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The Grammy Award for Best Jazz Performance has been awarded since 1959. Before 1979 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances. Before 1979 the award title did not specify instrumental performances and was presented for instrumental or vocal performances.
Susan Alcorn – pedal steel guitar; Jason Alder – clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet; Thomas Ankersmit – saxophone, synthesizer; Albert Ayler – saxophone; Richard Barrett – electronics, sampler
Jazz improvisation by Col Loughnan (tenor saxophone) at the Manly Jazz Festival with the Sydney Jazz Legends. Loughnan was accompanied by Steve Brien (guitar), Craig Scott (double bass, face obscured), and Ron Lemke (drums). Jazz improvisation is the spontaneous invention of melodic solo lines or accompaniment parts in a performance of jazz ...
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 ...
Free jazz and the influence of world musicians on the medium pushed jazz singing nearer to avant-garde art music. [27] In the 1960s Ward Swingle was the product of an unusually liberal musical education. He took the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, creating The Swingle Singers.
Fans of his IVtet — a small cadre of jazz and session heroes who are among the city’s best improvisers — will be thrilled to see the combo back in action in person and on record with “The ...
In 2006, Sound Grammar received a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance.The following year, it won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Music.Although Wynton Marsalis won a Pulitzer in 1997 for Blood on the Fields, an oratorio on slavery, Sound Grammar is the first jazz work to earn the award.
Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) [1] was an American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist, and composer. He is best known as a principal founder of the free jazz genre, a term derived from his 1960 album Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation.