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Pages in category "Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
From 1959 to 2011, the Award was called Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group. In 2012, it was shortened to Best Jazz Instrumental Album, encompassing albums that previously fell under the categories Best Contemporary Jazz Album and Best Latin Jazz Album (both defunct as of 2012). [1]
Prevalent artists of this era of spiritual jazz included Lonnie Liston Smith, Albert Ayler, Sun Ra, and Don Cherry. [1] Saxophonist Albert Ayler was a student of John Coltrane, known for his "uncanny, visceral, and startlingly new" [2] take on jazz tradition and his use of spirituals, as seen in 1969's Music is the Healing Force of the Universe.
The Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (previously: Best Pop Instrumental Album) is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, [1] to recording artists for quality instrumental albums in the pop music genre.
"Linus and Lucy" is a popular instrumental jazz standard written by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi. It serves as the main theme tune for the many Peanuts animated specials and is named for the two fictional siblings, Linus and Lucy Van Pelt.
UCJ Music logo. Universal Classics and Jazz was a division of the Universal Music Group based in London, United Kingdom. [3] The UCJ roster included Jamie Cullum, Aled Jones, Nicola Benedetti and Katherine Jenkins.
The first version of the song was recorded in Hollywood in 1936 and performed as an instrumental by Barney Bigard and His Jazzopators. [1] Two takes were recorded, of which the first (Variety VA-515-1) was published. The band members were: Cootie Williams – trumpet; Juan Tizol – trombone; Barney Bigard – clarinet; Harry Carney ...
Easy listening (including mood music [5]) is a popular music genre [6] [7] [8] and radio format that was most popular during the 1950s to the 1970s. [9] It is related to middle of the road (MOR) music [1] and encompasses instrumental recordings of standards, hit songs, non-rock vocals and instrumental covers of selected popular rock songs.