Cassandra Wilson This is the 95th of 100 programs in the Jazz at 100 series. For 94 programs have moved on a roughly chronological path through the history of 100 years of jazz recordings, following trends, introducing major players and stylistic evolutions. As we approach the present, we face the historian’s dilemma – in more […]
Stan Getz
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Jazz at 100 Hour 59: Jazz and Bossa Nova (1958 – 1963)
João Gilberto – Antônio Carlos Jobim – Stan Getz Fueled by the 1959 international release of the movie Black Orpheus and through reports from US jazz players returning from South American tours, the Brazilian music Bossa Nova (Portugese for “new trend” or “new wave”) found its way into American jazz in the early 1960s, becoming […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 37: Cool – Four Brothers After Woody Herman (1946 – 1961)
Zoot Sims Bandleader Woody Herman created a distinctive sound around The Four Brothers – the three tenor plus baritone sax front line of Stan Getz, Zoot Sims, Herbie Stewart (later Al Cohn) and Serge Chaloff – and the writing of clarinetist Jimmy Giuffre. In time, Getz, Sims, Chaloff, Cohn and Giuffre would all become distinctive […]
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Jazz at 100 Hour 22: Bebop Big Bands – Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, Woody Herman, Claude Thornhill (1940 – 1947)
Billy Eckstine and his Orchestra Although Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman soldiered on, mostly keeping bands on the road into the 1970s (Ellington) and 1980s (Basie and Herman), the era of the big band effectively ended with the AFM strike and World War Two shortages of gas, rubber and players. A leaner combo-oriented […]