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Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.
Curtis Peagler (September 17, 1929 — December 19, 1992) was an American jazz saxophonist who specialized in straight-ahead jazz and hard bop. Early life [ edit ]
Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo (usually exceeding 200 bpm), complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references ...
Pianist, composer and vocalist Cameron Graves calls his recent music “thrash-jazz,” and it will be on full display Saturday from 9 to 10:15 p.m. on the JPMorgan Chase Stage in Campus Martius ...
A New York Times reviewer commented in 2011 that Mitchell "feels close to the consensus language of straight-ahead jazz but wants to get beyond it. He does it with hands moving in independent parts, with polyrhythms, with music that approaches the technical level of études but that churns and whirls and leaves spaces for broad interpretation."
Jesper Thilo Jesper Thilo. Jesper Thilo (born 28 November 1941) is a Danish jazz musician, mainly known as a tenor saxophonist, alto saxophonist and clarinetist.He is considered to be one of the top European straight-ahead jazz musicians of the post-1970 period. [1]
Ramos, 73, led Milwaukee's long-running Latin jazz group La Chazz as a songwriter, arranger and guitarist, touting some of the city's best musicians.
This obscurity is worth acquiring by modern straight-ahead jazz collectors." [ 1 ] Sunsh Stein of JazzTimes stated that, on the album, Lundy "demonstrates his talents as a soloist, an ensemble player and vocal accompanist," and noted that the group "handles everything with the aplomb of seasoned experts and the excitement of musicians doing ...