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1978 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1978. Events March * 17 – The 5th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (March 17–19). May * 12 – The 7th Moers Festival started in Moers, Germany (May 12–15). * 24 – The 6th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May 24 – June 7). July * 1 – The 25th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 1–3). * 7 – The 12th Montreux Jazz Festival started in Montreux, Switzerland (July 7–23). * 14 – The 3rd North Sea Jazz Festival started in The Hague, Netherlands (July 14–16). * 28 – The very first Jazz in Marciac started in Marciac, France (July 28 – August 17). September * 15 – The 21st Monterey Jazz Festival started in Monterey, California (September 15 – 17). Album releases *Chick Corea: ''The Mad Hatter'' *Chick Corea: ''Secret Agent'' *Chick Corea: ''Friends'' *Air: ''Open Air Suit'' *Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekela: ''Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela'' *Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders (born Ferrell Lee Sanders; October 13, 1940 – September 24, 2022) was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through his work as a member of John Coltrane's groups in the mid-1960s, and later through his solo work. He released over thirty albums as a leader and collaborated extensively with vocalist Leon Thomas and pianist Alice Coltrane, among many others. Fellow saxophonist Ornette Coleman once described him as "probably the best tenor player in the world". Sanders' take on “spiritual jazz” was rooted in his inspiration from religious concepts such as Karma and Tawhid, and his rich, meditative performance aesthetic. This style was seen as a continuation of Coltrane's work on albums such as ''A Love Supreme''. As a result, Sanders was considered to have been a di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marciac
Marciac (, , ) is a commune in the Gers department, Occitania, southwestern France. It is known for its annual international festival Jazz in Marciac, which runs for a fortnight every summer. Geography History The name of this Bastide was received by the King of France's representative, seneschal Guichard de Marciac. The abbot of the monastery of La Case Dieu and the count of Pardiac had invited Guichard de Marciac with the hope he would ensure a safe place for Marciac's citizens and guarantee the prosperity of the city for years to come. In 2008, during the financial crisis of 2007–2008, a team from Marciac won the 'best baguette' category in the French-hosted (but United States-sponsored) baking world cup, the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie. Population Festivals A great emphasis is placed on jazz in the town, which is taught as a regular subject in local schools. The town itself is known for its annual Jazz in Marciac festival, held for a fortnight in August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice Guys (album)
''Nice Guys'' is a 1979 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, their first to appear on the ECM label. accessed November 26, 2017 Reception The review by Al Campbell awarded the album 4½ stars noting that "''Nice Guys'' was the first Art Ensemble of Chicago album released after a five-year recording hiatus and the group's first for the ECM label. During those five years, the Art Ensemble toured Europe and continued to expand its compositional, improvisational, and theatrical jazz fundamentals, captured abundantly on ''Nice Guys''... the album reveals how the AEC managed to turn individual compositions into a fully realized, surprisingly acces ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Ensemble Of Chicago
The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians ( AACM) in the late 1960s. The ensemble integrates many jazz styles and plays many instruments, including "little instruments": bells, bicycle horns, birthday party noisemakers, wind chimes, and various forms of percussion. The musicians would wear costumes and face paint while performing. These characteristics combined to make the ensemble's performances both aural and visual. While playing in Europe in 1969, five hundred instruments were used. History Members of what was to become the Art Ensemble performed together under various band names in the mid-sixties, as members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). They performed on the 1966 album ''Sound,'' as the Roscoe Mitchell Sextet. The Sextet included saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, trumpeter Lester Bowie, and bassist Malachi Favors. For the next year, they played as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Anderson (musician)
Fred Anderson (March 22, 1929 – June 24, 2010) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who was based in Chicago, Illinois. Anderson's playing was rooted in the swing music and hard bop idioms, but he also incorporated innovations from free jazz. Anderson was also noted for having mentored numerous young musicians. Critic Ben Ratliff called him "a father figure of experimental jazz in Chicago". Writer John Corbett referred to him as "scene caretaker, underground booster, indefatigable cultural worker, quiet force for good." In 2001, author John Litweiler called Anderson "the finest tenor saxophonist in free jazz/underground jazz/outside jazz today." Biography Anderson was born in Monroe, Louisiana. When he was ten, his parents separated, and he moved to Evanston, Illinois, where he initially lived with his mother and aunt in a one-room apartment. When Anderson was a teenager, a friend introduced him to the music of Charlie Parker, and he soon decided he wanted to play saxophone, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Main Event Live
''Main Event Live'' is collaborative live album by Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekela. It was recorded in Los Angeles, California and released in 1978 via A&M Records label. Reception Richard Ginell of Allmusic stated: "'Let the good times roll,' Herb Alpert seemed to say as he quickly rejoined forces with Masekela for a follow-up LP to their first collaboration earlier that year. Recording live at the Roxy Theatre and on A&M's soundstage without duplicating anything on their earlier studio album, the two horn players (Alpert on trumpet, Masekela on flugelhorn) are, if anything, looser and more freewheeling than before. Though Alpert is not on quite as sure a jazz footing as Masekela, neither musician tries to blow the other out of the room. The band, containing only one holdover (guitarist Arthur Adams) from the first album, is more attuned to Latin funk/jazz with a South African tinge this time. Again, Alpert and Masekela have mostly fine tunes to work with, none better than 'Fore ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela
''Herb Alpert / Hugh Masekela'' is collaborative studio album by Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekela. It was recorded in Hollywood, California, and released in 1978 via A&M Records and Horizon Records labels. Track listing Personnel *Acoustic guitar – Tommy Tedesco (tracks: 5) *Arranged by – Caiphus Semenya, Herb Alpert, Hugh Masekela, Stewart Levine *Backing vocals – Caiphus Semenya, Herb Alpert, Hugh Masekela, Lani Hall, Letta Mbulu *Bass – Chuck Domanico *Bass – Louis Johnson (tracks: 1) *Co-producer – Hugh Masekela *Concertmaster – Gerald Vinci *Design – Chuck Beeson *Drums – Carlos Vega (tracks: 5), James Gadson, Spider Webb (tracks: 6) *Flugelhorn – Hugh Masekela *Flugelhorn, trumpet – Herb Alpert *French horn – Marylin L. Robinson, Sidney Isaac Muldrow *Guitar – Arthur Adams, Freddie Harris, Lee Ritenour *Guitar – Arthur Adams (tracks: 7) *Mastered by – Bernie Grundman *Orchestrated By – Donald Cooke *Percussion – Paulinho Da Costa *Piano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as "Soweto Blues" and " Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with his version of "Grazing in the Grass". Early life Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was born in the township of KwaGuqa in Witbank (now called Emalahleni), South Africa, to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker. His younger sister Barbara Masekela is a poet, educator and ANC activist. As a child, he began singing and playing piano and was largely raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners. At the age of 14, after seeing the 1950 film '' Young Man with a Horn'' (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character modelled on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Alpert
Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart, five of which became No. 1 albums; he has had 14 platinum albums and 15 gold albums. Alpert is the only musician to hit No. 1 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' Hot 100 as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) and an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979). Alpert has reportedly sold 72 million records worldwide. He has received many accolades, including a Tony Award, and eight Grammy Awards, as well as the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2006, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Alpert was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama in 2013. Early life and career Herb Alpert was born and raised in the Boyle Heights section of Eastside Los Angeles, California, the younger child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friends (Chick Corea Album)
''Friends'' is the thirteenth album by Chick Corea. It features a quartet of Corea, saxophonist Joe Farrell, acoustic bassist Eddie Gómez and drummer Steve Gadd. It was released by Polydor Records in 1978, and the cover featured The Smurfs. ''Friends'' received the 1979 Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Group. Track listing All pieces are composed by Chick Corea. Side one #"The One Step" – 6:05 #"Waltse for Dave" – 7:32 #"Children's Song #5" – 1:15 #"Samba Song" – 10:00 Side two #"Friends" – 9:26 #"Sicily" – 6:15 #"Children's Song #15" – 1:10 #"Cappucino" – 8:39 Personnel * Chick Corea – Steinway acoustic grand piano, Fender Rhodes electric piano * Joe Farrell – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute * Eddie Gómez – double bass * Steve Gadd – drums Chart performance References External links Chick Corea - ''Friends'' (1978) album review by Scott Yanow, credits & releasesat AllMusic Chick Corea - ''Friends'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Agent (Chick Corea Album)
''Secret Agent'' is the twelfth album by Chick Corea, recorded and released in 1978. It is a musically diverse release that features Corea’s long-standing collaborators Joe Farrell on reeds and woodwinds, percussionist Airto, and vocalist Gayle Moran (Corea’s wife). Al Jarreau sings “Hot News Blues”, and a four piece brass section and string quartet also appear. This album is one of three that Corea released in 1978, along with ''The Mad Hatter'' and ''Friends'' in what was called an "almost impossibly active year". 1978 also featured the release of live albums '' An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert'' and '' RTF Live: The Complete Concert'' (4LP Box Set) with Return to Forever. Track listing All pieces are composed by Chick Corea unless otherwise noted. Side one #"Golden Dawn" – 3:39 #"Slinky" – 5:42 #"Mirage" – 2:11 #"Drifting" – 4:09 #"Glebe St. Blues" – 6:58 Side two #"Fickle Funk" – 5:05 #"Bagatelle, No. 4" (Béla Bartók) – 3:34 #" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mad Hatter (album)
''The Mad Hatter'' is the eleventh album by Chick Corea. Released in 1978, it is a concept album inspired by Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. Track listing All tracks composed by Chick Corea. "Falling Alice" and "Dear Alice" include additional lyrics by Gayle Moran. Personnel * Chick Corea – acoustic piano (A1–B3); Fender Rhodes electric piano (A6); ARP Odyssey, Minimoog, Polymoog, Moog Model 15 modular, Moog Sample & Hold, Oberheim 8-voice synthesizers (A1, A6); MXR Digital Delay, Eventide Harmonizer (A1); marimba (A1, B2); finger cymbals (A5, B2); African shaker, cowbell, arrangements, producer * Joe Farrell – tenor saxophone (A4, A6); flute (A3, A5, A6, B2, B3), concert flute (B2) * Herbie Hancock – Fender Rhodes electric piano ((B3)) * Jamie Faunt – double bass (A3, A5, B1) * Eddie Gómez – double bass (A4, A6, B2, B3) * Steve Gadd – drums (A4, A6, B2, B3) * Harvey Mason – drums (A3, A5) * Gayle Moran – vocals ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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