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1920 In Jazz
This is a detailed summary documenting events of Jazz in the year 1920. Jazz musicians born that year included Peggy Lee, Dave Bartholomew and Dave Brubeck. Overview of Jazz in 1920 Throughout much of the 1920s, the Chicago jazz scene was developing rapidly, aided by the migration of over 40 prominent New Orleans jazz men, including the New Orleans Rhythm Kings who began playing at Friar's Inn. Additionally, following Prohibition in 1920, the cabaret business began in New York City and the growing number of speakeasies developing in cellars provided many aspiring jazz musicians with new venues. This gradually saw many musicians who had moved to Chicago ending up on the East Coast of the United States. Meanwhile, classic blues and symphonic jazz were becoming more and more prominent as additional sub genres of jazz to consider. Culture Surrounding Jazz in 1920 The birth of a more urban and industrialized America was in part marked by the new style of music: jazz (Drowne 3). Lead ...
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ...
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Ray Abrams (musician)
Ray Abrams (January 23, 1920 – July 1992) was an American jazz and jump blues tenor saxophonist, born Ray Abramson in New York City. His younger brother was jazz drummer Lee Abrams. Ray Abrams first worked with Dizzy Gillespie in 1945, toured Europe with Don Redman in 1946 and was with Andy Kirk in 1947. He went back and forth between Kirk and Gillespie for decades. Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne All Music. Outside of his work with Gillespie he might be best known for the "Ray Abrams Big Band." Other bands with which he played into the early 1950s include those of Hot Lips Page, Roy Eldridge, and Slim Gaillard. Discography As sideman * Dizzy Gillespie, ''Odyssey 1945–1952'' (Savoy, 2002) * Dizzy Gillespie, ''Showtime at the Spotlite, 52nd Street New York City, June 1946'' (Uptown, 2008) * Coleman Hawkins, ''Rainbow Mist'' (Delmark, 1992) * King Pleasure, ''The Source'' (Prestige, 1972) * Jimmy Scott & Paul Gayten Paul Leon Gayten (January 29, 1920 – March 26, 1991) ...
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1993 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1993. Events April * 10 – The 20th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10–12). June * 2 – The 21st Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (June 2–13). * 5 – The 22nd Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (June 5–8). * 29 – The 14th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (June 29 – July 9). July * 1 – The 3rd Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (July 1 – 15). * 2 ** The 16th Copenhagen Jazz Festival started in Copenhagen, Denmark (July 2–11). ** The 27th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 2–17). * 10 ** The 18th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 10–12). ** The 28th Pori Jazz started in Pori, Finland (July 10 – 18). * 13 – The 34th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 13 – 18). August * 13 – The 10th Brecon Jazz Festival started in Brecon, Wales (April 13–15). September * 17 – The 36th Montere ...
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Gene Leis
Gene Leis (April 19, 1920 – March 15, 1993) was an American jazz guitarist, teacher, bandleader, composer, producer, and entrepreneur. Early life Leis was born into a musical family in Sedgwick, Kansas, Sedgwick, Kansas, near Wichita. His parents had a family band and played at local dances, weddings, and other events. When he was nine, he joined the family group on mandolin, an instrument whose neck was small enough for him to play comfortably. In his early teens he took up tenor guitar and began playing with other small groups. His father wanted him to play cello, and Leis negotiated a series of banjo lessons in exchange. During the late 1930s Leis listened to the swing bands of Goodman and to guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. The introduction of the electric guitar changed the nature of the guitar player in dance bands so that they could play loud enough to be heard over the other instruments. He decided to focus on guitar. War years In early 1941, Leis enli ...
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1999 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1999. Events January March * 26 – The 26th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 26 – 28). May * 13 – The 27th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 13 – 29). * 21 – The 28th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 21 – 24). June * 30 – The 35th Kongsberg Jazzfestival started in Kongsberg, Norway (June 30 – July 3). July * 1 – The 20th Montreal International Jazz Festival started in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (July 1 – 11). * 2 – The 9th Jazz Fest Wien started in Wien, Austria (July 2 – 10). * 3 – The 33rd Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 3 – 18). * 10 ** The 24th North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague (July 10 – 12). ** The 34th Pori Jazz started in Pori, Finland (July 10 – 19). * 11 – The 52nd Nice Jazz Festival started in Nice, France (July 11 – 18). * 12 – The 39th Moldejazz started in Molde, Norway (July 12 – 17). * 21 – The 34 ...
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Sam Ranelli
Sam C. Ranelli (February 21, 1920 – December 30, 1999) was a professional big band jazz drummer from Birmingham, Alabama. Ranelli played with several famous big bands and eventually formed and lead his own big band. In 1982, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame (AJHF) was founded in 1978, and opened a museum on September 18, 1993, with a mission "to foster, encourage, educate, and cultivate a general appreciation of the medium of jazz music as a legitimate, original and dis .... References American jazz drummers 1920 births 1999 deaths 20th-century American drummers American male drummers 20th-century American male musicians American male jazz musicians {{US-jazz-drummer-stub ...
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2005 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 2005. Events January * 27 – The 8th Polarjazz Festival started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (January 27 – 29). February * 13 – The 47th Annual Grammy Awards ** Ray Charles & Norah Jones in the categories Record of the Year and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals for the song " Here We Go Again" ** Ray Charles & Various Artists in the category Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album for ''Genius Loves Company'' ** The Maria Schneider Orchestra in the category Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for ''Concert in the Garden'' ** Bill Frisell in the category Best Contemporary Jazz Album for '' Unspeakable'' ** Herbie Hancock in the category Best Jazz Instrumental Solo for the album '' Speak Like a Child'' ** McCoy Tyner with Gary Bartz, Terence Blanchard, Christian McBride and Lewis Nash in the category Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Individual or Group for ''Illuminations'' ** Nancy Wilson in the category Best Jazz Vo ...
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Jack Lesberg
Jack Lesberg (February 14, 1920 – September 17, 2005) was an American jazz double-bassist. Lesberg performed with many famous jazz musicians, including Louis Armstrong, Earl Hines, Jack Teagarden, Sarah Vaughan and Benny Goodman, with whom he went on several international tours. He also performed in the New York City Symphony under Leonard Bernstein in the 1940s. A native of Boston, Massachusetts, United States, Lesberg had the misfortune of playing in that city's Cocoanut Grove on the night in 1942 when 492 people lost their lives in a fire. His escape was memorialized by fellow bassist Charles Mingus in an unpublished section of Mingus's autobiography ''Beneath the Underdog''; this passage was read by rapper Chuck D. on the Mingus tribute album, ''Weird Nightmare''. Lesberg continued to tour in the 1980s and was interviewed for KCEA radio in 1984, following a performance in Menlo Park, California. During the taped interview he spoke of the many bands and performers he wo ...
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Alfred "Chico" Alvarez
Alfred "Chico" Alvarez (February 3, 1920 – August 1, 1992) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter with the Stan Kenton Orchestra and other bands. Life Alvarez was born in Montreal, grew up in Southern California. Upon graduation of high school, he attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Alvarez was a soloist with the Kenton band from 1941 to 1943 and rejoined the band after Army service in World War II. He also played with the Red Norvo and Charlie Barnet bands, and worked in Las Vegas hotels in the 1960s and 1970s, accompanying singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan. He had been a business agent for the musicians' union, the president of the Allied Arts Council and a member of the Nevada State Council on the Arts. Family Alvarez married Eileen Brennan in Los Angeles on December 31, 1949, and they moved to Las Vegas in 1958. They had one daughter, Faith Ann, born on February 8, 1958. Alvarez had two sons from a previous marriage. Alvarez' grandson is the American b ...
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Joe Mondragon
Joe Mondragon (February 2, 1920 – July 1987) was an American jazz bassist. Early life Mondragon was born in Antonito, Colorado, and raised in the Española Valley region of New Mexico. Mondragon was of Apache and Hispanic origin. Career Mondragon was an autodidact on bass, and began working professionally in Los Angeles. He served in the United States Army during World War II, and then joined Woody Herman's First Herd in 1946. Over the next two decades, he became one of the more popular studio bassists for jazz recording on the West Coast, appearing on albums by June Christy, Shorty Rogers, Shelly Manne, Buddy Rich, Buddy DeFranco, Marty Paich, Claude Williamson, Georgie Auld, Chet Baker, Bob Cooper, Harry Sweets Edison, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Bud Shank and Ella Fitzgerald. Mondragon can also be heard on soundtracks for films such as ''The Wild One'' and '' Pete Kelly's Blues''. Mondragon never recorded as a leader. Personal life Mondragon died in San Juan ...
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2002 In Jazz
In the 2000s in jazz, well-established jazz musicians, such as Dave Brubeck, Wynton Marsalis, Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Jessica Williams (musician), Jessica Williams, Michael Franks (musician), Michael Franks and George Benson, continued to perform and record. In the 1990s and 2000s, a number of young musicians emerged, including US pianists Brad Mehldau, Jason Moran (musician), Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer, guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, vibraphonist Stefon Harris, trumpeters Roy Hargrove and Terence Blanchard, saxophonists Chris Potter (jazz saxophonist), Chris Potter and Joshua Redman, and bassist Christian McBride. 2000 Events ;January * 28 – The 3rd Polarjazz started in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (February 28 – 30). ;April * 14 – The 27th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 14 – 16). ;May * 10 – The 11th MaiJazz started in Stavanger, Norway (May 10 – 14). * 25 – The 28th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 25 – June 3). ;June * 9 – The 29th Moe ...
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Helmut Zacharias
Helmut Zacharias (27 January 192028 February 2002) was a German violinist and composer who created over 400 works and sold 14 million records. He also appeared in a number of films, usually playing musicians. Early life Helmut Zacharias was born in Berlin. His father Karl was a violinist and conductor, and his mother was a singer. He started having lessons from his father at the age of 2 and a half and at 6 he played at the Faun club, a cabaret venue on the Friedrichstraße in Berlin. At the age of 8, Zacharias became the youngest student in Gustav Havemann's masterclass at the Berlin Academy of Music. Aged 11, he played on radio for the first time with a performance of Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major and began touring in 1934 at the age of 14. At this time, in the 1930s, the records of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli's all-string jazz band were available in Germany and they heavily influenced Zacharias's musical style. Musical career In 1940, Zacharias wa ...
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