Jazz
Cool, lyrical Brubeck alto sax (Take Five; Blue Rondo a la...)
Paul Desmond
Baroness who provided financial support to jazz musicians
Pannonica De Koenigswarter
Charles Mingus, Paul Chambers, Percy Heath, Scott LaFaro
important bassists
Capitol Records waited years to release this legendary session
The birth of cool
Hard bop legend of the tenor sax w/60+ year career; Duke of Iron
sonny rollins
Celebrated pop-folk singer worked with Mingus (Goodbye Pork Pie Hat)
Joni Mitchell
Bird; principal architect of Bebop; alto sax virtuoso; Ko-Ko
Charlie parker
Wrote hard bop classics Senor Blues, Nica’s Dream; funky, gospel-like
Horace silver
Alto sax giant played w/Miles Davis; Mercy Mercy Mercy/Work Song
cannonball adderley
On Kind of Blue, involves soloing over one chord for an extended time
modal
Drummer/bandleader helped launch many great jazz careers
Art Blakey
Big band leader/pianist who helped struggling young composers
stan kenton
Leader of most jazz style charge in his career; choose the best musicians
miles davis
Composed/recorded Boogie Stop Shuffle; fierce temper as leader
charles mingus
Trumpet great co-founded bebop; launched Afro-Cuban; White House guest
clifford brown
Helped Miles (modal); wrote Waltz for Debby, Monica Zetterlund singing
Bill Evans
Cool tenor sax who recorded The Girl from Ipanema
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Brilliant trumpeter who died young in accident; A Night in Tunisia
dizzy gillespie
This famed Harlem nightclub was a hotspot of the bebop movement
mintons playhouse
acclaimed sax & students of Lennie Tristano
Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh
Max Roach, Kenny Clarke, Philly Joe Jones, Art Blakey are...
important drummers
Sang and played trumpet on Let’s Get Lost (also a documentary)
Chet Baker
Group with a softer, cooler, more intellectual approach; Summertime
modern jazz quartet
From Rocky Mt., NC; composed Straight, no Chaser, ‘Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk
Two sax giants who played with Miles Davis’s 1950s sextet
Adderley/Coltrane