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ella fitzgerald oscar peterson c o o l jazz nat king cole
in this song the clear influence of many good jazz guitarists is to be mentioned
Song Info
Genre
Jazz Smooth Jazz
Charts
#249 in subgenre Peak #16
Charts
Peak #58
Author
PETER KOSTA Band, Phoenix, Peter Kosta
Rights
PETER KOSTA Band, Phoenix, Peter Kosta
Uploaded
March 02, 2017
Track Files
MP3
MP3 8.7 MB 160 kbps 7:35
Story behind the song
Cool jazz and West Coast jazz Main article: Cool jazz Jazz at the Philharmonic announcement, 1956 In 1944 jazz impresario Norman Granz organized the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert in Los Angeles, which helped make a star of Nat "King" Cole and Les Paul. In 1946 he founded Clef Records, discovering Canadian jazz pianist Oscar Peterson in 1949, and merging Clef Records with his new label Verve Records in 1956, which advanced the career of Ella Fitzgerald et al. By the end of the 1940s, the nervous energy and tension of bebop was replaced with a tendency toward calm and smoothness with the sounds of cool jazz, which favored long, linear melodic lines. It emerged in New York City, and dominated jazz in the first half of the 1950s. The starting point was a collection of 1949 and 1950 singles by a nonet led by Miles Davis, released as the Birth of the Cool (1957). Later cool jazz recordings by musicians such as Chet Baker, Dave Brubeck, Bill Evans, Gil Evans, Stan Getz, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Gerry Mulligan usually had a "lighter" sound that avoided the aggressive tempos and harmonic abstraction of bebop. Cool jazz later became strongly identified with the West Coast jazz scene, as typified by singers Chet Baker, Mel Tormé, and Anita O'Day, but it also had a particular resonance in Europe, especially Scandinavia, where figures such as baritone saxophonist Lars Gullin and pianist Bengt Hallberg emerged. The theoretical underpinnings of cool jazz were laid out by the Chicago pianist Lennie Tristano, and its influence stretches into such later developments as bossa nova, modal jazz, and even free jazz. "Take The 'A' Train" MENU0:00 This 1941 sample of Duke Ellington's signature tune is an example of the swing style. "Yardbird Suite" MENU0:00 Excerpt from a saxophone solo by Charlie Parker. The fast, complex rhythms and substitute chords of bebop exhibited were of pivotal importance to the formation of Jazz music. "Mr. P.C." MENU0:00 This hard blues by John Coltrane is an example of hard bop, a post-bebop style which is informed by gospel music, blues and work songs. "Birds of Fire" MENU0:00 This 1973 piece by the Mahavishnu Orchestra merges jazz improvisation and rock instrumentation into jazz fusion "The Jazzstep" MENU0:00 This 2000 track by Courtney Pine shows how electronica and hip hop influences can be incorporated into modern jazz. Problems playing these files? See media help.
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