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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)
Bennie Green (April 16, 1923 – March 23, 1977) [1] was an American jazz trombonist.. Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, [1] Green worked in the orchestras of Earl Hines and Charlie Ventura, [1] and recorded as bandleader through the 1950s and 1960s. [2]
In 1950–51 he was with Elliot Lawrence, then worked freelance in New York and Washington, D.C. [1] Later in the 1950s he returned to big band work, playing with Jimmy Dorsey (1957) and Louie Bellson (1959). [1] In the 1960s he played locally in Washington, D.C.; he died there on January 3, 1968. [1]
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Melba Doretta Liston (January 13, 1926 – April 23, 1999) [1] was an American jazz trombonist, arranger, and composer. Other than those playing in all-female bands, she was the first woman trombonist to play in big bands during the 1940s and 1960s, but as her career progressed she became better known as an arranger, [2] particularly in partnership with pianist Randy Weston.