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In 1963, Johnson moved to New York, where he played with Sun Ra [4] and started a band with saxophonist Giuseppi Logan, bassist Reggie Johnson and drummer Rashied Ali. [1] In 1964, Johnson participated in the historic "October Revolution in Jazz", a four-day music festival organized by trumpeter Bill Dixon, [5] and also joined pianist Paul Bley's group.
The following is an episode list for Unsung, a TV One biography and documentary television series about R&B, soul, jazz, gospel, blues, rap and reggae recording artists from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
Ron Carter, 2008. He is the most-recorded bassist in jazz history, with appearances on over 2,200 albums. [1]This list of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the 1970s, electric bass players.
Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer. [1] [2] Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, [3] a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies.
Old and New Dreams was an American jazz group that was active from 1976 to 1987. [1] The group was composed of tenor saxophone player Dewey Redman (doubling on musette), bassist Charlie Haden, trumpeter Don Cherry and drummer Ed Blackwell. [2]
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [1] Potter had first played with Parker in 1944, in Billy Eckstine's band with Dizzy Gillespie, Lucky Thompson and Art Blakey. [ 2 ] Potter also performed and recorded with many other notable jazz musicians, including Earl Hines , Artie Shaw , Bud Powell , Count Basie , Sonny Rollins , Stan Getz , Max Roach ...
Joshua Redman was born in Berkeley, California, to jazz saxophonist Dewey Redman and dancer and librarian Renee Shedroff. [1] He is Jewish. [2] [3] He was exposed to many kinds of music at the Center for World Music in Berkeley, where his mother studied South Indian dance.
In 1979, he appeared prominently in The Last of the Blue Devils, a documentary film about Kansas City jazz. [7] One of McShann's favorite stories to tell was how band member and friend Charlie Parker got his nickname "Bird". During their drive to a gig in Nebraska with a car full of musicians, the driver of the car accidentally hit a chicken.