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  • Jazz at 100 Hour 46: The Songbooks (1950 – 1959)

    Jan 19th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Anita O'Day, Art Blakey, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Cole Porter, Ella Fitzgerald, George Gershwin, Gil Evans, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Irving Berlin, Jazz Messengers, Lerner & Loewe, Louis Armstrong, Mel Torme, Miles Davis, My Fair Lady, Porgy and Bess, Shelly Manne, Sonny Criss

    Ella Fitzgerald Songs from what came to be known as the Great American Songbook, have been part of jazz perhaps since The Original Dixieland Jazz Band began recording Irving Berlin compositions. In the 1940s, singer Lee Wiley recorded several collections of 78s, known as “albums” – a name that stuck into the LP era, focused […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 34: Miles and Friends – The “Birth” of the Cool (1947 – 1950)

    Oct 20th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Birth of the Cool, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, JJ Johnson, John Lewis, Kai winding, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, Miles Davis, MJQ, Modern Jazz Quartet

    Miles Davis – Lennie Tristano – Gerry Mulligan The torrid pace of bebop improvisations reached a point in the late 1940s that prompted a musical reconsideration and Miles Davis was there at the conception. Davis had been with the Charlie Parker Quintet since 1945, when he began to woodshed with composer/arrangers John Lewis, Gerry Mulligan […]

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