Category: post-bop
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Brad Mehldau
About Bradford Alexander Mehldau is an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.
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Alice Coltrane
About Alice Lucille Coltrane, also known as Swamini Turiyasangitananda or simply Turiya, was an American jazz musician, composer, bandleader, and Hindu spiritual leader. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.
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Chick Corea
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About Armando Anthony “Chick” Corea was an American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and occasional percussionist. His compositions “Spain”, “500 Miles High”, “La Fiesta”, “Armando’s Rhumba” and “Windows” are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis’s band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he…
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Jaco Pastorius
About John Francis Anthony Pastorius III, also known as Jaco Pastorius, was an American jazz bassist, composer, and producer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential bassists of all time, Pastorius recorded albums as a solo artist, band leader, and as a member of the jazz fusion group Weather Report from 1976…
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Pharoah Sanders
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About Pharoah Sanders was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of “sheets of sound”, Sanders played a prominent role in the development of free jazz and spiritual jazz through his work as a member of John Coltrane’s groups in the mid-1960s,…
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Herbie Hancock
About Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. He started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd’s group. Hancock soon joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, he…
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Wayne Shorter
About Wayne Shorter was an American jazz saxophonist, composer and bandleader. Shorter came to mainstream prominence in 1959 upon joining Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, for whom he eventually became the primary composer. In 1964 he joined Miles Davis’ Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report in 1970. He recorded more…
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Lennie Tristano
About Leonard Joseph Tristano was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher of jazz improvisation. Albums/Songs: No significant albums found.