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Wes Montgomery (1923-1968), the most impostant guitarist in the history of jazz music, was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. His age just happened to connect Swing and Bebop inheritance, and later Hard-bop and Post-bop: during…
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Lee Konitz (October 13, 1927) was born in a Jewish family in Chicago. When he was a little kid he liked to listen to the radio broadcast with his brother. The famous clarinettist Benny Goodman deeply influenced him…
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Dexter Gordon (1923 – 1990) was born in Los Angeles and is one of the outstanding Blue Note artists; he was also an actor His sound is easy to distinguish, and it’s very thick and solid; it’s hard to find similar style and color. He was skilled…
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Wynton Marsalis is a very talented trumpet player born in 1961 in New Orleans, Louisiana, in a musical family: his father Ellis Marsalis Jr. was a jazz pianist. Marsalis is also the Jazz Art Director of the Lincoln Center in New York City…
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Lester Young (1909-1959) was born in the South of the United States, in the Mississippi State. He was inspired to play music by his family and when he was a child he learnt to play violin, trumpet and drums…
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Art Blakey (1919-1990) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. In the 1950s, he formed the Jazz Messengers with Horace Silver, and was the band’s drummer for 35 years. In 1984, he won the Grammy…
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Lush Life is an album released by the American singer Linda Ronstadt in late 1984. The record is the second of a jazz trilogy co-produced with conductor Nelson Riddle, and it won the 1985 Grammy Award for…
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Lee Ritenour is an American jazz guitar player born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952; he started playing guitar at the age of 8, and when he was 16 years old he recorded his first album with Mamas & Papas…
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Japanese jazz band Casiopea was formed in 1977. The members are Issei Noro on guitar (Yoshio Ichio), Minoru Mukaiya on keyboards, Akira Jimbo on drums (Godguard) and Tetsuo Sakurai on bass…
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John Coltrane (1926-1967) was an American jazz composer and saxophone player. In the early part of his career he developed his personal music style based on bebop and hard bop. His innovative interpretations made him a pioneer…
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