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23 – Boots Mussulli, Italian-American jazz saxophonist (born 1915 ). 25 – Stuff Smith, American violinist (born 1909 ). October. 19 – Billy Banks, American singer (born 1908 ). November. 8 – Keg Johnson, American trombonist (born 1908 ). 10 – Ida Cox, African-American singer and vaudeville performer (born 1888).
The techniques and instrumentation of this type of performance have evolved over the 1900s, influenced by jazz at large and the individual drummers within it. Jazz required a method of playing percussion different from traditional European styles, one that was easily adaptable to the different rhythms of the new genre, fostering the creation of ...
The Sanremo Music Festival 1960 ( Italian: Festival di Sanremo 1960 ), officially the 10th Italian Song Festival ( 10º Festival della canzone italiana ), was the tenth annual Sanremo Music Festival, held at the Sanremo Casino in Sanremo between 28 and 30 January 1960 [1] and presented by Paolo Ferrari and Enza Sampò.
The term "música instrumental Brasileira", which literally means "Brazilian instrumental music", is used in Brazil as an umbrella term to refer to jazz as well as several instrumental forms of art music drawing on national styles such as choro, samba and bossa nova. The term's ambiguity allows for the fact that Brazilian musicians themselves ...
Television was an important source of work for jazz musicians in the early-mid-1960s; the GTV-9 house band, which provided music for programs like Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight employed many of best players on the Melbourne jazz/session scene and showcased younger entrants into the scene, such as The Red Onion Jazz Band.
Straight-ahead jazz is a genre of jazz that developed in the 1960s, with roots in the prior two decades. It omits the rock music and free jazz influences that began to appear in jazz during this period, instead preferring acoustic instruments, conventional piano comping, walking bass patterns, and swing- and bop-based drum rhythms.
Italy has many young and promising jazz musicians including Rosario Giuliani, Claudio Quartarone, Claudio Ottaviano, Marcello Giuliani, Mauro Gargano, Francesco Bearzatti, Michel Rosciglione, Massimo Biolcati and Flavio Boltro . Piano, solo (2007) is a biographical movie by Riccardo Milani based upon the life of Luca Flores, an Italian jazz ...
