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<div align="center">[[file:NEAJazzMasters2021.jpeg|link=http://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-2022-nea-jazz-masters|alt=Four NEA Jazzmasters for 2021: Billy Hart, Donald Harrison, Jr., Stanley Clarke, & Cassandra Wilson.]] </div> | <div align="center">[[file:NEAJazzMasters2021.jpeg|link=http://www.arts.gov/about/news/2021/national-endowment-arts-announces-2022-nea-jazz-masters|alt=Four NEA Jazzmasters for 2021: Billy Hart, Donald Harrison, Jr., Stanley Clarke, & Cassandra Wilson.]] </div> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:StanleyClarkeColorizedLivePortrait.gif]] [[file:DonaldHarrisonJrColorizedLivePortrait.gif]] <br/> <span style="color:blue">("Hey Stanley, how's it going?)</span></div> | + | <div align="center">[[file:StanleyClarkeColorizedLivePortrait.gif|link=http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/stanley-clarke|alt=An animated .gif of the head of bassist Stanley Clarke who is slowly moving his head from side to side.]] [[file:DonaldHarrisonJrColorizedLivePortrait.gif|link=http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/donald-harrison-jr|alt=An animated photograph of the head of Donald Harrison, Jr. moving around and looking to his right at Stanley Clarke.]] <br/> <span style="color:blue">("Hey Stanley, how's it going?)</span></div> |
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− | <div align="center">[[file: | + | <div align="center">[[file:JAKKittenOnTheKeysAlbumCoverPOJLogos.jpeg|link=http://www.wyastone.co.uk/kitten-on-the-keys-popular-music-from-pianola-rolls.html|alt=A painting in color of a salon party around 1920s with men and women and an upright player piano with the PoJ.fm logo written on music scroll for that piano.]] <br/> |
+ | <p style = "font-size: 12pt">(Album cover of [http://www.wyastone.co.uk/kitten-on-the-keys-popular-music-from-pianola-rolls.html "Kitten On the Keys. Popular Music from Pianola Rolls"])<br/> | ||
+ | (used by permission<ref><span style="color:green">May 1, 2020. "We are happy for you to use the picture from the front of the "Kitten on the Keys" with our wording removed. As the picture is our copyright (the original was a greyscale image) we would appreciate a credit to Saydisc Records, if this is possible. I imagine you will be including details of our albums "Kitten on the Keys", “Pianola Jazz” and “Pianola Ragtime” on your website." </span> | ||
+ | <span style="color:blue">After having been sent the finished image that was being put on the PoJ.fm website, Gef wrote back via email on May 2, 2020 that </span> <span style="color:green">"Yes, the picture's fine and we are happy to confirm that we grant permission for use as you describe. A hyperlink to our website is acceptable." With best wishes, Gef Lucena, Saydisc Records, The Barton, Inglestone Common, Badminton, S. Glos. GL9 1BX, England. E-mail: Saydiscrecords@aol.com. Web site: www.saydisc.com.</span></ref> <span style="color:blue">of </span>[http://www.saydisc.com/index.php?id=about Saydisc Records]) <br/>(with PoJ.fm logos added)</p></div> | ||
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− | =<span style="color:fuchsia">'''Tables''' of '''jazz legend's''' '''notable achievements''' 1890-1990</span>= | + | =<span style="color:fuchsia">'''Tables''' of '''jazz legend's''' '''notable achievements''' 1890-1990 </span>= |
<span style="color:red">'''NOTE''': The majority of images have hyperlinks that are clickable for more information about that item. </span> | <span style="color:red">'''NOTE''': The majority of images have hyperlinks that are clickable for more information about that item. </span> | ||
− | ==<span style="color:teal">'''Buddy Bolden'''</span>== | + | <span style="color:red">'''NOTE''': Also see PoJ.fm's [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Sp7._Women_and_Jazz Sp7. Women and Jazz.] </span> |
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+ | ==<span style="color:teal">'''Buddy Bolden''' </span>== | ||
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| <div align="center">[[file:BuddyBoldenCartoonNewLivePortrait.gif|link=http://prcno.org/buddy-bolden-father-jazz/|alt=A live portrait (it moves) of a cartoon head of Buddy Bolden.]] </div> <br/> <br/> | | <div align="center">[[file:BuddyBoldenCartoonNewLivePortrait.gif|link=http://prcno.org/buddy-bolden-father-jazz/|alt=A live portrait (it moves) of a cartoon head of Buddy Bolden.]] </div> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Bolden Charles Joseph “Buddy” Bolden]<br/>(1877–1931)<br/> <span style="color:red">(1895<ref name="GioiaHistory33>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia Ted Gioia,] [http://books.google.com/books/about/The_History_of_Jazz.html?id=gNVoAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button ''The History of Jazz'',] <span style="color:blue">2nd edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 33.</span></ref>→1907) </span></p> </div> <br/><br/> |
− | <div align="center">[[file:Boldenisolated1.jpeg|link=http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/buddy-bolden|alt=A grainy closeup of a black and white photograph of Buddy Bolden's head and shoulders holding trumpet in lower right corner of picture.]] | + | <div align="center">[[file:Boldenisolated1.jpeg|link=http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/buddy-bolden|alt=A grainy closeup of a black and white photograph of Buddy Bolden's head and shoulders holding trumpet in lower right corner of picture.]] <br/> <br/> [[file:BetterBoldenisolatedColorBackground.jpeg|link=http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/artist/buddy-bolden|alt=A retouched closeup with colored golden sand browns background of a cutout from the only known black and white photograph of Buddy Bolden's of his head and torso from the waist up holding trumpet at his waist.]] |
[[file:BuddyBoldenNOstatute1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/8382928262/in/photolist-eaTmDJ-eaTmR9-85DAVj-dLLGzA-dLLGvU|alt=A color photographic cutout of the Buddy Bolden statue with three heads and three trumpets in Louis Armstrong park.]] <br/>(Buddy Bolden's statue in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, Louisiana)<br/>([http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/8382928262/in/photolist-eaTmDJ-eaTmR9-85DAVj-dLLGzA-dLLGvU Photo] by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/ Jon Lebkowsky] taken December 29, 2012)<br/> <br/> | [[file:BuddyBoldenNOstatute1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/8382928262/in/photolist-eaTmDJ-eaTmR9-85DAVj-dLLGzA-dLLGvU|alt=A color photographic cutout of the Buddy Bolden statue with three heads and three trumpets in Louis Armstrong park.]] <br/>(Buddy Bolden's statue in Louis Armstrong Park, New Orleans, Louisiana)<br/>([http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/8382928262/in/photolist-eaTmDJ-eaTmR9-85DAVj-dLLGzA-dLLGvU Photo] by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/weblogsky/ Jon Lebkowsky] taken December 29, 2012)<br/> <br/> | ||
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<p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Notable Achievements'''</span><ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Notable Achievements'''</span><ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
<span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> </p> <br/> | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> </p> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] known as "King" Bolden.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/jazz/learn/historyculture/bolden.htm "Charles "Buddy" Bolden,"] [http://www.nps.gov/index.htm National Park Service,] [http://www.nps.gov/jazz/index.htm New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park website,] <span style="color:blue"> second paragraph, second sentence. Accessed September 7, 2019.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] known as "King" Bolden.<ref>[http://www.nps.gov/jazz/learn/historyculture/bolden.htm "Charles "Buddy" Bolden,"] [http://www.nps.gov/index.htm National Park Service,] [http://www.nps.gov/jazz/index.htm New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park website,] <span style="color:blue"> second paragraph, second sentence. Accessed September 7, 2019.</span></ref> [[file:HeadshotBuddyBoldenClearEyedEC.jpeg|link=https://www.themeister.co.uk/dixie/new_orleans.htm |alt=An enhanced and colorized headshot of Buddy Bolden looking clear-eyed.]] <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] pioneer in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime Ragtime] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz Jazz]<ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia Ted Gioia] <span style="color:blue">goes so far as to call Bolden </span><span style="color:green">“the elusive father of jazz” </span><span style="color:blue">and </span><span style="color:green">“often cited as the first jazz musician” </span><span style="color:blue">in [http://books.google.com/books/about/The_History_of_Jazz.html?id=gNVoAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button ''The History of Jazz'',] 2nd ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] pioneer in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragtime Ragtime] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz Jazz]<ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Gioia Ted Gioia] <span style="color:blue">goes so far as to call Bolden </span><span style="color:green">“the elusive father of jazz” </span><span style="color:blue">and </span><span style="color:green">“often cited as the first jazz musician” </span><span style="color:blue">in [http://books.google.com/books/about/The_History_of_Jazz.html?id=gNVoAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button ''The History of Jazz'',] 2nd ed., (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), 33–34. </span></ref> coming to prominence when only at the age of 18 his band began playing in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans New Orleans.]<ref><span style="color:blue">The date of 1895 can be heard recited [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/BOLDEN/Introduction%20To%20Bolden.mp3 here at Jazz Rhythms]. It is also referenced at [http://jazzonthetube.com/video/buddy-boldens-blues/?omhide=true JazzOnTheTube's "Buddy Bolden"].</span></ref> (1895) <br/> |
<blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“member of string ensembles that played at dances and parties.”</span><ref name="GioiaHistory33/> | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“member of string ensembles that played at dances and parties.”</span><ref name="GioiaHistory33/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“his proto-jazz playing influenced the next generation of players like [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Oliver King Oliver] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Keppard Freddie Keppard,] masters of the four-bar [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_(music) break.]</span><ref name="Steingroot"/> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“his proto-jazz playing influenced the next generation of players like [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Oliver King Oliver] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Keppard Freddie Keppard,] masters of the four-bar [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break_(music) break.]</span><ref name="Steingroot"/> <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a self-taught [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet cornet] [[file:Cornet.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet]] player. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a self-taught [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet cornet] [[file:Cornet.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet]] player. <br/> <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[[file:AnimatedEnhancedColorizedBuddyBolden.gif|link=http://acloserwalknola.com/places/buddy-boldens-house/ |alt=An enhanced and colorized photograph of the Buddy Bolden band with an animated Bolden.]]</center> <br/><br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] famous for his loud, clear, powerful tones that could be heard far away. <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] famous for his loud, clear, powerful tones that could be heard far away. <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“Clarinetist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Picou Alphonse Picou] (1878–1961) said: “He was '''the loudest there ever was''' because you could '''hear Buddy’s cornet as loud as what Louis Armstrong played through the mike'''.” </span><ref><span style="color:blue">[ Matt Micucci,] | + | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“Clarinetist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Picou Alphonse Picou] (1878–1961) said: “He was '''the loudest there ever was''' because you could '''hear Buddy’s cornet as loud as what Louis Armstrong played through the mike'''.”</span><ref><span style="color:blue">[http://muckrack.com/inartematt Matt Micucci,] |
[http://www.jazziz.com/a-short-history-of-the-legend-of-buddy-bolden/ "A Short History of . . . The Legend of Buddy Bolden,"] ''Jazziz'' magazine, March 6, 2019.</span></ref> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> | [http://www.jazziz.com/a-short-history-of-the-legend-of-buddy-bolden/ "A Short History of . . . The Legend of Buddy Bolden,"] ''Jazziz'' magazine, March 6, 2019.</span></ref> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> | ||
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+ | <center>[[file:BuddyBoldenCE.gif|link=https://www.nps.gov/people/charles-buddy-bolden.htm |alt=An enhanced and colorized animated .gif of Buddy Bolden holding his trumpet in his left hand at chest height.]]</center> <br/><br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] skilled [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_improvisation improviser.] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] skilled [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_improvisation improviser.] <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:BuddyBoldenBandPhotograph.jpeg|link=http://medium.com/@ArnoldBurks/new-orleans-has-always-struggled-to-preserve-its-history-1f4bdb69d4a4]] </div> <br/> <br/> | + | <div align="center">[[file:BuddyBoldenBandPhotograph.jpeg|link=http://medium.com/@ArnoldBurks/new-orleans-has-always-struggled-to-preserve-its-history-1f4bdb69d4a4|alt=A black and white photograph of the Buddy Bolden band with Bolden second fron left holding his trumpet at his waist.]] </div> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his band had a large following in and around [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans New Orleans.] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his band had a large following in and around [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans New Orleans.] <br/> <br/> |
+ | <center>[[file:BuddyBoldenBandEnhanced.jpeg|link=http://musicrising.tulane.edu/discover/people/charles-buddy-bolden/ |alt=An enhanced black and white photograph of the Buddy Bolden band with Bolden second from left holding his trumpet at his waist.]]</center> <br/><br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] impressed younger musicians.<ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Bolden ''Wikipedia'': Buddy Bolden] <span style="color:blue">confirms his notable accomplishments under the sub-heading </span> [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Bolden/ "Musical career and early decline":] <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] impressed younger musicians.<ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Bolden ''Wikipedia'': Buddy Bolden] <span style="color:blue">confirms his notable accomplishments under the sub-heading </span> [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Bolden/ "Musical career and early decline":] <br/> | ||
<span style="color:green">“ . . . known as King Bolden, his band was popular in New Orleans (the city of his birth) from about 1900 until 1907, when he was incapacitated by schizophrenia (then called dementia praecox). Bolden was known for his loud sound and improvisation. He made a big impression on younger musicians.”</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | <span style="color:green">“ . . . known as King Bolden, his band was popular in New Orleans (the city of his birth) from about 1900 until 1907, when he was incapacitated by schizophrenia (then called dementia praecox). Bolden was known for his loud sound and improvisation. He made a big impression on younger musicians.”</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/people/david-perry David C. Perry,] [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7148-3204-3 ''Jazz Greats''] [[file:JazzGreatsBookCover.jpeg|link=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7148-3204-3|alt=The book cover of ''Jazz Greats'' with an extreme closeup of Louis Armstrong's face.]] (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1996). Part of the 20th Century Composers series covering various jazz greats including Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Elllington, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and briefly, Ornette Coleman, Wynton Marsalis, and Keith Jarrett. | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.woolf.cam.ac.uk/people/david-perry David C. Perry,] [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7148-3204-3 ''Jazz Greats''] [[file:JazzGreatsBookCover.jpeg|link=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7148-3204-3|alt=The book cover of ''Jazz Greats'' with an extreme closeup of Louis Armstrong's face.]] (London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1996). Part of the 20th Century Composers series covering various jazz greats including Buddy Bolden, Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Duke Elllington, Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Miles Davis and briefly, Ornette Coleman, Wynton Marsalis, and Keith Jarrett. | ||
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+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Listen''' to [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/LYTTELTON/Dont_Go_Way_Nobody_Humphrey_Lyttelton.mp3 "Don't Go Away Nobody,"] which is [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/179.html alleged to sound like Bolden's opening number.] | ||
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− | ==<span style="color:teal">'''Jelly Roll Morton'''</span>== | + | ==<span style="color:teal">'''Jelly Roll Morton''' </span>== |
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<div align="center">[[file:JellyRollMortonHeadBowedAtPianoSideways.jpeg|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/image-115914?width=1024|alt=Jelly Roll Morton in his twenties wearing a tuxedo at piano turned sideways with his head bowed.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:JellyRollMortonHeadBowedAtPianoSideways.jpeg|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/image-115914?width=1024|alt=Jelly Roll Morton in his twenties wearing a tuxedo at piano turned sideways with his head bowed.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe]<br/> |
known professionally as “Jelly Roll” Morton<ref><span style="color:blue">See these further biographies and discographies: </span><br/><span style="visibility: hidden;">++++</span> ‣ [http://www.redhotjazz.com/jellyroll.html Ferdinand "Jelly Roll Morton" Lamothe] <br/><span style="visibility: hidden;">++++</span> ‣ [http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/page10.html Doctor Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton website] <br/><span style="visibility: hidden;">++++</span> ‣ [http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/page10c.html#mjlord Doctor Jazz's Jelly Roll late news and references]</ref><br/>(1890<ref><span style="color:blue">Morton often gave his birthdate as being 1885 to make it more likely he could have invented jazz. This date was false, as reported at AllMusic.com, Uncle Dave Lewis, [http://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/dont-you-leave-me-here-tributary-of-a-blues-stream "Don't You Leave Me Here: Tributary of a Blues Stream,"] Aug. 13, 2009: </span><span style="color:green">“The discovery in 2005 of a visa Morton had taken out to work in Mexico in 1921 reveals that Jelly Roll Morton really knew that he'd been born in 1890. But by 1938, he was backdating himself to appear five years older—for the longest time "1885" was the accepted birthdate for Morton, only to be undone decades after his death by virtue of a baptismal registry discovered in a New Orleans church.”</span></ref>–1941)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1904→1941)</span></p></div><br/> | known professionally as “Jelly Roll” Morton<ref><span style="color:blue">See these further biographies and discographies: </span><br/><span style="visibility: hidden;">++++</span> ‣ [http://www.redhotjazz.com/jellyroll.html Ferdinand "Jelly Roll Morton" Lamothe] <br/><span style="visibility: hidden;">++++</span> ‣ [http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/page10.html Doctor Jazz's Jelly Roll Morton website] <br/><span style="visibility: hidden;">++++</span> ‣ [http://www.doctorjazz.co.uk/page10c.html#mjlord Doctor Jazz's Jelly Roll late news and references]</ref><br/>(1890<ref><span style="color:blue">Morton often gave his birthdate as being 1885 to make it more likely he could have invented jazz. This date was false, as reported at AllMusic.com, Uncle Dave Lewis, [http://www.allmusic.com/blog/post/dont-you-leave-me-here-tributary-of-a-blues-stream "Don't You Leave Me Here: Tributary of a Blues Stream,"] Aug. 13, 2009: </span><span style="color:green">“The discovery in 2005 of a visa Morton had taken out to work in Mexico in 1921 reveals that Jelly Roll Morton really knew that he'd been born in 1890. But by 1938, he was backdating himself to appear five years older—for the longest time "1885" was the accepted birthdate for Morton, only to be undone decades after his death by virtue of a baptismal registry discovered in a New Orleans church.”</span></ref>–1941)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1904→1941)</span></p></div><br/> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:JellyRollatpiano1.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/artist/309976-Jelly-Roll-Morton]][[file:JellyRollMortonCasualAtPiano1.jpeg|link=http://rounder.com/artist/jelly-roll-morton/]] [[file:Mortonyoungheadshot1.jpeg]] [[file:JellyRollMortonCloseupHeadshot1.jpeg]] [[file:MortonResidence1.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/67001.html]] [[file:JellyRollStanding1.jpeg]] [[file:JellyRollMortonHeadshotClose.jpeg]] [[file:JellyRollMortonStampWithPurpleBorder.jpeg|link= | + | <div align="center">[[file:JellyRollatpiano1.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/artist/309976-Jelly-Roll-Morton]][[file:JellyRollMortonCasualAtPiano1.jpeg|link=http://rounder.com/artist/jelly-roll-morton/]] [[file:Mortonyoungheadshot1.jpeg]] [[file:JellyRollMortonCloseupHeadshot1.jpeg]] [[file:MortonResidence1.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/67001.html]] [[file:JellyRollStanding1.jpeg]] [[file:JellyRollMortonHeadshotClose.jpeg]] [[file:JellyRollMortonStampWithPurpleBorder.jpeg|link=http://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/the-black-experience-music-jazz-jazz-songwriters-and-composers/jelly-roll-morton|alt=A color image of a U.S. stamp of Jelly Roll Morton.]] [[file:MortonRed2.jpeg]] [[file:MortonStamp1.jpeg|http://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/2986/USA/]]</div><br/> |
<p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | ||
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− | <div align="center">[[file:JellyRollMortonCapAndWatchFobColorizedHealed.jpeg|link=http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/mr-jelly-lord-tribute-jelly-roll-morton-and-his-red-hot-peppers|alt=A colorized and healed photograph of a decked out Jelly Roll Morton wearing a cap facing the camera with a jacket and checkered tie tied in a Windsor knot over which he has a thick overcoat with broad lapels with a large buttons vest displaying a hefty cross tied probably gold chain entering into a vest pocket for pocket watches on his left side (our right).]]</div> | + | <div align="center">[[file:JellyRollMortonCapAndWatchFobColorizedHealed.jpeg|link=http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/mr-jelly-lord-tribute-jelly-roll-morton-and-his-red-hot-peppers|alt=A colorized and healed photograph of a decked out Jelly Roll Morton wearing a cap facing the camera with a jacket and checkered tie tied in a Windsor knot over which he has a thick overcoat with broad lapels with a large buttons vest displaying a hefty cross tied probably gold chain entering into a vest pocket for pocket watches on his left side (our right).]] <br/> |
+ | Morton liked to brag he was "the suit man from suit land."<ref><span style="color:blue">Robert Walser, ed. ''Keeping Time: Readings in Jazz History'', NY: Oxford, 1999, 16.</span></ref></div> <br/><br/> | ||
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<span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> </span></p> | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> </span></p> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] pivotal figure | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] pivotal figure from New Orleans. |
[[file:JellyRollMortonatPianoColorized.jpeg|link=http://rounder.com/artist/jelly-roll-morton/]] [[file:JellyRollMortonAtPiano2.jpeg|link=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Jelly-Roll-Morton]] [[file:JellyRollMortonatPianoColorized.jpeg|link=http://rounder.com/artist/jelly-roll-morton/]]<br/> <br/> | [[file:JellyRollMortonatPianoColorized.jpeg|link=http://rounder.com/artist/jelly-roll-morton/]] [[file:JellyRollMortonAtPiano2.jpeg|link=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Jelly-Roll-Morton]] [[file:JellyRollMortonatPianoColorized.jpeg|link=http://rounder.com/artist/jelly-roll-morton/]]<br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] performed as a solo artist and/or as part of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville vaudeville] troupes in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles Los Angeles,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco San Francisco,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. Washington, D.C.,] and throughout [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States the South.] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] performed as a solo artist and/or as part of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville vaudeville] troupes in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles Los Angeles,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco San Francisco,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_D.C. Washington, D.C.,] and throughout [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_United_States the South.] <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] first jazz [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangement arranger.] <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] first jazz [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrangement arranger.] <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:JellyRollMortonWithBatonCO1.png|link=http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/wild-man-blues-eccentric-genius-jelly-roll-morton]]</div> | + | <div align="center">[[file:JellyRollMortonWithBatonCO1.png|link=http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/wild-man-blues-eccentric-genius-jelly-roll-morton|alt=A colorized photographic cutout of Jelly Roll Morton wearing a red jacket with large round buttons standing face forward with both arms raised and a conducting baton in his right hand (on viewers left) ready to strike the downbeat.]] [[file:JellyRollMortonWithBatonCO1GIF.gif|link=http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/program/wild-man-blues-eccentric-genius-jelly-roll-morton|alt=A colorized photographic cutout of a .gif of Jelly Roll Morton wearing a red jacket with large round buttons standing face forward with both arms raised and a conducting baton in his right hand (on viewers left) ready to strike the downbeat.]]</div> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] jazz [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_(marketing) promotion.] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] jazz [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promotion_(marketing) promotion.] <br/> <br/> | ||
<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“a roving [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil snake-oil salesman,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp card shark,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville vaudevillian,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard_hall poolroom] [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hustler hustler,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling gambler] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procuring_(prostitution) pimp.] He chose a sexual nickname—“Jelly Roll” (which typically refers to the male organ)—and wore a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond diamond] in his [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_teeth gold tooth]”</span><ref name="HasseMorton">[http://www.johnedwardhasse.com/John_Edward_Hasse/Bio_files/JEH%20bio.2007.pdf John Edward Hasse,] [http://www.wsj.com/articles/plotting-his-way-into-jazz-history-1536352843 "Plotting His Way Into Jazz History,"] [http://www.wsj.com/articles/plotting-his-way-into-jazz-history-1536352843 ''Wall Street Journal'',] <span style="color:blue">September 7, 2018.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“a roving [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_oil snake-oil salesman,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_sharp card shark,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville vaudevillian,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard_hall poolroom] [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hustler hustler,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambling gambler] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procuring_(prostitution) pimp.] He chose a sexual nickname—“Jelly Roll” (which typically refers to the male organ)—and wore a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond diamond] in his [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_teeth gold tooth]”</span><ref name="HasseMorton">[http://www.johnedwardhasse.com/John_Edward_Hasse/Bio_files/JEH%20bio.2007.pdf John Edward Hasse,] [http://www.wsj.com/articles/plotting-his-way-into-jazz-history-1536352843 "Plotting His Way Into Jazz History,"] [http://www.wsj.com/articles/plotting-his-way-into-jazz-history-1536352843 ''Wall Street Journal'',] <span style="color:blue">September 7, 2018.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] claimed to have invented jazz in 1902,<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/biography/Jelly-Roll-Morton ''Encyclopedia Brittanica'': "Jelly Roll Morton,"] <span style="color:blue">first paragraph.</span></ref> which would make him 12 years old; read his [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/jelly-roll-morton-i-created-jazz-in-1902-not-w.c.-handy August, 1938 letter] defending his jazz bona fides published in [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/jelly-roll-morton-i-created-jazz-in-1902-not-w.c.-handy | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] claimed to have invented jazz in 1902,<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/biography/Jelly-Roll-Morton ''Encyclopedia Brittanica'': "Jelly Roll Morton,"] <span style="color:blue">first paragraph.</span></ref> which would make him 12 years old; read his [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/jelly-roll-morton-i-created-jazz-in-1902-not-w.c.-handy August, 1938 letter] defending his jazz bona fides published in [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/jelly-roll-morton-i-created-jazz-in-1902-not-w.c.-handy ''DownBeat''.] |
<div align="center">[[file:YoungManJellyRollMortonTuxedoAtPianoHeadHangingDownLookingRightBWCO.jpeg|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/image-115914?width=1024|alt=Jelly Roll Morton as a young man in a tuxedo sitting on a piano bench draped over the front of a piano with head bowed.]] [[file:YoungManJellyRollMortonTuxedoAtPianoHeadHangingDownLookingLeftBWCO.jpeg|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/image-115914?width=1024|alt=Jelly Roll Morton as a young man in a tuxedo sitting on a piano bench draped over the front of a piano with head bowed.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:YoungManJellyRollMortonTuxedoAtPianoHeadHangingDownLookingRightBWCO.jpeg|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/image-115914?width=1024|alt=Jelly Roll Morton as a young man in a tuxedo sitting on a piano bench draped over the front of a piano with head bowed.]] [[file:YoungManJellyRollMortonTuxedoAtPianoHeadHangingDownLookingLeftBWCO.jpeg|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/image-115914?width=1024|alt=Jelly Roll Morton as a young man in a tuxedo sitting on a piano bench draped over the front of a piano with head bowed.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recording contract with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company Victor Talking Machine Company] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago] recording with his newly named septet, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Peppers “The Red Hot Peppers,”] including [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bottom_Stomp “Black Bottom Stomp,”] named for an African-American dance step from the deep South and has now been recorded over 190 times.</span><ref name="HasseMorton"/> <br/> <br/> | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recording contract with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Talking_Machine_Company Victor Talking Machine Company] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago] recording with his newly named septet, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Peppers “The Red Hot Peppers,”] including [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bottom_Stomp “Black Bottom Stomp,”] named for an African-American dance step from the deep South and has now been recorded over 190 times.</span><ref name="HasseMorton"/> <br/> <br/> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] "Jelly Roll Morton & His [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Peppers Red Hot Peppers]" recordings are classics of 1920's jazz. [[file:JellyRollMortonLongFaceNoSmileTieDrapedColorized.jpeg | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] "Jelly Roll Morton & His [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hot_Peppers Red Hot Peppers]" recordings are classics of 1920's jazz. [[file:JellyRollMortonLongFaceNoSmileTieDrapedColorized.jpeg|link=http://archive.org/details/jazz00hugh/mode/1up|alt=A colorized photographic cutout of a middle aged Jelly Roll Morton with his tie untied and draped around his neck on an open collar and suspenders.]] <br/> <br/> |
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− | link=http://archive.org/details/jazz00hugh/mode/1up|alt=A colorized photographic cutout of a middle aged Jelly Roll Morton with his tie untied and draped around his neck on an open collar and suspenders.]] <br/> <br/> | + | |
[[file:JellyRollMortonBand.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/67001.html|frame|left|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 8pt">(Jelly Roll Morton on left)</p></div>]] <br/> <br/> | [[file:JellyRollMortonBand.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/67001.html|frame|left|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 8pt">(Jelly Roll Morton on left)</p></div>]] <br/> <br/> | ||
<span style="visibility: hidden;">+</span>[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] first act booked on tours by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Inc. MCA.] <br/> <br/> | <span style="visibility: hidden;">+</span>[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] first act booked on tours by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCA_Inc. MCA.] <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">But beware of historical shaping of Morton's story done by Lomax for his own purposes of conforming Morton's story to Lomax's positions on 'authenticity' in musical expression and motivations, convincingly argued by Katy E. Martin: </span> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">But beware of historical shaping of Morton's story done by Lomax for his own purposes of conforming Morton's story to Lomax's positions on 'authenticity' in musical expression and motivations, convincingly argued by Katy E. Martin: </span> <br/> | ||
<span style="color:green">“Distortions are abundant in [Lomax's] book, in the form of omissions, alterations, and the voices of Lomax and others working to conform Morton’s story to Lomax’s own ideas about American culture and folk music. Because of his romantic conceptions of folk culture, Lomax is compelled to attribute to Morton his own preoccupations and adjust Morton’s story to fit his own a priori model of authenticity: the racialized, oppressed organic musician whose suffering gives rise to a redeeming creative genius.”</span><ref><span style="color:blue">See Katy E. Martin, [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.590.5657&rep=rep1&type=pdf "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the 'Inventor of Jazz',"] M.A. thesis, graduate degree program in English and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas, 2008, 2.</span> <br/> <br/> | <span style="color:green">“Distortions are abundant in [Lomax's] book, in the form of omissions, alterations, and the voices of Lomax and others working to conform Morton’s story to Lomax’s own ideas about American culture and folk music. Because of his romantic conceptions of folk culture, Lomax is compelled to attribute to Morton his own preoccupations and adjust Morton’s story to fit his own a priori model of authenticity: the racialized, oppressed organic musician whose suffering gives rise to a redeeming creative genius.”</span><ref><span style="color:blue">See Katy E. Martin, [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.590.5657&rep=rep1&type=pdf "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the 'Inventor of Jazz',"] M.A. thesis, graduate degree program in English and the Graduate Faculty of the University of Kansas, 2008, 2.</span> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <span style="color:blue">Also available in [http://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2011.613225 ''Popular Music and Society'',] [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2011.613225?scroll=top&needAccess=true "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the “Inventor of Jazz”,"] Volume 36, 2013 | + | <span style="color:blue">Also available in [http://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2011.613225 ''Popular Music and Society'',] [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03007766.2011.613225?scroll=top&needAccess=true "The Preoccupations of Mr. Lomax, Inventor of the “Inventor of Jazz”,"] Volume 36, 2013, Issue 1, April 18, 2012, 30–39. Also found in a [http://www.amazon.com/This-available-000343-Katy-Martin/dp/1243379081/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7DH37JPZE15J43SYPCCB thesis imprint] by ProQuest, UMI Dissertation Publishing (September 1, 2011), [[file:PreoccupationsOfMrLomaxBookCover.jpeg|link=http://www.amazon.com/This-available-000343-Katy-Martin/dp/1243379081/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=7DH37JPZE15J43SYPCCB]]. </span></ref> |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame '' | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] <span style="color:black">Critic's Poll (1963).</span> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> <br/> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192017_img_1.html U.S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:JellyRollMortonStamp1.png|link=http://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/2986/USA/]] (1995). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192017_img_1.html U.S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:JellyRollMortonStamp1.png|link=http://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/2986/USA/]] (1995). <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bottom_Stomp “Black Bottom Stomp”] included in the Smithsonian's authoritative [http://folkways.si.edu/jazz-the-smithsonian-anthology/ragtime/music/album/smithsonian “Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology”] (2010).<br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bottom_Stomp “Black Bottom Stomp”] included in the Smithsonian's authoritative [http://folkways.si.edu/jazz-the-smithsonian-anthology/ragtime/music/album/smithsonian “Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology”] (2010).<br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (2015). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png|link=http://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/lifetime-awards]] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (2015). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png|link=http://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/lifetime-awards]] <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">The opener of [[file:JazzAtLincolnCenterOutdoorLogo1.jpeg|link=https://www.flickr.com/photos/patling63/3748036929/in/photolist-6HcENn-7VMrVv-9sH8yK-7BgCmT-7BgCpD-2mbp85-kPrrWR-2mb3ad-2mb1Vj-2m6CwP-2maRSL-2mbnYJ-2m6wuR-hndGU-fe3Htb-nmH259-ghVCfu-ghEmqR-TRxhuv-2mbv1U-dPBjG9-hndQC-ghEmnK-9sH8CX-9nLWXo-3f2B1-rqRjfQ-8AHDok-6se92E-2JtRiY-8zbFrq-29zDZ6-dPBjN1-YsCvhw-6HYswJ-hndMt-9iwqTa-9ZbSi1-YNCftf-hndB9-hnj2G-23RrVzS-7BgCta-8ALQzu-8Jw3t9-YNDh2o-6iqGTm-T8xAt-doyteM-ff4fHs]] [http://www.jazz.org/press/jazz-at-lincoln-center-announces-30th-anniversary-season-opening-weekend-events-september-14-17/ Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 30th season ( | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">The opener of [[file:JazzAtLincolnCenterOutdoorLogo1.jpeg|link=https://www.flickr.com/photos/patling63/3748036929/in/photolist-6HcENn-7VMrVv-9sH8yK-7BgCmT-7BgCpD-2mbp85-kPrrWR-2mb3ad-2mb1Vj-2m6CwP-2maRSL-2mbnYJ-2m6wuR-hndGU-fe3Htb-nmH259-ghVCfu-ghEmqR-TRxhuv-2mbv1U-dPBjG9-hndQC-ghEmnK-9sH8CX-9nLWXo-3f2B1-rqRjfQ-8AHDok-6se92E-2JtRiY-8zbFrq-29zDZ6-dPBjN1-YsCvhw-6HYswJ-hndMt-9iwqTa-9ZbSi1-YNCftf-hndB9-hnj2G-23RrVzS-7BgCta-8ALQzu-8Jw3t9-YNDh2o-6iqGTm-T8xAt-doyteM-ff4fHs]] [http://www.jazz.org/press/jazz-at-lincoln-center-announces-30th-anniversary-season-opening-weekend-events-september-14-17/ Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 30th season (2017–18),] [[file:JazzAtLincolnCenterThreeBuildingsCourtyard1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/inilovely/4546782139/in/photolist-7VMrVv-9sH8yK-7BgCmT-7BgCpD-2mbp85-kPrrWR-2mb3ad-2mb1Vj-2m6CwP-2maRSL-2m6NWe-2mbnYJ-2m6wuR-hndGU-fe3Htb-nmH259-ghVCfu-ghEmqR-TRxhuv-2mbv1U-dPBjG9-hndQC-ghEmnK-9sH8CX-9nLWXo-3f2B1-rqRjfQ-hndB9-8AHDok-6se92E-2JtRiY-8zbFrq-29zDZ6-dPBjN1-hnj2G-YsCvhw-6HYswJ-hndMt-9iwqTa-9ZbSi1-YNCftf-23RrVzS-7BgCta-8ALQzu-8Jw3t9-YNDh2o-6iqGTm-fqc74o-T8xAt-doyteM]] its flagship orchestra [[file:JazzAtLincolnCenterOrchestra1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadworks/883785139/in/photolist-7VMrVv-9sH8yK-7BgCmT-7BgCpD-2mbp85-kPrrWR-2mb3ad-2mb1Vj-2m6CwP-2maRSL-2m6NWe-2mbnYJ-2m6wuR-hndGU-fe3Htb-nmH259-ghVCfu-ghEmqR-TRxhuv-2mbv1U-dPBjG9-hndQC-ghEmnK-9sH8CX-9nLWXo-3f2B1-rqRjfQ-hndB9-8AHDok-6se92E-2JtRiY-8zbFrq-29zDZ6-dPBjN1-hnj2G-YsCvhw-6HYswJ-hndMt-9iwqTa-9ZbSi1-YNCftf-23RrVzS-7BgCta-8ALQzu-8Jw3t9-YNDh2o-6iqGTm-fqc74o-T8xAt-doyteM/]] will debut arrangements of Jelly Roll Morton’s compositions, some of which are a century old.</span><ref>[http://www.jazz.org/press/jazz-at-lincoln-center-announces-30th-anniversary-season-opening-weekend-events-september-14-17/ "The Fantastic Mr. Jelly Lord,"] <span style="color:blue">Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2017–18 Opening Weekend concerts, September 14–16, 2017. </span> |
<blockquote><span style="color:green">“The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis kicks off the 30th anniversary season with a celebration of New Orleans legend Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941). '''Jazz’s first great composer, musical intellect, and piano virtuoso''', Morton '''provided the musical blueprint''' of an eternal New Orleans and jazz as it is known today. Through both classic and never-before-heard arrangements of essential tunes like '''“King Porter Stomp,”''' '''“Jungle Blues,”''' '''“Black Bottom Stomp,”''' and '''“The Pearls,”''' the JLCO (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra) will '''showcase the contemporary power and depth of possibility in the earliest jazz'''. The concepts found in these pieces have been explored by master musicians for the past century and made truly modern through '''the lens of Jelly Roll'''.”</span> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis kicks off the 30th anniversary season with a celebration of New Orleans legend Jelly Roll Morton (1890–1941). '''Jazz’s first great composer, musical intellect, and piano virtuoso''', Morton '''provided the musical blueprint''' of an eternal New Orleans and jazz as it is known today. Through both classic and never-before-heard arrangements of essential tunes like '''“King Porter Stomp,”''' '''“Jungle Blues,”''' '''“Black Bottom Stomp,”''' and '''“The Pearls,”''' the JLCO (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra) will '''showcase the contemporary power and depth of possibility in the earliest jazz'''. The concepts found in these pieces have been explored by master musicians for the past century and made truly modern through '''the lens of Jelly Roll'''.”</span> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> | ||
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− | ==<span style="color:teal">'''Louis Armstrong'''</span>== | + | ==<span style="color:teal">'''Louis Armstrong''' </span>== |
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| <br/><div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongCompositeDoubledLouisLowerRightCorner.jpeg|link=http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/|alt=A composite photograph of Louis Armstrong in color with eight cutout figures of Armstrong framed with an asymmetrical orange border thicker on top and left side.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | | <br/><div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongCompositeDoubledLouisLowerRightCorner.jpeg|link=http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/|alt=A composite photograph of Louis Armstrong in color with eight cutout figures of Armstrong framed with an asymmetrical orange border thicker on top and left side.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong Louis Armstrong] (1901–1971) <br/> |
<span style="color:red">(active: 1919→1971) </span></p></div> | <span style="color:red">(active: 1919→1971) </span></p></div> | ||
<div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongSmilingWithPartialTrumpetWithColorizedInset.jpeg|link=http://sova.si.edu/details/NMAH.AC.0766#ref28|alt=A colorized photographic cutout inset on left with the same original black and white cutout photograph larger on right.]] </div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongSmilingWithPartialTrumpetWithColorizedInset.jpeg|link=http://sova.si.edu/details/NMAH.AC.0766#ref28|alt=A colorized photographic cutout inset on left with the same original black and white cutout photograph larger on right.]] </div> <br/> | ||
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: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_jazz Vocal Jazz] <br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_jazz Vocal Jazz] <br/> | ||
: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_pop Traditional Pop]<br/><br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_pop Traditional Pop]<br/><br/> | ||
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+ | <center>[[file:YoungLouisArmstrongCloseCroppedHaircutHoldingTrumpetEC.jpeg|link=http://www.medfordarts.com/louis-armstrong.html |alt=An enhanced and colorized photographic cutout of Louis Armstrong with very close cropped haircut holding his trumpet upright in his left hand on his knee (out of frame).]]</center> | ||
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<p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:#013220">'''Notable Achievements:<ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:#013220">'''Notable Achievements:<ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
<span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref>''' </span></p> | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref>''' </span></p> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick maroon"><br/>[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">joined<ref>[[file:KingOliverNOLAResidencePlaque1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/prc-advocacy/7679342792/in/photolist-gUTFR5-gUU825-gUUHVF-gUUagq-gUTW4c-gUV6Vx-gUUXAX-8mYmQA-6XLeg1-cGAD4W/]]</ref> [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Oliver King Oliver's] band in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago] (1922) </span> <br/> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick maroon"><br/>[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">joined<ref>[[file:KingOliverNOLAResidencePlaque1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/prc-advocacy/7679342792/in/photolist-gUTFR5-gUU825-gUUHVF-gUUagq-gUTW4c-gUV6Vx-gUUXAX-8mYmQA-6XLeg1-cGAD4W/]]</ref> [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Oliver King Oliver's] band in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago] moving from his hometown of New Orleans (1922). </span> <br/> <br/> |
− | <div align="center">[[file:KingOliverCreoleBand1.jpeg|link=http:// | + | <div align="center">[[file:KingOliverCreoleBand1.jpeg|link=http://oldtimeblues.net/2018/12/19/okeh-4918-king-olivers-jazz-band-1923/|alt=A black and white photograph of King Oliver's Creole Orchestra in 1923 with Louis Armstrong kneeling dead center with other band members behind him and to either side anti sly playing their instruments.]]</div> <br/> |
− | <div align="center">[[file:KingOliverCreoleJazzBandLabelled.jpeg|link=http://youtu.be/YxBL-Xypwb0|King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago (1923)]] <br/> <br/> [[file:KingOliversCreoleJazzBandChicago1923.jpeg|link=http://calendar.songfacts.com/april/5/17733]]</div> | + | <div align="center">[[file:KingOliverCreoleJazzBandLabelled.jpeg|link=http://youtu.be/YxBL-Xypwb0|King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago (1923) |
+ | |alt=A black and white photograph with musician's names labeled by each one of King Oliver's Creole Orchestra in 1923 with King Oliver centered in the background and Louis Armstrong playing trumpet and Lil Harden (Armstrong) seated at the piano with other band members on either side playing their instruments.]] <br/>[[file:KingOliver3DGif.gif|link=http://youtu.be/YxBL-Xypwb0|King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago (1923)|alt=A black and white photograph with musician's names labeled by each one of King Oliver's Creole Orchestra in 1923 with King Oliver centered in the background and Louis Armstrong playing trumpet and at far right Lil Harden (Armstrong) seated at the piano.]] <br/>[[file:KingOliverCreoleOrchestraUnlabelled.jpeg|link=http://youtu.be/YxBL-Xypwb0|King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago (1923)|alt=A black and white photograph of King Oliver's Creole Orchestra in 1923 with Louis Armstrong and King Oliver centered and Lil Harden (Armstrong) seated at the piano on the right while other musicians surround them.]]<br/>[[file:KingOliverCreoleOrchestraUnlabelledColorized.jpeg|link=http://youtu.be/YxBL-Xypwb0|King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band in Chicago (1923)|alt=A colorized black and white photograph with Louis Armstrong and King Oliver centered with Lil Harden (Armstrong) seated at the piano on the right while other musicians surround them.]] | ||
+ | [[file:KingOliversCreoleJazzBandChicago1923.jpeg|link=http://calendar.songfacts.com/april/5/17733|alt=A different black and white photograph with five musicians seated including Louis Armstrong in center with King Oliver and William Johnson standing behind them in background all facing the camera with Lil Harden (Armstrong) seated at the piano on the right.]]</div> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] moved to New York in 1924 to play with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson Fletcher Henderson] Orchestra, [[file:FletcherHendersonLPLabel1.jpeg|thumb|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/24516454@N00/4280649641/|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/24516454@N00/ Gianluigi Destefanis] in 2010])</p></div>]] the top Afro-American band of the day, switching from [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet cornet] to [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet trumpet.] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] moved to New York in 1924 to play with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson Fletcher Henderson] Orchestra, [[file:FletcherHendersonLPLabel1.jpeg|thumb|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/24516454@N00/4280649641/|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/24516454@N00/ Gianluigi Destefanis] in 2010])</p></div>]] the top Afro-American band of the day, switching from [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornet cornet] to [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet trumpet.] <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/08/louis-armstrong-popularized-scat-singing-after-he-dropped-the-lyric-sheet-while-recording-the-song-heebie-jeebies-and-started-improvising-syllables/ pioneered jazz style vocals] and popularized [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing scat style vocals.] <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/02/08/louis-armstrong-popularized-scat-singing-after-he-dropped-the-lyric-sheet-while-recording-the-song-heebie-jeebies-and-started-improvising-syllables/ pioneered jazz style vocals] and popularized [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scat_singing scat style vocals.] <br/> | ||
− | [[file: LouisArmstrongGleamingForeheadSingingHeadshotCO.png|link=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/scat-singing-definition-jazz-history-louis-armstrong-ella-fitzgerald-cab-calloway-slavery-african-a8607061.html]] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:LouisArmstrongGleamingForeheadSingingHeadshotCO.png|link=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/scat-singing-definition-jazz-history-louis-armstrong-ella-fitzgerald-cab-calloway-slavery-african-a8607061.html]] <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson Fletcher Henderson] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music many others] he was the instigator of the second wave of jazz, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music Swing.] <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] along with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson Fletcher Henderson] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music many others] he was the instigator of the second wave of jazz, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music Swing.] <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongLookingInMirrorSideways1946Gottlieb.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00251/]] <br/> | + | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongLookingInMirrorSideways1946Gottlieb.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00251/|alt=A black and white photograph by William P. Gottlieb of a young man Louis Armstrong looking into a horizontal rectangular dressing room mirror with his mirror image in mirror on right side of photograph.]] <br/> |
− | <p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00251/ Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb] July, 1946)</p> </div> | + | <p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00251/ Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb] July, 1946)</p></div> |
+ | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongLookingInMirrorSideways1946GottliebColorized.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00251/|alt=A colorized photograph by William P. Gottlieb of a young man Louis Armstrong looking into a horizontal rectangular dressing room mirror with his mirror image in mirror on right side of photograph.]] </div> | ||
+ | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00251/ Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb] July, 1946 — [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 colorized])</p></div> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recording hit songs, many of which have become jazz standards, for five decades. <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recording hit songs, many of which have become jazz standards, for five decades. <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongDrawnLegsOnHisRightGottlieb19381948.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.09601/]] <br/> | + | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongDrawnLegsOnHisRightGottlieb19381948.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.09601/]] [[file:LouisArmstrongDrawnLegsOnHisRightGottlieb19381948Colorized.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.09601/]] <br/> |
− | <p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.09601/ Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb] c. 1938–1948)</p> </div> | + | <p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.09601/ Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb] c. 1938–1948 with [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 colorized] version on right)</p> </div> <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his talent for improvisation helped the trumpet emerge as a solo instrument. <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his talent for improvisation helped the trumpet emerge as a solo instrument. <br/> | ||
<div align="right">[[file:LouisArmstrongYoungBlowingWithHankerchiefGottlieberman.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00201/|alt=Louis Armstrong cutout black and white photograph facing left and blowing hard on trumpet while holding a large white handkerchief.]] <br/> | <div align="right">[[file:LouisArmstrongYoungBlowingWithHankerchiefGottlieberman.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.00201/|alt=Louis Armstrong cutout black and white photograph facing left and blowing hard on trumpet while holding a large white handkerchief.]] <br/> | ||
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[[file:LouisArmstrongKingOliverCO1.png|link=http://youtu.be/AG8Xdi8R9kE|frame|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/ Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (1901-1971)] & <br/>[http://www.redhotjazz.com/kingo.html Joe "King" Oliver (1885-1938)])]]</p></div> | [[file:LouisArmstrongKingOliverCO1.png|link=http://youtu.be/AG8Xdi8R9kE|frame|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/biography/ Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong (1901-1971)] & <br/>[http://www.redhotjazz.com/kingo.html Joe "King" Oliver (1885-1938)])]]</p></div> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] promoted extended improvised solos. <br> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] promoted extended improvised solos. <br> | ||
− | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“Armstrong was jazz's '''first superstar'''. Satchmo's explosive creativity defied conventions of early New Orleans jazz; he was a '''charismatic showman''' and '''dazzling trumpet player''' who was, literally, too good for his band. His performances were largely responsible for shifting the '''focus from the group to the soloist''', and he was also quite '''an innovator when it came to scat'''. Perhaps most importantly, his acceptance by the social elite helped '''popularize jazz across racial and social boundaries'''.”</span><ref>[http://www.laweekly.com/music/top-20-musicians-of-all-time-in-any-genre-5-1-2410100 "Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #5: Louis Armstrong,"] <span style="color:blue"> Chris Walker, ''LA Weekly'', January 12, 2012.</span></ref> <span style="color: | + | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“Armstrong was jazz's '''first superstar'''. Satchmo's explosive creativity defied conventions of early New Orleans jazz; he was a '''charismatic showman''' and '''dazzling trumpet player''' who was, literally, too good for his band. His performances were largely responsible for shifting the '''focus from the group to the soloist''', and he was also quite '''an innovator when it came to scat'''. Perhaps most importantly, his acceptance by the social elite helped '''popularize jazz across racial and social boundaries'''.”</span><ref>[http://www.laweekly.com/music/top-20-musicians-of-all-time-in-any-genre-5-1-2410100 "Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #5: Louis Armstrong,"] <span style="color:blue"> Chris Walker, ''LA Weekly'', January 12, 2012.</span></ref> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> |
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<div align="center">[[file:AmbassadorSatchCollage.jpeg|link=http://dippermouth.blogspot.com/2016/05/60-years-of-ambassador-satch.html|alt=A collage of posters for the movie "Satchmo the Great" starring Louis Armstrong and Edward R. Murrow.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:AmbassadorSatchCollage.jpeg|link=http://dippermouth.blogspot.com/2016/05/60-years-of-ambassador-satch.html|alt=A collage of posters for the movie "Satchmo the Great" starring Louis Armstrong and Edward R. Murrow.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">strong vocalist</span><ref><span style="color:blue">See Armstrong singing in the only known footage of him in a recording studio at ''Time'' magazine's [http://time.com/4303528/louis-armstrong-recording-studio-video-new/ Rare footage of Armstrong in recording studio.]</span></ref> [[file:LouisArmstrongYoungTuxedoCO1.png|link=http://www.jazzwax.com/2009/11/interview-terry-teachout-part1.html]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">strong vocalist.</span><ref><span style="color:blue">See Armstrong singing in the only known footage of him in a recording studio at ''Time'' magazine's [http://time.com/4303528/louis-armstrong-recording-studio-video-new/ Rare footage of Armstrong in recording studio.]</span></ref> [[file:LouisArmstrongYoungTuxedoCO1.png|link=http://www.jazzwax.com/2009/11/interview-terry-teachout-part1.html]] |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“recorded with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Williams_(musician) Clarence Williams,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson Fletcher Henderson,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Bessie Smith] and others before making his leader debut in late 1925.”</span><ref>[http://downbeat.com/site/jazz-101/P4 ''DownBeat'' magazine,] <span style="color:blue">"The First Recordings," fourth paragraph.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“recorded with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Williams_(musician) Clarence Williams,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson Fletcher Henderson,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Smith Bessie Smith] and others before making his leader debut in late 1925.”</span><ref>[http://downbeat.com/site/jazz-101/P4 ''DownBeat'' magazine,] <span style="color:blue">"The First Recordings," fourth paragraph.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://dippermouth.blogspot.com/2012/09/85-years-of-hot-seven-melancholy-blues.html "Melancholy Blues,"] <span style="color:black">(1927) [[file:MelancholyBluesVinylRecord.png|link=http://www.popsike.com/78-RPM-Louis-Armstrong-and-His-Hot-Seven-Okeh-8496-V-V-Jazz/141763900548.html]] performed by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong_and_His_Hot_Seven Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven] included on </span>[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/ golden record sent in 1977 on Voyager 1 spacecraft] <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://dippermouth.blogspot.com/2012/09/85-years-of-hot-seven-melancholy-blues.html "Melancholy Blues,"] <span style="color:black">(1927) [[file:MelancholyBluesVinylRecord.png|link=http://www.popsike.com/78-RPM-Louis-Armstrong-and-His-Hot-Seven-Okeh-8496-V-V-Jazz/141763900548.html]] performed by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong_and_His_Hot_Seven Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven] included on </span>[http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/golden-record/whats-on-the-record/music/ golden record sent in 1977 on Voyager 1 spacecraft.] <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongFinalChorusSmile1.gif]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongFinalChorusSmile1.gif]]</div> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] developed a way of playing jazz, as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, which has had an impact on all musicians to follow. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] developed a way of playing jazz, as an instrumentalist and a vocalist, which has had an impact on all musicians to follow. <br/> <br/> | ||
<div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongWearingCapR.jpeg|link=http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2018/12/jazz-visions-lennie-tristano-and-his.html|alt=Headshot of Louis Armstrong wearing a cap.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongWearingCapR.jpeg|link=http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2018/12/jazz-visions-lennie-tristano-and-his.html|alt=Headshot of Louis Armstrong wearing a cap.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded hit songs for five decades, and his music is still heard today on television and radio and in films. '''Listen to Armstrong's music''', including in his own words, at </span>[http://jazzhotbigstep.com/79601.html Jazz Rhythms: "Louis Armstrong: A Seminal Voice in Jazz"] <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded hit songs for five decades, and his music is still heard today on television and radio and in films. '''Listen to Armstrong's music''', including in his own words, at </span>[http://jazzhotbigstep.com/79601.html Jazz Rhythms: "Louis Armstrong: A Seminal Voice in Jazz."] <br/> |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">wrote two autobiographies (click on book titles to read them),[[file:LouisArmstrongAutobiographySwingThatMusic.jpeg|link=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563539.Swing_That_Music|''SwingThat Music'']] and [[file:LouisArmstrongSatchmoMyLifeInNewOrleansBookCover.jpeg|link=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24017275-satchmo-my-life-in-new-orleans|''Satchmo: My Life In Music'']], more than ten magazine articles, hundreds of pages of memoirs, [[file:LouisArmstrongInHisOwnWordsSelectedWritings.jpeg|link=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563537.Louis_Armstrong_in_His_Own_Words?from_search=true]], and thousands of letters </span> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">wrote two autobiographies (click on book titles to read them),[[file:LouisArmstrongAutobiographySwingThatMusic.jpeg|link=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563539.Swing_That_Music|''SwingThat Music'']] and [[file:LouisArmstrongSatchmoMyLifeInNewOrleansBookCover.jpeg|link=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24017275-satchmo-my-life-in-new-orleans|''Satchmo: My Life In Music'']], more than ten magazine articles, hundreds of pages of memoirs, [[file:LouisArmstrongInHisOwnWordsSelectedWritings.jpeg|link=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/563537.Louis_Armstrong_in_His_Own_Words?from_search=true]], and thousands of letters. </span> <br/> |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick tan">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">appeared in more than [http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/louis-armstrong/credits/162815/ thirty films (over twenty were full-length features)] as a gifted actor with superb comic timing and an unabashed joy of life as in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film) "Hello Dolly"] (1964/1969) where he co-starred with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand Barbra Streisand] [[file:HelloDollyMovieCoStarringLouisArmstrong.jpeg|link=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/hello-dolly/125825/]] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Matthau Walter Matthau.] He also had [http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/louis-armstrong/credits/162815/ many television appearances]</span> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick tan">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">appeared in more than [http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/louis-armstrong/credits/162815/ thirty films (over twenty were full-length features)] as a gifted actor with superb comic timing and an unabashed joy of life as in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello,_Dolly!_(film) "Hello Dolly"] (1964/1969) where he co-starred with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbra_Streisand Barbra Streisand] [[file:HelloDollyMovieCoStarringLouisArmstrong.jpeg|link=http://www.tvguide.com/movies/hello-dolly/125825/]] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Matthau Walter Matthau.] He also had [http://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/louis-armstrong/credits/162815/ many television appearances.]</span> <br/> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed or performed [http://open.spotify.com/user/jhiggy58/playlist/1xvz50JtGUQdYuJLBMKA13?si=f_4QZyWUQqu5nuVxvDg-WA dozens of songs] that have become [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1920s_jazz_standards jazz standards,] such as [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dippermouth_Blues "Dippermouth Blues/"Sugar Foot Stomp,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heebie_Jeebies_(composition) "Heebie Jeebies,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_Head_Blues "Potato Head Blues,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Blues "West End Blues,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Street_Blues "Basin Street Blues,"] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Misbehavin%27_(song) "Ain't Misbehavin'."] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed or performed [http://open.spotify.com/user/jhiggy58/playlist/1xvz50JtGUQdYuJLBMKA13?si=f_4QZyWUQqu5nuVxvDg-WA dozens of songs] that have become [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_1920s_jazz_standards jazz standards,] such as [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dippermouth_Blues "Dippermouth Blues/"Sugar Foot Stomp,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heebie_Jeebies_(composition) "Heebie Jeebies,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_Head_Blues "Potato Head Blues,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_End_Blues "West End Blues,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basin_Street_Blues "Basin Street Blues,"] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%27t_Misbehavin%27_(song) "Ain't Misbehavin'."] <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick pink">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">performed an average of 300 concerts each year, with his frequent tours to all parts of the world earning him the nickname [http://npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/ “Ambassador Satch,”] [[file:AmbassadorSatchAlbumCover.png|link=http://npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/]] and became one of the first great celebrities of the twentieth century </span> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick pink">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">performed an average of 300 concerts each year, with his frequent tours to all parts of the world earning him the nickname [http://npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/ “Ambassador Satch,”] [[file:AmbassadorSatchAlbumCover.png|link=http://npg.si.edu/exh/armstrong/]] and became one of the first great celebrities of the twentieth century. </span> <br/> |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick red">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine) <span style="color:red">Time</span>]<span style="color:black">magazine cover (1949) </span>[[file:ArmstrongTimeCover3.jpeg|link=http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19490221,00.html]] <br/> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick red">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine) <span style="color:red">Time</span>]<span style="color:black">magazine cover (1949). </span>[[file:ArmstrongTimeCover3.jpeg|link=http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19490221,00.html]] <br/> <br/> |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''Downbeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] <span style="color:black">Reader's Poll (1952) </span>[[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''Downbeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] <span style="color:black">Reader's Poll (1952). </span>[[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongInColorBlowingWithDrummer1.gif]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongInColorBlowingWithDrummer1.gif]]</div> <br/> | ||
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick red">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png|left]] <span style="color:black">Cover of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine) ''Life'' magazine,] April 15, 1966 </span> <br/> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick red">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png|left]] <span style="color:black">Cover of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(magazine) ''Life'' magazine,] April 15, 1966. </span> <br/> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongLifeMagazinecoverApril151966.png|link=http://books.google.com/books?id=pJ1mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=louis+armstrong+life+magazine+cover+1966&source=bl&ots=MgYQDtIpV6&sig=ACfU3U1q7NlK7GRDdjUxIUP_D7DD_fl4pg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF3erIs8DhAhXnGDQIHQuKBE44FBDoATADegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=louis%20armstrong%20life%20magazine%20cover%201966&f=false]] </div> | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongLifeMagazinecoverApril151966.png|link=http://books.google.com/books?id=pJ1mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=louis+armstrong+life+magazine+cover+1966&source=bl&ots=MgYQDtIpV6&sig=ACfU3U1q7NlK7GRDdjUxIUP_D7DD_fl4pg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiF3erIs8DhAhXnGDQIHQuKBE44FBDoATADegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=louis%20armstrong%20life%20magazine%20cover%201966&f=false]] </div> | ||
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] <span style="color:black">(1972) </span> [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png|link=http://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/lifetime-awards]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] <span style="color:black">(1972). </span> [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png|link=http://www.grammy.com/grammys/awards/lifetime-awards]] |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] inducted into the [http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/louis-armstrong Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame] in 1990 (Early Influence). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] inducted into the [http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/louis-armstrong Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame] in 1990 (Early Influence). <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/category_2043490.html U.S. Commemorative stamp] (1995) [[file:ArmstrongStamp1.png|link=http://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/2982/USA/]] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/category_2043490.html U.S. Commemorative stamp] (1995). [[file:ArmstrongStamp1.png|link=http://www.mysticstamp.com/Products/United-States/2982/USA/]] <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] inducted into the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_Blues_Music_Hall_of_Fame Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame] (2017) as a 20th Century Early Music Influence. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] inducted into the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_and_Blues_Music_Hall_of_Fame Rhythm & Blues Hall of Fame] (2017) as a 20th Century Early Music Influence. <br/> <br/> | ||
<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">50 year career </span>[[file:LouisArmstrongBlowingLeftCO.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/louis-armstrong-mn0000234518/biography]] | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">50 year career </span>[[file:LouisArmstrongBlowingLeftCO.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/louis-armstrong-mn0000234518/biography]] | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongHouseNationalHistoricLandmarkPlaque1977.jpeg|frame|center|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/364956108/in/photolist-4NJZKt-ayxVvq-yfGWA-yfFnc-2jMAoT-yfG76-e2c8FN-2jMAhe-25KsTAk-K4KWfq-4NPewj-6shZXd-yfuJG-22ZtakA-oqQKZ7-7wFWsK-TmXjXn-KnY3Tz-KrZtB1-Kks8tj/|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center">[[file:LouisArmstrongHouseNationalHistoricLandmarkPlaque1977.jpeg|frame|center|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/364956108/in/photolist-4NJZKt-ayxVvq-yfGWA-yfFnc-2jMAoT-yfG76-e2c8FN-2jMAhe-25KsTAk-K4KWfq-4NPewj-6shZXd-yfuJG-22ZtakA-oqQKZ7-7wFWsK-TmXjXn-KnY3Tz-KrZtB1-Kks8tj/|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.louisarmstronghouse.org/ Louis Armstrong House]<ref><span style="color:blue">Louis Armstrong purchased this modest house in 1943, built by Robert W. Johnson in 1910, and lived there until his death in 1971 of a heart attack. The house was put on the National Register #76001265 in 1976. In 1983, Armstrong's widow, Lucille, willed the house and its contents to New York City for the creation of a museum and study center devoted to Armstrong's career and the history of jazz. The Louis Armstrong House was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1988.</span></ref> in Queens, New York City, NY)<br/>(Photo by [http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/ Wally Gobetz] in 2007)</p></div>]] </div> |
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| <div align="center">[[file:DukeEllingtonCompositDeepBlueBackground.jpeg|link=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-duke-ellington-19740525-story.html|alt=A composit of seven Duke Elllington photographic cutouts on dark blue background with his name centered.]]</div> | | <div align="center">[[file:DukeEllingtonCompositDeepBlueBackground.jpeg|link=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-duke-ellington-19740525-story.html|alt=A composit of seven Duke Elllington photographic cutouts on dark blue background with his name centered.]]</div> | ||
− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington Duke Ellington]<br/>(1899–1974)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1914→1974) </span></p></div> <br/> |
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<p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | ||
− | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano piano] [[file:Piano1.png]] <br/><br/> | + | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano piano] <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> [[file:Piano1.png]] <br/><br/> |
+ | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestra orchestra] <span style="visibility: hidden;">+++</span>[[file:DukeEllingtonOrchestraBombayIndia1963.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassynewdelhi/14059914644/in/photolist-nqqJMs-nokSE5-nqpwn9-nqqL9L-nqnLRe-nq5PpG-ns9ioR-ns9gr4-nsaaMX-nojYxu-nq74QU-nqnxaB-nokdNd-nq6jpq-ns9oB6-nq6mh3-fK21E8-fKizHh-fKizUw-6ZUbo3-6xMRLU-6ZUbxj-iMeym-8vaBrp-dCxmny-w5pGGx-f9CBqB-75FB3i-rH4Hes-7RZGpp-dFXtR3-2i4Bu1H-2i4BtT3-2i4BtL4-2i4z7yk-2i4Btr1-2i4z7jH-2i4CuoF-2i4CtvZ-2i4Bt5V-2i4BuiS-2i4CuuT-2i4BtDf-2i4z7nt-2i4z792-2i4Bu1n-2i4Btzs-2i4Ctpw-2i4Bu7E-2i4z87j|alt=A black and white photograph of the Duke Ellington orchestra in Bombay India at the United States embassy on October 9–10, 1963 with Duke standing behind standup microphones 🎙 on the right in the photo and his orchestra sitting behind him on left.]] <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span>[[file:DukeEllingtonOrchestraBombayIndia1963Colorized.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/usembassynewdelhi/14059914644/in/photolist-nqqJMs-nokSE5-nqpwn9-nqqL9L-nqnLRe-nq5PpG-ns9ioR-ns9gr4-nsaaMX-nojYxu-nq74QU-nqnxaB-nokdNd-nq6jpq-ns9oB6-nq6mh3-fK21E8-fKizHh-fKizUw-6ZUbo3-6xMRLU-6ZUbxj-iMeym-8vaBrp-dCxmny-w5pGGx-f9CBqB-75FB3i-rH4Hes-7RZGpp-dFXtR3-2i4Bu1H-2i4BtT3-2i4BtL4-2i4z7yk-2i4Btr1-2i4z7jH-2i4CuoF-2i4CtvZ-2i4Bt5V-2i4BuiS-2i4CuuT-2i4BtDf-2i4z7nt-2i4z792-2i4Bu1n-2i4Btzs-2i4Ctpw-2i4Bu7E-2i4z87j|alt=A colorized black and white photograph of the Duke Ellington orchestra in Bombay India at the United States embassy on October 9–10, 1963 with Duke standing behind standup microphones 🎙 on the right in the photo and his orchestra sitting behind him on left.]]<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt"><span style="color:blue">(Duke Ellington introducing his orchestra before the concert at Rang Bhavan in Bombay India on October 9–10, 1963 with [http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 colorized] version on right)</span></p></div> <br/> | ||
<p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles:'''</span></p> | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles:'''</span></p> | ||
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: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Big band] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music Swing] | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Big band] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music Swing] | ||
− | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] <br/> <br/> |
<p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">'''Notable Achievements:'''<ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">'''Notable Achievements:'''<ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">often called his music "beyond category." </span> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">often called his music "beyond category." </span> | ||
− | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“That Ellington was "beyond category" is indisputable. Following his own dictum of keeping one foot in the academy and one in the street, Ellington evolved a musical language that imposed formal order on the rhythms, timbres, and attitudes of African-American everyday life. He struck a fine balance between organizational discipline and individual expressive freedom; and merged the traditionally distinct roles of composer and bandleader by embedding the writing process in a Deweyian social process of performative experimentation.”</span><ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703242?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents "But Is It Jazz?,"] | + | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“That Ellington was "beyond category" is indisputable. Following his own dictum of keeping one foot in the academy and one in the street, Ellington evolved a musical language that imposed formal order on the rhythms, timbres, and attitudes of African-American everyday life. He struck a fine balance between organizational discipline and individual expressive freedom; and merged the traditionally distinct roles of composer and bandleader by embedding the writing process in a Deweyian social process of performative experimentation.”</span><ref><span style="color:blue"> [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14560.John_Gennari John Gennari,] [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703242?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents "But Is It Jazz?,"] [http://www.jstor.org/stable/i327074 ''Reviews in American History'',] [http://www.jstor.org/stable/i327074?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab5b54d7a71eef29bd1497c7cf892d971 Vol. 23, No. 1 (March, 1995),] [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2703242?read-now=1&seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents 92.]</span></ref> |
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<span style="color:green">There’s almost always some open space in most of the Ellington pieces,” says Harbison. “The solo spots are kind of part of the conception, but they’re not specific. Jazz composition includes non-determined elements. And that’s just something that people have to come to terms with, to take a certain stance on. It seems that in the great pieces of Ellington, the '''building in of the soloist'''—and even the voice of the soloist—has been '''a part of the composition'''.” (quoted from [http://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/the-story-behind-the-first-pulitzer-for-jazz "The Story Behind the First Pulitzer for Jazz"]) </span> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> | <span style="color:green">There’s almost always some open space in most of the Ellington pieces,” says Harbison. “The solo spots are kind of part of the conception, but they’re not specific. Jazz composition includes non-determined elements. And that’s just something that people have to come to terms with, to take a certain stance on. It seems that in the great pieces of Ellington, the '''building in of the soloist'''—and even the voice of the soloist—has been '''a part of the composition'''.” (quoted from [http://wyntonmarsalis.org/news/entry/the-story-behind-the-first-pulitzer-for-jazz "The Story Behind the First Pulitzer for Jazz"]) </span> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:DukeEllingtonYoungManDarkSuitBWCO.jpeg|link=http://news.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/dukex.html|alt=A black and white film screen capture cutout of Duke Ellington as a young man wearing a suit and tie.]] [[file:DukeEllingtonYoungManDarkSuitBWCO.jpeg|link=http://news.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/dukex.html|alt=A black and white film screen capture cutout of Duke Ellington as a young man wearing a suit and tie.]] [[file:DukeEllingtonYoungManDarkSuitBWCO.jpeg|link=http://news.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/dukex.html|alt=A black and white film screen capture cutout of Duke Ellington as a young man wearing a suit and tie.]] [[file:DukeEllingtonYoungManDarkSuitBWCO.jpeg|link=http://news.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/dukex.html|alt=A black and white film screen capture cutout of Duke Ellington as a young man wearing a suit and tie.]] [[file:DukeEllingtonYoungManDarkSuitBWCO.jpeg|link=http://news.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/dukex.html|alt=A black and white film screen capture cutout of Duke Ellington as a young man wearing a suit and tie.]]</div> <br/><br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] most recorded jazz composer.<ref><span style="color:blue">According to [http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-06861-0/ Jazz] by Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux, 2009, Ellington compositions are the most recorded in jazz history.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] most recorded jazz composer.<ref><span style="color:blue">According to [http://books.wwnorton.com/books/978-0-393-06861-0/ Jazz] by Gary Giddins and Scott Deveaux, 2009, Ellington compositions are the most recorded in jazz history.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black,_Brown_and_Beige "Black, Brown and Beige"] (1943). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black,_Brown_and_Beige "Black, Brown and Beige"] (1943). <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] influenced millions of people around the world. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] influenced millions of people around the world. <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick violet">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">50 year career </span> [[file:DukeEllingtonBentAtPianoR1.png|link=http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/ellington]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick violet">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">50 year career </span> [[file:DukeEllingtonBentAtPianoR1.png|link=http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/ellington|alt=A black and white photograph of Duke Ellington facing right in profile sitting bent over the piano with a big smile turned towards the camera and his hands on the keyboard 🎹.]] [[file:DukeEllingtonBentAtPianoR1Colorized.jpeg|link=http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/contributors/ellington|alt=A colorized black and white photograph of Duke Ellington facing right in profile sitting bent over the piano with a big smile turned towards the camera and his hands on the keyboard 🎹.]] |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] over 20,000 performances in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America Latin America,] the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East Middle East,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia.]<ref name="Ellingtondotcom"/> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] over 20,000 performances in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America North America,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_America Latin America,] the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East Middle East,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia Asia.]<ref name="Ellingtondotcom"/> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded albums with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded albums with: |
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+ | [[file:ShinyRoundPurpleButtonBullet.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald] | ||
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+ | [[file:ShinyRoundPurpleButtonBullet.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane John Coltrane,] [[file:DukeEllingtonJohnColtraneAlbumCover.jpg|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_Ellington_%26_John_Coltrane.jpg|alt=A degraded image used for educational purposes from Wikipedia showing the black album cover of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane collaborating in lower right corner.]] [[file:ColorizedEnhancedSlightlyDukeEllingtonJohnColtraneBlowingJazzizCO.jpeg|link=http://www.jazziz.com/vinyl-watch-february-2022-john-coltrane-duke-ell|alt=A colorized and enhanced slightly photographic cutout of an upright piano on left side while Duke Ellington looks on music score sitting on piano bench during John Coltrane's performing music using a straight soprano saxophone with his head bent forward and down blowing his saxophone on far right in picture.]] | ||
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+ | [[file:ShinyRoundPurpleButtonBullet.png]][http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie Count Basie] | ||
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+ | [[file:ShinyRoundPurpleButtonBullet.png]]</span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong Louis Armstrong] <br/> <br/> | ||
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<div align="center">[[file:DukeEllingtonPlayingPianoViolin.gif]]</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:DukeEllingtonPlayingPianoViolin.gif]]</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] wrote [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio oratorios,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_(music) suites,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto concertos,] and even [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera opera,] as well as for the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre Broadway] stage, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film movies,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television television,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub nightclubs.] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] wrote [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio oratorios,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suite_(music) suites,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerto concertos,] and even [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera opera,] as well as for the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_theatre Broadway] stage, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film movies,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television television,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub nightclubs.] <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick purple">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">frequently collaborating with writing partner [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strayhorn Billy Strayhorn] ( | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick purple">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">frequently collaborating with writing partner [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Strayhorn Billy Strayhorn] (1915–1967), [[file:BillyStrayhornDukeEllingtonAtPiano.jpeg|link=http://thedukeellingtonsociety.org/duke-ellington--billy-strayhorn.html]] created over 1,500 pieces of music, and nearly 6,000, if brief musical interludes are included.</span> <br/> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] wrote the shows [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_for_Joy_(1941_revue) "Jump for Joy,"] [http://www.amazon.com/Ellingtons-Theatre-Professor-Emeritus-Franceschina/dp/0786408561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532229114&sr=8-1&keywords=duke+ellington%27s+music+for+theatre “Man with Four Sides,”] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_People_(Duke_Ellington_album) “My People”] (for the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in Chicago) (1963). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] wrote the shows [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_for_Joy_(1941_revue) "Jump for Joy,"] [http://www.amazon.com/Ellingtons-Theatre-Professor-Emeritus-Franceschina/dp/0786408561/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532229114&sr=8-1&keywords=duke+ellington%27s+music+for+theatre “Man with Four Sides,”] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_People_(Duke_Ellington_album) “My People”] (for the Century of Negro Progress Exposition in Chicago) (1963). <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellington_Suites the Uwis Suite] (1972). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ellington_Suites the Uwis Suite] (1972). <br/> <br/> | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:DukeEllingtonMirroredDiptych.jpeg|link=http://youtu.be/kV9QrMZUblk|alt=Identical mirror images of color photographs of a closeup of Duke Ellington's head with a concerned expression.]]</div> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] over 12,000 mourners attended his funeral (1974). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] over 12,000 mourners attended his funeral (1974). <br/> <br/> | ||
<blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick silver">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint United States Mint] issued a coin (February 24, 2009) [[file:DukeEllingtonCommemorativeCoin1.png]] with Duke Ellington on it, making him the first African American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin </span> <br/> | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick silver">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Mint United States Mint] issued a coin (February 24, 2009) [[file:DukeEllingtonCommemorativeCoin1.png]] with Duke Ellington on it, making him the first African American to appear by himself on a circulating U.S. coin </span> <br/> | ||
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− | | <br/><div align="center">[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]]<p style = "font-size: | + | | <br/><div align="center">[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]]<p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Coleman Hawkins] <br/>(1904–1969)</p><br/><br/>[[file:ColemanHawkinsblowing1.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photo by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p>[[file:HawkinsbyRobertoPolillo1.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 8pt">(Hawkins 1967 photo by [http://jazzinphoto.wordpress.com/tag/roberto-polillo/ Roberto Polillo])</p>[[file:ColemanHawkinsEldridgeHodgesalbumcover.png]]<br/>[[file:HawkinsbelowGottlieb.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 8pt">(Spotlite Club, NYC, 1946) <br/>(Photo by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p><br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]]<br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]] </div> |
| [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_saxophone tenor saxophone] [[file:TenorSaxophone2.png]] <br/><br/> | | [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_saxophone tenor saxophone] [[file:TenorSaxophone2.png]] <br/><br/> | ||
[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(music) featured soloist] <br/><br/> | [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(music) featured soloist] <br/><br/> | ||
[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music Swing] <br/>[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Big bands] <br/>[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Played with Beboppers] <br/><br/>[[file:RedButtonBullet10px.png]] 1921→1969 <br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]] <br/> [[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]] <br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]]<br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]] | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_music Swing] <br/>[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Big bands] <br/>[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Played with Beboppers] <br/><br/>[[file:RedButtonBullet10px.png]] 1921→1969 <br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]] <br/> [[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]] <br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]]<br/>[[file:WhiteBlank178width1.png]] | ||
| [[file:ColemanHawkinsBlowingRightCO1.png]] | | [[file:ColemanHawkinsBlowingRightCO1.png]] | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a star of the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_&Henderson Fletcher Henderson] Orchestra during the swing era in the 1920s and '30s<ref name="VerityEvolution"/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a star of the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fletcher_&Henderson Fletcher Henderson] Orchestra during the swing era in the 1920s and '30s.<ref name="VerityEvolution"/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] one of the first virtuosos on the tenor saxophone renowned for his aggressive tone and melodic creativity<ref name="VerityEvolution">[http://www.thoughtco.com/a-history-of-the-saxophone-in-jazz-2039580 "The Evolution of Jazz Saxophone Styles,"] <span style="color:blue">"Coleman Hawkins," by Michael Verity, </span>[http://www.thoughtco.com/jazz-4132868 Thoughtco.com: Jazz,] <span style="color:blue">Updated August 18, 2017.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] one of the first virtuosos on the tenor saxophone renowned for his aggressive tone and melodic creativity.<ref name="VerityEvolution">[http://www.thoughtco.com/a-history-of-the-saxophone-in-jazz-2039580 "The Evolution of Jazz Saxophone Styles,"] <span style="color:blue">"Coleman Hawkins," by Michael Verity, </span>[http://www.thoughtco.com/jazz-4132868 Thoughtco.com: Jazz,] <span style="color:blue">Updated August 18, 2017.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his application of advanced harmonic knowledge to improvisation helped pave the way for bebop<ref name="VerityEvolution"/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his application of advanced harmonic knowledge to improvisation helped pave the way for bebop.<ref name="VerityEvolution"/> <br/> <br/> |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick red">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">influential solo on </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_and_Soul_(1930_song) "Body and Soul"] [[file:ColemanHawkinsBodyandSoulLabelCO1.jpeg]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick red">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">influential solo on </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_and_Soul_(1930_song) "Body and Soul."] [[file:ColemanHawkinsBodyandSoulLabelCO1.jpeg]] |
</blockquote> | </blockquote> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] mentor to many, including [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] mentor to many, including [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk.] <br/> <br/> |
− | <div align="center">[[file:ColemanHawkinsSmilingR.jpeg|link=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/emily/eartist.html#f]]</div> | + | <div align="center">[[file:ColemanHawkinsSmilingR.jpeg|link=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/emily/eartist.html#f|alt=A photograph of a smiling Coleman Hawkins's head.]] <br/>[[file:EnhancedCompositeColemanHawkinsSmilingR.jpeg|link=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/emily/eartist.html#f|alt=A photograph of a smiling Coleman Hawkins's head.]] <br/>[[file:EnhancedCompositeColorizedColemanHawkinsSmilingR.jpeg|link=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ASI/musi212/emily/eartist.html#f|alt=A photograph of a smiling Coleman Hawkins's head.]] </div> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] promoted tenor sax <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] promoted tenor sax. <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“encyclopedic knowledge of chords and | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“encyclopedic knowledge of chords and harmonies.”</span><ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/coleman-hawkins-mn0000776363/biography "Biography of Coleman Hawkins,"] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Yanow Scott Yanow,] <span style="color:blue">at </span>[http://www.allmusic.com/search/all/jazz AllMusic.com.]</ref> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] harmonically advanced style<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/coleman-hawkins-mn0000776363/biography Scott Yanow's Coleman Hawkins biography.]</ref> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] harmonically advanced style.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/coleman-hawkins-mn0000776363/biography Scott Yanow's Coleman Hawkins biography.]</ref> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame '' | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] Critic's Poll (1961). [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]]<br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192014_img_1.html U.S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:HawkinsStamp1.png]] (1995) | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192014_img_1.html U.S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:HawkinsStamp1.png]] (1995). |
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− | |<div align="center">[[file:LesterYoungQuartetColorized3D.gif]] | + | |<div align="center">[[file:LesterYoungQuartetColorized3D.gif|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html |alt=A kinetic cutout colorized photograph of the Lester Young quartet.]] [[file:LesterYoungQuartetColorizedCO.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html |alt=A colorized photograph of the Lester Young quartet.]] <br/><br/><div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 Colorized] and enhanced photograph of [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Prez photo #4] at [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm] by [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Paul Nodler]) <br/>(from an improvisation session run by Norman Granz) <br/>(at a studio on 23rd St. in New York City in 1950)</p></div> </div> <br/> |
− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Young Lester Young]<br/>(1909–1959)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1933→1959)</span></p> </div><br/><br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:LesterYoungblowing1.jpeg]] [[file:LesterYoungSmilingNoSaxCO2.jpeg]] [[file:LesterYoungsmiling1.jpeg]]</div> | <div align="center">[[file:LesterYoungblowing1.jpeg]] [[file:LesterYoungSmilingNoSaxCO2.jpeg]] [[file:LesterYoungsmiling1.jpeg]]</div> | ||
− | <div align="center"> [[file:LesterYoungLookingLeft1.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/resource/gottlieb.09431.0/?sp=1]]<br/> | + | <div align="center"> [[file:LesterYoungLookingLeft1.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/resource/gottlieb.09431.0/?sp=1|alt=A black and white photograph by Robert P. Gottlieb of Lester Young standing and playing his saxophone at the Famous Door in New York City in September, 1946 in front of a geometric patterned curtain and a glimpse of a piano player's head in the background on the far left.]]<br/> |
<p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Portrait of Lester Young, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. September, 1946)<br/> | <p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Portrait of Lester Young, Famous Door, New York, N.Y., ca. September, 1946)<br/> | ||
− | ([http://www.loc.gov/resource/gottlieb.09431.0/?sp=1 Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p></div> | + | ([http://www.loc.gov/resource/gottlieb.09431.0/?sp=1 Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p> <br/>[[file:ColorizedLesterYoungLookingLeft1.jpeg|link=http://www.loc.gov/resource/gottlieb.09431.0/?sp=1|alt=A colorized photograph by Robert P. Gottlieb of Lester Young standing and playing his saxophone at the Famous Door in New York City in September, 1946 in front of a geometric patterned curtain and a glimpse of a piano player's head in the background on the far left.]]</div> <br/><br/> |
<p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | ||
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: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] | ||
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+ | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green"><center>[[file:LesterYoungPorkPieHatRightCO1.jpeg|link=http://jazztimes.com/features/lists/jazztimes-10-lester-young/?utm_source=sfmc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LionelLoueke |alt=A colorized cutout photograph of Lester Young holding his saxophone down by his side facing to right and wearing his classic pork pie hat.]] [[file:LesterYoungSaxRestingOnRightThigh.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html |alt=An enhanced and colorized detailed photographic cutout of Lester Young holding his saxophone sideways on his right thigh.]] <br/><span style="color:black">(Click on photo for source, then scroll down to Prez #4)</span><br/><div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt"><span style="color:black">([http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 Colorized] and enhanced detail of [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Prez photo #4] at [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm] by [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Paul Nodler]) <br/>(from an improvisation session run by Norman Granz) <br/>(at a studio on 23rd St. in New York City in 1950)</span></p></div><br/>[[file:VeryEnhancedLesterYoungSaxOnRightThighCE.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html |alt=A very enhanced and colorized detailed photographic cutout of Lester Young holding his saxophone sideways on his right thigh.]] <br/><span style="color:black">(Click on photo for source, then scroll down to Prez #4)</span><br/><br/>[[file:LesterYoungQuartetCE.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html |alt=An enhanced black and white photograph of the Lester Young quartet with Young second from left.]]<br/><span style="color:black">(Click on photo for source, then scroll down to Prez #4)]]</span><br/> <br/> </center> | ||
+ | </blockquote> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | <div align="center">[[file:CompositeTenLesterYoungsGrayGreenBackground.jpeg|link=http://www.mosaicrecords.com/the-great-jazz-artists/lester-young/ |alt=A framed composite of ten colorized photographic cutouts of Lester Young on a gray green background.]]</div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | : <span style="color:red">'''NOTE:''' Click on quotation for internet source. </span> | ||
+ | {| class="wikitable" width=85% | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.quotemaster.org/Lester+Young#written-quotes <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |width=15% |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Konitz '''LEE KONITZ'''] <br/><span style="color:blue">(1927–2020)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.quotemaster.org/Lester+Young#written-quotes <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“As much as I think John Coltrane belongs on the list, I think without Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young, both of whom defined improvising on the tenor sax, there would not have been the evolution of the craft by John Coltrane.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbie_Mann '''HERBIE MANN'''] <br/><span style="color:blue">(1930–2003)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.quotemaster.org/Lester+Young#written-quotes <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“I think as long as people are around and can hear a record and hear people like Lester Young on a recording, there will always be a great inspiration for somebody to try to create jazz.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins '''SONNY ROLLINS''']<br/><span style="color:blue">(b. 1930)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.lesteryoung.dk/index.php?cID=133 <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“It was like the horn only became an instrument through which the soul of Lester Young was expressed, it was like a transmitter, you know. When he’d still be up to play I would look around, and people would slow down their dancing just so that they could listen, because everybody realized then, even the people who didn’t really pay that close attention to details as far as the music was concerned, everybody seemed to sense that they were witnessing one of the greatest musicians of all time. It was like he was the minister and we were his congregation out there. He was speaking words of wisdom to us, and very prophetic, because his style, what he was doing then, changed the whole concept of tenor playing. He was the one who did it. He showed another way to go.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Jones '''THAD JONES'''] <span style="color:blue">(1923–1986)</span><br/>about hearing the Basie band for the first time in Detroit 1939<br/></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.lesteryoung.dk/index.php?cID=133 <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“The other night Benny Goodman, Basie, Lester Young, Jo Jones, Buck Clayton and Harry James got together in a small Harlem joint and jammed from two-fifteen to six in the morning. The music was something tremendous, for everyone distinguished himself. But one conclusion was inescapable: that Lester Young was not only the star of the evening but without doubt the greatest tenor player in the country. In fact I’ll stick my neck out even further: he is the most original and inventive saxophonist I have ever heard.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hammond_(record_producer) '''JOHN HAMMOND'''] <br/><span style="color:blue">(1910–1987)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.quotemaster.org/Lester+Young#written-quotes <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“We were all influenced by Lester (Young). Listen to the records that he made with (Count) Basie. Nobody's got what he's got. He's still the daddy.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Sims '''ZOOT SIMS'''] <br/><span style="color:blue">(1925–1985)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.quotemaster.org/Lester+Young#written-quotes <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“I’ll always remember when I first heard Lester. I’d never heard anyone like him before. He was a stylist with a different sound. A sound I’d never heard before or since. To be honest with you I didn’t like it much at first. When Prez first came to me at the Reno Club in Kansas City it was like nothing we’d ever heard. And it was consistent. In all the years he was with our band he never had a bad night. No matter what happened to him personally, he never showed it in his playing. I can only remember him as being beautiful.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie '''COUNT BASIE'''] <br/><span style="color:blue">(1904–1984)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.azquotes.com/author/21110-Lester_Young <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“The trouble with most musicians today is that they are copycats. Of course you have to start out playing like someone else. You have a model, or a teacher, and you learn all that he can show you. But then you start playing for yourself. Show them that you're an individual. And I can count those who are doing that today on the fingers of one hand.”'''</span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Young '''LESTER YOUNG'''] <br/><span style="color:blue">(1909–1959)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[http://www.azquotes.com/author/21110-Lester_Young <p style ="font-size:14pt"><span style="color:green">'''“Well, the way I play, I try not to be a 'repeater pencil', ya dig? Originality's the thing. You can have tone and technique and a lot of other things but without originality you ain't really nowhere. Gotta be original.”''' </span></p>]</center> | ||
+ | |<center>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Young '''LESTER YOUNG'''] <br/><span style="color:blue">(1909–1959)</span></center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |bgcolor=#aaaaff|<center>*</center> | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |} | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:LesterYoungStraightUpBWCOPhotoByLeloir1.jpeg|thumb|right||link=http://goo.gl/images/x5afdN|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt"> | ||
+ | ([http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https://marcmyers.typepad.com/.a/6a00e008dca1f08834011570e86fc2970b-600wi&imgrefurl=https://www.jazzwax.com/2017/05/dave-pell-1925-2017.html&docid=8gqOi3Lc2tzVgM&tbnid=bfn5K1mXaGmkLM:&vet=1&w=600&h=836&hl=en-us&source=sh/x/im Photo] by [http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Images-Jean-Pierre-Leloir/dp/8461767861 Jean Pierre Leloir] (1931–2010))</p></div>]] <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> | ||
<p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">'''Notable Achievements:'''<ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">'''Notable Achievements:'''<ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
<span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> </span></p> | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> </span></p> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] light airy unforced sound.<ref>[http://jazztimes.com/departments/jazztimes-10/jazztimes-10-lester-young/?utm_source=sfmc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LionelLoueke JazzTimes magazine] <span style="color:blue">confirms Lester Young's lighter sonic approach to the saxophone contrasting with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Coleman Hawkin's] that they describe as </span> <span style="color:green">“intricate, heavy, deadly serious sound that bore down like a dreadnought.” </span><span style="color:blue">Young's sound contrasts with this because it had an </span> <span style="color:green">“effervescent tone, seeming as it did to float over the rollicking rhythmic momentum of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_basie Count Basie,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Green Freddie Green,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Page Walter Page,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jones Jo Jones,] is impossible to understate. Likewise for a line that, if it wasn’t as complex as [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Hawk's], was nearly delirious in its bounce. It also sounds spontaneous throughout, even in the obviously prearranged hit on the accents with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jones (Jo) Jones] . . . .”</span> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] light airy unforced sound.<ref>[http://jazztimes.com/departments/jazztimes-10/jazztimes-10-lester-young/?utm_source=sfmc-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LionelLoueke JazzTimes magazine] <span style="color:blue">confirms Lester Young's lighter sonic approach to the saxophone contrasting with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Coleman Hawkin's] that they describe as </span> <span style="color:green">“intricate, heavy, deadly serious sound that bore down like a dreadnought.” </span><span style="color:blue">Young's sound contrasts with this because it had an </span> <span style="color:green">“effervescent tone, seeming as it did to float over the rollicking rhythmic momentum of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_basie Count Basie,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_Green Freddie Green,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Page Walter Page,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jones Jo Jones,] is impossible to understate. Likewise for a line that, if it wasn’t as complex as [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Hawk's], was nearly delirious in its bounce. It also sounds spontaneous throughout, even in the obviously prearranged hit on the accents with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Jones (Jo) Jones] . . . .”</span> <br/> <br/> | ||
<span style="color:blue">[http://jazztimes.com/departments/jazztimes-10/jazztimes-10-lester-young/2/ JazzTimes] continues by pointing out that when playing with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday Billie Holiday] that </span> <span style="color:green">“Young’s phrases are cool and sinuous. Even as the track closes, and the other two horn players (trumpeter [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Clayton Buck Clayton] and clarinetist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Hall Edmond Hall]) throw some more juice into the mix, Young is relaxed, detached, and thoroughly beautiful.” </span> </ref> <br/> <br/> | <span style="color:blue">[http://jazztimes.com/departments/jazztimes-10/jazztimes-10-lester-young/2/ JazzTimes] continues by pointing out that when playing with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday Billie Holiday] that </span> <span style="color:green">“Young’s phrases are cool and sinuous. Even as the track closes, and the other two horn players (trumpeter [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Clayton Buck Clayton] and clarinetist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Hall Edmond Hall]) throw some more juice into the mix, Young is relaxed, detached, and thoroughly beautiful.” </span> </ref> <br/> <br/> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“Lester’s style was light, and as I said, it took him maybe five choruses to warm up. But then he would really blow; then you couldn’t handle him in a cutting session.” </span> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“Lester’s style was light, and as I said, it took him maybe five choruses to warm up. But then he would really blow; then you couldn’t handle him in a cutting session.”</span><ref><span style="color:blue">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Schoenberg Loren Schoenberg] (b. 1958), [http://www.mosaicrecords.com/the-great-jazz-artists/lester-young/ "Lester Young,"] Mosaic Records, liner note excerpts from Mosaic Records: "The Lester Young Count Basie Sessions 1936–1940" and "Classic Columbia, OKeh and Vocalion Lester Young — Lester Young with Count Basie 1936–1940."</span></ref> [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Sp7._Women_and_Jazz#Mary_Lou_Williams Mary Lou Williams] <br/> <br/> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“It was like the horn only became a transmitter through which the soul of Lester Young was expressed. . . When he’d still be up to play I would look around, and people would slow down so they could listen, because everybody realized then, even the people who didn’t really pay that close attention to details as far as the music was concerned, everybody seemed to sense that they were witnessing '''one of the greatest musicians of all time'''. It was like he was a minister and we were his congregation out there. He was speaking words of wisdom to us, and very prophetic, because, '''his style''', what he was doing then, '''changed the whole concept of tenor playing'''. . . it was like listening to a saxophone with the sound of a flute with that '''clear just mellow, rich, round sound'''.”</span><span style="color:blue"> — [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Jones Thad Jones] (1923–1986)</span><ref><span style="color:blue">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Schoenberg Loren Schoenberg] (b. 1958), [http://www.mosaicrecords.com/the-great-jazz-artists/lester-young/ "Lester Young,"] Mosaic Records, liner note excerpts from Mosaic Records: "The Lester Young Count Basie Sessions | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“It was like the horn only became a transmitter through which the soul of Lester Young was expressed. . . When he’d still be up to play I would look around, and people would slow down so they could listen, because everybody realized then, even the people who didn’t really pay that close attention to details as far as the music was concerned, everybody seemed to sense that they were witnessing '''one of the greatest musicians of all time'''. It was like he was a minister and we were his congregation out there. He was speaking words of wisdom to us, and very prophetic, because, '''his style''', what he was doing then, '''changed the whole concept of tenor playing'''. . . it was like listening to a saxophone with the sound of a flute with that '''clear just mellow, rich, round sound'''.”</span><span style="color:blue"> — [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Jones Thad Jones] (1923–1986)</span><ref><span style="color:blue">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Schoenberg Loren Schoenberg] (b. 1958), [http://www.mosaicrecords.com/the-great-jazz-artists/lester-young/ "Lester Young,"] Mosaic Records, liner note excerpts from Mosaic Records: "The Lester Young Count Basie Sessions 1936–1940" and "Classic Columbia, OKeh and Vocalion Lester Young — Lester Young with Count Basie 1936–1940."</span></ref> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] relaxed, cool tone with sophisticated harmonies. [[file:LesterYoungWhiteSuitMCO3.jpeg|link=http://pendergastkc.org/collection/10792/kcma-pc35-0433/ernie-williams-george-hudson-lester-young|thumb|left|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">( | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] relaxed, cool tone with sophisticated harmonies. [[file:LesterYoungWhiteSuitMCO3.jpeg|alt=A colorized detail of a photograph of a smiling Lester Young standing in right profile in a white suit without his saxophone 🎷.|link=http://pendergastkc.org/collection/10792/kcma-pc35-0433/ernie-williams-george-hudson-lester-young|thumb|left|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 Colorized] and enhanced detail of photo used by permission<ref><span style="color:blue">Permission granted to use detail of photo by Denise Morrison, Director of Collections & Curatorial Services, Kansas City Museum, [[file:kansascitymuseumlogo1.png]] kansascitymuseum.org, c/o: Union Station Kansas City, 30 W. Pershing Rd., Kansas City, MO 64108, Email:denise.morrison@kcmo.org, Desk Phone: 816-513-7569 on February 8, 2019. </span></ref> of [http://kansascitymuseum.org/ Kansas City Museum,] Kansas, MO)</p></div>]] <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] lead tenor in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie Count Basie's] orchestra. <span style="color:green">“As part of Count Basie's soon-to-be-discovered, quintessential swing band, Young made his first recordings. In 1936, on "Lady, Be Good," he plays a wondrous two-chorus solo that sparked a sensation among musicians. His solo on Basie's 1937 "One O'Clock Jump"—Young hits a B-flat 20 times in a row—was memorized by legions of tenor sax players. Young's 1939 showpiece "Lester Leaps In"—rife with rhythmic surprises—'''spotlights his superior note choices and interlinking melodic ideas'''. These recordings have much to offer listeners today.”</span><ref name=JEHasse/> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] lead tenor in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie Count Basie's] orchestra. <span style="color:green">“As part of Count Basie's soon-to-be-discovered, quintessential swing band, Young made his first recordings. In 1936, on "Lady, Be Good," he plays a wondrous two-chorus solo that sparked a sensation among musicians. His solo on Basie's 1937 "One O'Clock Jump"—Young hits a B-flat 20 times in a row—was memorized by legions of tenor sax players. Young's 1939 showpiece "Lester Leaps In"—rife with rhythmic surprises—'''spotlights his superior note choices and interlinking melodic ideas'''. These recordings have much to offer listeners today.”</span><ref name=JEHasse/> <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Granz Norman Granz's] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic Jazz at the Philharmonic] (JATP) troupe for 12 years beginning in 1946. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Granz Norman Granz's] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic Jazz at the Philharmonic] (JATP) troupe for 12 years beginning in 1946. <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] As his alcoholism grew worse in the 1950s, his tone grew huskier, his vibrato wider, and his pitch range lower. <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] As his alcoholism grew worse in the 1950s, his tone grew huskier, his vibrato wider, and his pitch range lower. <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Dying at age | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Dying at age forty-nine in 1959 ended his recording career of twenty-three years. <br/> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation beat] writers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsburg Allen Ginsberg] (1926–1997) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac Jack Kerouac] (1922–1969) [http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hero-worship hero-worshiped] Young. <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation beat] writers [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Ginsburg Allen Ginsberg] (1926–1997) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kerouac Jack Kerouac] (1922–1969) [http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hero-worship hero-worshiped] Young. <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier] (1941–2021) would base his 1986 movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Midnight_(film) "'Round Midnight"] on the lives of Young and pianist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier] (1941–2021) would base his 1986 movie [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Midnight_(film) "'Round Midnight"] on the lives of Young and pianist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Powell Bud Powell] (1924–1966). <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''Downbeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] Reader's Poll (1959). [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''Downbeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] Reader's Poll (1959). [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Listen''' to Young's music at [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm:] [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html "Lester Young: 'PREZ'."] <br/> <br/> | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Listen''' to Young's music at [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm:] [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html "Lester Young: 'PREZ'."] <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.lesteryoung.dk/ Lester Young website] <br/> <br/> | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.lesteryoung.dk/ Lester Young website] <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:LesterYoungColorizedSeatedPorkPieHatHoldingSaxCO.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html|frame|right|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">( | + | [[file:LesterYoungColorizedSeatedPorkPieHatHoldingSaxCO.jpeg|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html|frame|right|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 Colorized] and enhanced detail of [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Prez photo #4] at [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm] by [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Paul Nodler]) <br/>(from an improvisation session run by Norman Granz) <br/>(at a studio on 23rd St. in New York City in 1950)</p></div>]] |
[[file:LesterYoungSeatedWithSaxophoneRepaired.jpeg|frame|center|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt"> | [[file:LesterYoungSeatedWithSaxophoneRepaired.jpeg|frame|center|link=http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt"> | ||
− | ( | + | ([http://www.jstor.org/stable/3332938 Colorized] and enhanced detail of [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Prez photo #2] at [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/104.html Jazz Rhythm] by [http://jazzhotbigstep.com/161.html Paul Nodler]) <br/>(from an improvisation session run by Norman Granz)<br/>(at a studio on 23rd St. in New York City in 1950)</p></div>]] |
[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' Matt Fripp's [http://jazzfuel.com/lester-young-jazz-saxophone/ "Lester Young—Ten Defining Moments From The Tenor Sax Legend,"] JazzFuel.com, last updated Aug 28, 2021. | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' Matt Fripp's [http://jazzfuel.com/lester-young-jazz-saxophone/ "Lester Young—Ten Defining Moments From The Tenor Sax Legend,"] JazzFuel.com, last updated Aug 28, 2021. | ||
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+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://www.mosaicrecords.com/the-great-jazz-artists/lester-young/ Lester Young's biography and discography at Mosaic Records] | ||
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− | + | <center>[[file:CharlieChristianCompositeTexturedBlueBackground.jpeg|link=http://jazzfuel.com/essential-charlie-christian-albums/|alt=Seven colorized photographs of Charlie Christian in a composite on a textured blue background.]]</center> <br/><br/> | |
− | < | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 42pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Christian Charlie Christian]<br/>(1916–1942)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1931→1942)</span></p></div> <br/><br/> |
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− | <div align=" | + | <center>[[file:CharlieChristianInAMirrorDetail1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieChristianhead1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieChristianElectricGuitarWithAmp1.png]] [[file:CharlieChristianOlderWithGlasses1.jpeg]] </center> |
− | + | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieChristianHunchedOverGuitar1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieChristianLookingDownPlayingTuxedo1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieChristianSittingGuitarInLap1.jpeg]] </div> <br/><br/> | |
− | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> | + | |
− | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p> | |
− | + | ||
− | + | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar electric guitar] <br/>[[file:ElectricGuitarOld1.png|link=http://jasobrecht.com/finding-charlie-christians-guitar-interview-lynn-wheelwright/]] <br/><br/> | |
− | + | ||
− | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles:'''</span></p> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(music) featured soloist] <br/> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_section rhythm section] <br/><br/> | |
− | + | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonham,_Texas Bonham,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas Texas] on July 29, 1916 and raised in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City Oklahoma City,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma Oklahoma] where he often jammed along the city's [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Deuce "Deep Deuce"] section on N. E. Second Street. <br/> <br/> | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Style/Genre:'''</span></p> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] from a musical family, he first began playing the trumpet and at age 12 was playing a cigar box guitar he made himself.<ref name=ChristianOHF>[http://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/c/christian-charlie-2018 "Christian, Charlie (inducted 2018) | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop][http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_pioneer pioneer] <br/><br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] received his first real guitar as a member of his family's group when his father and brothers formed a quartet.<ref name=ChristianOHF/> | + | |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] played Oklahoma City clubs, including those in historic [http://goo.gl/maps/uXmiVkJQPDFqLnh97 Deep Deuce | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | <div align="center">[[file:CompositeCharlieChristian.jpeg|link=http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH060|alt=A framed composite of nine colorized photographic cutouts of Charlie Christian on a medium dark blue background with his name center-right in light orange letters.]]</div> | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Notable Achievements'''</span><ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
+ | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> </p> <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonham,_Texas Bonham,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas Texas] on July 29, 1916 and raised in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City Oklahoma City,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma Oklahoma] where he often jammed along the city's [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Deuce "Deep Deuce"] section on N. E. Second Street. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerFiveYearsOldPullOverCapwithFeatherHeavyJacket.jpeg|link=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Charlie%20Parker.html|alt=A colorized photograph of Charlie Christian when three years old facing the camera standing wearing a pull-over cap with a feather sticking up off the back right side while wearing a heavy fastened outdoor jacket. Some websites claim the same photograph to be of saxophonist Charlie Parker.]]<ref><span style="color:blue">This is a colorized photograph of Charlie Christian when he was three years old. [[file:CharlieChristianPartialBackAlbumCover.jpeg|link=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=CH060|alt=The back album cover with Charlie Christian as a three year old.]].</span></ref> </div> <br/><br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] from a musical family, he first began playing the trumpet and at age 12 was playing a cigar box guitar he made himself.<ref name=ChristianOHF>[http://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/c/christian-charlie-2018 "Christian, Charlie (inducted 2018),"] [http://oklahomahof.com/history-mission Oklahoma Hall of Fame.]</ref> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] received his first real guitar as a member of his family's group when his father and brothers formed a quartet.<ref name=ChristianOHF/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] played Oklahoma City clubs, including those in historic [http://goo.gl/maps/uXmiVkJQPDFqLnh97 Deep Deuce] (Northeast Second street), before his reputation spread and he began touring across the United States then moving to [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California California] at the age of 23.<ref name=ChristianOHF/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] In the 1930s he played string bass with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonse_Trent Alphonso] [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/alphonso-trent-mn0001010028 Trent's] (1905–1959) band. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in 1937 he discovered the instrument that he helped pioneer—the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_guitar electric guitar.] <br/> | ||
+ | <center>[[file:ColorizedEnhancedCharlieChristianBrownSuitSitting.jpeg|link=http://museviews.org/musicians/swing/charlie-christian/|alt=A colorized and enhanced photographic cutout of Charlie Christian wearing glasses facing camera while sitting and holding his guitar.]]</center> | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] took guitar and music lessons from guitarist, trombonist, composer, and arranger [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Durham Eddie Durham] (1906–1987), of the Count Basie orchestra, and from [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/james-jim-daddy-walker-mn0001930151/biography Jim Daddy] [http://www.discogs.com/artist/1393691-Jim-Daddy-Walker Walker] (1902–1949), of the [http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jap-allen-mn0001852457/biography Jap Allen] band. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>[[file:CharlieChristianWhiteHatLeftProfileR.jpeg]][[file:CharlieChristianWhiteHatLeftProfile.jpeg]]</center> <br/><br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] he helped change the electric guitar from a rhythm instrument to an important solo one where his distinctive stylistic innovations had an undeniable influence on future generations of jazz and popular music guitarists. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] on the advice of Mary Lou Williams "discovered" by music promoter [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hammond_(record_producer) John] [http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/?q=program/whiz-kid-swing-story-pioneering-record-producer-john-hammond Hammond] (1910–1987), who in 1939 recommended Christian to Hammond's brother-in-law, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman Benny Goodman] (1909–1986), at that time leading one of the most famous big bands of the swing era, bringing Christian into the public eye in the United States. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] he mostly played in Goodman's sextet and only occasionally with the full orchestra. <br/><br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <div align="center">[[file:AnimatedSmilingCharlieChristian.gif]]</div> | ||
<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/charlie-christian Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Charlie Christian] <span style="color:black">summarizes Christian's achievements: </span><span style="color:green">“Though his life was short, his hornlike, single-note style, which capitalized on innovations in amplification technology, revolutionized and redefined the role of the electric guitar in popular music. The reverberations from Christian’s pioneering efforts have echoed down the decades, through Western swing, rockabilly and rock and roll to the present days.” </span> <br/> | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.rockhall.com/inductees/charlie-christian Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Charlie Christian] <span style="color:black">summarizes Christian's achievements: </span><span style="color:green">“Though his life was short, his hornlike, single-note style, which capitalized on innovations in amplification technology, revolutionized and redefined the role of the electric guitar in popular music. The reverberations from Christian’s pioneering efforts have echoed down the decades, through Western swing, rockabilly and rock and roll to the present days.” </span> <br/> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] gained national exposure as a member of the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman Benny Goodman] Sextet and Orchestra from August 1939 to June 1941. <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] gained national exposure as a member of the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman Benny Goodman] (1909–1986) Sextet and Orchestra from August 1939 to June 1941. <center>[[file:CharlieChristianBennyGoodmanColorized.jpeg|link=http://www.reddit.com/r/Clarinet/comments/jv9pkc/what_a_team_benny_goodman_charlie_christian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3|alt=A colorized photograph Charlie Christian sitting in a chair holding his guitar in playing position with Benny Goodman standing on the right with both men wearing suits.]]</center> <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded his [http://youtu.be/mOnhcdAMInA “Seven Come Eleven”] ('''Listen to it''' by clicking on title) with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman Benny Goodman] Sextet showing influences in country music forming an odd hybrid with jazz. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded his [http://youtu.be/mOnhcdAMInA “Seven Come Eleven”] ('''Listen to it''' by clicking on title) with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Goodman Benny Goodman] Sextet showing influences in country music forming an odd hybrid with jazz. <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] an important figure in the early development of Bebop.<ref><span style="color:blue">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Lees Gene Lees] in his liner notes to [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_Flight:_The_Genius_of_Charlie_Christian "Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian"] (Columbia G 30779, 1972), wrote that </span><span style="color:green">"Many critics and musicians consider that Christian was one of the founding fathers of bebop, or if not that, at least a precursor to it."</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] an important figure in the early development of Bebop.<ref><span style="color:blue">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Lees Gene Lees] in his liner notes to [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_Flight:_The_Genius_of_Charlie_Christian "Solo Flight: The Genius of Charlie Christian"] (Columbia G 30779, 1972), wrote that </span><span style="color:green">"Many critics and musicians consider that Christian was one of the founding fathers of bebop, or if not that, at least a precursor to it."</span></ref> [[file:CharlieChristianInColorAlbumCoverCO.jpeg|link=http://www.amazon.com/Selected-Broadcasts-Sessions-Charlie-Christian/dp/B00006ANJ5|alt=A color photographic cutout of Charlie Christian holding his guitar in his lap while seated.]] <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a creative melodic improviser of whom it was claimed by both John Hammond<ref><span style="color:blue">''John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography'' | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a creative melodic improviser of whom it was claimed by both John Hammond<ref><span style="color:blue">John Hammond and Irving Townsend, ''John Hammond on Record: An Autobiography'' (New York: Ridge Press, 1977). ISBN 0-671-40003-7. </span></ref> and George T. Simon<ref><span style="color:blue">George T. Simon, ''The Big Band's'', 1971. ISBN 0-02-872430-5.</span></ref> to be <span style="color:green">“the best improvisational talent of the swing era.”</span> <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his recording career lasted less than two years because he contracted tuberculosis and died on March 2, 1942 in New York. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] his recording career lasted less than two years because he contracted tuberculosis and died on March 2, 1942 in New York. <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:CharlieChristianSmilingWithUprightGuitarCO.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome_All-Stars]] | + | [[file:CharlieChristianSmilingWithUprightGuitarCO.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome_All-Stars|alt=A black and white photographic cutout of Charlie Christian smiling and holding his guitar in front of himself with the neck pointing straight up.]] <br/><br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] twice (1940 & 1941) [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome_All-Stars Metronome All Stars member.] <br/> <br/> | + | |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame '' | + | <center>[[file:CompositeCharlieChristianAlbumCoversYellowHotPink.jpeg|link= |alt=A framed composite of twelve Charlie Christian album covers with several in hot yellow or hot pink colors.]]</center> |
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+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] twice (1940 & 1941) [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome_All-Stars Metronome All Stars member.] [[file:ColorizedCharlieChristianSmilingWithUprightGuitarCO.jpeg|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metronome_All-Stars|alt=A colorized black and white photographic cutout of Charlie Christian smiling and holding his guitar in front of himself with the neck pointing straight up.]] <br/> <br/> | ||
+ | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] [[file:CharlieChristianDownbeatCover.jpeg|link=http://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-nov-10-ca-spotlight10-story.html]] | ||
<span style="color:black">Critic's Poll (1966). </span> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> | <span style="color:black">Critic's Poll (1966). </span> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> | ||
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">his single-string technique established a solo style that was carried on by such contemporaries as [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker T-Bone Walker] and emulated by later disciples like [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King B. B. King] and </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry Chuck Berry.] <br/> <br/> [[file:TBoneWalkerCO1.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker|frame|left|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 8pt"> | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">his single-string technique established a solo style that was carried on by such contemporaries as [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker T-Bone Walker] and emulated by later disciples like [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.B._King B. B. King] and </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Berry Chuck Berry.] <br/> <br/> [[file:TBoneWalkerCO1.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-Bone_Walker|frame|left|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 8pt"> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City Oklahoma City] [http://bethlehemofbonham.net/GALLERY/Charlie_Christian_Street_Dedication/ renamed] a street in its [http://welcometobricktown.com/ Bricktown entertainment district] [http://bethlehemofbonham.net/GALLERY/Charlie_Christian_Street_Dedication/ "Charlie Christian Avenue"] <div align="center"> [[file:CharlieChristianAvenueStreetSign.jpeg|link=http://images.app.goo.gl/KTxWnQWztoYMVZMM8]] (2006). </div> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City Oklahoma City] [http://bethlehemofbonham.net/GALLERY/Charlie_Christian_Street_Dedication/ renamed] a street in its [http://welcometobricktown.com/ Bricktown entertainment district] [http://bethlehemofbonham.net/GALLERY/Charlie_Christian_Street_Dedication/ "Charlie Christian Avenue"] <div align="center"> [[file:CharlieChristianAvenueStreetSign.jpeg|link=http://images.app.goo.gl/KTxWnQWztoYMVZMM8]] (2006). </div> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/black-history-month-oklahoma-musician-helped-change-the-game-for/article_72932637-2af2-5aec-a7b5-0cad3111b068.html inducted] into the [http://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/c/christian-charlie-2018 Oklahoma Hall of Fame] (2018). | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/black-history-month-oklahoma-musician-helped-change-the-game-for/article_72932637-2af2-5aec-a7b5-0cad3111b068.html inducted] into the [http://oklahomahof.com/member-archives/c/christian-charlie-2018 Oklahoma Hall of Fame] (2018). | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieChristianFanninCountyHistoricalCommissionPlaque.jpeg|link=http://www.fannincountyhistory.org/charles-henry-christian.html Fannin|alt=A photograph of the Fannin County Historical Commission plaque made for Charlie Christian in Bonham, Texas.]] [[file:CharlieChristianHeadstone.jpeg|link=http://www.reddit.com/r/jazzguitar/comments/bf8ho2/final_resting_place_of_charlie_christian_rip/|alt=A color photograph of Charlie Christian's headstone in Bonham, Texas.]]</div> | ||
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− | <div align="center"><br/><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><br/><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk]<br/>(1917–1982)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1940→1970)</span></p><br/><br/> |
[[file:TheloniousMonkSmilingBroadlyDBC1.jpeg]] [[file:Theloniouscap1.jpeg]] [[file:TheloniousMonkSmilingColorizedM1.png]] <br/>[[file:TheloniousMonkYoungatpianoGottlieb1.png]] [[file:ClassicTheloniousMonkatPianoGottliebColorized.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photos by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p>[[file:Theloniousatpianoright2.jpeg]] </div><br/> <br/> | [[file:TheloniousMonkSmilingBroadlyDBC1.jpeg]] [[file:Theloniouscap1.jpeg]] [[file:TheloniousMonkSmilingColorizedM1.png]] <br/>[[file:TheloniousMonkYoungatpianoGottlieb1.png]] [[file:ClassicTheloniousMonkatPianoGottliebColorized.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photos by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p>[[file:Theloniousatpianoright2.jpeg]] </div><br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:TheloniousMonkHeadshotMCO1.png|link=http://youtu.be/tKsV1b81GPk]] <br/> <br/> | [[file:TheloniousMonkHeadshotMCO1.png|link=http://youtu.be/tKsV1b81GPk]] <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] house pianist at [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minton%27s_Playhouse Minton's Playhouse]<ref><span style="color:blue">In [http://books.google.com/books?id=EEQnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq ''From Jazz Novice to Jazz Connoisseur''] Monk's piano playing style around 1941 as well as some of his influences are stated:</span> <span style="color:green">“Monk's style at this time was later described as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences included Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists.”</span></ref> a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan Manhattan] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub nightclub] in the early to mid 1940s where he participated in after-hours [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_contest cutting contests,] which featured many leading jazz soloists of the time. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] house pianist at [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minton%27s_Playhouse Minton's Playhouse]<ref><span style="color:blue">In [http://books.google.com/books?id=EEQnDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq ''From Jazz Novice to Jazz Connoisseur''] Monk's piano playing style around 1941 as well as some of his influences are stated:</span> <span style="color:green">“Monk's style at this time was later described as "hard-swinging," with the addition of runs in the style of Art Tatum. Monk's stated influences included Duke Ellington, James P. Johnson, and other early stride pianists.”</span></ref> a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan Manhattan] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightclub nightclub] in the early to mid 1940s where he participated in after-hours [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_contest cutting contests,] which featured many leading jazz soloists of the time. <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] mentored by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams Mary Lou Williams.] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] mentored by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams Mary Lou Williams] (1910–1981). [[file:MaryLouWilliamsWithTheloniosMonkGreatDayInHarlem.jpeg|thumb|(Detail of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Kane Art Kane's] (1925 – 1995) photograph for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquire_(magazine) ''Esquire''] magazine from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem_(photograph) "A Great Day in Harlem"] (1958))|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Great_Day_in_Harlem_(photograph)|alt=A detail of the photograph taken by Art Kane in 1958 for ''Esquire'' magazine of Mary Lou Williams on left standing with Thelonious Monk on right.]] <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] made his first studio recordings with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Coleman Hawkins] Quartet (1944) because Hawkins was one of the earliest established jazz musicians to promote Monk, and the pianist later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_Music "Monk's Music"] (1957) with [ | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] made his first studio recordings with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Coleman Hawkins] (1904–1969) Quartet (1944) because Hawkins was one of the earliest established jazz musicians to promote Monk, and the pianist later returned the favor by inviting Hawkins to join him on the album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%27s_Music "Monk's Music"] (1957) with [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane John] [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#John_Coltrane Coltrane] (1926–1967). <br/> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:TheloniousMonkLookingUpAtPianoXmasColorized1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/66048309@N00/420215032/in/photolist-D8HhL-4cyUru-4cyxv3-pLPyJf-2PJMNg-5nvxDB-arPxKh-m6GmzH-bXhXao-9sBUUi-nuvDg4-fWkYxb-5nvy2K-2cnbULp-2cnbUmr-bpU6Pb-9rRs2T-9oseH2-CDeQGG-cpnEnw-7UFz4v-7SK2Qj-2bUVFN-5T73HF-6A4KFG-7mbyC-bE6HXq-7TUC3p-oXUAKe-8RMecE-5xmyf5-nFHrX1-8MZinF-VvVNVe-7zr4eM-2Uvvry-2bUVXQ-23fq2pT-2cnbUbB-23Xcfdw-22yhQbC-8rcJCT-f2ueG3-XB5LEP-adq7CA-5QKuKE-8MQmTo-adq7w1-3UYXRQ-bT1uzT]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:TheloniousMonkLookingUpAtPianoXmasColorized1.jpeg|link=http://www.flickr.com/photos/66048309@N00/420215032/in/photolist-D8HhL-4cyUru-4cyxv3-pLPyJf-2PJMNg-5nvxDB-arPxKh-m6GmzH-bXhXao-9sBUUi-nuvDg4-fWkYxb-5nvy2K-2cnbULp-2cnbUmr-bpU6Pb-9rRs2T-9oseH2-CDeQGG-cpnEnw-7UFz4v-7SK2Qj-2bUVFN-5T73HF-6A4KFG-7mbyC-bE6HXq-7TUC3p-oXUAKe-8RMecE-5xmyf5-nFHrX1-8MZinF-VvVNVe-7zr4eM-2Uvvry-2bUVXQ-23fq2pT-2cnbUbB-23Xcfdw-22yhQbC-8rcJCT-f2ueG3-XB5LEP-adq7CA-5QKuKE-8MQmTo-adq7w1-3UYXRQ-bT1uzT]]</div> <br/> | ||
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick purple">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">composed numerous jazz standards including [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Round_Midnight_(song) "'Round Midnight",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monk "Blue Monk",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight,_No_Chaser_(composition) "Straight, No Chaser",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby,_My_Dear "Ruby, My Dear",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Walked_Bud "In Walked Bud",] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well,_You_Needn%27t "Well, You Needn't"] chosen from only | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick purple">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">composed numerous jazz standards including [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Round_Midnight_(song) "'Round Midnight",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Monk "Blue Monk",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight,_No_Chaser_(composition) "Straight, No Chaser",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby,_My_Dear "Ruby, My Dear",] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Walked_Bud "In Walked Bud",] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well,_You_Needn%27t "Well, You Needn't"] chosen from only [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Thelonious_Monk seventy-three compositions.]</span><ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_compositions_by_Thelonious_Monk ''Wikipedia'': "List of compositions by Thelonious Monk."]</ref> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:TheloniousMonkHeadshotSmilingRCO.png|thumb|center|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/monks-trumpets-thelonious-monk-by-matt-lavelle.php?page=1&width=1024]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:TheloniousMonkHeadshotSmilingRCO.png|thumb|center|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/monks-trumpets-thelonious-monk-by-matt-lavelle.php?page=1&width=1024]]</div> <br/> | ||
[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Read''' about his many recordings at </span>[http://www.jazzwise.com/Features/thelonious-monk-essential-recordings "Thelonious Monk: Essential Recordings."] <br/> | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Read''' about his many recordings at </span>[http://www.jazzwise.com/Features/thelonious-monk-essential-recordings "Thelonious Monk: Essential Recordings."] <br/> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded albums for [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_Records Prestige Records] (1952-54) including collaborations with the saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins Sonny Rollins] and the drummers [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey Art Blakey] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach Max Roach | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded albums for [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_Records Prestige Records] (1952-54) including collaborations with the saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins Sonny Rollins] (1930–202 ) and the drummers [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey Art Blakey] (1919–1990) and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach Max Roach] (1924–2007). <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] participated in a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954 1954] Christmas Eve session, which produced most of the albums [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bags%27_Groove "Bags' Groove"] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_and_the_Modern_Jazz_Giants "Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants"] by Miles Davis. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] participated in a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954 1954] Christmas Eve session, which produced most of the albums [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bags%27_Groove "Bags' Groove"] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_and_the_Modern_Jazz_Giants "Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants"] by Miles Davis. <br/> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] paid his first visit to [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954 1954] where he both performed in concerts and recorded a solo piano session for French radio (later issued as an album by Disques Vogue). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] paid his first visit to [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris Paris] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954 1954] where he both performed in concerts and recorded a solo piano session for French radio (later issued as an album by Disques Vogue). <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1993). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAwardGrayBackground1.png]] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1993). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAwardGrayBackground1.png]] <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192021_img_1.html U. S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:MonkStamp1.png]] (1995). <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192021_img_1.html U. S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:MonkStamp1.png|link=http://postalmuseum.si.edu/exhibition/the-black-experience-music-jazz-jazz-band-leaders-and-performers/thelonious-monk |alt=A color image of a U.S. stamp worth 32 cents with the left profile of Thelonious Monk's torso and his head wearing a beanie hat with him wearing a bright green jacket and a blue and purple piano keyboard behind his head in the background.]] (1995). <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] posthumous jazz composer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Music Pulitzer prize] Special Citation (2006) for <span style="color:green">“a body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz.”</span> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] posthumous jazz composer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Music Pulitzer prize] Special Citation (2006) for <span style="color:green">“a body of distinguished and innovative musical composition that has had a significant and enduring impact on the evolution of jazz.”</span> <br/> <br/> | ||
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− | < | + | <center>[[file:CharlieParkerTheloniousMonkCharlesMingusRoyHaynes1953.jpeg|link=http://www.thekurlandagency.com/2019/03/13/the-new-york-times-postulates-is-this-the-greatest-photo-in-jazz-history-roy-haynes-charles-mingus-charlie-parker-and-thelonious-monk/ |alt=A colorized and enhanced photograph of alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, pianist Thelonious Monk, bassist Charles Mingus, and drummer Roy Haynes jamming at The Open Door in Greenwich Village, September, 1953.]] <br/>(Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk, and Charlie Parker (l. to r.) jam at The Open Door in Greenwich Village, September, 1953) <br/>(Photo by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Parent_(photographer) Bob Parent] (1923–1987) — enhanced and colorized) </center> |
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{| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="float:center; margin-right: 0; margin-left:1em; text-align:left" | {| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="float:center; margin-right: 0; margin-left:1em; text-align:left" | ||
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− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <center>[[file:CompositeCharlieParkerBlueGrayBackground.jpeg]]</center> <br/><br/> |
− | </ | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie "Bird" Parker]<br/>(1920–1955) <br/> <span style="color:red">(active 1937→1955)</span></p></div> |
+ | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerBabyShot1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieParkerBabyShotColorizedC3.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieParkerBabyShotColorizedC1.jpeg]] [[file:EnhancedCharlieParkerBabyShot1.jpeg]]<br/>[[file:CharlieParkerYoungWithCaneColorized.jpeg|link=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Charlie%20Parker.html|alt=An enhanced and colorized photograph of a pre-teen Charlie Parker standing and holding a cane across his knees horizontally.]] [[file:CharlieParkerTeenagerSmilingHeadshotColorized.jpeg|link=http://www.soulwalking.co.uk/Charlie%20Parker.html|alt=An enhanced and colorized photograph of a young teenage Charlie Parker headshot smiling.]]</div> <br/> | ||
+ | <div align="center">[[file:Parkerhorn2.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieParkerShirtSleeves1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieParkerBlowingGottlieb1947a.jpeg]]<br/> | ||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.06851/ First photo in this row] is of a photographic detail taken at the Three Deuces club in New York City, ca. August 1947)<br/>([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.06851/ Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p> </div> | ||
+ | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerSmilingWithSax1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlieParkerHighWaistWhitePants.jpeg]] [[file:Birdblowingright2.jpeg]]<br/>[[file:CharlieParkerCloseupBugEyed1.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Detail of [http://www.loc.gov/resource/gottlieb.06831.0/ portrait of Charlie Parker and Tommy Potter,] Three Deuces Club, New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947)<br/>([http://www.loc.gov/resource/gottlieb.06831.0/ Photo] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p></div> <br/> | ||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p> | ||
: [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_saxophone alto saxophone] [[file:AltoSaxophone2.png]] <br/><br/> | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_saxophone alto saxophone] [[file:AltoSaxophone2.png]] <br/><br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles:'''</span></p> | ||
: [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer composer] <br/> [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band big band lead player] <br/> | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer composer] <br/> [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band big band lead player] <br/> | ||
: [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] <br/><br/> | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] <br/><br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Style/Genre:'''</span></p> | ||
: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Big bands] <br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_band Big bands] <br/> | ||
: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> | ||
: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] <br/><br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_band#Combos combos] <br/><br/> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file: | + | <div align="center">[[file:EnhancedCharlieParkerSmilingPhotoBooth1PointingFinger.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/|alt=An enhanced photographic cutout of slyly smiling Charlie Parker barely turning his head to the left while he points his right index finger slightly toward his left as if pointing at something.]]</div> <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] was taught improvisation and mentored by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Smith Buster Smith] (1904–1991) who inspired the use of double and triple time instilling in Parker a penchant for a fast, free style. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] was taught improvisation and mentored by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster_Smith Buster Smith] (1904–1991) who inspired the use of double and triple time instilling in Parker a penchant for a fast, free style. <br/> <br/> | ||
<div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerBlowingRightEyesClosedLeaningBack.jpeg|link=http://www.selmer.fr/en/beyond-the-sound/category/outings-and-events/charlie-parkers-100th-birthday]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerBlowingRightEyesClosedLeaningBack.jpeg|link=http://www.selmer.fr/en/beyond-the-sound/category/outings-and-events/charlie-parkers-100th-birthday]]</div> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.jazzadvice.com/basic-bebop-reharmonization/ helped to develop Bebop.] [[file: | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.jazzadvice.com/basic-bebop-reharmonization/ helped to develop Bebop.] [[file:EnhancedCharlieParkerOnTrainToParisWithBechetInBackgroundR.jpeg|link=http://nato-glob.blogspot.com/2012/07/blog-post.html|alt=A sober Charlie Parker with a modest expression on his face wearing an attractive pin-striped suit and without his saxophone.]] <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:CharlieParkerSmirking1.gif|link=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlie-Parker]] <br/> <br/> <br/> | + | <center>[[file:CharlieParkerSmirking1.gif|link=http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlie-Parker]] [[file:ColorizedCharlieParkerHeadshotFiestaAlbumCoverCO.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/master/767992-Charlie-Parker-And-His-Orchestra-Fiesta/image/SW1hZ2U6MzY2MjQwMzg= |alt=A colorized photographic cutout of the head of Charlie Parker facing to his left and with broad smile with eyes mostly closed.]]<br/> </center><br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] enlarged harmonic pallet.<ref><span style="color:blue">As said at </span>[http://fermentationwineblog.com/2011/12/charlie-parker-and-the-notion-of-wine-as-art/ Mark Warner's FERMENTATION: The Daily Wine Blog:] <span style="color:green">“(Parker) gave to the emerging Be-Bop artists a new harmonic paradigm that filled in the sound that progressive jazz artists were exploring as they moved away from the swing genre. Parker's great innovation was his discovery, out of his own imagination, of how to play any note and resolve it in the chord so that it would sound harmonically right.”</span></ref> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] enlarged harmonic pallet.<ref><span style="color:blue">As said at </span>[http://fermentationwineblog.com/2011/12/charlie-parker-and-the-notion-of-wine-as-art/ Mark Warner's FERMENTATION: The Daily Wine Blog:] <span style="color:green">“(Parker) gave to the emerging Be-Bop artists a new harmonic paradigm that filled in the sound that progressive jazz artists were exploring as they moved away from the swing genre. Parker's great innovation was his discovery, out of his own imagination, of how to play any note and resolve it in the chord so that it would sound harmonically right.”</span></ref> | ||
− | [[file: | + | [[file:CharlieParkerWideStripedSuitArtDecoTieWispyMustacheNEWColorizedFramedCO.jpeg|link=http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3162357017?playlistId=nm1191664&ref_=nm_ov_vi|alt=A cutout detail from a colorized black and white photograph where Charlie Parker faces the camera having a wispy mustache wearing a classy suit with wide stripes and an art deco patterned tie.]] [[file:CharlieParkerWideStripedSuitArtDecoTieWispyMustacheSLOWColorizedFramedCO.gif|link=http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3162357017?playlistId=nm1191664&ref_=nm_ov_vi|alt=A cutout detail from a colorized black and white photograph where Charlie Parker faces the camera having a wispy mustache wearing a classy suit with wide stripes and an art deco patterned tie.]] |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded his first solos as a member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_McShann Jay McShann’s] band ( | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded his first solos as a member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_McShann Jay McShann’s] band (1937–1942), with whom he toured the eastern United States in 1940–1942. </span> [[file:CharlieParkerStripedJacketRCO.png|link=http://swingandbeyond.com/2017/08/26/baby-bird-swingmatism-1941-charlie-parker-with-jay-mcshann/]] <br/> |
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<blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“Bird was the real goods, a genius who took the material at hand and transformed it into a personal vision. His place in jazz is roughly similar to Picasso's in art in that he established a school of seemingly infinite variations and a colossal indifference to the dichotomy between what is considered "pretty" and "ugly."</span><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Interviews-Encounters-Davis-Musicians/dp/1556527063/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1535996483&sr=8-1-fkmr0 "Miles Davis: Winner Take All,"] <span style="color:blue">Lionel Olay, originally published in ''Cavalier'', Vol. 21, August, 1954, reproduced in </span> [http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Interviews-Encounters-Davis-Musicians/dp/1556527063/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1535996483&sr=8-1-fkmr0 ''Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis'',] <span style="color:blue">edited by Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr, Chicago: Illinois, Lawrence Hill Books, 2009, 24. ISBN: 978-1-55652-706-7. </span></ref> <br/> | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“Bird was the real goods, a genius who took the material at hand and transformed it into a personal vision. His place in jazz is roughly similar to Picasso's in art in that he established a school of seemingly infinite variations and a colossal indifference to the dichotomy between what is considered "pretty" and "ugly."</span><ref>[http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Interviews-Encounters-Davis-Musicians/dp/1556527063/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1535996483&sr=8-1-fkmr0 "Miles Davis: Winner Take All,"] <span style="color:blue">Lionel Olay, originally published in ''Cavalier'', Vol. 21, August, 1954, reproduced in </span> [http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Interviews-Encounters-Davis-Musicians/dp/1556527063/ref=olp_product_details?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1535996483&sr=8-1-fkmr0 ''Miles on Miles: Interviews and Encounters with Miles Davis'',] <span style="color:blue">edited by Paul Maher Jr. and Michael K. Dorr, Chicago: Illinois, Lawrence Hill Books, 2009, 24. ISBN: 978-1-55652-706-7. </span></ref> <br/> | ||
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− | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerFacingRightSmirking.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CP_Gallery001_280x560_JUN19.jpg]]</div> <br/> <br/> | + | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerFacingRightSmirking.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CP_Gallery001_280x560_JUN19.jpg|alt=A black and white photograph of Charlie Parker facing right and smirking.]] [[file:CharlieParkerFacingRightSmirkingColorized.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CP_Gallery001_280x560_JUN19.jpg|alt=A colorized black and white photograph of Charlie Parker Facing Right and smirking.]]</div> <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192018_img_1.html U. S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:ParkerStamp1.png]] (1995). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://arago.si.edu/record_192018_img_1.html U. S. Commemorative stamp] [[file:ParkerStamp1.png]] (1995). <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame '' | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] <span style="color:black">Reader's Poll (1955)</span> |
− | <div align="center">[[file: | + | <div align="center">[[file:EnhancedCharlieParkerOldAndHeavy.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/|alt=An enhanced photograph of Charlie Parker looking old and heavy with a belt around his stomach.]]</div><br/>[[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> <br/> |
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+ | <center>[[file:NewspaperCharlieParkerDeathAtBarronessApartment.jpeg|link=http://wusfjazz.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/6-ny-daily-mirror-copy_small-c63e93acf80baa0fb6ab7bee989a66fb91f9da71-s1200.jpg|alt=A closeup of a black and white newspaper article announcing Charlie Parker's death in Baroness Nica de Rothschild Koeunigswarter's New York City apartment at the Stanhope hotel written by reporters Richard Kenney and Dan Mahoney titled "Bop King Dies in Heiresses Apartment."]] <br/>[[file:EnhancedColorizedNewspaperCharlieParkerDeathAtBarronessApartment.jpeg|link=http://wusfjazz.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/6-ny-daily-mirror-copy_small-c63e93acf80baa0fb6ab7bee989a66fb91f9da71-s1200.jpg|alt=A closeup of a black and white newspaper article announcing Charlie Parker's death in Baroness Nica de Rothschild Koeunigswarter's New York City apartment at the Stanhope hotel written by reporters Richard Kenney and Dan Mahoney titled "Bop King Dies in Heiresses Apartment."]]</center> <br/><br/> | ||
<div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerStars.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/about/]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerStars.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/about/]]</div> <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1984). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png]] | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1984). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png]] | ||
<div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerPlayingSaxInColorR.jpeg|link=http://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/j5d6jl/colorized_photograph_of_charlie_parker/|alt=A colorized photograph of Charlie Parker standing upright playing his saxophone.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerPlayingSaxInColorR.jpeg|link=http://www.reddit.com/r/Jazz/comments/j5d6jl/colorized_photograph_of_charlie_parker/|alt=A colorized photograph of Charlie Parker standing upright playing his saxophone.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2019/05/charlie-parker-1949-downbeat-interview.html Charlie Parker interview in '' | + | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://jazzprofiles.blogspot.com/2019/05/charlie-parker-1949-downbeat-interview.html Charlie Parker interview in ''DownBeat'' magazine September 9, 1949.] <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerDarkStripedSuitMilesHidden.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CP_Gallery005_560x560_JUN19.jpg]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerDarkStripedSuitMilesHidden.jpeg|link=http://charlieparkermusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/CP_Gallery005_560x560_JUN19.jpg]]</div> <br/> | ||
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− | + | | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Mingus Charles Mingus]<br/>(1922–1979) <br/><span style="color:red">(active 1943→1979)</span></p> <br/><br/>[[file:CharlesMingusBlackHat1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlesMingusCloseupColor1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlesMingusCloseupBassStrings1.jpeg]] [[file:CharlesMingusFromBelowPlayingBassWB2.jpeg]] [[file:CharlesMingusLookingDown1.jpeg]]</div> | |
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− | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instruments'''</span></p> | |
− | + | [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass double bass] [[file:DoubleBass1.png]] <br/>[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano piano] <br/>[[file:Piano1.png]]<br/><br/>[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cello cello] [[file:CelloTransparent1.png]] | |
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− | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles'''</span></p> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandleader bandleader] <br/> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soloist soloist] <br/> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_improvisation masterful improviser] <br/> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer composer] <br/> | |
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− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz Jazz] <br/> | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Style/Genres:'''</span></p> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz Jazz] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_bop Hard Bop] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-bop Post Bop] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_bop Hard Bop] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_stream Third Stream] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-bop Post Bop] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_jazz Orchestral jazz] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_stream Third Stream] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde Avante-garde jazz] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestral_jazz Orchestral jazz] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz Free jazz | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde Avante-garde jazz] <br/> |
− | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz Free jazz] | |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] | + | |
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+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] considered a bass prodigy.<ref><span style="color:blue">See [http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Charles_Mingus#Bass_Prodigy "Mingus: Bass Prodigy."]</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | ||
<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“drew inspiration from [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington Duke Ellington,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie Parker,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_music African-American gospel,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico Mexican][http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music folk music,] as well as traditional jazz and 20th-century concert music. Though most of his best work represents close collaborations with improvising musicians such as trumpeter [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Jones Thad Jones,] drummer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannie_Richmond Dannie Richmond,] alto saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_McLean Jackie McLean,] and woodwind-player [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Dolphy Eric Dolphy,] he also wrote for larger instrumentations and composed several film scores.”</span><ref>[http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Mingus "Charles Mingus: American musician,"] [http://www.britannica.com/ ''Encyclopedia Brittanica'',] <span style="color:blue">3rd paragraph. </span></ref> <br/> | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“drew inspiration from [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington Duke Ellington,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie Parker,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_music African-American gospel,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico Mexican][http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music folk music,] as well as traditional jazz and 20th-century concert music. Though most of his best work represents close collaborations with improvising musicians such as trumpeter [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Jones Thad Jones,] drummer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dannie_Richmond Dannie Richmond,] alto saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_McLean Jackie McLean,] and woodwind-player [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Dolphy Eric Dolphy,] he also wrote for larger instrumentations and composed several film scores.”</span><ref>[http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Mingus "Charles Mingus: American musician,"] [http://www.britannica.com/ ''Encyclopedia Brittanica'',] <span style="color:blue">3rd paragraph. </span></ref> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed another sextet with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McPherson_(musician) Charles McPherson,] trumpeter [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Preston Eddie Preston] and saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(saxophonist) Bobby Jones] (early 1970s). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed another sextet with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_McPherson_(musician) Charles McPherson,] trumpeter [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Preston Eddie Preston] and saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(saxophonist) Bobby Jones] (early 1970s). <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame '' | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] <span style="color:black">Reader's Poll (1971). </span> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> |
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+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''See''' and '''hear''' Mingus announcing this song title: [http://gfycat.com/ifr/FatherlySatisfiedEasternglasslizard "Cell Block F Tis' Nazi USA 🇺🇸"]. <br/> | ||
+ | : Be sure to click off the mute button here [[file:UnclickSoundBar.jpeg]] so you can hear Mingus announcing. | ||
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− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Blakey Art Blakey] (1919–1990)<br/><span style="color:red">(active [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1942_in_the_United_States <span style="color:red">1942</span>]→[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_in_the_United_States <span style="color:red">1990)</span>] </span></p> </div> |
<div align="center">[[file:ArtBlakeyPlayingdrumsalone1.jpeg|link=http://artblakey.com/]] <br/>[[file:ArtBlakeyMiddleDrumKit1.jpeg]][[file:ArtBlakeyHeadshot1.jpeg]][[file:ArtBlakeyplayinghard1.jpeg]][[file:ArtBlakeyHeadBack1.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 12pt">(Top photo in cross by J. F. Hayeur)</p> </div> | <div align="center">[[file:ArtBlakeyPlayingdrumsalone1.jpeg|link=http://artblakey.com/]] <br/>[[file:ArtBlakeyMiddleDrumKit1.jpeg]][[file:ArtBlakeyHeadshot1.jpeg]][[file:ArtBlakeyplayinghard1.jpeg]][[file:ArtBlakeyHeadBack1.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 12pt">(Top photo in cross by J. F. Hayeur)</p> </div> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] joined alto saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie Parker,] jazz vocalist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan Sarah Vaughan,] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Eckstine Billy Eckstine's] embryonic bebop band ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_in_the_United_States 1944]–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_in_the_United_States 1947]). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] joined alto saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie Parker,] jazz vocalist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Vaughan Sarah Vaughan,] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Eckstine Billy Eckstine's] embryonic bebop band ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1944_in_the_United_States 1944]–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1947_in_the_United_States 1947]). <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://artblakey.com/awards/ '' | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://artblakey.com/awards/ ''DownBeat'' New Star Award] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_in_the_United_States 1953]). <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] began working New York clubs and contributing to recording sessions by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] on Prestige Records [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quartet_(album) "Miles Davis Quartet"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_in_the_United_States 1954]) and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk_Trio "Thelonious Monk Trio/Monk's Moods"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_in_the_United_States 1954]).<br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] began working New York clubs and contributing to recording sessions by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] on Prestige Records [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quartet_(album) "Miles Davis Quartet"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_in_the_United_States 1954]) and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk Thelonious Monk] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelonious_Monk_Trio "Thelonious Monk Trio/Monk's Moods"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_in_the_United_States 1954]).<br/> <br/> | ||
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− | | <br/><div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | | <br/><div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach Max Roach] (1924–2007) </p> <br/><br/>[[file:MaxRoachhead2.jpeg]]<br/>[[file:MaxRoachLookingUpGottlieb1.png]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 8pt">(Portrait of Max Roach by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb]) <br/>([http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd_Street_(Manhattan) Three Deuces Club,] New York, N.Y., ca. Oct. 1947)</p>[[file:MaxRoachInDashiki1BW.jpeg|link=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00064246.1972.11431240]][[file:MaxRoachWikipediaM1.jpeg|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach|thumb|(Max Roach in 2000)]]<br/> |
+ | [[file:MaxRoachheadrightBW2.jpeg|link=http://www.npr.org/2008/02/22/19269815/drumming-legend-max-roach-on-piano-jazz|alt=A black and white photograph of a headshot of Max Roach in middle age.]] | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] began studying piano at a neighbourhood Baptist church when he was eight and took up the drums at ten years old<ref name=SocialistReview><span style="color:blue">[http://socialistreview.org.uk/317/max-roach-speak-brother-speak "Max Roach: Speak Brother Speak,"] Martin Smith, ''Socialist Review'', September 2007, p. 317.</span> [[file:SocialistReviewLogo1.png|link=http://socialistreview.org.uk/317/max-roach-speak-brother-speak]]</ref><ref name=MacArthurFoundation>[http://www.macfound.org/fellows/342/ MacArthur Foundation profile].</ref> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] began studying piano at a neighbourhood Baptist church when he was eight and took up the drums at ten years old.<ref name=SocialistReview><span style="color:blue">[http://socialistreview.org.uk/317/max-roach-speak-brother-speak "Max Roach: Speak Brother Speak,"] Martin Smith, ''Socialist Review'', September 2007, p. 317.</span> [[file:SocialistReviewLogo1.png|link=http://socialistreview.org.uk/317/max-roach-speak-brother-speak]]</ref><ref name=MacArthurFoundation>[http://www.macfound.org/fellows/342/ MacArthur Foundation profile].</ref> <br/> |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">at age 18 filled in for drummer (pictured) [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Greer Sonny Greer] [[file:SonnyGreerFullDrumKit1.jpeg]], no slouch in the drum department having played with the [http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington_Orchestra Duke Ellington Orchestra] for 18 years at this point (total of 27 years), at the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Theatre_(New_York_City) Paramount Theater] in New York City (1942) </span> <br/> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">at age 18 filled in for drummer (pictured) [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Greer Sonny Greer] [[file:SonnyGreerFullDrumKit1.jpeg]], no slouch in the drum department having played with the [http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington_Orchestra Duke Ellington Orchestra] for 18 years at this point (total of 27 years), at the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount_Theatre_(New_York_City) Paramount Theater] in New York City (1942). </span> <br/> <br/> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] pioneered Bebop <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] pioneered Bebop. <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] followed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Clarke Kenny Clarke] in developing new musical timekeeping that established a fixed pulse on the "ride" cymbal instead of the bass drum<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] followed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_Clarke Kenny Clarke] in developing new musical timekeeping that established a fixed pulse on the "ride" cymbal instead of the bass drum.<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie Parker's] historic bebop quintet (1947-1949) <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie Parker's] historic bebop quintet (1947-1949). <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] led a quintet with American trumpeter Clifford Brown (1954-1956), which came to exemplify the aggressive style of jazz known as hard bop<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] led a quintet with American trumpeter Clifford Brown (1954-1956), which came to exemplify the aggressive style of jazz known as hard bop.<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27Boom M' Boom,] a ten-member ensemble representing diverse percussion traditions from around the world (1970)<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27Boom M' Boom,] a ten-member ensemble representing diverse percussion traditions from around the world (1970).<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Roach toured widely as a lecturer on African-American music in the United States and in Europe, appearing in concert halls, on college campuses, and at major jazz festivals<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Roach toured widely as a lecturer on African-American music in the United States and in Europe, appearing in concert halls, on college campuses, and at major jazz festivals.<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed works for soloists, chorus, orchestra, theater, dance, television, and film<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] composed works for soloists, chorus, orchestra, theater, dance, television, and film.<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:MaxRoachAlbumCovers1.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/artist/229498-Max-Roach|alt=A collage of Max Roach's album covers.]]</div> | <div align="center">[[file:MaxRoachAlbumCovers1.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/artist/229498-Max-Roach|alt=A collage of Max Roach's album covers.]]</div> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] attended the Manhattan School of Music<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] attended the Manhattan School of Music.<ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“I have been blessed to have shared my music with the finest musicians in the business. I began early enough to play with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Coleman Hawkins] and then [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong Louis Armstrong,] then through [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington Duke Ellington], [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Bird (Charlie Parker)] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie Dizzy (Gillespie)]”</span><ref name=SocialistReview/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“I have been blessed to have shared my music with the finest musicians in the business. I began early enough to play with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins Coleman Hawkins] and then [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong Louis Armstrong,] then through [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington Duke Ellington], [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Bird (Charlie Parker)] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie Dizzy (Gillespie)].”</span><ref name=SocialistReview/> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">played in the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool "Birth of the Cool"] band with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(pianist) John Lewis,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Konitz Lee Konitz] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Mulligan Gerry Mulligan.] Mulligan tells the Library of Congress that </span><span style="color:green">“Another thing that made it worthwhile was Max Roach on the first date. The first set of dates was really wonderful. He was far and away the best drummer for the thing because he could approach the things as a composer and he took the kind of care with playing with the ensemble that showed his compositional awareness.”</span><ref>[http://www.loc.gov/collections/gerry-mulligan/articles-and-essays/jeru-in-the-words-of-gerry-mulligan/miles-davis/ Jeru: In the Words of Gerry Mulligan,] <span style="color:blue">"Miles Davis," third paragraph, from "The Gerry Mulligan Collection."</span></ref> <span style="color:black">and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool ''Wikipedia'': "Birth of the Cool" (8th paragraph)] reports that </span><span style="color:green">“Drummer Max Roach had been a member of Parker's quintet with Davis and was a natural choice for the group due to his enthusiastic engagement in the ideals of the nonet.”</span> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">played in the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool "Birth of the Cool"] band with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(pianist) John Lewis,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Konitz Lee Konitz] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Mulligan Gerry Mulligan.] Mulligan tells the Library of Congress that </span><span style="color:green">“Another thing that made it worthwhile was Max Roach on the first date. The first set of dates was really wonderful. He was far and away the best drummer for the thing because he could approach the things as a composer and he took the kind of care with playing with the ensemble that showed his compositional awareness.”</span><ref>[http://www.loc.gov/collections/gerry-mulligan/articles-and-essays/jeru-in-the-words-of-gerry-mulligan/miles-davis/ Jeru: In the Words of Gerry Mulligan,] <span style="color:blue">"Miles Davis," third paragraph, from "The Gerry Mulligan Collection."</span></ref> <span style="color:black">and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool ''Wikipedia'': "Birth of the Cool" (8th paragraph)] reports that </span><span style="color:green">“Drummer Max Roach had been a member of Parker's quintet with Davis and was a natural choice for the group due to his enthusiastic engagement in the ideals of the nonet.”</span> <br/> | ||
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">The [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html New York Times] reports that</span> <span style="color:green">“Over the years he challenged both his audiences and himself by working not just with standard jazz instrumentation, and not just in traditional jazz venues, but in a wide variety of contexts, some of them well beyond the confines of jazz as that word is generally | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">The [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html New York Times] reports that</span> <span style="color:green">“Over the years he challenged both his audiences and himself by working not just with standard jazz instrumentation, and not just in traditional jazz venues, but in a wide variety of contexts, some of them well beyond the confines of jazz as that word is generally understood.”</span><ref name=NYTimesObitRoach>[http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html "Max Roach, a Founder of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83"] <span style="color:blue">Peter Keepnews, ''New York Times'', August 16, 2007.</span></ref> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] led a “double quartet” consisting of his working group of trumpet, saxophone, bass and drums plus a string quartet<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] led a “double quartet” consisting of his working group of trumpet, saxophone, bass and drums plus a string quartet.<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] duetted with uncompromising avant-gardists like the pianist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Taylor Cecil Taylor] and the saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Braxton Anthony Braxton]<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] duetted with uncompromising avant-gardists like the pianist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Taylor Cecil Taylor] and the saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Braxton Anthony Braxton.]<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] performed unaccompanied<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] performed unaccompanied.<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] wrote music for plays by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard Sam Shepard] and dance pieces by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey Alvin Ailey]<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] wrote music for plays by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Shepard Sam Shepard] and dance pieces by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey Alvin Ailey.]<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] collaborated with video artists, gospel choirs and hip-hop performers<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] collaborated with video artists, gospel choirs and hip-hop performers.<ref name=NYTimesObitRoach/> <br/> <br/> |
<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">donated over 100,000 items to the [http://www.loc.gov/item/2014572475/ Max Roach papers] at the U.S. Library of Congress (2014), Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said.</span> <span style="color:green">“(Max Roach's) collection will have high research value not just for musicians and jazz scholars, but for anyone exploring the rise of political consciousness among African-Americans in the post-World War II period. His collection will now be preserved in the nation’s library so that his legacy and works might inspire generations to come.”</span><ref>[http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2014/01/all-that-jazz/ "All That Jazz,"] [http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/author/eral/ Erin Allen,] <span style="color:blue">4th paragraph, January 31, 2014.</span></ref> | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">donated over 100,000 items to the [http://www.loc.gov/item/2014572475/ Max Roach papers] at the U.S. Library of Congress (2014), Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said.</span> <span style="color:green">“(Max Roach's) collection will have high research value not just for musicians and jazz scholars, but for anyone exploring the rise of political consciousness among African-Americans in the post-World War II period. His collection will now be preserved in the nation’s library so that his legacy and works might inspire generations to come.”</span><ref>[http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2014/01/all-that-jazz/ "All That Jazz,"] [http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/author/eral/ Erin Allen,] <span style="color:blue">4th paragraph, January 31, 2014.</span></ref> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement Civil Rights movement] composer of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Insist! "We Insist!"]. <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] sought new forms of musical expression<ref><span style="color:green">“Roach led his own groups, notably a pioneering quintet co-led with trumpeter Clifford Brown as well as his percussion ensemble [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27Boom M'Boom.]”</span> <br/> [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach ''Wikipedia'': Max Roach,] <span style="color:blue">second paragraph.</span></ref> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] sought new forms of musical expression.<ref><span style="color:green">“Roach led his own groups, notably a pioneering quintet co-led with trumpeter Clifford Brown as well as his percussion ensemble [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%27Boom M'Boom.]”</span> <br/> [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Roach ''Wikipedia'': Max Roach,] <span style="color:blue">second paragraph.</span></ref> <br/> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame '' | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] Critic's Poll (1980). <br/> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] one of the first jazz musicians to teach full time at the college level when he was hired as a professor in 1972 in the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from which he retired in 1994<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/jazz-luminaries-honor-life-drummer-max-roach-umass-amherst-march-25 "Jazz Luminaries to Honor Life of Drummer Max Roach at UMass Amherst March 25,"] <span style="color:blue">UMass Amherst News & Media Relations webpage, March 19, 2008.</span></ref><ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] one of the first jazz musicians to teach full time at the college level when he was hired as a professor in 1972 in the Department of Music and Dance at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, from which he retired in 1994.<ref>[http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/jazz-luminaries-honor-life-drummer-max-roach-umass-amherst-march-25 "Jazz Luminaries to Honor Life of Drummer Max Roach at UMass Amherst March 25,"] <span style="color:blue">UMass Amherst News & Media Relations webpage, March 19, 2008.</span></ref><ref name=MacArthurFoundation/> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] the first jazz musician to receive a so-called [http://www.macfound.org/fellows/342/ genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation] (1988) <br/> <br/> | + | |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (2008) [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png]] <br/> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black"> |
− | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12868067 NPR Obituary: "Jazz World Mourns Loss of Max Roach," August 12, 2016] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_McPartland Marian McPartland] <span style="color:black">(1918–2013) interviews him for NPR's [http://www.npr.org/2008/02/22/19269815/drumming-legend-max-roach-on-piano-jazz "Max Roach on Piano Jazz"] on April 21, 1998. The interview originally airs on September 29, 1998. </span>[[file:NPRPianoJazzLogo.jpeg|link=http://www.npr.org/2008/02/22/19269815/drumming-legend-max-roach-on-piano-jazz |alt=The logo for National Public Radio's (NPR) "Piano Jazz" with Marian McPartland in 1998.]] |
− | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''See''' [http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-popular-and-jazz-biographies/max-roach ''Encyclopedia.com's'' Max Roach] <br/> <br/> | + | |
− | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html ''New York Times'' Obituary for Max Roach,] <span style="color:black">"Max Roach, a Founder of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83" by Peter Keepnews, August 16, 2007 </span> | + | <span style="color:blue">Here's how [http://www.npr.org/2008/02/22/19269815/drumming-legend-max-roach-on-piano-jazz NPR describes the broadcast:] </span> |
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+ | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“Being a legendary drummer was only part of Max Roach's musical personality; he was also an accomplished composer and storyteller. On this 1998 episode of Piano Jazz, Roach (1924–2007) relates a few of his many musical memories from performing with greats like Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie. </span> | ||
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+ | <span style="color:green">Roach also treats listeners to a selection of his own compositions. And he, host Marian McPartland and bassist Ray Drummond collaborate on "I'll Remember Clifford" and "Joy Spring." The set list includes: </span><br/> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"Drum Also Waltzes" (Roach) </span> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"Now's The Time" (Parker) </span> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"Billy The Kid" (Roach) </span> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"I Remember Clifford" (Golson) </span> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"The Smoke That Thunders" (Roach) </span> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"Joy Spring" (Hendricks, Brown) </span> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"Giant Steps" (Coltrane) </span> | ||
+ | : <span style="color:green">"All The Things You Are" (Hammerstein)”</span><ref>[http://www.npr.org/2008/02/22/19269815/drumming-legend-max-roach-on-piano-jazz NPR'S "Max Roach on Piano Jazz."]</ref> | ||
+ | </blockquote> | ||
+ | </blockquote> | ||
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+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] the first jazz musician to receive a so-called [http://www.macfound.org/fellows/342/ genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation] (1988). <br/> <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (2008). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png]] <br/> <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12868067 NPR Obituary: "Jazz World Mourns Loss of Max Roach," August 12, 2016.] <br/> <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''See''' [http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/music-popular-and-jazz-biographies/max-roach ''Encyclopedia.com's'' Max Roach.] <br/> <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/arts/music/16cnd-roach.html ''New York Times'' Obituary for Max Roach,] <span style="color:black">"Max Roach, a Founder of Modern Jazz, Dies at 83" by Peter Keepnews, August 16, 2007. </span> | ||
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− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center">[[file:CompositJohnColtraneHotPinkBackgroundTealMusic.jpeg|link=http://pictures.4ever.eu/search?kw=john+coltrane|alt=A composite of six photograph cutouts of John Coltrane playing his saxophone with four pictures on top and two on bottom on either side with musical notes on a score sheet in teal color floating between them on a hot pink solid background.]]</div> |
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+ | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane John Coltrane] (1926–1967)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1946→1967) </span></p></div> <br/> | ||
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: [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz Free jazz] | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz Free jazz] | ||
: [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde_music Avant-garde] [http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/avant-garde-jazz-ma0000002438 jazz] <br/><br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde_music Avant-garde] [http://www.allmusic.com/subgenre/avant-garde-jazz-ma0000002438 jazz] <br/><br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] first professional gigs were in a cocktail lounge trio in early to mid–1945.<ref><span style="color:blue">Lewis Porter, Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmale, ''The John Coltrane Reference'', February 16, 2013.</span><br/><span style="color:green">Personnel: John Coltrane, alto saxophone, possibly clarinet; unknown piano, guitar. Ca. early to mid-1945 (dates unknown). Unknown venues, Philadelphia, PA. François Postif (1962, p. 13): "My first real 'job,' I took down in Philadelphia in 1945 where I played with a pianist and a guitarist. A sort of cocktail music, but it offered me a living!"</span><br/><span style="color:green">From John Coltrane's completed questionnaire (undated, ca. 1956) for Leonard Feather's ''Encyclopedia of Jazz'' (reprinted in Thomas, 1975, photo section following p. 88; and Woideck, 1998, p. 84): HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE MUSIC BUSINESS? "In Philadelphia with a cocktail trio. This job was in 1945. I also joined the musician's union at that same time."</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] first professional gigs were in a cocktail lounge trio in early to mid–1945.<ref><span style="color:blue">Lewis Porter, Chris DeVito, David Wild, Yasuhiro Fujioka, Wolf Schmale, ''The John Coltrane Reference'', February 16, 2013.</span><br/><span style="color:green">Personnel: John Coltrane, alto saxophone, possibly clarinet; unknown piano, guitar. Ca. early to mid-1945 (dates unknown). Unknown venues, Philadelphia, PA. François Postif (1962, p. 13): "My first real 'job,' I took down in Philadelphia in 1945 where I played with a pianist and a guitarist. A sort of cocktail music, but it offered me a living!"</span><br/><span style="color:green">From John Coltrane's completed questionnaire (undated, ca. 1956) for Leonard Feather's ''Encyclopedia of Jazz'' (reprinted in Thomas, 1975, photo section following p. 88; and Woideck, 1998, p. 84): HOW DID YOU GET INTO THE MUSIC BUSINESS? "In Philadelphia with a cocktail trio. This job was in 1945. I also joined the musician's union at that same time."</span></ref> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">Enrolled in the </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States.] 🇺🇸 [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy Navy] [[file: | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">Enrolled in the </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States.] 🇺🇸 [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy Navy] [[file:DoubleJohnColtraneNavyC2.jpeg|link=http://youtu.be/ypcCcpob27k|alt=Two identical photographs of a young man John Coltrane in the Navy with the left picture in color and the right one in black and white.]] <span style="color:green">“to avoid being drafted by the Army, on August 6, 1945, the day the first U.S. atomic bomb was dropped on Japan”</span><ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane ''Wikipedia'': John Coltrane] <span style="color:blue">Fourth paragraph, first sentence.</span></ref> and was stationed at [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor Pearl Harbor,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii Hawaii] at the Manana Barracks, the largest posting of African-American servicemen in the world. [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane ''Wikipedia'': John Coltrane] describes Coltrane's situation as it progressed during his Navy career: |
<blockquote><span style="color:green">“By the time he (Coltrane) got to Hawaii, in late 1945, the Navy was already rapidly downsizing. Coltrane's musical talent was quickly recognized, though, and he became one of the few Navy men to serve as a musician without having been granted musician's rating when he joined the Melody Masters, the base swing band. As the [http://www.rafountain.com/navy/melodymasters.html Melody Masters] was an all-white band, however, Coltrane was treated merely as a guest performer to avoid alerting superior officers of his participation in the band. He continued to perform other duties when not playing with the band, including kitchen and security details. By the end of his service, he had assumed a leadership role in the band. His first recordings, an informal session in Hawaii with Navy musicians, occurred on July 13, 1946. Coltrane played alto saxophone on a selection of jazz standards and bebop tunes.” </span> | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“By the time he (Coltrane) got to Hawaii, in late 1945, the Navy was already rapidly downsizing. Coltrane's musical talent was quickly recognized, though, and he became one of the few Navy men to serve as a musician without having been granted musician's rating when he joined the Melody Masters, the base swing band. As the [http://www.rafountain.com/navy/melodymasters.html Melody Masters] was an all-white band, however, Coltrane was treated merely as a guest performer to avoid alerting superior officers of his participation in the band. He continued to perform other duties when not playing with the band, including kitchen and security details. By the end of his service, he had assumed a leadership role in the band. His first recordings, an informal session in Hawaii with Navy musicians, occurred on July 13, 1946. Coltrane played alto saxophone on a selection of jazz standards and bebop tunes.” </span> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] studied jazz theory with guitarist and composer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Sandole Dennis Sandole] and continued under Sandole's tutelage through the early 1950s. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] studied jazz theory with guitarist and composer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Sandole Dennis Sandole] and continued under Sandole's tutelage through the early 1950s. <br/> <br/> | ||
<div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneInCircleNamed.jpeg|link=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/john-coltrane-and-the-end-of-jazz]] </div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneInCircleNamed.jpeg|link=http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/john-coltrane-and-the-end-of-jazz]] </div> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in 1947 Coltrane began playing [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_saxophone tenor saxophone] instead of his original [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_saxophone alto saxophone] with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vinson Eddie Vinson] Band <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in 1947 Coltrane began playing [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_saxophone tenor saxophone] instead of his original [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_saxophone alto saxophone] with the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Vinson Eddie Vinson] Band. <br/> <br/> |
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− | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Listen''' to Coltrane's voice at [http://blankonblank.org/interviews/john-coltrane-rare-interview-jazz-saxophone-spirituality/ Blank on blank - "John Coltrane on "Giant Steps""] interviewed by </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kofsky Frank Kofsky] | + | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Listen''' to Coltrane's voice at [http://blankonblank.org/interviews/john-coltrane-rare-interview-jazz-saxophone-spirituality/ Blank on blank - "John Coltrane on "Giant Steps""] interviewed by </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kofsky Frank Kofsky.] |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] toured with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kolax King Kolax] immediately after getting out of the Navy <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] toured with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Kolax King Kolax] immediately after getting out of the Navy. <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] joined a Philly-based band led by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Heath Jimmy Heath,] who was introduced to Coltrane's playing by his former Navy buddy, the trumpeter William Massey, who had played with Coltrane in the [http://www.rafountain.com/navy/melodymasters.html Melody Masters] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] joined a Philly-based band led by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Heath Jimmy Heath,] who was introduced to Coltrane's playing by his former Navy buddy, the trumpeter William Massey, who had played with Coltrane in the [http://www.rafountain.com/navy/melodymasters.html Melody Masters.] <br/> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneCameoCO1.png]]</div> | <div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneCameoCO1.png]]</div> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane ''Wikipedia'': John Coltrane] <span style="color:black">reports that according to tenor saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odean_Pope Odean Pope,] Coltrane was </span><span style="color:green">“significantly influenced by the obscure Philadelphia pianist, composer, and theorist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasaan_Ibn_Ali Hasaan Ibn Ali] who took the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_ibn_Ali Muslim name] of the grandson of the Islamic [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_in_Islam Prophet Muhammad]. "Hasaan was the clue to . . . the system that Trane uses. Hasaan was the great influence on Trane’s melodic concept”</span> <span style="color:black">apparently possibly influencing Coltrane's well known sheets of sound approach</span> <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane ''Wikipedia'': John Coltrane] <span style="color:black">reports that according to tenor saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odean_Pope Odean Pope,] Coltrane was </span><span style="color:green">“significantly influenced by the obscure Philadelphia pianist, composer, and theorist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasaan_Ibn_Ali Hasaan Ibn Ali] who took the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasan_ibn_Ali Muslim name] of the grandson of the Islamic [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_in_Islam Prophet Muhammad]. "Hasaan was the clue to . . . the system that Trane uses. Hasaan was the great influence on Trane’s melodic concept”</span> <span style="color:black">apparently possibly influencing Coltrane's well known sheets of sound approach</span> <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] saw and heard [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie "Bird" Parker] for the first time on June 5, 1945 with Coltrane playing some with Parker in the late 1940's <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] saw and heard [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker Charlie "Bird" Parker] for the first time on June 5, 1945 with Coltrane playing some with Parker in the late 1940's. <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">member of groups led by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie ( | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">member of groups led by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993),] [[file:DizzyGillespieSmilingLeatherHat.png|link=http://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/dizzy-gillespie/]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Bostic Earl Bostic (1913–1965),] [[file:EarlBosticHeadshotLookingRight.png|link=http://earlbostic.com/]] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Hodges Johnny Hodges (1907–1970),] [[file:JohnnyHodgesSaxophoneInLap.png|link=http://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/elegy-for-johnny-hodges/]] in the early to mid–1950s.</span> |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">in the summer of 1955, Coltrane was freelancing in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia Philadelphia] while studying with guitarist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Sandole Dennis Sandole] when he was recruited by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] that formed Davis's [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quintet "First Great Quintet"] with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland Red Garland] on piano, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chambers Paul Chambers] on bass, and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Joe_Jones Philly Joe Jones] on drums from October 1955 to April 1957 (with a few absences) </span> <br/> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">in the summer of 1955, Coltrane was freelancing in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia Philadelphia] while studying with guitarist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Sandole Dennis Sandole] when he was recruited by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] that formed Davis's [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quintet "First Great Quintet"] with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland Red Garland] on piano, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chambers Paul Chambers] on bass, and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Joe_Jones Philly Joe Jones] on drums from October 1955 to April 1957 (with a few absences). </span> <br/> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] promoted [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality spirituality] in jazz<ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane ''Wikipedia'': John Coltrane] <span style="color:blue">affirms Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual aspect up to his death in 1967 from liver cancer at the age of 40.</span> <span style="color:green">“As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension.”</span> <span style="color:blue">(second paragraph, first sentence) </span> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] promoted [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality spirituality] in jazz.<ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane ''Wikipedia'': John Coltrane] <span style="color:blue">affirms Coltrane's music took on an increasingly spiritual aspect up to his death in 1967 from liver cancer at the age of 40.</span> <span style="color:green">“As his career progressed, Coltrane and his music took on an increasingly spiritual dimension.”</span> <span style="color:blue">(second paragraph, first sentence) </span> <br/> |
<span style="color:blue">Don't just take ''Wikipedia's'' word for it. Consider the liner notes from the collaborative [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Thiele Bob Thiele] produced album, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane_and_Johnny_Hartman "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman,"] and the 'effusive' liner notes by poet and author, </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Spellman A. B. Spellman:] | <span style="color:blue">Don't just take ''Wikipedia's'' word for it. Consider the liner notes from the collaborative [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Thiele Bob Thiele] produced album, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane_and_Johnny_Hartman "John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman,"] and the 'effusive' liner notes by poet and author, </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._B._Spellman A. B. Spellman:] | ||
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− | <span style="color:blue">Coltrane was not the first jazz person to promote spirituality in jazz because Duke Ellington and company had already done so in Ellington's "Black, Brown, and Tan Fantasy." See the article by David Metzer, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/779366?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents "Shadow Play: The Spiritual in Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy,"] ''Black Music Research Journal'', Vol. 17, No. 2 (Autumn, 1997), | + | <span style="color:blue">Coltrane was not the first jazz person to promote spirituality in jazz because Duke Ellington and company had already done so in Ellington's "Black, Brown, and Tan Fantasy." See the article by David Metzer, [http://www.jstor.org/stable/779366?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents "Shadow Play: The Spiritual in Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy,"] ''Black Music Research Journal'', Vol. 17, No. 2 (Autumn, 1997), 137–158. </span> |
− | <span style="color:blue">Additionally, the jazz pianist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams Mary Lou Williams,] a convert to Roman Catholicism in 1956, wrote and performed spiritually oriented music, including especially Mary Lou's Mass. Here is the relevant section from [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams ''Wikipedia'': Mary Lou Williams]: </span> | + | <span style="color:blue">Additionally, the jazz pianist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams Mary Lou Williams,] a convert to Roman Catholicism in 1956, wrote and performed spiritually oriented music, including especially [http://folkways.si.edu/mary-lou-williams/mass/jazz-ragtime/music/album/smithsonian "Mary Lou's Mass."] Here is the relevant section from [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lou_Williams ''Wikipedia'': Mary Lou Williams]: </span> |
<blockquote><span style="color:green">“One of the '''masses, "Music for Peace,"''' was choreographed by the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey Alvin Ailey] and performed by the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey_American_Dance_Theater Alvin Ailey Dance Theater] as '''Mary Lou's Mass''' in 1971. About the work, Ailey commented, "If there can be a Bernstein Mass, a Mozart Mass, a Bach Mass, why can't there be Mary Lou's Mass?" Williams performed the revision of "Mary Lou's Mass," '''her most acclaimed work''', on The [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cavett Dick Cavett] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dick_Cavett_Show Show] in 1971. </span> <br/> | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“One of the '''masses, "Music for Peace,"''' was choreographed by the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey Alvin Ailey] and performed by the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Ailey_American_Dance_Theater Alvin Ailey Dance Theater] as '''Mary Lou's Mass''' in 1971. About the work, Ailey commented, "If there can be a Bernstein Mass, a Mozart Mass, a Bach Mass, why can't there be Mary Lou's Mass?" Williams performed the revision of "Mary Lou's Mass," '''her most acclaimed work''', on The [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cavett Dick Cavett] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dick_Cavett_Show Show] in 1971. </span> <br/> | ||
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<span style="color:green">She wrote and performed '''religious jazz music''' such as "Black Christ of the Andes" (1963), a hymn in honor of the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Porres St. Martin de Porres]; two short works, "Anima Christi" and "Praise the Lord." In this period, Williams put much effort into working with youth choirs to perform her works, including mass at [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Cathedral_(Manhattan) St. Patrick's Cathedral] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York City] before a gathering of over three thousand. . . . As a February 21, 1964 [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870827,00.html Time] article explained, "Mary Lou thinks of herself as a 'soul' player — a way of saying that she never strays far from melody and the blues, but deals sparingly in gospel harmony and rhythm. 'I am praying through my fingers when I play,' she says.'I get that good "soul sound", and '''I try to touch people's spirits'''.'" </span> <br/> | <span style="color:green">She wrote and performed '''religious jazz music''' such as "Black Christ of the Andes" (1963), a hymn in honor of the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_de_Porres St. Martin de Porres]; two short works, "Anima Christi" and "Praise the Lord." In this period, Williams put much effort into working with youth choirs to perform her works, including mass at [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick%27s_Cathedral_(Manhattan) St. Patrick's Cathedral] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City New York City] before a gathering of over three thousand. . . . As a February 21, 1964 [http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870827,00.html Time] article explained, "Mary Lou thinks of herself as a 'soul' player — a way of saying that she never strays far from melody and the blues, but deals sparingly in gospel harmony and rhythm. 'I am praying through my fingers when I play,' she says.'I get that good "soul sound", and '''I try to touch people's spirits'''.'" </span> <br/> | ||
− | <span style="color:green"> . . . . In April 1975, she played her highly regarded '''jazz spiritual, "Mary Lou's Mass"''' at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. It marked the first time a jazz musician had played at the church. </span> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original) </span> | + | <span style="color:green"> . . . . In April 1975, she played her highly regarded '''jazz spiritual, "Mary Lou's Mass"''' at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. It marked the first time a jazz musician had played at the church. </span> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> |
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− | <span style="color:blue">See [http://www.lclark.edu/live/news/17560-passages-remembering-franya-berkman Franya J. Berkman] (1972-2012), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/40644001 "Appropriating Universality: The Coltranes and 1960s Spirituality,"] ''American Studies'', Vol. 48, No. 1 (Spring 2007), | + | <span style="color:blue">See [http://www.lclark.edu/live/news/17560-passages-remembering-franya-berkman Franya J. Berkman] (1972-2012), [http://www.jstor.org/stable/40644001 "Appropriating Universality: The Coltranes and 1960s Spirituality,"] ''American Studies'', Vol. 48, No. 1 (Spring 2007), 41–62. Published by Mid-America American Studies Association. </span></ref> <br/> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneBWwithSax_M.png|link=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-coltrane-mn0000175553/biography]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneBWwithSax_M.png|link=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/john-coltrane-mn0000175553/biography]]</div> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick gold">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">easily recognizable [http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiosyncratic#English idiosyncratic] style and tone, especially on </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soprano_saxophone soprano saxophone] [[file:ColtraneSopranoCO1.png]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick gold">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">easily recognizable [http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/idiosyncratic#English idiosyncratic] style and tone, especially on </span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soprano_saxophone soprano saxophone.] [[file:ColtraneSopranoCO1.png]] |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick gold">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">plaintive expressive passionate energetic sound in his solos </span> [[file:SaxophoneGolden1.png]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick gold">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">plaintive expressive passionate energetic sound in his solos. </span> [[file:SaxophoneGolden1.png]] |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] playing has a lot of [http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/drive drive] [[file:JohnColtraneBlowingHrdSopranoSaxCO1.png]] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] playing has a lot of [http://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/drive drive.] |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] driven to practice his instrument and did so constantly <br/> <br/> | + | <center> [[file:JohnColtraneBlowingHrdSopranoSaxCO1.png|link=http://youtu.be/2VuWO0fxSz4 |alt=An enhanced black and white photographic cutout of John Coltrane with an intensely furrowed brow blowing hard on his soprano saxophone.]]</center> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">famous for what music critic [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler Ira Gitler] termed his [http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-improvisation/sheets-sound-explained-john-coltrane/ "sheets of sound"] producing rapid-fire attacks in an attempt to play every possible harmonic implication during his solo–every possible chord and every possible scale for each chord</span><ref><span style="color:blue">Coltrane himself, when discussing his sheets of sound technique in an interview, said the following in ''DownBeat'' magazine, Sept 29, 1960: </span> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] driven to practice his instrument and did so constantly. <br/> <br/> |
− | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“About this time, I was trying for a sweeping sound. I started experimenting because I was striving for more individual development. I even tried long, rapid lines that Ira Gitler termed “sheets of sound” at that time. But actually, I was beginning to apply the three-on-one chord approach, and at that time the tendency was to play the entire scale of each chord. Therefore, they were usually played fast and sometimes sounded like glisses.” </span> <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">famous for what music critic [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Gitler Ira Gitler] termed his [http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-improvisation/sheets-sound-explained-john-coltrane/ "sheets of sound"] producing rapid-fire attacks in an attempt to play every possible harmonic implication during his solo–every possible chord and every possible scale for each chord.</span><ref><span style="color:blue">Coltrane himself, when discussing his sheets of sound technique in an interview, said the following in ''DownBeat'' magazine, Sept 29, 1960: </span> |
− | <span style="color:green">“I found there were a certain number of chord progressions to play in a given time, and sometimes what I played didn’t work out in eighth notes, 16th notes, or triplets. I had to put the notes in uneven groups like fives and sevens in order to get them all in.” </span> <br/> <br/> | + | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“About this time, I was trying for a sweeping sound. I started experimenting because I was striving for more individual development. I even tried long, rapid lines that Ira Gitler termed “sheets of sound” at that time. But actually, I was beginning to apply the three-on-one chord approach, and at that time the tendency was to play the entire scale of each chord. Therefore, they were usually played fast and sometimes sounded like glisses.” </span> <br/> <br/> |
− | <span style="color:green">“I could stack up chords, say on a C7, I sometimes superimposed an Eb7 up to an F#7, down to an F. That way I could play three chords on one. But on the other hand, if I wanted to, I could play melodically . . . . ” </span><span style="color:blue">(Quoted at </span> [http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-improvisation/sheets-sound-explained-john-coltrane/ "Sheets Of Sound Explained (John Coltrane)"] <span style="color:blue">at | + | <span style="color:green">“I found there were a certain number of chord progressions to play in a given time, and sometimes what I played didn’t work out in eighth notes, 16th notes, or triplets. I had to put the notes in uneven groups like fives and sevens in order to get them all in.” </span> <br/> <br/> |
+ | <span style="color:green">“I could stack up chords, say on a C7, I sometimes superimposed an Eb7 up to an F#7, down to an F. That way I could play three chords on one. But on the other hand, if I wanted to, I could play melodically . . . .” </span><span style="color:blue">(Quoted at </span> [http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/jazz-piano-lessons/jazz-improvisation/sheets-sound-explained-john-coltrane/ "Sheets Of Sound Explained (John Coltrane)"] <span style="color:blue">at [http://www.thejazzpianosite.com/ thejazzpianosite.com]) </span> | ||
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− | <div align="center">[[file:JohnColtranePlayingDrumKit.jpeg|link=http://stevegoold.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/coltrane-on-the-drums/|alt=John Coltrane playing the drums]] </div> | + | <div align="center">[[file:JohnColtranePlayingDrumKit.jpeg|link=http://stevegoold.wordpress.com/2012/09/09/coltrane-on-the-drums/|alt=John Coltrane playing the drums.]] </div> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“influenced innumerable | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“influenced innumerable musicians, including non-saxophonists.”</span><ref>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane ''Wikipedia'': John Coltrane,] <span style="color:blue">second paragraph, second sentence.</span></ref> <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] constantly seeking musical insight and musical expressiveness <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] constantly seeking musical insight and musical expressiveness. <br/> <br/> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis's][http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quintet#First_Great_Quintet/Sextet_(1955–58) first quintet] comprised of Davis on trumpet, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins Sonny Rollins] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_saxophone tenor saxophone,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland Red Garland] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano piano,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chambers Paul Chambers] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass double bass,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Joe_Jones Philly Joe Jones] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit drums] when Coltrane replaces [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins Sonny Rollins] in Fall, 1955 [[file:SonnyRollinsGoatee1.jpeg|thumb|<p style = "font-size: | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] member of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis's][http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quintet#First_Great_Quintet/Sextet_(1955–58) first quintet] comprised of Davis on trumpet, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins Sonny Rollins] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenor_saxophone tenor saxophone,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland Red Garland] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano piano,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chambers Paul Chambers] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_bass double bass,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Joe_Jones Philly Joe Jones] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum_kit drums] when Coltrane replaces [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins Sonny Rollins] in Fall, 1955. [[file:SonnyRollinsGoatee1.jpeg|thumb|<p style = "font-size: 10pt">Sonny Rollins (b. 1930)</p>]] <br/> <br/> |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] expanded this first quintet with Coltrane into a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextet sextet] with the addition of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Cannonball Adderley] [[file:CannonballAdderleyW1.png|thumb|<p style = "font-size: | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] expanded this first quintet with Coltrane into a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextet sextet] with the addition of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Cannonball Adderley] [[file:CannonballAdderleyW1.png|thumb|<p style = "font-size: 10pt"><span style="color:black">Julian "Cannonball" Adderley (1928–1975)</span></p>]] on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alto_saxophone alto saxophone] in 1958 producing one of the definitive [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_bop hard bop] groups recording the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_Records Columbia] albums [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Round_About_Midnight Round About Midnight.] [[file:RoundAboutMidnightAlbumCover1.jpeg|<p style = "font-size: 10pt">'Round About Midnight (1957)</p>]], [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milestones_(Miles_Davis_album) Milestones] [[file:MilesstonesAlbumCover1.jpeg||<p style = "font-size: 10pt">Milestones (1958)</p>]], and the marathon sessions for [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestige_Records Prestige Records] resulting in five albums ([http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles:_The_New_Miles_Davis_Quintet Miles,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookin%27_with_the_Miles_Davis_Quintet Cookin',] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxin%27_with_the_Miles_Davis_Quintet Relaxin',] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workin%27_with_the_Miles_Davis_Quintet Workin',] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamin%27_with_the_Miles_Davis_Quintet Steamin']) collected on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legendary_Prestige_Quintet_Sessions The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions.] [[file:TheLegendaryPrestigeQuintetSessionsCover1.jpeg|<p style = "font-size: 10pt">The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions (1956–61).</p>]] </span> |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick navy">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">In | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick navy">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">In mid–1958, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans Bill Evans] replaced [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Garland Garland] on piano and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cobb Jimmy Cobb] replaced [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly_Joe_Jones Philly Joe Jones] on drums, but Evans only lasted about six months, in turn replaced by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly Wynton Kelly] as 1958 turned into 1959. This group backing Davis, Coltrane, and Adderley, with Evans returning for the recording sessions, recorded [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue Kind of Blue] [[file:KindOfBlueAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue]], considered one of the most important, influential and popular albums in jazz. [[file:MilesDavisFirstQuintet1.jpeg|thumb|<p style = "font-size: 10pt"><span style="color:black">Members of the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis_Quintet First Miles Davis Quintet/Sextet (1955–58)] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane John Coltrane] (tenor saxophone), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Adderley Cannonball Adderley] (alto saxophone), [http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/jimmy-cobb Jimmy Cobb] (drums), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] (trumpet), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Kelly Wynton Kelly] (piano), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Chambers Paul Chambers] (double bass), & [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Evans Bill Evans] (piano). </span></p>]] </span> <br/> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed his [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane "Classic Quartet"] with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner McCoy Tyner] on piano, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Jones Elvin Jones] on drums, and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Garrison Jimmy Garrison] on bass (1961) <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed his [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coltrane "Classic Quartet"] with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner McCoy Tyner] on piano, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Jones Elvin Jones] on drums, and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Garrison Jimmy Garrison] on bass (1961). <br/> <br/> |
− | <div align="center">[[file:ColtraneClassicQuartet.jpeg]]</div> <br/> <br/> | + | <div align="center">[[file:ColtraneClassicQuartet.jpeg|link=http://jazzdagama.com/masthead/mccoy-tyner-in-memorium/|alt=An enhanced photograph of John Coltrane's "classic" quartet consisting of (l. to r.) drummer Elvin Jones, pianist McCoy Tyner, Coltrane, and bassist Jimmy Garrison with their respective birth and death dates superimposed over each person.]]</div> <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] The performance of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_1961_Village_Vanguard_Recordings "Chasin' The Trane"] consisting of eighty choruses of Coltrane improvising on the blues was on his tenth album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard] [[file:ColtraneLiveAtVillageVanguardAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard]] released in 1962 on Impulse Records featuring for the first time the members of the [http://www.rambles.net/coltrane_classic.html "Classic Quartet"] of himself with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner McCoy Tyner,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Garrison Jimmy Garrison,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Jones Elvin Jones]. Contrasting with the positive reaction to his previous album for Impulse!, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard <span style="color:green">“this one generated much turmoil among both critics and audience alike with its challenging music”</span>] and began John Coltrane's experiments into avant-garde jazz (1961) <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] The performance of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_1961_Village_Vanguard_Recordings "Chasin' The Trane"] consisting of eighty choruses of Coltrane improvising on the blues was on his tenth album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard] [[file:ColtraneLiveAtVillageVanguardAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard]] released in 1962 on Impulse Records featuring for the first time the members of the [http://www.rambles.net/coltrane_classic.html "Classic Quartet"] of himself with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner McCoy Tyner,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Garrison Jimmy Garrison,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Jones Elvin Jones]. Contrasting with the positive reaction to his previous album for Impulse!, [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard <span style="color:green">“this one generated much turmoil among both critics and audience alike with its challenging music”</span>] and began John Coltrane's experiments into avant-garde jazz (1961) <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded what is considered his most spiritually important album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Love_Supreme "A Love Supreme"] with his "Classic Quartet" (1965) [[file:JohnColtraneALoveSupremeTranscriptions1.jpeg|link=http://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/2011/12/john-coltrane-recorded-love-supreme.html]] Read [http://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/2011/12/john-coltrane-recorded-love-supreme.html reviewer's reactions] to the album fifty years on as well as | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded what is considered his most spiritually important album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Love_Supreme "A Love Supreme"] with his "Classic Quartet" (1965). [[file:JohnColtraneALoveSupremeTranscriptions1.jpeg|link=http://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/2011/12/john-coltrane-recorded-love-supreme.html]] '''Read''' [http://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/2011/12/john-coltrane-recorded-love-supreme.html reviewer's reactions] to the album fifty years on as well as '''Listen''' to songs at [http://davesmusicdatabase.blogspot.com/2011/12/john-coltrane-recorded-love-supreme.html DavesMusicDatabase.com.] <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] took the lead in extensively exploring the limits of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_jazz modal improvisation and composition] with his quartet, featuring [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Jones Elvin Jones] (drums), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner McCoy Tyner] (piano), and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Workman Reggie Workman] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Garrison Jimmy Garrison] (bass). Several of Coltrane's albums are recognized as examples of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_jazz modal jazz:] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa/Brass Africa/Brass] (1961), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard Live! at the Village Vanguard] (1962), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_(John_Coltrane_album) Crescent] (1964), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Love_Supreme A Love Supreme] (1964), and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations_(John_Coltrane_album) Meditations] (1965) <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] took the lead in extensively exploring the limits of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_jazz modal improvisation and composition] with his quartet, featuring [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvin_Jones Elvin Jones] (drums), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCoy_Tyner McCoy Tyner] (piano), and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reggie_Workman Reggie Workman] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Garrison Jimmy Garrison] (bass). Several of Coltrane's albums are recognized as examples of [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_jazz modal jazz:] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa/Brass Africa/Brass] (1961), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltrane_%22Live%22_at_the_Village_Vanguard Live! at the Village Vanguard] (1962), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crescent_(John_Coltrane_album) Crescent] (1964), [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Love_Supreme A Love Supreme] (1964), and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations_(John_Coltrane_album) Meditations] (1965). <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in his avant-garde playing used new extended techniques, such [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/squeal squeals,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_tone split tones,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphonic multiphonics] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in his avant-garde playing used new extended techniques, such [http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/squeal squeals,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_tone split tones,] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphonic multiphonics] <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] contributed to extending the upper register of the saxophone <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] contributed to extending the upper register of the saxophone. <br/> <br/> |
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick gold">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization canonized] <span style="color:black">as a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint Saint] (1982)[[file:JohnColtranceCenterPiece1.jpeg]] in the </span> [http://www.coltranechurch.org St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church of San Francisco, CA]<ref><span style="color:blue">See the New York Times article about the formation of the church [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/us/01religion.html "Sunday Religion, Inspired by Saturday Nights,"] by Samuel G. Freedman, December 1, 2007, then read the moving descriptions of Coltrane's musically spiritual impact in </span>[http://www.mtv.com/news/author/wallacec/ Carvell Wallace's] [http://www.mtv.com/news/2862125/a-place-for-the-soul-to-sing-the-church-of-st-john-coltrane/ "A Place For The Soul To Sing: The Church of St. John Coltrane.”]</ref><div align="center">[[file:SaintJohnColtraneSopranoSax2.png]] [[file:JohnColtraneTryptich1.jpeg]] [[file:StJohnColtraneChurchYellowSoprano2.jpeg]]</div> | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick gold">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonization canonized] <span style="color:black">as a [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint Saint] (1982) [[file:JohnColtranceCenterPiece1.jpeg]] in the </span> [http://www.coltranechurch.org St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church of San Francisco, CA]<ref><span style="color:blue">See the New York Times article about the formation of the church [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/us/01religion.html "Sunday Religion, Inspired by Saturday Nights,"] by Samuel G. Freedman, December 1, 2007, then read the moving descriptions of Coltrane's musically spiritual impact in </span>[http://www.mtv.com/news/author/wallacec/ Carvell Wallace's] [http://www.mtv.com/news/2862125/a-place-for-the-soul-to-sing-the-church-of-st-john-coltrane/ "A Place For The Soul To Sing: The Church of St. John Coltrane.”]</ref><div align="center">[[file:SaintJohnColtraneSopranoSax2.png]] [[file:JohnColtraneTryptich1.jpeg]] [[file:StJohnColtraneChurchYellowSoprano2.jpeg]]<br/>[[file:AnimatedJohnColtraneHoldingSopranoYellowBackground.gif|link=http://www.coltranechurch.org/ |alt=An animated .gif of a painted image of John Coltrane holding a straight soprano saxophone in his left hand (viewer's right) while directly facing the viewer on a mustard yellow background.]]</div> |
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− | [[file: | + | [[file:JohnColtraneStatue1COR.jpeg|frame|alt=A life-size bronze statue of John Coltrane holding his saxophone|link=http://www.richmondobserver.com/lifestyle/item/1752-jazz-legend-john-coltrane-of-hamlet-the-early-years.html|<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 10pt">([http://www.richmondobserver.com/lifestyle/item/1752-jazz-legend-john-coltrane-of-hamlet-the-early-years.html Photo] by John Martin)</p></div>]]<br/> |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame '' | + | <blockquote style="background-color: light gray; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] <span style="color:black">Reader's Poll (1965) </span> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1992) [[file:GrammyLifetimeAwardGrayBackground1.png]] <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1992). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAwardGrayBackground1.png]] <br/> <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Music Pulitzer prize] posthumous jazz composer Special Citation (2007) <br/> <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Music Pulitzer prize] posthumous jazz composer Special Citation (2007). <br/> <br/> |
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<div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneStoneMarker.jpeg|link=http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218/john-william-coltrane#view-photo=32755871]] <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:JohnColtraneStoneMarker.jpeg|link=http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218/john-william-coltrane#view-photo=32755871]] <br/> | ||
[[file:JohnColtraneAliceColtraneGraveMarkers.jpeg|link=http://reddit.app.link/2mFqSFbuE0]]</div> <br/> | [[file:JohnColtraneAliceColtraneGraveMarkers.jpeg|link=http://reddit.app.link/2mFqSFbuE0]]</div> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">[http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218/john-william-coltrane#source Gravesite] located at [http://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/174076/pinelawn-memorial-park Pinelawn Memorial Park] (aka Pinelawn Memorial Cemetery) at Pinelawn Road and Wellwood Avenue, East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York </span> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">[http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218/john-william-coltrane#source Gravesite] located at [http://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/174076/pinelawn-memorial-park Pinelawn Memorial Park] (aka Pinelawn Memorial Cemetery) at Pinelawn Road and Wellwood Avenue, East Farmingdale, Suffolk County, New York. </span> |
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− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis Miles Davis] (1926–1991) <br/><span style="color:red">(active 1945→1991)</span></p> </div> |
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− | [[file:MilesDavisOldFashionCO.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 12pt">(Photo by Lajos Jardai at [http://www.koeln-news.com/miles-davis-auf-seltenem-weg-zuruck-in-meinem-leben/12010 ''Colozine''])</p> | + | [[file:MilesDavisOldFashionCO.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 12pt">(Photo by Lajos Jardai at [http://www.koeln-news.com/miles-davis-auf-seltenem-weg-zuruck-in-meinem-leben/12010 ''Colozine''] but colorized)</p> |
[[file:CompositedMilesDavisSlouchingInChairUnsmilingDavisCurlyHair.jpeg|link=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_Davis_by_Palumbo.jpg%5D%5D|alt=A composit of a mid-twenties Miles Davis slouching in chair on left with a middle-aged unsmiling Miles with curly hair.]] <div align="right">(Photo on right by [http://www.flickr.com/people/tompalumbo Tom Palumbo]) </div> </div> <br/> | [[file:CompositedMilesDavisSlouchingInChairUnsmilingDavisCurlyHair.jpeg|link=http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_Davis_by_Palumbo.jpg%5D%5D|alt=A composit of a mid-twenties Miles Davis slouching in chair on left with a middle-aged unsmiling Miles with curly hair.]] <div align="right">(Photo on right by [http://www.flickr.com/people/tompalumbo Tom Palumbo]) </div> </div> <br/> | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisComposite.jpeg|link=http://pin.it/28FB23q|alt=A composite of six color photographic cutouts of Miles Davis on a rich deep darkish blue background with a variety of expressions on his face.]] [[file:EnhancedMilesDavisComposite.jpeg|link=http://pin.it/28FB23q|alt=An enhanced composite of six color photographic cutouts of Miles Davis on a bluish background with a variety of expressions on his face.]]</div> | ||
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<p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p> | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p> | ||
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: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> | ||
: [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_bop Hard Bop] <br/> | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_bop Hard Bop] <br/> | ||
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− | <div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisSmilingYoungSportsCoatCarryingTrumpet.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-november-1985-interview-miles-style/|alt=Miles Davis as a young man wearing a sports jacket and smiling while holding his trumpet down by his left side.]]</div> <br/> <br/> | + | <div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisSmilingYoungSportsCoatCarryingTrumpet.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-november-1985-interview-miles-style/|alt=A cutout photo of Miles Davis as a young man wearing a sports jacket and smiling while holding his trumpet down by his left side.]] |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] stylist innovator | + | [[file:MilesDavisSmilingYoungSportsCoatCarryingTrumpetColorized.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-november-1985-interview-miles-style/|alt=A colorized cutout photo of Miles Davis as a young man wearing a sports jacket and smiling while holding his trumpet down by his left side.]] </div> <br/> <br/> |
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] stylist innovator: [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_bop hard bop], [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_jazz cool], [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_jazz modal], [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_fusion jazz/rock fusion], [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_rap rap hip-hop jazz] on the album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo-Bop "Doo-Bop"] with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapping rapper] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy_Mo_Bee Easy Mo Bee]. <br/> <br/> | ||
<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“formed a nonet with arranger-pianist Gil Evans, saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Lee Konitz, and pianist John Lewis to record his first major musical statement, "Birth of the Cool," using the standard piano, bass, and drums rhythm section, along with the nonet's horn section of French horn, tuba, trombone, and alto and baritone saxophones, lending the band a unique harmonic 'cool' sound”; (hence birth of the cool).”</span><ref>[http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/miles-davis?hl=miles NEA Jazz Master bio,] <span style="color:blue">third paragraph.</span></ref> [[file:MilesDavisColorCO1.png]] | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“formed a nonet with arranger-pianist Gil Evans, saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Lee Konitz, and pianist John Lewis to record his first major musical statement, "Birth of the Cool," using the standard piano, bass, and drums rhythm section, along with the nonet's horn section of French horn, tuba, trombone, and alto and baritone saxophones, lending the band a unique harmonic 'cool' sound”; (hence birth of the cool).”</span><ref>[http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/miles-davis?hl=miles NEA Jazz Master bio,] <span style="color:blue">third paragraph.</span></ref> [[file:MilesDavisColorCO1.png]] | ||
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate.”</span><ref name="AllMusicDavis"/> [[file:MilesDavisInColorBlowing.gif]] | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick green">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate.”</span><ref name="AllMusicDavis"/> [[file:MilesDavisInColorBlowing.gif]] | ||
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">attended for a year the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_School Institute of Musical Art] in New York City (renamed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_School Juilliard]) in September 1944. </span> [[file: | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick brown">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">attended for a year the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_School Institute of Musical Art] in New York City (renamed [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juilliard_School Juilliard]) in September 1944. </span> [[file:MilesDavisYoungSmilingHornless.jpeg|link=http://www.amazon.com/Young-Miles-Vol-1945-1946-Complete/dp/B00000DWRE |alt=A black and white photograph of a late teenager headshot of Miles Davis turned towards his left.]] <br/><center>[[file:AnimatedTeenageMilesDavisCharismatic.gif|link=http://www.amazon.com/Young-Miles-Vol-1945-1946-Complete/dp/B00000DWRE |alt=An animated black and white head of a teenage Miles Davis.]]</center> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] joined [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Carter Benny Carter's] band and made his first recordings as a sideman (1945). <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] joined [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Carter Benny Carter's] band and made his first recordings as a sideman (1945). <br/> <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] played with [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Eckstine Billy Eckstine] in 1946–1947. [[file:MilesDavisYoungManCO.png]] <br/> <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] member of [http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlie-Parker Charlie Parker's] group in 1947–1948. <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] member of [http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charlie-Parker Charlie Parker's] group in 1947–1948. <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerMilesDavisAllenEagerKaiWinding.jpeg|link=http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print|alt=A black and white photograph by Herman Leonard of from left to right Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Allen Eager, and Kai Winding respectively playing the alto saxophone, trumpet with mute, tenor saxophone, and trombone.]] <br/> ([http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print Original Photo] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Leonard Herman] [http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/biography Leonard] (1923–2010))</div> <br/> <br/> | + | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerMilesDavisAllenEagerKaiWinding.jpeg|link=http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print|alt=A black and white photograph by Herman Leonard of from left to right Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Allen Eager, and Kai Winding respectively playing the alto saxophone, trumpet with mute, tenor saxophone, and trombone.]] <br/> (Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Allen Eager, and Kai Winding) <br/> ([http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print Original Photo] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Leonard Herman] [http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/biography Leonard] (1923–2010))</div> <br/> <br/> |
<div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerMilesDavisAllenEagerKaiWindingMediumColorized.jpeg|link=http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print|alt=A black and white photograph by Herman Leonard now colorized of from left to right Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Allen Eager, and Kai Winding respectively playing the alto saxophone, trumpet with mute, tenor saxophone, and trombone.]] [[file:CharlieParkerMilesDavisAllenEagerKaiWindingMediumMoreColorized.jpeg|link=http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print|alt=A black and white photograph by Herman Leonard now more colorized of from left to right Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Allen Eager, and Kai Winding respectively playing the alto saxophone, trumpet with mute, tenor saxophone, and trombone.]] <br/> ([http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print Original Photo] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Leonard Herman] [http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/biography Leonard] (1923–2010) [http://theconversation.com/the-controversial-history-of-colourizing-black-and-white-photos-160310 colorized])</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:CharlieParkerMilesDavisAllenEagerKaiWindingMediumColorized.jpeg|link=http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print|alt=A black and white photograph by Herman Leonard now colorized of from left to right Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Allen Eager, and Kai Winding respectively playing the alto saxophone, trumpet with mute, tenor saxophone, and trombone.]] [[file:CharlieParkerMilesDavisAllenEagerKaiWindingMediumMoreColorized.jpeg|link=http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print|alt=A black and white photograph by Herman Leonard now more colorized of from left to right Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Allen Eager, and Kai Winding respectively playing the alto saxophone, trumpet with mute, tenor saxophone, and trombone.]] <br/> ([http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/gallery/1/1/20/Print Original Photo] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Leonard Herman] [http://hermanleonard.com/index.php/biography Leonard] (1923–2010) [http://theconversation.com/the-controversial-history-of-colourizing-black-and-white-photos-160310 colorized])</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded three sessions (Jan. 21 & Apr. 22, 1949; March 9, 1950) in New York City [[file:MilesDavisElevatorM1.png]] that became the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool "Birth of the Cool"] compilation album [[file:BirthOfTheCoolCover1.jpeg]] released on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records Capitol Records] (1957). [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool ''Wikipedia'': Birth of the Cool] reports that the music featured </span><span style="color:green">“unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony, and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz.”</span> <br/> <br/> | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded three sessions (Jan. 21 & Apr. 22, 1949; March 9, 1950) in New York City [[file:MilesDavisElevatorM1.png]] that became the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool "Birth of the Cool"] compilation album [[file:BirthOfTheCoolCover1.jpeg]] released on [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records Capitol Records] (1957). [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_of_the_Cool ''Wikipedia'': Birth of the Cool] reports that the music featured </span><span style="color:green">“unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony, and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz.”</span> <br/> <br/> | ||
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+ | <center>[[file:PaulBarberTreeMilesDavisGroups1955_1957.jpeg|link=http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TvoLr0_8b_8/T1EpjeyTn1I/AAAAAAAAGt4/0F85Ed66AiI/s1600/L1150614.JPG |alt=The bottom half of a hand written in black font tree diagram of Miles Davis's groups from September 1957 to May 1958 constructed by Paul Barber.]] <br/>(Detail of Jazz Tree of [http://wyattandstuff.blogspot.com/2012/03/ "Miles Davis Live Bands (1955–1975)] by Paul Barber as published in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Even-More-Rock-Family-Trees/dp/1844490076/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1330717880&sr=8-2 ''Even More Rock Family Trees'' Paperback—November 1, 2011] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Frame Pete Frame] (b. 1942))</center> | ||
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<div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisPinStripedSuitRightHandAtCheekTrumpetHangingDownOnLeftSide.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-december-1985-interview-miles-style-part-2/|alt=Performing onstage in West Germany around 1959 in a pin-striped suit with right hand on his right cheek with trumpet hanging down on his left side.]] <br/>(performing onstage circa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany West Germany] 🇩🇪)<br/>(photographed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ochs Michael Ochs] (b. 1943))</div> <br/> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisPinStripedSuitRightHandAtCheekTrumpetHangingDownOnLeftSide.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-december-1985-interview-miles-style-part-2/|alt=Performing onstage in West Germany around 1959 in a pin-striped suit with right hand on his right cheek with trumpet hanging down on his left side.]] <br/>(performing onstage circa [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959] in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany West Germany] 🇩🇪)<br/>(photographed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ochs Michael Ochs] (b. 1943))</div> <br/> <br/> | ||
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− | <div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisScarfHungAroundNeckStuddedWristlet.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-november-1985-interview-miles-style/|alt=Miles Davis in a blue jean suit blowing his trumpet into a microphone stand probably around early 1970s.]]</div> | + | <div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisScarfHungAroundNeckStuddedWristletColorizedLeft.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-november-1985-interview-miles-style/|alt=Miles Davis in a blue jean suit blowing his trumpet into a microphone stand probably around early 1970s.]] [[file:MilesDavisScarfHungAroundNeckStuddedWristlet.jpeg|link=http://www.spin.com/2019/09/miles-davis-november-1985-interview-miles-style/|alt=Miles Davis in a blue jean suit blowing his trumpet into a microphone stand probably around early 1970s.]]</div> |
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick fuchsia"><div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisHeadshotIntenseEyesVestLEFTBW.jpeg]] [[file: | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick fuchsia"><div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisHeadshotIntenseEyesVestLEFTBW.jpeg|link=http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=30|alt=A black and white photograph of the head of late Miles Davis with a lot of hair.]] [[file:MilesDavisHeadshotIntenseEyesVestColorizedRIGHT.jpeg|link=http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=30|alt=A colorized photograph of the head of late Miles Davis with a lot of hair.]]</div> <br/><br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded landmark jazz/rock fusion album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew Bitches Brew] (1969). </span><br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">recorded landmark [http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=30 jazz/rock fusion] album [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitches_Brew "Bitches Brew"] (1969). </span><br/> |
[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Read''' [http://geardiary.com/2010/09/04/cd-retrospective-40-years-later-miles-davis-bitches-brew-still-polarizes-jazz-fans/ an assessment of the forty years of inspirational impact "Bitches Brew"] has had on culture and art. </span> [[file:BitchesBrewCoverwithRecord1.png]] <br/> | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Read''' [http://geardiary.com/2010/09/04/cd-retrospective-40-years-later-miles-davis-bitches-brew-still-polarizes-jazz-fans/ an assessment of the forty years of inspirational impact "Bitches Brew"] has had on culture and art. </span> [[file:BitchesBrewCoverwithRecord1.png]] <br/> | ||
[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Read''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tingen Paul] [http://tingen.org/ Tingen's] (b. 1959) [http://miles-beyond.com/bitchesbrew.htm"The Making of 'The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions'."] </span> [[file:TheCompleteBitchesBrewSessiobsCD.jpeg|link=http://miles-beyond.com/bitchesbrew.htm|alt=A photograph of the box set and four CDs from "The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions" by Miles Davis.]] | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] <span style="color:black">'''Read''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tingen Paul] [http://tingen.org/ Tingen's] (b. 1959) [http://miles-beyond.com/bitchesbrew.htm"The Making of 'The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions'."] </span> [[file:TheCompleteBitchesBrewSessiobsCD.jpeg|link=http://miles-beyond.com/bitchesbrew.htm|alt=A photograph of the box set and four CDs from "The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions" by Miles Davis.]] | ||
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<p style = "font-size: 10pt"><span style="color:black">(Miles Davis performing live on stage at the Isle Of Wight Festival)<br/>(at Afton Down on the Isle of Wight, England on August 29, 1970)<br/>([http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/american-jazz-trumpeter-and-composer-miles-davis-performs-news-photo/84843314 Photo] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Redfern David Redfern] (1936–2014))</span></p></div> <br/> | <p style = "font-size: 10pt"><span style="color:black">(Miles Davis performing live on stage at the Isle Of Wight Festival)<br/>(at Afton Down on the Isle of Wight, England on August 29, 1970)<br/>([http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/american-jazz-trumpeter-and-composer-miles-davis-performs-news-photo/84843314 Photo] by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Redfern David Redfern] (1936–2014))</span></p></div> <br/> | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:MilesDavisArtCompositeJAK.jpeg|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/|alt=A framed composite of twenty-two of the same drawing of Miles Davis bent forward playing his trumpet, but with different colorations and each drawing inside of a monochrome square of different colors with PoJ.fm logos.]]</div> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] together with producer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teo_Macero Teo Macero]<ref><span style="color:blue">See the documentary on Teo Macero's accomplishments at [http://www.playthatteo.com/about.html "Play That, Teo."]</span></ref> made [http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/26/jazz.shopping "the most hated album in jazz"] thus having the distinction of making both the best liked album of all time (most sales) in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue "Kind of Blue" (1959)] together with what was once considered the worst jazz album in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Corner "On The Corner" (1972).] [[file:OnTheCornerAlbumCover.jpeg|thumb|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Corner|alt=The yellow album cover for "On the Corner" by Miles Davis with cartoon black people by artist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_McCoy Corky McCoy.] ]] See why people think it [http://popmatters.com/miles-davis-bitches-brew-2649879410.html was or was not a 'sell out.'] <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] together with producer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teo_Macero Teo Macero]<ref><span style="color:blue">See the documentary on Teo Macero's accomplishments at [http://www.playthatteo.com/about.html "Play That, Teo."]</span></ref> made [http://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/oct/26/jazz.shopping "the most hated album in jazz"] thus having the distinction of making both the best liked album of all time (most sales) in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue "Kind of Blue" (1959)] together with what was once considered the worst jazz album in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Corner "On The Corner" (1972).] [[file:OnTheCornerAlbumCover.jpeg|thumb|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Corner|alt=The yellow album cover for "On the Corner" by Miles Davis with cartoon black people by artist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corky_McCoy Corky McCoy.] ]] See why people think it [http://popmatters.com/miles-davis-bitches-brew-2649879410.html was or was not a 'sell out.'] <br/> <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/miles-davis?hl=miles NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Master] (1984) <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.arts.gov/honors/jazz/miles-davis?hl=miles NEA (National Endowment for the Arts) Jazz Master] (1984) <br/> <br/> | ||
− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [[file:MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.jpeg|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette.]] <span style="color:black">has the most immediately recognizable [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/icon iconic] [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/profile profile] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette silhouette] in jazz history: </span>[[file:Miles Davis ProfileCOR.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/]] [[file:MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.jpeg|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette.]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick black">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [[file:MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.jpeg|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette.]] <span style="color:black">has the most immediately recognizable [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/icon iconic] [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/profile profile] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silhouette silhouette] in jazz history: </span>[[file:Miles Davis ProfileCOR.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/]] [[file:MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.jpeg|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette.]] [[file:80MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette smaller.]] [[file:44MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette smaller.]] [[file:19MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette smaller.]] [[file:24MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette smaller.]] [[file:9MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette smaller.]] [[file:6MilesDavisIconicSilhouette.png|link=http://www.milesdavis.com/news/miles-davis-the-complete-on-the-corner-sessions/|alt=Miles Davis's iconic silhouette smaller.]] ! |
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<blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">inducted into [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''Downbeat'' magazine's Jazz & Blues Hall of Fame] in Reader's Poll, 1962. </span> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick blue">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">inducted into [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''Downbeat'' magazine's Jazz & Blues Hall of Fame] in Reader's Poll, 1962. </span> [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1990). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award]] | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award] (1990). [[file:GrammyLifetimeAward4.png|link=http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammy_Lifetime_Achievement_Award]] | ||
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[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' one of the best interviews ever on how Miles Davis made music at the end of his career from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOf4qBxjlJU Marcus Miller being interviewed by Brett Premack,] "Marcus Miller Remembers Miles Davis" (aka "Marcus Miller Spills the Tea on Miles Davis"), January 8, 1998. | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' one of the best interviews ever on how Miles Davis made music at the end of his career from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOf4qBxjlJU Marcus Miller being interviewed by Brett Premack,] "Marcus Miller Remembers Miles Davis" (aka "Marcus Miller Spills the Tea on Miles Davis"), January 8, 1998. | ||
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+ | [[file:AnimatedMilesDavisCenterSurprised.gif]] [[file:AnimatedMilesDavisLowerCenter.gif]] [[file:AnimatedMilesDavisLowerLeft.gif]] | ||
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+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Listen''' to '''Miles Davis's voice''' in this [http://youtu.be/5CvG3jEGr9w 1953 "Interview with DJ Harry Frost" on KXLW, East St. Louis radio.] prior to his permanently injuring it after removal of nodes from his larynx from shouting making his voice into a [http://www.lawoto.com/blog/dysphonia-why-is-my-voice-so-raspy rasp.] | ||
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+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://www.erenkrantz.com/Music/MilesDavisInterview.shtml Alex Hailey's interview with Miles Davis] for [http://www.amazon.com/Miles-Davis-Playboy-Interview-Singles-ebook/dp/B0092U2VQA?asin=B0092U2VQA&revisionId=ed0f405f&format=1&depth=1 ''Playboy''] magazine September, 1962. | ||
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+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [http://www.spin.com/2021/05/miles-davis-last-interview-1991/ "Last Miles: Our 1991 Miles Davis Interview,"] ''SPIN'' magazine, December 1991. | ||
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+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' [https://milesdavis.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/miles-davis-in-ebony-magazine-january-1961/ Mark Crawford's] | ||
+ | [http://books.google.com/books?id=GyvbN5PqVCAC&pg=PA69&dq=miles+davis+fashion#v=onepage&q=miles%20davis%20fashion&f=false "Miles Davis: Evil Genius of Jazz,"] ''Ebony'' (January 1961), 69–71, 74, 76, 78. and '''see''' it with photographs below. | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:EbonyJanuary1961MilesDavisCoverContents.jpeg|link=http://books.google.com/books?id=GyvbN5PqVCAC&pg=PA69&dq=miles+davis+fashion#v=onepage&q=miles%20davis%20fashion&f=false|alt=The cover of ''Ebony'' magazine from January 1961 of an Afro-American women standing and smiling wearing a blue jump suit and matching blue head scarf with Southern France with boats in the background on the left side and the table of contents on the right side.]] [[file:EbonyJanuary1961MilesDavis6970.jpeg|link=http://books.google.com/books?id=GyvbN5PqVCAC&pg=PA69&dq=miles+davis+fashion#v=onepage&q=miles%20davis%20fashion&f=false|alt=The opening pages of the article in the January 1961 ''Ebony'' magazine of "Miles Davis: Evil Genius of Jazz" from p. 69 followed on right side by page 70.]] [[file:EbonyJanuary1961MilesDavis717274.jpeg|link=http://books.google.com/books?id=GyvbN5PqVCAC&pg=PA69&dq=miles+davis+fashion#v=onepage&q=miles%20davis%20fashion&f=false|alt=Pages 71, 74, 76 of the article in the January 1961 ''Ebony'' magazine of "Miles Davis: Evil Genius of Jazz."]] [[file:EbonyJanuary1961MilesDavis7678.jpeg|link=http://books.google.com/books?id=GyvbN5PqVCAC&pg=PA69&dq=miles+davis+fashion#v=onepage&q=miles%20davis%20fashion&f=false|alt=Pages 76 and 78 of the article in the January 1961 ''Ebony'' magazine of "Miles Davis: Evil Genius of Jazz."]]</div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | |- | ||
+ | |} | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:POJLogosWithNGC5189.jpeg|link=http://flic.kr/p/2jzpX6B|alt=A NASA photograph using the Hubble Space Telescope of Spiral Planetary Nebula NGC 5189.]] <br/>(Background [http://flic.kr/p/2jzpX6B photos] by NASA and the Hubble Space Telescope using false but natural colors in 2012 with PoJ.fm logos added)</div> | ||
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− | + | |<div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennie_Tristano Lennie Tristano]<br/>(March 19, 1919–November 18, 1978) <br/> <span style="color:red">(active 1940→1969)</span></p> <br/> | |
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− | + | [[file:LennieTristanoNoPianoNCO1.jpeg]] <br/> [[file:LennieTristanoPiedPiperJamSeptember1947N.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Pied Piper jam, New York, N.Y., September, 1947)<br/>([http://loc.gov/item/gottlieb.07061 Detail of photograph] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p><br/>[[file:LennieTristanoBlackJacketAtPiano.jpeg]] | |
− | + | [[file: LennieTristanoAtPianoBWR.jpeg|link=http://jazzstudiesonline.org/files/jso/resources/pdf/MasterInTheMaking.pdf]] <br/> </div> | |
− | + | ||
− | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p> | |
− | + | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano piano] [[file:Piano1.png]] <br/> | |
− | + | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] could also play [http://jazzstudiesonline.org/files/jso/resources/pdf/MasterInTheMaking.pdf tenor saxophone, clarinet, and cello] | |
− | + | ||
− | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles:'''</span></p> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer composer] <br/> | |
− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_arrangers arranger] <br/> |
− | [[file: | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher teacher] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz of jazz] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisation improvisation] on all instruments <br/> |
− | [[file: | + | |
− | + | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Style/Genre:'''</span></p> | |
− | [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> |
− | [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_jazz_arrangers arranger] <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_jazz Cool jazz] <br/> |
− | [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher teacher] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz of jazz] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvisation improvisation] <br/>< | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_jazz Early free improvisation] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] Bebop <br/> | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-bop Post-bop] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde_jazz Avant-garde jazz] <br/> |
− | [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] | + | |
− | [[file: | + | <center>[[file:LennieTristanoRightfacingGottlieb1.jpeg]] <br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(New York, N.Y., ca. Aug. 1947)<br/>([http://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.08711 photograph] by [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb])</p> </center><br/> |
− | [[file: | + | |
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+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Notable Achievements:'''</span><ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
+ | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span></ref></p> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois Illinois,] where he lost his eyesight at age 8. | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] born in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago Chicago,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois Illinois,] where he lost his eyesight at age 8. | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [[file:LennieTristanoDarkBW1.jpeg]] <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [[file:LennieTristanoDarkBW1.jpeg]] <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] graduated from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservatory_of_Music American Conservatory of Music] in Chicago with a B.A. in Music.<br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] graduated from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Conservatory_of_Music American Conservatory of Music] in Chicago with a B.A. in Music (1941).<br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] was influenced by pianists [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hines Earl "Fatha" Hines] (1903–1983), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Wilson Teddy Wilson] (1912–1986) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum Art Tatum] (1909–1956). <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] was influenced by pianists [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Hines Earl "Fatha" Hines] (1903–1983), [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teddy_Wilson Teddy Wilson] (1912–1986) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Tatum Art Tatum] (1909–1956). <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“sought to make improvisation less predictable and more open-ended, and aspired to a purely dispassionate sound to his music.”</span><ref name=TristanoUVA/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:green">“sought to make improvisation less predictable and more open-ended, and aspired to a purely dispassionate sound to his music.”</span><ref name=TristanoUVA/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] taught many jazz players over thirty years, including tenor saxophonists [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Freeman Bud Freeman] and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warne_Marsh Warne Marsh], | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] taught many jazz players over thirty years, including tenor saxophonists [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Freeman Bud Freeman] (1906–1991) and [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warne_Marsh Warne Marsh] (1927–1987), alto saxophonist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Konitz Lee Konitz] (1927–2020), clarinetist and composer [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_LaPorta John LaPorta] (1920–2004), guitarist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Bauer Billy Bauer] (1915–2005), and bassist [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Fishkind Arnold Fishkind] (1919–1999). <br/> |
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] ''Metronome's'' musician of the year in 1947. | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Konitz and Marsh joined his pioneering sextet and recorded for [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records Capitol Records] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949 1949.] <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Konitz and Marsh joined his pioneering sextet and recorded for [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records Capitol Records] in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949 1949.] <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] From 1955 to 1958, the threesome also recorded together and separately for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesuhi_Ertegun Nesuhi Ertegun's] (1917–1989) newly established [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic Records.]<br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] From 1955 to 1958, the threesome also recorded together and separately for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nesuhi_Ertegun Nesuhi Ertegun's] (1917–1989) newly established [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic Records.]<br/> | ||
− | [[file: | + | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' a review of [http://jazzjournal.co.uk/2021/03/22/charlie-parker-lennie-tristano-complete-recordings/ "Charlie Parker & Lennie Tristano: Complete Recordings."] [[file:CharlieParkerLennieTristanoCompleteRecordingsAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://jazzjournal.co.uk/2021/03/22/charlie-parker-lennie-tristano-complete-recordings/|alt=The album cover for "Charlie Parker & Lennie Tristano: Complete Recordings."]] |
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− | [[file: | + | |
− | [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]] | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] elected to [http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame ''DownBeat'' magazine Hall of Fame,] Critic's Poll (1979). [[file:DownbeatLogo1.png|link=http://downbeat.com/archives/detail/downbeat-hall-of-fame]]<br/> |
− | <br/> | + | |
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2013 for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosscurrents_(Lennie_Tristano_album) "Crosscurrents,"] an album of [http://www.allmusic.com/album/crosscurrents-mw0000919302 recordings from 1949.] | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] added to the [http://academy.jazz.org/hall-of-fame/ Ertegun Hall of Fame in 2015.] | ||
<div align="center">[[file:LennieTristanoRotated.png]]</div> <br/> | <div align="center">[[file:LennieTristanoRotated.png]]</div> <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' Arabella Sprot's [http://jazzfuel.com/lennie-tristano-albums/ "Lennie Tristano: 10 Great Albums from the Jazz Innovator,"] last updated November 3, 2021. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' Barry Ulanov's [http://jazzstudiesonline.org/files/jso/resources/pdf/MasterInTheMaking.pdf "Lennie Tristano: Master in the Making (The remarkable life of Lennie Tristano who wrested order out of chaos and art out of affliction),"] ''Metronome'', August 1949, 14–15 & 32–33. | ||
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+ | <div align="center">[[file:ColorizedEnhancedLennieTristanoRotated.jpeg]]</div> <br/> | ||
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+ | ==<span style="color:teal">'''Chet Baker'''</span>== | ||
+ | |||
+ | {| class="wikitable sortable collapsible collapsed" style="float:center; margin-right: 0; margin-left:1em; text-align:left" | ||
+ | |- | ||
+ | | <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <div align="center">[[file:ChetBakerBronzeMemorialPlaqueNoWriting.jpeg|link=http://pin.it/5B8aXhK |alt=A closeup of a bronze plaque of Chet Baker with bushy eyebrows and eyes closed blowing furiously into his trumpet memorializing the location of Chet Baker's death at the Prins Hendrik hotel in Amsterdam with the writing at bottom of plaque cutoff.]] </div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Baker Chet Baker] (1929–1988) <br/><span style="color:red">(active 1949→1988)</span></p> </div> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p> | ||
+ | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumpet trumpet] [[file:Trumpet1.png]] <br/><br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer vocals] <br/><br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugelhorn flugelhorn] [[file:Flugelhorn1.png]] <br/><br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano piano] [[file:Piano1.png]] <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles:'''</span></p> | ||
+ | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sideman sideman] <br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocalist singer] <br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_leader band leader] <br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(music) soloist] <br/><br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Style/Genre:'''</span></p> | ||
+ | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop Bebop] <br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_jazz Cool jazz] <br/> | ||
+ | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Coast_jazz West Coast jazz] <br/><br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:#013220">'''Notable Achievements:<ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
+ | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref>''' </span></p> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] born in 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma the son of guitarist Chesney Henry Baker, Sr. with the family moving to Glendale, California in 1940. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] when a young boy he sang in the church choir as well as in amateur competitions. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] when a teenager, his father bought him a trombone, which Chet found unwieldy, so later is replaced by a trumpet. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] first musical training was at Glendale Junior High School in California. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] dropped out of high school at sixteen and enlisted in the army (1946) where he played in the Army Band of the 298th Army regiment in Berlin, Germany. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] studied music theory and harmony at El Camino College in Los Angeles, California (1948) while playing in local jazz clubs. He dropped out of college in his sophomore year. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] enlisted again in the army and became a member of the Sixth Army Band (1949) at the Presidium in San Francisco. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] continued to perform at numerous clubs around San Francisco, including Bop City and the Black Hawk. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in 1952 his first notable performances were with saxophonist Vido Musso’s band and tenor saxophonist Stan Getz. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in the summer of 1952, Charlie Parker chose him to play in his new band in a series of concerts on the West Coast. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] after finishing with Parker, he began playing in Gerry Mulligan’s quartet, where they used only a baritone saxophone, trumpet, bass and drums, but no piano, gaining notoriety performing at the Haig nightclub and coming under contract with the new record label Pacific Jazz Records (later known as World Records Pacific). The band stood out for the interaction between Mulligan's baritone saxophone and Baker's trumpet. Rather than playing melodic lines in unison like bebop giants Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, the two developed musical phrases from contrapuntal techniques. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Baker became famous for his unusually effective expressive abilities, especially because of his interpretation of "My Funny Valentine" in the band's first LP, ''Gerry Mulligan Quartet''. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] because of Mulligan's drug problems (he served time in prison) and economic and character disagreements, Baker formed his own jazz band, where he played trumpet and sang. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] won the Best Instrumentalist award in ''DownBeat'' magazine's poll (1954), beating Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, and rising star Clifford Brown, among others. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in 1959 and 1960 Baker toured Italy and recorded records with the orchestra of Maestro Ezio Leoni (an artistic pseudonym for Len Mercer) playing with Italian musicians Franco Cerri, Gianni Basso, Renato Sellani, Glauco Masetti, Franco Mondini, Fausto Papetti, and pianist Luca Flores. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] began playing the soprano flugelhorn during his performances in the early 1960s. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] famous for having life long drug problems, especially cocaine and heroin, where his dependence on heroin got him a year in an Italian prison, and subsequent expulsions from West Germany and England. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] stopped playing in 1966 due to serious problems with his front teeth, which had to be extracted because of their causing severe pain. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] fellow trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie recognized Baker while working as a gas pump clerk and helped him fix his dentures and encouraged him to play again. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] Baker moved to New York, where he began recording with renowned jazz guitarist Jim Hall (with whom he recorded the excellent "Concierto"), and then finally returned to living in Europe. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] collaborated with English musician Elvis Costello in the song "Shipbuilding." | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] [http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big Discogs] lists a total of 7,848 albums that Baker plays on with [http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big&type=master 829] exclusively featuring Baker. Click on any of the three-hundred forty-five [http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big album covers] below to confirm. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:ChetBakerDiscographyAlbumCoversDiscogs12.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big&type=master |alt=A color composite of many of Chet Baker's album covers with titles.]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:ChetBakerDiscographyAlbumCoversDiscogs12.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big&type=master |alt=A color composite of many of Chet Baker's album covers with titles.]] <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:ChetBakerDiscographyAlbumCoversDiscogs34.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big&type=master |alt=A color composite of many of Chet Baker's album covers with titles.]] <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:ChetBakerDiscographyAlbumCoversDiscogs56.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big&type=master |alt=A color composite of many of Chet Baker's album covers with titles.]] <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:ChetBakerDiscographyAlbumCoversDiscogs78.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big&type=master |alt=A color composite of many of Chet Baker's album covers with titles.]] <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:ChetBakerDiscographyAlbumCoversDiscogs910.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/search/?limit=250&sort=score%2Cdesc&q=chet+baker&layout=big&type=master |alt=A color composite of many of Chet Baker's album covers with titles.]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] moved almost permanently out of the United States living around Europe, especially Holland, where the permissive laws on narcotics allowed him to satisfy his heroin dependence relatively easily. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] collaborated with Italian flutist Nicola Stilo, discovered by Baker. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] in Rome, Italy he met the Brazilian pianist and singer Jim Porto with whom recorded ''Rio'' (1983). | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] invited to perform at the 1985 Free Jazz Festival in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil. | ||
+ | |||
+ | <center>[[file:AnimatedChetBakerThreeCovers.gif|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chet_Baker_in_Milan |alt=Three Chet Baker album covers slightly enhanced with the third one on right animated.]]</center> | ||
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+ | <br/><div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette_Coleman (Randolph Denard) Ornette Coleman]<br/>(1930–2015) <br/><span style="color:red">(active 1949→2015)</span></p> </div><br/><br/> | ||
<div align="center">[[file:OrnetteColemanCloseupHeadColorfulCheckeredJacket.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photo by Tom Beetz, taken July 9, 2010)</p> | <div align="center">[[file:OrnetteColemanCloseupHeadColorfulCheckeredJacket.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photo by Tom Beetz, taken July 9, 2010)</p> | ||
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[[file:OrnetteColemanQuizzicalExpression.jpeg|link=http://txculturaltrust.org/bio/ornette-coleman/|alt=Ornette Coleman with a quizzical expression on his face and wearing a black hat while holding his alto saxophone.]] <br/> | [[file:OrnetteColemanQuizzicalExpression.jpeg|link=http://txculturaltrust.org/bio/ornette-coleman/|alt=Ornette Coleman with a quizzical expression on his face and wearing a black hat while holding his alto saxophone.]] <br/> | ||
[[file:OrnetteColemanHeadshotColorfulJacket1.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photo by Tom Beetz, taken July 9, 2010)</p></div> <br/> | [[file:OrnetteColemanHeadshotColorfulJacket1.jpeg]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(Photo by Tom Beetz, taken July 9, 2010)</p></div> <br/> | ||
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<div align="left"><p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | <div align="left"><p style = "font-size: 16pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p><br/> | ||
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<div align="center">[[file:OrnetteColemanQuartetSwingJournal1969.jpeg|link=http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-53/PoD53Ornette.html|alt=on Cherry, Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman, and Ed Blackwell in rehearsal in 1969.]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(l. to rt. [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#Don_Cherry Don Cherry,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Haden Charlie Haden,] [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#Ornette_Coleman Ornette Coleman,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Blackwell Ed Blackwell])<br/>(Photograph originally published in the Japanese magazine [https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Swing_Journal?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui,sc ''Swing''] [http://www.jazzinavailablelight.com/blog/tag/Swing+Journal ''Journal''] October 1969) <br/>([http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-53/PoD53Ornette.html| Photo] by [http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-53/PoD53Ornette.html Takahashi Arihara])</p></div> | <div align="center">[[file:OrnetteColemanQuartetSwingJournal1969.jpeg|link=http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-53/PoD53Ornette.html|alt=on Cherry, Charlie Haden, Ornette Coleman, and Ed Blackwell in rehearsal in 1969.]]<br/><p style = "font-size: 10pt">(l. to rt. [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#Don_Cherry Don Cherry,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Haden Charlie Haden,] [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#Ornette_Coleman Ornette Coleman,] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Blackwell Ed Blackwell])<br/>(Photograph originally published in the Japanese magazine [https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Swing_Journal?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=nui,sc ''Swing''] [http://www.jazzinavailablelight.com/blog/tag/Swing+Journal ''Journal''] October 1969) <br/>([http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-53/PoD53Ornette.html| Photo] by [http://www.pointofdeparture.org/archives/PoD-53/PoD53Ornette.html Takahashi Arihara])</p></div> | ||
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+ | <blockquote><span style="color:green">“For the players, however, it was something that, according to Haden, they “worked out as we went along. We '''did it all by ear'''. At first when we were playing and improvising, we kind of followed the pattern of the song, sometimes. Then, '''when we got to New York''', Ornette wasn’t playing on the song patterns, like the bridge and the interlude and stuff like that. He would just play. And that’s when I started just following him and '''playing the chord changes that he was playing: on-the-spot new chord structures made up according to how he felt at any given moment'''. And Cherry was kind of playing like that, too, so Billy [Higgins] and I kind of followed it. “The truth is,” he continues, “that '''when we had first met, we were kind of all hearing that way already'''. We just happened to be at the right place at the right time, all together, to make this thing happen. And it just kept getting better and better.”</span><ref><span style="color:blue">[https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Don_Heckman?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc Don] [http://jazztimes.com/author/don-heckman/ Heckman,] [http://jazztimes.com/features/profiles/charlie-haden-everything-man/ "Charlie Haden: Everything Man: Don Heckman profiles noted bassist and bandleader,"] ''JazzTimes'', updated April 26, 2019.</span></ref> <span style="color:blue">(bold not in original)</span> | ||
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− | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick navy">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">received the key to his hometown [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas Fort Worth, TX] (1983) documented in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Clarke Shirley Clark’s] film</span>[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette:_Made_in_America “Ornette: Made In America.”] [[file:OrnetteMadeInAmerica1.jpeg|link= http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette:_Made_in_America]] | + | <blockquote style="background-color: white; text: black; border: solid thick navy">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:black">received the key to his hometown [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Texas Fort Worth, TX] (1983) documented in [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Clarke Shirley Clark’s] film</span> [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette:_Made_in_America “Ornette: Made In America.”] [[file:OrnetteMadeInAmerica1.jpeg|link= http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette:_Made_in_America]] |
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− | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: | + | <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Cherry_(trumpeter) Don Cherry] 🍒 (1936–1995)<br/><span style="color:red">(active 1952→1994)</span></p></div> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] stayed with Ornette Coleman through the early 1960s, playing on the first twelve (and most influential) of the saxophonist’s albums listed below: <br/> <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] stayed with Ornette Coleman through the early 1960s, playing on the first twelve (and most influential) of the saxophonist’s albums listed below: <br/> <br/> | ||
− | : <span style="color:red">'''NOTE''': In the albums below, the recording date(s) are listed first separated by a forward slash "/" followed by its release date. If the album was recorded and released in the same year only one date is used. </span><br/> | + | : <span style="color:red">'''NOTE''': '''Click on album title''' for ''Wikipedia'' page and '''click on album cover''' for more information about it. In the albums below, the '''recording date(s) are listed first''' separated by a forward slash "/" '''followed by its release date'''. If the album was recorded and released in the same year only one date is used. </span><br/> |
: [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Else!!!! "Something Else!!!!"] [[file:SomethingElse!AlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.jazzmessengers.com/fr/65000/ornette-coleman/something-else|alt=The first recording album cover titled "Something Else!" by Ornette Coleman with his black and white cutout photograph of his picture playing the alto saxophone on lower left corner facing right with the title "SOMETHING ELSE! THE MUSIC OF ORNETTE COLEMAN" written in all capital letters and splashed across the front of the album cover.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Records Contemporary,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_in_the_United_States 1958]) | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Something_Else!!!! "Something Else!!!!"] [[file:SomethingElse!AlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.jazzmessengers.com/fr/65000/ornette-coleman/something-else|alt=The first recording album cover titled "Something Else!" by Ornette Coleman with his black and white cutout photograph of his picture playing the alto saxophone on lower left corner facing right with the title "SOMETHING ELSE! THE MUSIC OF ORNETTE COLEMAN" written in all capital letters and splashed across the front of the album cover.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contemporary_Records Contemporary,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_in_the_United_States 1958]) | ||
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: [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_(Ornette_Coleman_album) "Twins"] [[file:TwinsAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/album/twins-mw0000497980|alt=The album cover for "Twins" by Ornette Coleman with a bald women in a long tubular robe extending from neck to floor seated on a long wooden bench in a columned interior courtyard with potted plants and a potted tree having a light sepia yellowed filter over entire photograph.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959]–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_the_United_States 1961] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_the_United_States 1971]) <br/> | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twins_(Ornette_Coleman_album) "Twins"] [[file:TwinsAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/album/twins-mw0000497980|alt=The album cover for "Twins" by Ornette Coleman with a bald women in a long tubular robe extending from neck to floor seated on a long wooden bench in a columned interior courtyard with potted plants and a potted tree having a light sepia yellowed filter over entire photograph.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959]–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_the_United_States 1961] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_in_the_United_States 1971]) <br/> | ||
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Improvisers "The Art of the Improvisers"] [[file: | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_the_Improvisers "The Art of the Improvisers"] [[file:TheArtOfTheImprovisersAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-art-of-the-improvisers-mw0000198495|alt=The album cover for "The Art of the Improvisers" by Ornette Coleman.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959]–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_the_United_States 1961] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_in_the_United_States 1970]) <br/> |
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_of_the_Century "Change of the Century"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_the_United_States 1960]) <br/> | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_of_the_Century "Change of the Century"] [[file:ChangeOfTheCenturyAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.npr.org/2011/06/22/4556218/ornette-coleman-change-of-the-century|alt=The album cover for "Change of the Century" by Ornette Coleman.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_the_United_States 1960]) <br/> |
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Whom_Who_Keeps_a_Record "To Whom Who Keeps a Record"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959]–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_the_United_States 1960] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_the_United_States 1975]) | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Whom_Who_Keeps_a_Record "To Whom Who Keeps a Record"] [[file:ToWhomWhoKeepsARecordAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/to-whom-who-keeps-a-record-ornette-coleman-water-music-review-by-kurt-gottschalk|alt=The album cover for "To Whom Who Keeps A Record" by Ornette Coleman.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959_in_the_United_States 1959]–[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_the_United_States 1960] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_the_United_States 1975]) |
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http:// | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://www.discogs.com/release/15410249-Ornette-Coleman-The-Ornette-Coleman-Legacy- "The Ornette Coleman Legacy"] [[file:TheOrnetteColemanLegacyVinylAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.discogs.com/release/15410249-Ornette-Coleman-The-Ornette-Coleman-Legacy-|alt=The vinyl LP album cover for "The Ornette Coleman Legacy."]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_the_United_States 1961]) |
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Is_Our_Music_(Ornette_Coleman_album) "This Is Our Music"] [[file:ThisIsOurMusicAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/album/this-is-our-music-mw0000529299|alt=The album cover for "This Is Our Music" by the Ornette Coleman quartet.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_the_United_States 1961]) |
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Jazz_(album) "Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_the_United_States 1961]) | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Jazz_(album) "Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation"] [[file:FreeJazzAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/album/free-jazz-mw0000256161|alt=The album cover for "Free Jazz" by Ornette Coleman]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961_in_the_United_States 1961]) |
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette! "Ornette!"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_in_the_United_States 1962]) | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette! "Ornette!"] [[file:OrnetteAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/album/ornette-mw0000325438|alt=The album cover for "Ornette!" by Ornette Coleman.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_in_the_United_States 1962]) |
− | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette_on_Tenor "Ornette on Tenor"] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_in_the_United_States 1962]) <br/> | + | : [[file:RedModularFormBullet16.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornette_on_Tenor "Ornette on Tenor"] [[file:OrnetteOnTenorAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://www.allmusic.com/album/ornette-on-tenor-mw0000691086|alt=The album cover for "Ornette On Tenor" by the Ornette Coleman quartet.]] ([http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962_in_the_United_States 1962]) <br/> |
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] In 1960, recorded [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avant-Garde_(album) "The Avant-Garde"] ([http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_the_United_States 1960] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_in_the_United_States 1966]) with [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#John_Coltrane John Coltrane] (1926–1967). | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] In 1960, recorded [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Avant-Garde_(album) "The Avant-Garde"] ([http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Records Atlantic,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_in_the_United_States 1960] / [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966_in_the_United_States 1966]) with [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#John_Coltrane John Coltrane] (1926–1967). | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] After leaving Coleman’s band, played with Albert Ayler on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Eye_and_Ear_Control New York Eye and Ear Control] (1964) and Ayler's legendary album "Ghosts" (1965). <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] After leaving Coleman’s band, played with [https://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ontdef3._What_is_the_definition_of_jazz%3F#Albert_Ayler_.28July_13.2C_1936_.E2.80.93_November_25.2C_1970.29 Albert] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ayler Ayler] (1936–1970) on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Eye_and_Ear_Control "New York Eye and Ear Control"] (1964) [[file:NewYorkEyeAndEarControlAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Eye_and_Ear_Control|alt=The album cover for "New York Eye and Ear Control" by Albert Ayler recorded in July 1964 by an augmented version of Albert Ayler's group to provide the soundtrack for Michael Snow's film of the same name.]] and Ayler's [https://www.allmusic.com/album/ghosts-mw0000195091 legendary album] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghosts_(Albert_Ayler_album) "Ghosts"] (1965). <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] co-led the New York Contemporary Five with Archie Shepp and John Tchicai (1963–1964). <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] co-led the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Contemporary_Five New York Contemporary Five] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Shepp Archie Shepp] (b. 1937) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tchicai John Tchicai] (1963–1964). <br/> |
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] led a band in Europe with Argentinian saxophonist Gato Barbieri from 1964–1966 and recorded two of his most highly regarded albums, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Communion "Complete Communion"] [[file:CompleteCommunionAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Communion|alt=The album cover for "Complete Communion" by Don Cherry 🍒.]] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_for_Improvisers "Symphony for Improvisers."] | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] led a band in Europe with Argentinian saxophonist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gato_Barbieri Gato Barbieri] (1932–2016) from 1964–1966 and recorded two of his most highly regarded albums, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Communion "Complete Communion"] [[file:CompleteCommunionAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_Communion|alt=The album cover for "Complete Communion" by Don Cherry 🍒.]] (1965/1966) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_for_Improvisers "Symphony for Improvisers."] |
− | [[file:SymphonyForImprovisersAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_for_Improvisers|alt=The album cover for "Symphony for Improvisers" by Don Cherry 🍒 | + | [[file:SymphonyForImprovisersAlbumCover.jpeg|link=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_for_Improvisers|alt=The album cover for "Symphony for Improvisers" by Don Cherry 🍒]] (1966/1967).<br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] appeared on records alongside many other icons of modern jazz, including Archie Shepp, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Carla Bley, Charlie Haden, Steve Lacy, and Sun Ra. <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] appeared on records alongside many other icons of modern jazz, including [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_Shepp Archie Shepp,] [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#John_Coltrane John Coltrane,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonny_Rollins Sonny Rollins,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carla_Bley Carla Bley,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Haden Charlie Haden,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Lacy_(saxophonist) Steve Lacy,] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra Sun Ra.] <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] taught music at Dartmouth College (1970). <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] taught music at [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_College Dartmouth College] (1970). <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded with the Jazz Composer’s Orchestra (1973). <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_Composer%27s_Orchestra Jazz Composer’s Orchestra] (1973). <br/> |
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] starting in early 1970s lived in Sweden with his wife Moki and their children for four years and used the country as a base for his travels around Europe and the Middle East. <br/> | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] starting in early 1970s lived in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden Sweden] with his wife [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moki_Cherry Moki] (1943–2009) and their children for four years and used the country as a base for his travels around [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_East Middle East.] <br/> |
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] became increasingly interested in other, mostly non-Western, styles of music. <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] became increasingly interested in other, mostly non-Western, styles of music. <br/> | ||
− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] performed and recorded with Codona with percussionist | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] performed and recorded with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codona Codona] with percussionist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Vasconcelos Naná Vasconcelos] (1944–2016) (on right in photo below) and multi-instrumentalist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collin_Walcott Collin Walcott] (1945–1984) (in middle of photo below) playing a mixture of African, Asian, and other indigenous musics (late 1970s and early 1980s). <br/> |
+ | <div align="center">[[file:CodonaWithCherryWalcottVasconcelosBW.jpeg|link=http://sonichits.com/video/Collin_Walcott%2C_Don_Cherry_%26_Nana_Vasconcelos/Like_That_of_Sky|alt=A black and white photographic cutout of the group Codona with Don Cherry on left, Collin Walcott in middle, and Naná Vasconcelos on right.]]</div> | ||
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− | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed the band called Nu with | + | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] joined with ex-Coleman associates [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Haden Charlie Haden,] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Blackwell Ed Blackwell,] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey_Redman Dewey Redman] to form [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_and_New_Dreams Old and New Dreams] that played the compositions of [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ep16._What_are_jazz_legend%27s_notable_accomplishments%3F#Ornette_Coleman Ornette Coleman.] <br/> |
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] formed the band called [http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/28/arts/the-nu-quintet.html Nu] with [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nana_Vasconcelos Naná Vasconcelos] (1944–2016) and alto saxophonist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ward Carlos Ward] (b. 1940). <br/> | ||
[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded the album "Art Deco" with bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Billy Higgins, and saxophonist James Clay (1988). <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] recorded the album "Art Deco" with bassist Charlie Haden, drummer Billy Higgins, and saxophonist James Clay (1988). <br/> | ||
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[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] helped to [http://www.kuvo.org/the-jazz-river-before-world-music-there-was-don-cherry/ promote other countries music into a jazz context,] so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music world music.] <br/> | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] helped to [http://www.kuvo.org/the-jazz-river-before-world-music-there-was-don-cherry/ promote other countries music into a jazz context,] so-called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_music world music.] <br/> | ||
− | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Listen''' to [http://youtu.be/fKoBBz1Sbzg Don Cherry's voice] discussing his meeting with saxophonist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ayler Albert] [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ontdef3._What_is_the_definition_of_jazz%3F#Albert_Ayler_.28July_13.2C_1936_.E2.80.93_November_25.2C_1970.29 Ayler] (1936–1970) | + | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Listen''' to [http://youtu.be/fKoBBz1Sbzg Don Cherry's voice] discussing his meeting with saxophonist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Ayler Albert] [http://philosophyofjazz.net/wiki/Ontdef3._What_is_the_definition_of_jazz%3F#Albert_Ayler_.28July_13.2C_1936_.E2.80.93_November_25.2C_1970.29 Ayler] (1936–1970). |
[[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.le-grigri.com/shows/2021/3/11/mix-special-don-cherry-around-the-world '''Listen''' to Don Cherry playing and incorporating world music.] | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.le-grigri.com/shows/2021/3/11/mix-special-don-cherry-around-the-world '''Listen''' to Don Cherry playing and incorporating world music.] | ||
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− | + | | <br/> <div align="center"><p style = "font-size: 40pt">[http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wynton_Marsalis Wynton Marsalis] (b. 1962) </p> <br/><br/> | |
− | + | [[file:WyntonMarsalisPinkEBigger.jpeg|link=http://wyntonmarsalis.org/ |alt=An enhanced color photograph of Wynton Marsalis blowing his trumpet with a hot pink background.]] <br/> </div> | |
− | < | + | |
− | < | + | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] <span style="color:blue">'''Instrument:'''</span></p> <br/> |
− | < | + | |
− | + | : [[file:TictacBlueCu10.gif]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/trumps trumpet] [[file:Trumpet1.png]] <br/><br/> | |
− | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span> </ref> | + | |
− | + | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Roles:''' </span></p> | |
− | + | ||
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing singer] <br/> | |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandleader bandleader] <br/> | |
− | [[file: | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solo_(music) soloist] <br/> |
− | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer composer] <br/> | |
− | [[file: | + | : [[file:YellowButtonBullet10px.png]] artistic director of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at_Lincoln_Center Jazz at Lincoln Center] [[file:WyntonMarsalisRightLincolnCenterBandLeft2022.jpeg|link=http://berksjazzfest.com/2022-major-concert-schedule/ |alt=A color photograph of Wynton Marsalis front right with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in rear at left in 2022.]] <br/> |
− | [[file: | + | ::::::::::::::: (Wynton Marsalis standing front right<br/>with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra<br/>in rear at left in 2022)<br/> |
− | [[file: | + | |
− | [[file: | + | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:BlueButtonBullet10px2.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Style/Genre:''' </span></p> |
− | [[file: | + | |
− | [[file: | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_music Classical] <br/> |
− | [[file: | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz Jazz] <br/> |
− | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teacher jazz educator] <br/> | |
− | [[file: | + | : [[file:BlueButtonBullet9.png]] [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixieland Dixieland] <br/> <br/> |
− | + | ||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:RedButtonBullet10px.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Years Active:''' </span></p> | ||
+ | |||
+ | : <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:RedButtonBullet10px.png]] 1980 → present </p> | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | <p style = "font-size: 20pt">[[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] <span style="color:blue">'''Notable Achievements:'''</span><ref><span style="color:blue">For musical examples see: </span><br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://jazztimes.com/features/40-essential-solos/ "Essential Solos: 40 Great Improvisations: (100) Jazz artists and critics pick their favorite solos from the music's past and present,"] <span style="color:blue">''Jazz Times'', November 2, 2017. </span> <br/> <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ [http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/perfect-jazz-recordings "Perfect Jazz Recordings,"] <span style="color:blue">Richard Brody, ''The New Yorker'', September 23, 2014.</span> <br/> | ||
+ | <span style="visibility: hidden;">++</span> ‣ <span style="color:blue">Also see the [http://www.jazzdisco.org/ Jazz Discography Project]. </span></ref><ref><span style="color:blue">Michael Rydzynski, [http://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/entertainment/tn-wknd-et-marsalis-in-oc-20180927-story.html "Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to interpret the music of Duke Ellington at Barclay,"] ''Los Angeles Times'', September 27, 2018.</span></ref> </p> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] pivotal figure in the [http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-bop_jazz neo-traditionalist] movement in jazz <br/> [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a Pulitzer Prize. <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] nine Grammy Awards. <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] two Emmy nominations. <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] a National Medal of Arts. <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] National Humanities Medal. <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame. <br/> | ||
+ | [[file:GreenButtonBullet9.png]] has sold seven million albums worldwide. <br/> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' Playthell Benjamin, [http://theguardian.newspapers.com/image/260313587/?terms=jazz&match=1 "Urgent notes in a dazzling language,"] ''The Guardian'', June 4, 1992, 25. <br/> | ||
+ | :: <span style="color:green">“Jazz, the invention of black America, has long been neglected by New York's Waspish elite. But one man is changing that, a man whose trumpet sings with a unique, polished voice. He is so good, even the white establishment is impressed.” </span> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''See''' and '''hear''' [http://youtu.be/oUaLc1zabVo "Wynton Marsalis interview "Music is Life"] at the ideafestival. | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] '''Read''' Patrick Jarenwattananon's review of [http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2011/10/25/141706465/wynton-marsalis-at-50-at-the-vanguard-in-history "Wynton Marsalis: At 50, At The Vanguard, In History,"] at A Blog Supreme, NPR Music, October 25, 2011. | ||
+ | |||
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|} | |} | ||
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+ | |||
+ | ==<span style="color:fuchsia">'''Internet Resources on Jazz's Notable Achievements'''</span>== | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://web.archive.org/web/20080418011502/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917043-1,00.html "A Flourish of Jazz,"] <span style="color:blue">''Time'' magazine, July 5, 1976. </span> | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/genre/genre36.htm "Top Jazz albums"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/genre/genre37.htm "Top Avant-garde jazz albums"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/genre/genre38.htm "Top BeBop albums"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/genre/genre39.htm "Top Hard Bop albums"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/genre/genre40.htm "Top Big Band albums"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/genre/genre41.htm "Top Swing albums"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/genre/genre42.htm "Top Vocal Jazz albums"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] | ||
+ | |||
+ | [[file:CirclesInSquareBullet5.gif]] [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/top_artists/t1890.htm "Top artists from 1890–1949"] from [http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/ acclaimedmusic.net] includes twelve jazz musicians out of the top twenty and six out of the top ten, including first place (Duke Ellington), second place (Louis Armstrong), and third place (Billie Holiday). | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:52, 26 July 2022
Contents
- 1 Discussion
- 2 NEA Jazz Masters
- 3 Ertegun Hall of Fame
- 4 Jazz Resources
- 5 Greatest Jazz Albums
- 6 Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology
- 7 Jazz Sub-Genres
- 8 Tables of jazz legend's notable achievements 1890-1990
- 8.1 Buddy Bolden
- 8.2 Jelly Roll Morton
- 8.3 Louis Armstrong
- 8.4 Sydney Bechet
- 8.5 Duke Ellington
- 8.6 Coleman Hawkins
- 8.7 Lester Young
- 8.8 Count Basie
- 8.9 Mary Lou Williams
- 8.10 Kenny Clarke
- 8.11 Charlie Christian
- 8.12 Thelonious Monk
- 8.13 Dizzy Gillespie
- 8.14 Charlie Parker
- 8.15 Charles Mingus
- 8.16 Art Blakey
- 8.17 Max Roach
- 8.18 John Coltrane
- 8.19 Miles Davis
- 8.20 Lennie Tristano
- 8.21 Chet Baker
- 8.22 Ornette Coleman
- 8.23 Don Cherry
- 8.24 Lee Morgan
- 8.25 John McLaughlin
- 8.26 Wynton Marsalis
- 8.27 Internet Resources on Jazz's Notable Achievements
- 9 NOTES
Discussion[edit]
NOTE: Most images are clickable hyperlinks to more information about that item.
NEA Jazz Masters[edit]
Left to right from back (top) row: George Russell, Dave Brubeck; second row: David Baker, Percy Heath, Billy Taylor; third row: Nat Hentoff, Jim Hall, James Moody; fourth row: Jackie McLean, Chico Hamilton, Gerald Wilson, Jimmy Heath; fifth row: Ron Carter, Anita O'Day; sixth row: Randy Weston, Horace Silver; standing next to or in front of balustrade: Benny Golson, Hank Jones, Frank Foster (seated), Cecil Taylor, Roy Haynes, Clark Terry (seated) Louie Bellson and Dana Gioia (chairman of NEA). (Only Ron Carter b. 1937, Benny Golson b. 1929, Roy Haynes b. 1925, and Dana Gioia b. 1950 are still alive as of 2021)
(NEA Jazz Masters)
(January 2012)
Legends in jazz, blues and beyond can be elected into the DownBeat Hall of Fame by way of the annual Critics Poll (designated by “C”), Readers Poll (“R”) or Veterans Committee (“V”). The Readers poll began in 1952 with the Critics in 1961 and the Veterans Committee in 2008.
Ertegun Hall of Fame[edit]
To be nominated to the Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame
at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz Academy,
an artist must have:
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Achieved innovation in a style or a concept of playing.
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Created an original concept with a body of music or body of arrangements.
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Spoke/speaks across generations, unbound to his or her generation’s concept of style.
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Originated a definitive style.
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Popularized a style without compromising the aesthetic quality of the music.
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Occupies a significant position within the jazz lineage.
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Influenced musicians across time.
Artists in alphabetical order and year inducted into the hall with vocalists in bold font are:
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley (2019)
Louis Armstrong (2004)
Count Basie (2005)
Sidney Bechet (2004)
Bix Beiderbecke (2004)
Art Blakey (2013)
Jimmie Blanton (2018)
Clifford Brown (2007)
Benny Carter (2007)
Betty Carter (2014)
Charlie Christian (2007)
Nat “King” Cole (2018)
Ornette Coleman (2008)
John Coltrane (2004)
Miles Davis (2004)
Roy Eldridge (2005)
Duke Ellington (2004)
Bill Evans (2010)
Gil Evans (2008)
Ella Fitzgerald (2005)
Dizzy Gillespie (2004)
Benny Goodman (2005)
Dexter Gordon (2015)
Freddie Green (2020)
Lionel Hampton (2013)
Coleman Hawkins (2004)
Fletcher Henderson (2014)
Earl Hines (2005)
Johnny Hodges (2005)
Billie Holiday (2004)
J.J. Johnson (2016)
James P. Johnson (2015)
Elvin Jones (2014)
Jo Jones (2005)
Lee Konitz (2020)
John Lewis (2020)
Charles Mingus (2005)
Wes Montgomery (2014)
Jelly Roll Morton (2004)
Thelonious Monk (2004)
King Oliver (2005)
Bud Powell (2010)
Charlie Parker (2004)
Tito Puente (2017)
Don Redman (2017)
Django Reinhardt (2007)
Max Roach (2005)
Sonny Rollins (2005)
Wayne Shorter (2016)
Nina Simone (2018)
Bessie Smith (2008)
Billy Strayhorn (2010)
Art Tatum (2004)
Clark Terry (2013)
Lennie Tristano (2015)
Frank Trumbauer (2019)
McCoy Tyner (2017)
Sarah Vaughan (2010)
Fats Waller (2005)
Dinah Washington (2019)
Chick Webb (2019)
Ben Webster (2016)
Mary Lou Williams (2008)
Teddy Wilson (2020)
Lester Young (2004)
Jazz Resources[edit]
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JazzOnTheTube the biggest annotated and indexed online collection of jazz videos on earth – and it’s free.
- United Kingdom's National Jazz Archive a searchable database related to everything jazz. They describe themselves: “The National Jazz Archive holds the UK’s finest collection of written, printed and visual material on jazz, blues and related music, from the 1920s to the present day. Since the Archive was founded by Digby Fairweather in 1988, its vision has been to ensure that the rich cultural heritage of jazz is safeguarded for future generations of enthusiasts, professionals and researchers.”
Greatest Jazz Albums[edit]
NOTE: Click on the page to go to its source. These two pages represent great jazz albums released between 1959 and 1979. At least one album, Louis Armstrong's Hot 5 and 7, was recorded much earlier between 1925 and 1928.
- Vinyl Me, Please's "The 10 Best Albums For A Jazz Beginner" by Andrew Martin and Ryan Kowal
- The Jazz Resource's "15 Jazz Albums for Musicians"
- The Jazz Resource's "Top 25 Jazz Albums of All Time"
- The Jazz Resource's "Best Jazz Pianists" with videos
- UDiscoverMusic's "The 50 Greatest Jazz Albums . . . Ever" Published on December 30, 2014 By Sam Armstrong
- UDiscoverMusic's "The 50 Greatest Live Jazz Albums published on February 27, 2017 by Sam Armstrong
- "Top 10 Jazz Albums for People Who Don't Know Sh*t About Jazz by Sean J. O'Connell, May 15, 2012
- Amazon.com's "100 Greatest Jazz Albums of All Time" 2009 with a lot of critical reaction critiquing this list at NoiseAddicts.com
- RateYourMusic.com's "Best Jazz Albums of All Time - 22 Lists Combined" A list by erikfish who found 22 "top jazz albums of all time" lists in books, magazines and web sites, then combined them into one meta-list. The list here includes all albums contained on three or more of the 22 original source lists. (Last update: October 30, 2011)
- Jazz100's "Top 100 Jazz Albums: The Best Jazz Ever Released Digitally" by Peter Sykes & Jazz 100
- Jazz 100's "Next 100 Jazz Albums: The Best Jazz Ever Released Digitally" by Peter Sykes & Jazz 100
- ESurveysPro's "Top Classic Jazz albums"
- Jazz 100's "New (Contemporary jazz recordings over the past ten years 2004-2014) Jazz Top 100: The Best Jazz Ever Released Digitally" See New Jazz Notes
- Jazz 100's "Basic Collection of Jazz" 20 Basic Jazz Records
- Scott Yanow's—desert 🌵 island 🌴 jazz recommendations with album covers
Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology[edit]
- Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology (Box Set) 111 tracks of the best of jazz throughout its history from early to the present (release date March 29, 2011)
Disc: 1
1. Maple Leaf Rag (Dick Hyman) 2. In Gloryland (Bunk's Brass Band) 3. Livery Stable Blues (Original Dixieland Jazz Band) 4. Dipper Mouth Blues (King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band) 5. The Stampede (Fletcher Henderson & Orchestra) 6. Black Bottom Stomp (Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers) 7. Singin the Blues [Till My Daddy Comes Home] (Frankie Trumbauer & Orchestra) 8. Back Water Blues (Bessie Smith & James P. Johnson) 9. Black & Tan Fantasy (Duke Ellington & Orchestra) 10. From Monday On (Bix Beiderbecke/Paul Whiteman & Orchestra) 11. West End Blues (Louis Armstrong & His Hot Fives) 12. Weather Bird (Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines) 13. That's a Serious Thing (Eddie Condon's Hot Shots) 14. Handful of Riffs (Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson) 15. You've Got to Be Modernistic (James P. Johnson) 16. Moten Swing (Bennie Moten & Kansas City Orchestra) 17. Everybody Loves My Baby (Boswell Sisters) 18. Maple Leaf Rag (Sidney Bechet) 19. Dinah (Fats Waller & His Rhythm) 20. Swing That Music (Louis Armstrong & Orchestra) 21. Honky Tonk Train Blues (Meade Lux Lewis) 22. Mean to Me (Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & Orchestra) 23. For Dancers Only (Jimmie Lunceford & Orchestra) 24. 1 O'clock Jump (Count Basie & Orchestra) 25. Harlem Congo (Chick Webb & Orchestra)
Disc: 2
1. Minor Swing (Quartet du Hot Club de France) 2. Mary's Idea (Mary Lou Williams/Andy Kirk & the Clouds of Joy) 3. When Lights Are Low (Lionel Hampton) 4. Body & Soul (Coleman Hawkins & Orchestra) 5. Honeysuckle Rose (Bennie Goodman & Orchestra) 6. Tiger Rag (Art Tatum) 7. Ko-Ko (Duke Ellington & His Famous Orchestra) 8. Hard Times [Topsy Turvy] (Cab Calloway & Orchestra) 9. I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me (Chocolate Dandies) 10. Stardust (Artie Shaw & Orchestra) 11. Let Me Off Uptown (Gene Krupa & Orchestra) 12. Shaw Nuff (Dizzy Gillespie's Allstar Quintet) 13. Manteca (Dizzy Gillespie & Orchestra) 14. Virgo f/ Zodiac Suite (Mary Lou Williams) 15. Dexter Rides Again (Dexter Gordon) 16. I Want to Be Happy (Lester Young/Buddy Rich Trio) 17. Indiana (Bud Powell) 18. Embraceable You (Charlie Parker Quintet) 19. 4 Brothers (Woody Herman & Orchestra) 20. Misterioso (Thelonious Monk Quartet) 21. Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron Sextet) 22. Tanga (Machito & his Afro-Cuban Orchestra) 23. Sept in the Rain (George Shearing Quintet) 24. WOW (Lennie Tristano Sextet)
Disc: 3
1. Boplicity (Miles Davis Nonet) 2. Golden Bullet (Count Basie Octet) 3. Popo (Shorty Rogers & His Giants) 4. Walkin Shoes (Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker) 5. 23 Degrees N. 82 Degrees W. (Stan Kenton) 6. Daahoud (Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet) 7. Django (Modern Jazz Quartet) 8. The Preacher (Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers) 9. I'll Remember April (Erroll Garner Trio) 10. Jonaleh (Chico Hamilton Quintet) 11. Tricrotism (Lucky Thompson Trio) 12. St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) 13. Call For All Demons (Sun Ra & His Arkestra) 14. When I Grow Too Old to Dream (Nat King Cole & Trio) 15. Stompin t the Savoy (Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald) 16. Blues in the Closet (Stan Getz & J.J. Johnson) 17. Ol Man River (Oscar Peterson Trio) 18. Summertime (Miles Davis orchestrated by Gil Evans)
Disc: 4
1. Moanin' (Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers) 2. Meet BB (Count Basie & Orchestea) 3. So What (Mikes Davis Sextet) 4. Giant Steps (John Coltrane Quartet) 5. Better Git It in Your Soul (Charles Mingus) 6. Blue Rondo à la Turk (Dave Brubeck Quartet) 7. Ramblin (Ornette Coleman Quartet) 8. Work Song (Cannonball Adderley) 9. Wrap your Troubles in Dreams (Sarah Vaughan) 10. My Favorite Things Pt1 [Sngl Ver] (John Coltrane Quartet) 11. Waltz for Debby (Bill Evans) 12. Round Midnight (George Russell Sextet) 13. Cotton Tail (Ella Fitzgerald with the Duke Ellington Orchestra)
Disc: 5
1. 1 by 1 (Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers) 2. The Girl from Ipanema (Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto) 3. Love Supreme Pt 1: Acknowledgement (John Coltrane Quartet) 4. E.S.P. (Miles Davis Quintet) 5. Haig & Haig (Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer Quintet) 6. King of the Road (Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery) 7. Isfahan (Duke Ellington & Orchestra) 8. New National Anthem [f/ A Genuine Tong Funeral] (Gary Burton) 9. Matrix (Chick Corea) 10. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down (Miles Davis) 11. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters (Mahavishnu Orchestra) 12. Watermelon Man (Herbie Hancock) 13. Long Yellow Rd (Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band) 14. Jitney #2 (Cecil Taylor) 15. Bright Size Life (Pat Metheny)
Disc: 6
1. Maple Leaf Rag (Anthony Braxton & Muhal Richard Abrams) 2. Birdland (Weather Report) 3. My Song (Keith Jarrett) 4. Iya (Irakere) 5. Bush Magic (Art Ensemble of Chicago) 6. Steppin (World Sax Quartet) 7. Glide Was in the Ride (Steve Coleman Group) 8. Manenberg [Revisited] (Abdullah Ibrahim) 9. Nothing Personal (Michael Brecker) 10. Airegin (Tito Puente) 11. Down the Ave. (Wynton Marsalis Septet) 12. Ting Ning (Nguyen Le) 13. Kilayim (Masada) 14. Hey-Hee-Hi-Ho (Medeski Martin & Wood) 15. Neutralisme (Martial Sola & Johnny Griffin) 16. Suspended Night Variation VIII (Tomasz Stanko)
(52nd Street, New York City, July, 1948)
(Portrait of William P. Gottlieb)
(possibly at WINX radio studios)
(Washington, D.C., ca. 1940)
(Photographed by Delia Potofsky Gottlieb)
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(Album cover of "Kitten On the Keys. Popular Music from Pianola Rolls")
(used by permission[4] of Saydisc Records)
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Tables of jazz legend's notable achievements 1890-1990 [edit]
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Buddy Bolden [edit]
Charles Joseph “Buddy” Bolden ![]() ![]()
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“Clarinetist Alphonse Picou (1878–1961) said: “He was the loudest there ever was because you could hear Buddy’s cornet as loud as what Louis Armstrong played through the mike.”[13] (bold not in original) ![]()
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Jelly Roll Morton [edit]
Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
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(Jelly Roll Morton is buried at Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles, California)
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Louis Armstrong [edit]
Louis Armstrong (1901–1971) ![]()
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(Photo by William P. Gottlieb July, 1946 — colorized)
“Armstrong was jazz's first superstar. Satchmo's explosive creativity defied conventions of early New Orleans jazz; he was a charismatic showman and dazzling trumpet player who was, literally, too good for his band. His performances were largely responsible for shifting the focus from the group to the soloist, and he was also quite an innovator when it came to scat. Perhaps most importantly, his acceptance by the social elite helped popularize jazz across racial and social boundaries.”[29] (bold not in original)
Cover of Life magazine, April 15, 1966.
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Sydney Bechet[edit]
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Duke Ellington[edit]
Duke Ellington ![]() ![]() (Photo by William P. Gottlieb) (Photo by William P. Gottlieb) ![]() (Portrait of Duke Ellington (center), Cat Anderson (left), and Sidney De Paris(?) (right), unknown far right)
“That Ellington was "beyond category" is indisputable. Following his own dictum of keeping one foot in the academy and one in the street, Ellington evolved a musical language that imposed formal order on the rhythms, timbres, and attitudes of African-American everyday life. He struck a fine balance between organizational discipline and individual expressive freedom; and merged the traditionally distinct roles of composer and bandleader by embedding the writing process in a Deweyian social process of performative experimentation.”[45]
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Coleman Hawkins[edit]
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