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1964 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1964. Events July * 2 – The 11th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 2 – 5). Album releases *Albert Ayler: '' Witches and Devils'' *John Coltrane: ''Crescent'' *Eric Dolphy: ''Out to Lunch!'' * Guenter Hampel: '' Heartplants'' *Herbie Hancock: ''Empyrean Isles'' *Joe Henderson: "Our Thing (album)" * Andrew Hill: '' Judgement!'' * Andrew Hill: '' Black Fire'' *Freddie Hubbard **'' Breaking Point'' **"Doin' the Thang!" **"The Body & the Soul" *Lee Morgan: ''The Sidewinder'' *Lee Morgan: ''Search For The New Land'' *New York Art Quartet: ''New York Art Quartet'' *Duke Pearson: ''Wahoo!'' *Oscar Peterson **'' Canadiana Suite'' **" The Oscar Peterson Trio Plays" **''Trio Plus One'' **"We Get Requests" *André Previn: ''My Fair Lady'' *Shirley Scott: ''Blue Flames'' *Tony Scott: ''Music for Zen Meditation'' *Wayne Shorter: '' JuJu'' *Ben Webster: '' See You at the Fair'' * Tony Williams: '' Life T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luther Tucker
Luther Tucker (January 20, 1936 – June 18, 1993) was an American blues guitarist. While soft-spoken and shy, Tucker made his presence known through his unique and clearly recognizable guitar style. Tucker helped to define the music known as Chicago blues, but played everything from blues to soul, rock, jazz and gospel, when given the chance. While never achieving the fame and notoriety of some of his contemporaries, he was considered a great guitarist whether playing his own lead style or playing on the recordings of B.B. King, Mel Brown, Pat Hare, or Elmore James. He is considered one of the most prominent rhythm guitarists of Chicago blues along with Eddie Taylor, Jody Williams and Freddie Robinson. He variously worked with Little Walter, Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, The James Cotton Blues Band and Elvin Bishop. Career Early years Tucker was born in Memphis, Tennessee. His father, a carpenter, built Tucker his first guitar, but his first real guitar was a Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian virtuoso jazz pianist and composer. Considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time, Peterson released more than 200 recordings, won seven Grammy Awards, as well as a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy, and received numerous other awards and honours. He played thousands of concerts worldwide in a career lasting more than 60 years. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, simply "O.P." by his friends, and informally in the jazz community as "the King of inside swing". Biography Early years Peterson was born in Montreal, Quebec, to immigrants from the West Indies (Saint Kitts and Nevis and the British Virgin Islands); His mother, Kathleen, was a domestic worker and his father, Daniel, worked as a porter for Canadian Pacific Railway and was an amateur musician who taught himself to play the organ, trumpet and piano. Peterson grew up in the neighbourh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahoo!
''Wahoo!'' is an album by American pianist and arranger Duke Pearson, featuring performances recorded in 1964 and released on the Blue Note label in 1964.Duke Pearson discography accessed March 17, 2017 Reception The review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine calls the album "A truly wonderful advanced hard bop date, ''Wahoo'' captures pianist Duke Pearson at his most adventurous and creative... one of the finest sophisticated hard bop dates Blue Note released in the mid-'60s".Track listing All compositions by Duke Pearson, except where noted. # "Amanda" – 9:26 # "Bedouin" – 9:30 # "Farewell Machelle" – ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Pearson
Columbus Calvin "Duke" Pearson Jr. (August 17, 1932 – August 4, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer. ''Allmusic'' describes him as having a "big part in shaping the Blue Note label's hard bop direction in the 1960s as a record producer." Early life Pearson was born Columbus Calvin Pearson Jr. in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, to Columbus Calvin and Emily Pearson. The moniker "Duke" was given to him by his uncle, who was a great admirer of Duke Ellington. Before he was six, his mother started giving him piano lessons. He studied the instrument until he was twelve, Gitler, Ira (1959). Original liner notes to ''Profile''. when he took an interest in brass instruments: mellophone, baritone horn and ultimately trumpet. He was so fond of the trumpet that through high school and college he neglected the piano. He attended Clark College while also playing trumpet in groups in the Atlanta area. While in the U.S. Army, during his 1953–54 draft, he continued to play trump ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Art Quartet (album)
''New York Art Quartet'' is the debut album by the group of the same name. It was recorded on November 26, 1964, at Bell Sound Studios in New York City, and was released in 1965 by ESP-Disk as the fourth item in their catalog, following Albert Ayler's ''Spiritual Unity'' and Pharoah Sanders's '' Pharoah's First''. It features John Tchicai on alto saxophone, Roswell Rudd on trombone, Lewis Worrell on bass, and Milford Graves on percussion. In addition, LeRoi Jones recites his controversial poem "Black Dada Nihilismus" on one track. The album was recorded roughly two months after the group, calling itself "The John Tchicai Quartet," participated in the "October Revolution in Jazz" festival organized by Bill Dixon, and roughly one month before they played in the "Four Days in December" festival, where, calling themselves the "Roswell Rudd - John Tchicai Quartet," they shared a bill with Sun Ra. Reception In a review for AllMusic, Al Campbell wrote: "The unique front-line horn arrange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York Art Quartet
The New York Art Quartet was a free jazz ensemble, originally made up of saxophonist John Tchicai, trombonist Roswell Rudd, drummer Milford Graves and bassist Lewis Worrell, that came into existence in 1964 in New York City. Worrell was later replaced by various other bassists, including Reggie Workman, Finn Von Eyben, Harold Dodson, Eddie Gómez, Steve Swallow, and Buell Neidlinger. All About Jazz reviewer Clifford Allen wrote that the group "cut some of the most powerful music in the free jazz underground". In November 1962, Tchicai moved from his home country of Denmark to New York City at the suggestion of Archie Shepp and Bill Dixon, whom he had met at the Helsinki Jazz Festival earlier that year. Upon arriving in New York, Tchicai began playing with Dixon's group, which included Shepp and Roswell Rudd among others, and also sat in with Don Cherry and various other musicians. By the summer of 1963, Tchicai, Shepp, and Cherry had formed the New York Contemporary Five with bass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Search For The New Land
''Search for the New Land'' is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan. A set with a group of regular Blue Note sidemen, ''Search for the New Land'' was recorded before ''The Sidewinder'' was released. Although it was recorded in 1964, the album was shelved for two years, then issued with the original catalogue number 84169. Reception It has been described by jazz commentator Scott Yanow as "one of the finest Lee Morgan records." The album reached #16 on ''Billboard''s " Black Albums" chart and #143 on "Pop Albums". Track listing All compositions by Lee Morgan #"Search for the New Land" – 15:45 #"The Joker" – 5:04 #"Mr. Kenyatta" – 8:43 #"Melancholee" – 6:14 #"Morgan the Pirate" – 6:30 Personnel Performance *Lee Morgan – trumpet *Wayne Shorter – tenor sax *Herbie Hancock – piano *Grant Green – guitar *Reggie Workman – bass *Billy Higgins – drums Production *Bob Blumenthal – liner notes *Micaela Boland – art direction, graphic design *Michael Cuscuna †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sidewinder
''The Sidewinder'' is a 1964 album by the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan, recorded at the Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, U.S. It was released on the Blue Note label as BLP 4157 (mono) and BST 84157 ( stereo). The title track is perhaps Morgan's all-around best-known composition; it would go on to become a jazz standard, and was additionally released as a single,Cook, Richard (2004) ''Blue Note Records: The Biography'', Justin, Charles & Co., p. 182. reaching number 81 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in January 1965. The album became Blue Note's best-selling record ever, breaking the previous sales record and saving the label from near bankruptcy. Record producer Michael Cuscuna recalls the unexpected success: "the company issued only 4,000 copies upon release. Needless to say, they ran out of stock in three or four days. And 'The Sidewinder' became a runaway smash making the pop 100 charts." By January 1965, the album had reached No. 25 on the ''Billboard'' c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Morgan
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s, Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording on John Coltrane's '' Blue Train'' (1957) and with the band of drummer Art Blakey before launching a solo career. Morgan stayed with Blakey until 1961 and started to record as leader in the late '50s. His song "The Sidewinder", on the album of the same name, became a surprise crossover hit on the pop and R&B charts in 1964, while Morgan's subsequent recordings found him touching on other styles of music such as post-bop and avant-garde jazz as his artistry matured. Soon after ''The Sidewinder'' was released, Morgan rejoined Blakey for a short period. After leaving Blakey for the final time, Morgan continued to work prolifically as both a leader and a sideman with the likes of Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, becoming a cornerstone of the Blue Note label. Morgan died at the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Body & The Soul
''The Body & the Soul'' is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded in 1963 as his second and last release on the Impulse! label. It features performances by Hubbard with an orchestra and string section, and with a septet featuring Curtis Fuller, Eric Dolphy, Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Reggie Workman and Louis Hayes. Reception A reviewer for ''Negro Digest'' stated: "From the opening track to the last Hubbard establishes and maintains a mood of excellence that literally explodes out to the listener. His solos are pregnant with quality and melody, and his technique is flawless. Unquestionably, this is the best by Freddie Hubbard to date. As for the music itself, it is all mainstream. There is no attempt at far-out-ness. Each tune is easy discernible, being buoyant for the most part with beauty and form". Michael G. Nastos of AllMusic added: "The manner in which this recording is programmed is thoughtful in that it lends to the diversity of the project, but is seamles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doin' The Thang!
''Doin' the Thang!'' is the debut album by jazz pianist Ronnie Mathews featuring trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded for the Prestige label in 1963. Reception Alex Henderson of AllMusic said "the LP's focus is modal post-bop and non-soul-jazz hard bop. But even though the material isn't soul-jazz, Mathews' quintet is certainly soulful... Hubbard, who was only 25 when ''Doin' the Thang'' was recorded, brings a lot to the session – not only fire, guts, and passion, but also a big, highly appealing tone".Henderson, AAllMusic listingaccessed May 22, 2013. accessed September 19, 2017 Track listing All compositions by Ronnie Mathews except where noted # "The Thang" – 8:02 # "Ichi Ban" – 3:37 # "The Orient" – 5:55 # "Let's Get Down" – 5:14 # "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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