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3 days ago · The landmark recordings from Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell and Grant Green in the 1950s, 60s and 70s on Blue Note and Verve document the emergence of the unique tone of jazz guitar as a soloist’s instrument, but also they show how the voice of the guitar in jazz has been expanded by successive generations of guitarists from Pat Metheny to ...
5 days ago · T-Square (formerly known as The Square), stylized in all-uppercase T-SQUARE, is a Japanese jazz fusion band formed in 1976. They became famous in the late 1970s and early 1980s along with other Japanese jazz bands.
- Tokyo, Japan
- Takeshi Itoh, Satoshi Bandoh
- 1976–present
2 days ago · Combining these with saxophone, clarinet, kalimba, and keyboards, Erasmus invests his decades of political activism into a heady fusion of traditional Southern African music, free jazz, and avant-garde composition. Threnody for the KhoiSan is a lament for the Khoisan peoples, as its name suggests, but also a celebration of Erasmus’s heritage ...
Rock music is entirely defined by the electric guitar, and has been for 60+ years. If you take out that defining element of the music, it's like saying your no-chocolate cake is a brownie. There are some e-guitars in KNOWER's music but they are entirely peripheral to the centerpiece of the band - bass, drums, vocals.
4 days ago · His work with the Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, Beck Bogert & Appice and as a solo artist is filled with superb, highly melodic and technically dazzling guitar playing. His approach to his instrument encompassed many styles, from hard rock to jazz fusion to rockabilly and more.
5 days ago · 6. Coleman Hawkins. Coleman Hawkins, born in 1904 in St. Joseph, Missouri, was a pioneering jazz saxophonist whose innovative approach to the tenor saxophone revolutionized the instrument and ...
2 days ago · Frank Vincent Zappa (/ ˈ z æ p ə / ZAP-ə; December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader.In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa composed rock, pop, jazz, jazz fusion, orchestral and musique concrète works; he also produced almost all of the 60-plus albums that he released with his band the Mothers of Invention and as a solo artist.
