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Ahmet Ertegun

Ahmet was a visionary and a giant in the music business, although he never intended to be. He was simply a man who loved music, and who followed his heart where it took him. He was the co-founder of Atlantic Records, as well as the founder and chairm...

Weather Report

Weather Report blends the electric piano with synthesizers, classic saxophone sequences as well as African and Middle Eastern rhythms. The Weather Report core was heavily influenced by Miles Davis electric period. WR, through all its changes in virt...

LARRY CARLTON HOT JAZZ FUSION GUITARIST

Hello Jazz Fusion Fans! Swims here! Below you will read about a most fantastic jazz/blues/rock guitarist Larry Carlton, whom I have had the distinct pleasure of seeing numerous times live at The Blue Note Aoyama in Tokyo, & most recently at the newly...

Ward Swingle

Ward Swingle, a native of Alabama but a true world musician, is one of the most important figures at the heart of Vocal Jazz. A member of great 50's French vocal groups the Blue Stars and the Double Six, he is most famous for founding and arranging f...

Jes Sadler

Jes Sadler was Baritone and Vocal Percussionist with world-renowned a cappella ensemble The Swingle Singers from 1998 to 2007, as well as being the Technical Director of the group for much of that time. Hailing from London, UK, he has performed in man...

Featured Lenses - Swing Tenor Saxophone

Coleman Hawkins

The first great jazz saxophonist. Hugely influential.

Ben Webster

Influential Jazz tenor saxophonist.

Lester Young

Lester Young a.k.a. Prez - the President of the tenor saxophone. He made jazz hip.

Featured Lenses - More Saxophone Players

Art Pepper

This troubled alto saxophonist was the one of the leading lights of West Coast Jazz.

Jan Garbarek

Jan Garbarek rose to fame in the mid-1970s playing post-bop jazz in Keith Jarrett's successful "European Quartet". Further success came with Dis, a meditative collaboration with guitarist Ralph Towner. In the 1980s, Garbarek's music be...

Ornette Coleman

Ornette Coleman moved jazz on from bebop - striking off in a new direction, moving away from the prevailing conventions of harmony, rhythm, and melody.

John Coltrane

John Coltrane pushed the boundaries in every way, a groundbreaking improviser with a distinctive saxophone sound, his melodic imagination and obsessive commitment to his art continue to inspire jazz musicians to this day.

Featured Lenses - Jazz Guitarists

Joe Pass

Virtuoso Jazz Guitarist.

Featured Lenses - Bass Players

Charlie Haden

Lyrical Jazz Double Bass Player.

Charles Mingus

An iconic jazz musician - virtuoso bass player, innovative jazz composer, successful and influential band leader.

Featured Lenses - Multi-instrumentalists

Eric Dolphy

Outstanding avant-garde jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.

Featured Lenses - Jazz Piano

Bill Evans

A jazz great. An innovative, influential jazz pianist.

Oscar Peterson

There is something to be said about Oscar Peterson, his career has spanded over 65 years, with many collaborations with other jazz greats, Such as Lester Young, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Teddy Wilson and many many more. His music still stands...

Jamie Cullum Lens

Brilliant. How else can you define Jamie. I stumbled upon his music on itunes in a free download in 2006 and haven't stopped listening since. I've seen him in concert 3 times and have spread the gospel of Jamie to anyone who would listen. So now I'm...

NAT KING COLE

Nat King Cloe was a famous piano player and singer, He was accomplished pianist at the young age of 12, and formed his first jazz band while in high school.  Later forming "The Nat Cole Trio.  As his career took off he was the first bl...

Featured Lenses - Trumpet Players

Art Farmer

Jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player.

Featured Lenses - Jazz SIngers

Lena Horne

Jane Monheit

Nancy Wilson

Featured Lenses - Jazz Composers

George Russell

Jazz pianist and composer. His musical theories hugely influenced the development of Modal Jazz.

Carla Bley

Jazz composer and pianist. "queen of the avant-garde", a daring, satirical composer.

Gil Evans

Celebrated jazz arranger - best known for his work with Miles Davis on Birth of the Cool, Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess, and Sketches of Spain. He also made many successful albums under his own name.    

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Song for Anyone

Ever since he burst on the scene in the 90s, the award winning, Chicago-born, tenor-alto-soprano saxophonist/bass clarinetist/flutist Chris Potter has blazed an impressive musical trail with his stellar sideman gigs with everybody from Red Rodney, Dave Holland, and Paul Motian, to Steely Dan, and by his critically-acclaimed fourteen recordings as a leader. Now, Sunnyside simultaneously releases two new CDs by Potter that showcase the ever-evolving genius of this saxophone colossus in the making....0 points

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Hear Me Talkin' to Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told by the Men Who Made It by Nat Shapiro

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Lost Chords: White Musicians and their Contribution to Jazz, 1915-1945 by Richard M. Sudhalter

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