Various - Jazz Best - 20 Immortal Jazz Standards - MP Records - Jazz
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Track ListingA1 Louis Armstrong Mack The KnifeA2 Ella Fitzgerald I Can\'t Give You Anything But Love A3 Benny Goodman It Had To Be You A4 Lionel Hampton Lullaby Of Birdland A5 Mahalia Jackson Nobody Knows The Trouble I\'ve Seen A6 Duke Ellington Caravan A7 Charlie Parker Loverman A8 Dinah Washington What A Difference A Day Makes A9 Glenn Miller In The Mood A10 Coleman Hawkins Hawk Talk B1 Stan Getz Moonlight In Vermont B2 Billie Holiday All Of Me B3 Harry James (2) Body And Soul B4 Django Reinhardt Avalon B5 Chet Baker Look Up The Silver Lining B6 Cannonball Adderley Stars Fell On Alabama B7 Erroll Garner Misty B8 Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Theme B9 Count Basie Jumpin\' At The Woodside B10 Sonny Stitt The Shadow Of Your Smile Media Condition » Near Mint (NM or M-) Sleeve Condition » Near Mint (NM or M-) |
Artist | Various | ||
Title | Jazz Best - 20 Immortal Jazz Standards | ||
Label | MP Records | ||
Catalogue | 33012 | ||
Format | Vinyl Compilation | ||
Released | |||
Genre | Jazz |
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Some Other Artists in the Jazz Genre• Frank Sinatra • Stan Kenton And His Orchestra • Stan Kenton • Count Basie • Duke Ellington And His Orchestra • Louis Armstrong • Benny Goodman • Woody Herman • Duke Ellington • Ted Heath And His Music • Cleo Laine • Ella Fitzgerald • Erroll Garner • Harry James And His Orchestra • The Manhattan Transfer • Barbra Streisand • Count Basie Orchestra • Fats Waller • The Dave Brubeck Quartet • Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass • Woody Herman And His Orchestra • Jelly Roll Morton • Harry James • The Dutch Swing College Band • Oscar Peterson • Sidney Bechet • Artie Shaw • Tommy Dorsey • Artie Shaw And His Orchestra • Art Tatum • Dave Brubeck • Charlie Parker • The Modern Jazz Quartet • Judy Garland • Jelly Roll Morton's Red Hot Peppers • The George Shearing Quintet • Stan Getz • Bix Beiderbecke • Sammy Davis Jr. • Billy Eckstine • |
Some Other Artists on the MP Records Label• Cat Parr • Peaches • Nat King Cole • Ella Fitzgerald • |
Information on the Jazz Genre
Jazz is a music genre that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th century American popular music. Its West African pedigree is evident in its use of blue notes, improvisation, polyrhythms, syncopation, and the swung note. However, Art Blakey has been quoted as saying, "No America, no jazz. I’ve seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn’t have a thing to do with Africa".The word "jazz" began as a West Coast slang term of uncertain derivation and was first used to refer to music in Chicago in about 1915. From its beginnings in the early 20th century, Jazz has spawned a variety of subgenres, from New Orleans Dixieland dating from the early 1910s, big band-style swing from the 1930s and 1940s, bebop from the mid-1940s, a variety of Latin jazz fusions such as Afro-Cuban and Brazilian jazz, and free jazz from the 1950s and 1960s, jazz fusion from the 1970s and late 1980s developments such as acid jazz, which blended funk and hip-hop influences into jazz. As the music has spread around the world it has drawn on local national and regional musical cultures, its aesthetics being adapted to its varied environments and giving rise to many distinctive styles.
In the late 1960s and early 1970s the hybrid form of jazz-rock fusion was developed by combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments, and the highly amplified stage sound of rock musicians such as Jimi Hendrix. All Music Guide states that "..until around 1967, the worlds of jazz and rock were nearly completely separate." However, "...as rock became more creative and its musicianship improved, and as some in the jazz world became bored with hard bop and did not want to play strictly avant-garde music, the two different idioms began to trade ideas and occasionally combine forces." Miles Davis made the breakthrough into fusion in 1970s with his album Bitches Brew. Musicians who worked with Davis formed the four most influential fusion groups: Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra emerged in 1971 and were soon followed by Return to Forever and The Headhunters. Although jazz purists protested the blend of jazz and rock, some of jazz's significant innovators crossed over from the contemporary hard bop scene into fusion. Jazz fusion music often uses mixed meters, odd time signatures, syncopation, and complex chords and harmonies. In addition to using the electric instruments of rock, such as the electric guitar, electric bass, electric piano, and synthesizer keyboards, fusion also used the powerful amplification, "fuzz" pedals, wah-wah pedals, and other effects used by 1970s-era rock bands. Notable performers of jazz fusion included Miles Davis, keyboardists Joe Zawinul, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, vibraphonist Gary Burton, drummer Tony Williams, violinist Jean-Luc Ponty, guitarists Larry Coryell, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Frank Zappa, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, and bassists Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke. Jazz fusion was also popular in Japan where the band Casiopea released over thirty albums praising Jazz Fusion.
Developed by the mid-1970s, jazz-funk is characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds, and often, the presence of the first electronic analog synthesizers. The integration of Funk, Soul, and R&B music and styles into jazz resulted in the creation of a genre whose spectrum is indeed quite wide and ranges from strong jazz improvisation to soul, funk or disco with jazz arrangements, jazz riffs, and jazz solos, and sometimes soul vocals.
At the jazz end of the spectrum, jazz-funk characteristics include a departure from ternary rhythm (near-triplet), i.e. the "swing", to the more danceable and unfamiliar binary rhythm, known as the "groove". Jazz-funk also draws influences from traditional African music, Latin American rhythms, and Jamaican reggae. A second characteristic of Jazz-funk music is the use of electric instruments, and the first use of analogue electronic instruments notably by Herbie Hancock, whose jazz-funk period saw him surrounded on stage or in the studio by several Moog synthesizers. The ARP Odyssey, ARP String Ensemble, and Hohner D6 Clavinet also became popular at the time. A third feature is the shift of proportions between composition and improvisation. Arrangements, melody, and overall writing were heavily emphasized.
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