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4 days ago · Check out some of the greatest jazz albums on vinyl here.. 25: Sasha Berliner. Starting out playing drums at eight years old, San Francisco-born Berliner is a composer and educator who got hooked ...
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3 days ago · Washington became jazz’s most recognizable new face in part through his conviction that jazz writ large is a pressing contemporary concern. Though he has collaborated with high-profile musicians ...
4 days ago · Jim Pepper (born June 18, 1941, Salem, Oregon, U.S.—died February 10, 1992, Portland, Oregon) was an American saxophonist, singer, and composer known for a musical style that fused various genres of Native American music —including stomp dance, peyote music, and intertribal powwow music—with jazz, rock, country, and other popular music ...
22 hours ago · This band emerged from Hamburg and lasted only a few years. It included a mixture of local musicians and two "foreigners". The German musicians were Reinhart Firchow (recorders, flutes, ocarina, stylophone, percussion, vocals), Lucas Lindholm (bass, bass fiddle, organ, piano), Dicky Tarrach (drums, percussion), Herb Geller (flutes, cor anglais, alto/soprano/tenor saxes, organ), the Irishman ...
4 days ago · Introducing funk to jazz-fusion (much like Mahavishnu Orchestra did with rock), Herbie Hancock wet our palate with the 15:44-minute track “Chameleon,” tricking us into believing this is an esoteric funk album . . . but it’s not. The composition “Chameleon” became (with 9 minutes shaved off of the…
1 day ago · The fusion of these two styles created a new form of music that combined the spontaneity and creativity of jazz with the raw emotion and storytelling of blues. Musicians like Miles Davis and John Lee Hooker were among the first to experiment with this fusion, blending elements of both styles to create a sound that was both innovative and deeply ...
4 days ago · These genres emphasize solid and danceable rhythms, often driven by percussive instruments, which can dramatically alter the feel and groove of a performance. Rhythmic Diversity. Each Latin jazz style has its own set of rhythmic rules and patterns. For instance, the clave rhythm—central to much of Afro-Cuban music—is fundamental.
