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In the 1980s, the avant-garde, although still home to many fine free jazz players, increasingly adopted an ecumenical approach to historical styles...
- Added: Nov 20, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 17
As the 1970s came to a close, many musicians searching for alternatives to jazz-rock fusion or free jazz found a home in straight-ahead acoustic ja...
- Added: Nov 15, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 17
Perfectly timed to reinforce the value of acoustic mainstream jazz and provide an alternative to both fusion and free jazz, Art Pepper, Dexter Gord...
- Added: Nov 08, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 17
Jazz-rock fusion was a powerful force in the music in the early seventies, but noticeably began to run out of steam mid-decade. European influences...
- Added: Nov 02, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 16
Previously in this series we have surveyed record labels as representative of the jazz trends in their times – for example bebop on Dial in the 40s...
- Added: Oct 25, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 15
By 1970, Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul were recognized as two of the finest hard bop composers and players having contributed the full range of the...
- Added: Oct 18, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 17
Chick Corea began recording as a sideman for artists like Mongo Santamaria, Blue Mitchell, Herbie Mann and Cal Tjader in 1962. In 1966, his began t...
- Added: Oct 12, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 19
British guitarist John McLaughlin contributed to creating the bold new sound of Miles Davis’s great proto-fusion works, In A Silent Way and Bitches...
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- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 18
Jazz-rock fusion or, often, simply “fusion” emerged in the late 60s as the child of many mothers. Characterized by electric instruments and rock rh...
- Added: Oct 05, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 17
The brutal repression of the subversive mixed-race jazz subculture in South Africa led to the emigration of several important musicians whose work ...
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- Added: Sep 21, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 20
Soul Jazz developed in the late 1950s and become a staple of ghetto jukeboxes. Its catchy lines, heavy beat and blues-influenced phasing became a p...
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- Added: Sep 13, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 20
Rarely has a jazz instrument been so completely redefined as the organ was at the hands of Jimmy Smith. In his wake, the Hammond B3 organ gained wi...
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- Added: Sep 06, 2018
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 20
Hard bop created a comfortable setting for a suite of great blues-influenced guitar players who led the way toward soul jazz. Several of these play...
- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 19
During the five-year tenure of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet (1963 – 1968), Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams were very active o...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 18
Miles Davis, through his adoption of modal music, participated in the gradual liberation that resulted in the free music of the jazz avant-garde – ...
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- Added: Aug 16, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 20
Joe Henderson may have been the most significant tenor saxophonist to emerge in the 1960s. Gary Giddins wrote that he is “…an irresistibly lucid pl...
- Added: Aug 10, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 19
Blue Note Records in the 1960s released such iconoclastic projects as Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures and Eric Dolphy’s Out To Lunch, but the label ...
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- Added: Aug 03, 2018
- Length: 59:01
- Purchases: 18
Nurtured in the seminal recordings of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor in the mid to late 1950s, the jazz avant-garde came into its own in the 1960...
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- Added: Jul 27, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 19
Fate could not have treated Blue Note saxophonists Tina Brooks and Jackie McLean more differently. While McLean released nine LPs for Prestige and ...
- Added: Jul 27, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 19
Think today’s political intrigues are unusual? Think again! This week's edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features a look at how political strife ...
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 40
Roland Kirk, who began recording in 1956, had been an ideal sideman for Charles Mingus, appearing on the 1961 release Oh Yeah. In the 1960s, he est...
- Added: Jul 13, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 19
From his first recordings with Chico Hamilton in 1958 until his unnecessary death from misdiagnosed diabetic shock in 1964, Eric Dolphy was limited...
- Added: Jul 06, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
Charles Mingus completed the 1950s with an astonishing series of releases in 1959 - Blues and Roots, followed by Mingus Ah Um and finally, Mingus D...
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 19
No tenor player cast a larger shadow over the 1960’s than John Coltrane. Arguably, that time frame could be expanded to include all decades since, ...
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- Added: Jun 21, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 19
John Coltrane is undoubtedly one of the most influential players in the history of jazz, yet his important work fits within a brief twelve-year per...
- Added: Jun 15, 2018
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
