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The free jazz movement, coming to prominence in the late 1950s, spawned very few standards. Free jazz's unorthodox structures and performance techniques are not as amenable to transcription as other jazz styles. However, "Lonely Woman" (1959) a blues by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, is perhaps the closest thing to a standard in free jazz, having ...
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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1950. Events The ... Free (died 1976). 15 – Anthony Lacen, American tubist and band leader (died 2004). 21.
Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, [1] is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.
27 – Ray Obiedo, American contemporary jazz guitarist. February. 18 – Randy Crawford, American singer. 20 – Uwe Kropinski, German guitarist. 22 – Ken Pickering, Canadian jazz promotor, Vancouver Jazz Festival co-founder (died 2018). [3] March. 11 – Vince Giordano, American saxophonist, Nighthawks Orchestra.
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
5 – The 5th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 5 – 7). [1]7 – Duke Ellington and his band performs at the Newport Jazz Festival. The album Ellington at Newport devises a landmark performance which is capped by an amazing tenor saxophone solo by Paul Gonsalves on "Diminuendo" and "Crescendo in Blue".
This page indexes the individual year in jazz pages. Each year is annotated with a significant event as a reference point. Jazz portal; 2020s - 2010s - 2000s - 1990s - 1980s - 1970s - 1960s - 1950s - 1940s - 1930s - 1920s - 1910s - 1900s - Pre-1900s