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Blues
by Ed Kopp
The blues is the progenitor of most popular music in America, but it hasn't always gotten the respect it deserves. The recorded history of the blues proves the point. Prior to World War II, very few white people had ever heard any authentic blues music. Up until the late 1950s, blues labels could only afford to ...
Post-Bop Records of the Modern Era
by AAJ Staff
With the arrival of Wynton Marsalis on the scene in 1979 was the beginning of a renaissance on the jazz scene that was to involve a reappraisal of the acoustic jazz tradition that had been left stranded with few exceptions in the late '60s and '70s, when fusion and the avant-garde held sway.From 1980 ...
Gene Harris
by C. Michael Bailey
Gene Harris (1933-2000) can safely be termed the most serious populist jazz musician to perform in the last 50 years. He is among the most accessible and amiable of jazz pianists, who focused his superior command of the blues and ballads to produce some of the most enduring and enlightening jazz music ever. For these reasons, ...
Free Improvisation
by John Eyles
In Britain, in the mid-60s, free improvisation (often just called “improv") developed out of free jazz, eventually becoming a separate and distinct music. Free jazz gradually removed conventional structure -chords, melodic themes, regular rhythm--but free improvisation took their absence as its starting point. Essentially, free improvisation has no rules; in Derek Bailey's words, it is “playing ...
Best Live Jazz Recordings: The Best of the Rest
by C. Michael Bailey
This article concludes my series on The Best Live Jazz Recordings that has appeared episodically over the past year. The present installment addresses “the best of the rest," those recordings voted on by the All About Jazz writership but falling just below the cut for inclusion in the original top ten list. This a baker's dozen ...
The Future of Jazz
by Nathan Holaway
I believe it was Thelonious Monk that was once asked: “Where do you see jazz going from here?" and his response was telling: “Wherever we take it!" With that being said, I thought it would be a scintillating idea to report on some current jazz artists whom many have said are “paving the way towards the ...
Volition & Vocalese
by Nathan Holaway
For those that do not understand what “vocalese jazz is, it is when a jazz vocalist takes a jazz composition or an important jazz solo from the vast jazz repertoire, and they write words to perform to it. Vocalese jazz is truly an underrated art form. It requires real thought and attention. Granted, it's not for ...
Jazz Saxo-Flautists
by Nathan Holaway
Saxophonists in jazz are about as common as guitarists in rock. Some, on the other hand, possess a very different quality. They are accomplished jazz flautists as well. Despite Will Ferrell's efforts to poke fun at jazz flautists in the movies, it really is a serious commitment by any saxophonist to handle the chops and technique ...
West Coast Jazz
by Geoff Roach
"West Coast Jazz"? is one of those musical terms that causes controversy. Largely dismissed at the time by critics in New York, the musicians, arrangers, composers, producers and labels associated with West Coast Jazz have profoundly influenced the music we listen to today. Start with Miles Davis' The Birth of the Cool. Although released ...
Jazzy Holiday Music
by Dave Hughes
It never ceases to amaze me how many different recordings of the songs in the repertoire of popular holiday music exist, and the broad spectrum of styles in which they have been recorded. But I suppose their overall musical utility is one reason why so many of them have endured through the years and not yet ...
