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1971 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1971. Events May * 2 – The 5th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (May 2 – June 24). July * 2 – The 18th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 2 – 5). September * 17 – The 14th Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 17 – 19). Album releases *Art Ensemble of Chicago: '' Phase One'' * Derek Bailey: ''Solo Guitar'' *Gato Barbieri: '' Fenix'' * Carla Bley: '' Escalator Over The Hill'' *Willem Breuker: ''Instant Composers Pool 008'' *Gary Burton: '' Live in Tokyo'' *Alice Coltrane **''Universal Consciousness'' **''Journey in Satchidananda'' * Compost: '' Compost'' * Chick Corea **'' Circle 2: Gathering'' **'' Piano Improvisations'' **'' The Song of Singing'' *Don Ellis: '' Tears of Joy'' * Bill Evans **'' The Bill Evans Album'' **'' From Left to Right'' *Jan Garbarek: ''Sart'' * Freddie Hubbard **'' First Light'' **''Sing Me a Song of Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Coltrane
Alice Coltrane (' McLeod; August 27, 1937January 12, 2007), also known by her adopted Sanskrit name Turiyasangitananda, was an American jazz musician and composer, and in her later years a swamini. An accomplished pianist and one of the few harpists in the history of jazz, she recorded many albums as a bandleader, beginning in the late 1960s and early 1970s for Impulse! and other record labels. She was married to jazz saxophonist and composer John Coltrane, with whom she performed in 1966–1967. One of the foremost exponents of spiritual jazz, her eclectic music proved widely influential both within and outside the world of jazz. Coltrane's professional music career slowed from the mid 1970s as she became more dedicated to her religious education. She founded the Vedantic Center in 1975 and the Shanti Anantam Ashram in California in 1983, where she served as spiritual director. On July 3, 1994, Swamini rededicated and inaugurated the land as Sai Anantam Ashram'' During the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Left To Right
''From Left to Right'' is an album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971. Reissues * ''From Left to Right'' was reissued on CD by Verve Records on November 13, 1998 with bonus tracks. *''From Left to Right'' was reissued on CD by Universal in 2005 with the same bonus tracks as the 1998 release. Track listing # "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Michel Legrand) – 4:05 # "I'm All Smiles" (Michael Leonard, Herbert Martin) – 5:42 # "Why Did I Choose You?" (Leonard, Martin) – 5:04 # "Soirée" (Earl Zindars) – 3:24 # "The Dolphin-Before" ( Luíz Eça) – 3:05 # "The Dolphin-After" ( Luíz Eça) – 3:06 # "Lullaby for Helene" (Earl Zindars) – 2:50 # "Like Someone in Love" ( Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen) – 5:38 # "Children's Play Song" (Evans) – 4:11 #:Bonus tracks: # "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" (Bergman, Bergman, Legrand) – 4:44 # "Why Did I Choose You?" (Leonard, Martin) – 4:18 # "Soirée" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bill Evans Album
''The Bill Evans Album'' is an album by the jazz pianist Bill Evans, released in 1971. It is his first album to feature all compositions written (or co-written), arranged and performed by Evans. At the Grammy Awards of 1972, ''The Bill Evans Album'' won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Solo and the Best Jazz Performance by a Group awards. The Bill Evans Memorial Library states it is the first recording in which Evans used a Fender Rhodes piano. The title of the song "Re: Person I Knew" (recorded first on an earlier record in 1962, ''Moon Beams'') is an anagram of the name of Evans' longtime producer, Orrin Keepnews.Original issue liner notes by Fred Binkley, 1971. The cover image is based on a photograph taken by music photographer Don Hunstein. ''The Bill Evans Album'' was reissued with three bonus alternative tracks by Sony in 2005. Track listing All songs by Bill Evans except where noted. # " Funkallero" (Album Version) – 7:45 # " Two Lonely People" (Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Evans
William John Evans (August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980) was an American jazz pianist and composer who worked primarily as the leader of his trio. His use of impressionist harmony, interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continues to influence jazz pianists today. Born in Plainfield, New Jersey, United States, he was classically trained at Southeastern Louisiana University and the Mannes School of Music, in New York City, where he majored in composition and received the Artist Diploma. In 1955, he moved to New York City, where he worked with bandleader and theorist George Russell. In 1958, Evans joined Miles Davis's sextet, which in 1959, then immersed in modal jazz, recorded '' Kind of Blue'', the best-selling jazz album ever. In late 1959, Evans left the Miles Davis band and began his career as a leader, with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian, a group now regarded as a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tears Of Joy (album)
''Tears of Joy'' is a live double album by trumpeter/bandleader Don Ellis recorded in 1971 and released on the Columbia label. accessed March 6, 2015 Reception Thom Jurek of said "''Tears of Joy'' is a Don Ellis classic. The sheer musical strength of this ensemble is pretty much unparalleled in his career. The trumpeter/leader had backed off—a bit—from some of his outlandish and beautifully excessive use of strange and unconventional time signatures, though there is no lack of pioneering experimentalism in tone, color, arrangement, or style. ...Ultimately, ''Tears of Joy'' stands as a singular achievement in a career full of them by a musical auteur whose creativi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Ellis
Donald Johnson Ellis (July 25, 1934 – December 17, 1978) was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader. He is best known for his extensive musical experimentation, particularly in the area of time signatures. Later in his life he worked as a film composer, contributing a score to 1971's '' The French Connection'' and 1973's ''The Seven-Ups''. Biography Early life Ellis was born in Los Angeles, California, on July 25, 1934. His father was a Methodist minister and his mother a church organist. He attended West High School in Minneapolis, MN. After attending a Tommy Dorsey Big Band concert, he first became interested in jazz. Other early inspirations were Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie. He graduated from Boston University in 1956 with a music composition degree. Early career Ellis' first job was with the late Glenn Miller's band, then directed by Ray McKinley. He stayed with the band until September 1956, when he joined the U.S. Army's Seventh Army Symp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Song Of Singing
''The Song of Singing'' is a studio album by Chick Corea, released in 1971 on Blue Note Records. The recording features bassist Dave Holland and drummer/percussionist Barry Altschul. Corea, Holland and Altschul made up three fourths of the free jazz ensemble Circle. The setting of this album is largely free and spontaneous, with a few pre-composed pieces included to maintain balance. The only piece not composed by Corea or Holland, or improvised by the trio, is Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti", now considered a jazz standard. The 1987 CD reissue added two bonus tracks originally issued in the 1970s on ''Circling In'' and '' Circulus''; the 1989 CD reissue added the last unissued track from these recordings sessions. Track listing #"Toy Room" (Holland) – 5:51 #"Ballad I" (Altschul, Corea, Holland) – 4:17 #"Rhymes" (Corea) – 6:50 #"Flesh" (Corea) – 6:06 #"Ballad III" (Altschul, Corea, Holland) – 5:34 #"Nefertiti" (Wayne Shorter) – 7:05 1987 CD bonus tracks: # "Blues Con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano Improvisations Vol
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a musical keyboard, keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gathering
Gather, gatherer, or gathering may refer to: Anthropology and sociology *Hunter-gatherer, a person or a society whose subsistence depends on hunting and gathering of wild foods *Intensive gathering, the practice of cultivating wild plants as a step toward domestication *Harvesting crops Craftwork *Gather (sewing), an area where fabric is folded or bunched together with thread or yarn *Gather (knitting), a generic term for one of several knitting techniques to draw stitches closer together *Gathering (bookbinding), a number of sheets of paper folded and sewn or glued as a group into a bookbinding Gathering *Gathering, any type of party or meeting, including: **Bee (gathering), an old term which describes a group of people coming together for a task **Salon (gathering), a party associated with French and Italian intellectuals *Global gathering, a music festival in the United Kingdom *Rainbow Gathering *Ricochet Gathering, a music event in the United States *Tribal Gathering, a music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chick Corea
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea (June 12, 1941 – February 9, 2021) was an American jazz composer, pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", " 500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba", and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered one of the foremost jazz pianists of the post-John Coltrane era. Corea continued to collaborate frequently while exploring different musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. He won 27 Grammy Awards and was nominated more than 60 times. Early life and education Armando Corea was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts on June 12, 1941, to parents Anna (née Zaccone) and Armando J. Corea. He was of southern Italian descent, his father having been born to an immigrant from Albi co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Compost (album)
''Compost'' (also titled ''Take Off Your Body'') is the eponymous debut album from Compost. It features Jack DeJohnette, Bob Moses, Harold Vick, Jack Gregg and Jumma Santos. The album was recorded in 1971 and released on Columbia Records. accessed 31 August 2009 Track listing :''All compositions by Jack DeJohnette except as indicated'' # "Take Off Your Body" (Bob Moses) # "Thinkin'" # "Bwaata" (Moses, DeJohnette) # "Happy Peace" # "Country Song" (Jack Gregg, DeJohnette) # "Sweet Berry Wine" (DeJohnette, Moses, Harold Vick, Jumma Santos, Gregg) # "Funky Feet" (DeJohnette, Moses, Vick, Santos, Gregg) # "Inflation Blues"Personnel * Jack DeJohnette – clavinet,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
