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  2. Jazz improvisation - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. List of jazz genres - Wikipedia

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    Flamenco jazz is a style mixing flamenco and jazz, typified by artists such as Paco de Lucia and Camarón de la Isla. 1960s -> Free funk: A combination of avant-garde jazz with funk music 1970s -> Free jazz: Free improvisation is improvised music without any specific rules. By itself, free improvisation can be any genre, it isn't necessarily jazz.

  4. Amir ElSaffar - Wikipedia

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    In 2001, he won the Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition and the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Improvisation Competition. He studied Iraqi maqam music in Baghdad and learned to play an Iraqi instrument, the santur. He began to weave traditional Arabic music into modern jazz trumpet.

  5. Category:Jazz techniques - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Jazz techniques" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. ... Jazz improvisation; Jazz scale; Jazz standard; L. Lead sheet ...

  6. Outside (jazz) - Wikipedia

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    In jazz improvisation, outside playing describes approaches where one plays over a scale, mode or chord that is harmonically distant from the given chord.There are several common techniques to playing outside, that include side-stepping or side-slipping, superimposition of Coltrane changes, [1] and polytonality.

  7. Fats Navarro - Wikipedia

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    Theodore "Fats" Navarro (September 24, 1923 – July 7, 1950) [1] was an American jazz trumpet player and a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s. A native of Key West, Florida, he toured with big bands before achieving fame as a bebop trumpeter in New York.

  8. Roy Eldridge - Wikipedia

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    David Roy Eldridge (January 30, 1911 – February 26, 1989), nicknamed "Little Jazz", was an American jazz trumpeter. His sophisticated use of harmony, including the use of tritone substitutions, his virtuosic solos exhibiting a departure from the dominant style of jazz trumpet innovator Louis Armstrong, and his strong impact on Dizzy Gillespie mark him as one of the most influential musicians ...

  9. Free jazz - Wikipedia

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    Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, [1] is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s, when musicians attempted to change or break down jazz conventions, such as regular tempos, tones, and chord changes.