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  • Jazz at 100 Hour 49: Jazz Singers in the 1950s – Sarah Vaughan, Helen Merrill, Dinah Washington and Abbey Lincoln (1954 – 1962)

    Feb 9th, 2018 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Abbey Lincoln, Barney Kessel, Booker Little, Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dinah Washington, Eric Dolphy, Helen Merrill, Max Roach, Oscar Pettiford, Sarah Vaughan

    Sarah Vaughan Many jazz singers of the 1950s continued the tradition of recording with major instrumentalists who were given the space to improvise, feeding off the collaboration. In 1954, EmArCy records matched three of their singers, representing the wide range of their offerings – Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and Helen Merrill – with jazz ensembles […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 41: The Lyricists – Benny Golson, Gigi Gryce, Art Farmer (1953 – 1962)

    Dec 8th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey The Jazz Messengers, Art Farmer, Benny Golson, Clifford Brown, Gigi Gryce, Hard Bop, JJ Johnson

    Art Farmer – Benny Golson “Musicians of a gentler, more lyrical bent … found in hard bop a more congenial climate than bebop had offered: for instance, trumpeter Art Farmer, [and] composers Benny Golson and Gigi Gryce…. In a sense, such musicians were not hard boppers at all. They are, however, partially associated with the movement […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 39: The Birth of Hard Bop (1950 – 1958)

    Nov 24th, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Art Blakey, Benny Golson, Bobby Timmons, Clifford Brown, Hard Bop, Horace Silver, Max Roach, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, The Jazz Messengers

    Horace Silver While the “Cool School” was emerging on the West Coast from its roots in Bix and Pres as codified by Miles in “The Birth of the Cool” sessions of 1949 – 1950, what became known as Hard Bop, a gospel- and blues-influenced variant was growing from Bebop in the east. “If cool jazz […]

  • Jazz at 100 Hour 36: Bebop Pioneers in the 1950s (1949 – 1960)

    Nov 3rd, 2017 | By Russell Perry
    Tags: Ben Webster, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, jazz at 100, Jazz at Massey Hall, Maz Roach, Oscar Peterson

    Jazz at Massey Hall Bud Powell-p, Charles Mingus-b, Max Roach-d, Dizzy Gillespie-tp, Charlie Parker-as Bebop had its roots in the big bands of the late 1930s and was nurtured in jam sessions during the war and the musician’s strike of the 1940s. By 1950, the prescient Coleman Hawkins, and the pioneers – Charlie Parker, Dizzy […]

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