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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 ...
6 – Chelsea Quealey, American jazz trumpeter (died 1905). July. 6 – Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (born 1923). 26 – Freddy Gardner, British saxophonist (born 1910). August. 1 – Alvin Burroughs, American swing jazz drummer (born 1911). September. 5 – Al Killian, American jazz trumpeter and occasional bandleader (born 1916).
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West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz, which consisted of a calmer style than bebop or hard bop. The music relied relatively more on composition and arrangement than on the individually improvised playing of other jazz ...
During the 1950s European popular music give way to the influence of American forms of music including jazz, swing and traditional pop, mediated through film and records. The significant change of the mid-1950s was the impact of American rock and roll , which provided a new model for performance and recording, based on a youth market.
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 ...
A specific form of jazz that evolved in Ethiopia in the likes of the music of Mulatu Astatke, also referred to as the King of Ethio-jazz. 1950s -> Ethno jazz: Ethno jazz, a form of ethno music, is sometimes equaled to world music or is regarded as its successor, particularly before the 1990s. An independent meaning of "ethno jazz" emerged ...
28 – John Spikes, American jazz musician and entrepreneur (born 1881). August. 28 – Bob Gordon, American baritone saxophonist (born 1928). October. 21 – Dick Twardzik, American pianist (born 1931). September. Reuben Reeves, American jazz trumpeter and bandleader (born 1905). 25 – Shotaro Moriyasu, Japanese pianist (born 1924). November