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1960 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1960. Events October * 16 – The Cannonball Adderley Quintet records '' At the Lighthouse'' at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California. June * 30 – The 7th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (June 30 – July 4). Album releases *Art Blakey **'' The Big Beat'' **''A Night in Tunisia'' *Tina Brooks: '' True Blue'' *Betty Carter: '' The Modern Sound" *June Christy **" The Cool School" **"Off-Beat" *Ornette Coleman: "Change of the Century" *John Coltrane: ''Giant Steps'' *Eric Dolphy: ''Outward Bound'' *Gil Evans: '' Out of the Cool'' *Jimmy Giuffre: '' Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra/Mobiles'' *Joe Harriott: ''Southern Horizons'' *the Jazztet **"Big City Sounds" **''Meet the Jazztet'' * Sam Jones: ''The Soul Society'' *Duke Jordan: ''Flight to Jordan'' *Stan Kenton: '' Road Show'' *Herbie Mann: ''Flute, Brass, Vibes and Percussion'' *Charles Mingus: ''Charles Mingus Presents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Lindström
Erik Valter Lindström (2 January 1918 – 2 September 1955) was a Swedish ski jumper. He competed in the normal hill event at the 1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ... and served as the Swedish flag bearer at those games. References 1918 births 1955 deaths Ski jumpers at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic ski jumpers for Sweden Swedish male ski jumpers People from Örnsköldsvik Municipality Sportspeople from Västernorrland County {{Sweden-skijumping-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cool School (album)
''The Cool School'' is a 1960 album by June Christy of songs sung by children the world over accompanied by the Joe Castro Quartet. June’s daughter Shay (then aged 5) was pictured on the LP/CD cover wearing a blue smock. The album was re-issued in 2006 as a double-CD together with ''Do-Re-Mi''. Track listing # “ Give a Little Whistle” (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) # “Magic Window” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) # “Baby’s Birthday Party” (Ann Ronell) # “ When You Wish upon a Star” (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) # “Baubles, Bangles, & Beads” ( Robert Wright, Chet Forrest) # “Aren't You Glad You're You?” (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) # “Kee-mo, ky-mo” (Bob Hilliard, Roy Alfred) # “Scarlet Ribbons (For Her Hair)” (Evelyn Danzig, Jack Segal) # “Looking for a Boy” (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) # “ Small Fry” (Hoagy Carmichael, Frank Loesser) # “Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead” (Harold Arlen, Yip Harburg) # “Swinging on a St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Horizons
''Southern Horizons'' is an album by Jamaican saxophonist Joe Harriott recorded in England in 1959 and 1960 and released on the Jazzland label.Jazzland Records discography accessed November 13, 2012 Reception , the contemporaneous '''' reviewer, criticized the thinness of the audio quality and commented on the ordinariness of the original compositions, with the exceptions of "Liggin'" and the title track.Track listing ''All compositions by Joe Harri ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Harriott
Joseph Arthurlin Harriott (15 July 1928 – 2 January 1973) was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone. Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz. Born in Kingston, Harriott moved to the United Kingdom as a working musician in 1951 and lived in the country for the rest of his life. He was part of a wave of Caribbean jazz musicians who arrived in Britain during the 1950s, including Dizzy Reece, Harold McNair, Harry Beckett and Wilton Gaynair. Early life and career Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Harriott was educated at Alpha Boys School, an orphanage in the city. At Alpha he learned to play the clarinet, the instrument that was assigned to him shortly before his tenth birthday. He took up the baritone and tenor saxophone while performing with local dance bands, before settling on the alto saxophone. Harriott arrived in London in the summer of 1951, aged 23, as a member of Ossie Da Costa's band. British subject ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piece For Clarinet And String Orchestra/Mobiles
''Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra/Mobiles'' is an album by American jazz composer and arranger Jimmy Giuffre which was released on the Verve label in 1960. accessed July 6, 2015 Critical reception awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic listingaccessed November 16, 2016 Track listing All compositions by Jimmy Giuffre. # "Piece for Clarinet and String Orchestra" ## "Movement 1" - 6:22 ## "Movement 2" - 4:05 ## "Movement 3" - 2:40 ## "Movement 4" - 2:35 ## "Mov ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Giuffre
James Peter Giuffre (, ; April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger. He is known for developing forms of jazz which allowed for free interplay between the musicians, anticipating forms of free improvisation. Biography Jimmy Giuffre was born in Dallas, Texas, United States, the son of Joseph Francis Giuffre (an Italian immigrant from Termini Imerese, Palermo Province, Sicily) and Everet McDaniel Giuffre. Giuffre was a graduate of Dallas Technical High School and North Texas State Teachers College (University of North Texas College of Music). He first became known as an arranger for Woody Herman's big band, for which he wrote " Four Brothers" (1947). He would continue to write creative, unusual arrangements throughout his career. He was a central figure in West Coast jazz and cool jazz. He became a member of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars in 1951 as a full-time All Star, along with Shorty Rogers and Shelly Manne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of The Cool
''Out of the Cool'' is a jazz album by The Gil Evans Orchestra, recorded in 1960 and released on the Impulse! label the following year. The album was one of Impulse!'s first four albums, released together, and featured a gatefold design and high production values. Background Gil Evans recorded the album a short time after completing a six-week job at the Jazz Gallery club in New York City; the personnel was largely the same, with Elvin Jones being added.Stein Crease, Stephanie (2003), ''Gil Evans: Out of the Cool: His Life and Music'', Chicago Review Press. Music The first track, "La Nevada", was also recorded by Evans less than two years earlier for the album ''Great Jazz Standards''; the version for ''Out of the Cool'' is given a consistent rhythmic structure by Elvin Jones playing shakers, giving the rest of the band greater freedom and leading to a less boppish version than the earlier recording. "Where Flamingos Fly" has a melody stated by trombonist Jimmy Knepper, and uses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Evans
Ian Ernest Gilmore Evans (né Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian–American jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader. He is widely recognized as one of the greatest orchestrators in jazz, playing an important role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, and jazz fusion. He is best known for his acclaimed collaborations with Miles Davis. Early life Gil Evans was born in Toronto, Canada on May 13, 1912 to Margaret Julia McConnachy. Little is known about Evans' biological father, although a family friend said that he was a doctor who had died before Evans was born. Originally named Gilmore Ian Ernest Green, Evans took the last name of his step-father, John Evans, a miner. The family moved frequently, living in Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Oregon, migrating to wherever Evans' father could find work. Eventually, the family ended up in California, first in Berkeley, where Evans attended the ninth and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy Album)
''Outward Bound'' is the debut album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, released in 1960. It is oriented towards straight bebop, and slightly less adventurous than the majority of his later recordings. The album was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey and features Dolphy in a quintet with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Jaki Byard, bassist George Tucker and drummer Roy Haynes. Hubbard had shared living space with Dolphy when they both first arrived in New York City. The cover artwork was by Dolphy's friend Richard "Prophet" Jennings. Of the three Dolphy originals on the album, "G.W." is dedicated to the Californian bandleader Gerald Wilson, "Les" is named after the trombonist Lester Robinson, and "245" was the number of Dolphy's house on Carlton Avenue, in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Reception Jazz critic Martin Williams wrote: "From the first selection on Dolphy's first album under his own name... it was obvious that fresh and important talent ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists. His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to employing an array of extended techniques to emulate the sounds of human voices and animals. He used melodic lines that were "angular, zigzagging from interval to interval, taking hairpin turns at unexpected junctures, making dramatic leaps from the lower to the upper register." Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giant Steps (album)
''Giant Steps'' is the fifth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane as leader. It was released in February 1960 on Atlantic Records. This was his first album as leader for Atlantic Records, with which he had signed a new contract the previous year. The record is regarded as one of the most influential jazz albums of all time. Many of its tracks have become practice templates for jazz saxophonists. In 2004, it was one of fifty recordings chosen that year by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry. It attained gold record status in 2018, having sold 500,000 copies. Two tracks, "Naima" and "Syeeda's Song Flute", are respectively named after Coltrane's wife at the time and her daughter, whom he adopted. A third, "Mr. P.C.", takes its name from the initials of bassist Paul Chambers, who played on the album. A fourth, "Cousin Mary", is named in honor of Mary Lyerly, Coltrane's younger cousin. Background In 1959, Miles Davis's business manager Harold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Coltrane
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967) was an American jazz saxophonist The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pro ..., bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the Jazz#Post-war jazz, history of jazz and 20th-century music. Born and raised in North Carolina, Coltrane moved to Philadelphia after graduating high school, where he studied music. Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in his career, Coltrane helped pioneer the use of Modal jazz, modes and was one of the players at the forefront of free jazz. He led at least fifty recording sessions and appeared on many albums by other musicians, including trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Thelonious Monk. Over the course of his career, Coltrane's music t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
