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Pages in category "African-American jazz musicians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 260 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Black Jazz Records was a jazz record company and label founded in Oakland, California [1] by pianist Gene Russell (December 2, 1932 - May 3, 1981) [2] [3] [4] and percussionist Dick Schory. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] [ 2 ] [ 6 ] The label was created to promote the talents of young African American jazz musicians and singers, and released twenty albums ...
Alyson Cambridge (born 1980): operatic soprano and classical music, jazz, and American popular song singer Cam'ron (born 1976): Hip hop Canon (born 1989): Christian hip hop
Claude Black (October 24, 1932 – January 17, 2013) was an American jazz pianist who performed with Stan Getz, Charlie Parker, Wes Montgomery, Sonny Stitt, Aretha Franklin and, for the last few decades of his life, with bassist Clifford Murphy.
Doug Carn (born July 14, 1948) is an American jazz musician from St. Augustine, Florida, [1] formerly married to Jean Carne and known for his several albums released for Black Jazz Records. [2] Carn is a multi-instrumentalist known primarily for his work on organ and piano.
William Eugene Russell (December 2, 1932 – May 5, 1981), known as Gene Russell, was an American pop, jazz, and soul keyboardist who played acoustic and Fender Rhodes. [1] [2] He is mainly known for founding and releasing albums on Black Jazz Records. [1] Russell was born in Los Angeles, California and was a cousin of guitarist Charlie Christian.
Relatively little has been written about sacred and liturgical jazz. In a 2013 doctoral dissertation, Angelo Versace examined the development of sacred jazz in the 1950s using disciplines of musicology and history. He noted that the traditions of black gospel music and jazz were combined in the 1950s to produce a new genre, "sacred jazz". [187]
Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) in jazz and its associated subgenres. The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 20th century, influenced by both movements of musicians that became the subgenres and by particularly influential sax players who helped reshape ...