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Post-bop isn't free or fusion or hard-bop or modal or avant-garde." [3] Some writers have defined post-bop with specificity, but these sources conflict with one another. [1] One potential definition of post-bop is a musical period in which modern jazz was at its greatest mainstream popularity extending from the mid-1950s through to the mid-1960s.
It won two Grammy Awards in 1986: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance, Individual or Group and Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Soloist. [5] The album was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2023 describing it as one of Wynton's "most beloved & artistically successful recordings, hearkening back to midcentury acoustic jazz but with a ...
Post-bop compilation albums (1 C) ... BBNG (album) BBNG2; Best of John Scofield; Beyond (Joshua Redman album) Bing, Bing, Bing! Black Codes (From the Underground)
Roy Ayers (born September 10, 1940) is an American vibraphonist, record producer and composer. [1] Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk. [2]
Mingus Ah Um is a studio album by American jazz musician Charles Mingus which was released in October 1959 by Columbia Records. [1] [2] It was his first album recorded for Columbia. The cover features a painting by S. Neil Fujita. [5] The title is a corruption of an imaginary Latin declension.
The Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz is a six-LP box set released in 1973 by the Smithsonian Institution.Compiled by jazz critic, scholar, and historian Martin Williams, the album included tracks from over a dozen record labels spanning several decades and genres of American jazz, from ragtime and big band to post-bop and free jazz.
The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow called the album "stirring music in a setting that always brought out the best in each of these musicians." [2]Between Sound and Space's Tyran Grillo called the album a "delightful excursion into post-bop outlands that sounds as alive as ever", and wrote: "This is a superb album, and regardless of whether these dreams are old or new, they never seem to fade.
Penguin Guide to Jazz: Crown Albums List (1st – 8th editions; not affiliated with the publisher or authors) Penguin Guide to Jazz: Core Collection List (1st – 8th editions; not affiliated with the publisher or authors)