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This is an alphabetical list of jazz trombonists for whom Wikipedia has articles. ... (born 1950) Elmer Crumbley (1908–1993) ... (born 1960) John Fedchock (born 1957)
From the mid-1950s, but especially the early 1960s on, Johnson dedicated more and more time to composition. [3] He became an active contributor to the Third Stream movement in jazz, (which included such other musicians as Gunther Schuller and John Lewis ), and wrote large-scale works which incorporated elements of both classical music and jazz.
During the 1950s and 1960s he toured with Benny Goodman, [1] and led the Tommy Dorsey orchestra after Dorsey's death in 1956. [1] He worked with record producer Enoch Light on the albums The Persuasive Trombone of Urbie Green and 21 Trombones .
Jack Teagarden was born in Vernon, Texas, United States. [3] His brothers Charlie and Clois "Cub", as well as his sister Norma also became professional musicians. His first public performances were in movie theaters, where he was accompanied by his mother, who was a pianist.
There are two main varieties: Afro-Cuban jazz was played in the US right after the bebop period, while Brazilian jazz became more popular in the 1960s. Afro-Cuban jazz began as a movement in the mid-1950s as bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie and Billy Taylor started Afro-Cuban bands influenced by such Cuban and Puerto Rican musicians as ...
The free jazz movement, coming to prominence in the late 1950s, spawned very few standards. Free jazz's unorthodox structures and performance techniques are not as amenable to transcription as other jazz styles. However, "Lonely Woman" (1959) a blues by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, is perhaps the closest thing to a standard in free jazz, having ...
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Victor Bailey (1960–2016) Brian Bromberg (born 1960) Stanley Clarke (born 1951) Bob Cranshaw (1932–2016) Mark Egan (born 1951) Alphonso Johnson (born 1951) Bill Laswell (born 1955) Marcus Miller (born 1959) Monk Montgomery (1921–1982) Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987) John Patitucci (born 1959) Steve Swallow (born 1940) Jamaaladeen Tacuma ...