded two trio albums for a small record label in the mid-1950s. Thereafter, he worked as a talent broker. He stopped performing in the late 1970s due to arthritis.
Jazz: Fred Anderson: 1929-2010 X Jazz: Ian Anderson: 1947- x X x Rock: Elie Apper: 1933- X Classical: Buddy Arnold: 1926-2003 X Jazz: Harry Arnold: 1920-1971 X Jazz: Harold Ashby: 1925-2003 X Jazz: Georgie Auld: 1919-1990 X Jazz: Albert Ayler: 1936-1970 X: X Jazz: Jerome Badini: X Nu jazz: Gabe Baltazar: 1929- X Jazz: Greg Banaszak: 1966- X X ...
In 2006, Rollins went on to complete a Down Beat Readers Poll triple win for: "Jazzman of the Year", "#1 Tenor Sax Player", and "Recording of the Year" for the CD Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert. The band that year featured his nephew, trombonist Clifton Anderson , and included bassist Cranshaw, pianist Stephen Scott , percussionist Kimati ...