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b. 1961 American trumpeter Marsalis studied at the Juilliard School in New York. In 1980 he joined Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and toured with Herbie Hancock the following year. He formed his own group in 1982. He has performed and recorded much of the classical trumpet repertory, appearing with the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

In the 1980s, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis leapt from jazz-steeped New Orleans to international artistic prominence. In 1979 he was enrolled in New York City’s Juilliard School and was jamming with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, and 10 years later he had seeded what has become an unrivalled international jazz performance centre. In between, Marsalis established himself as a hot ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

has led to the formation of various repertoire bands in the United States, chief among them the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in New York (for which the trumpeter Wynton Marsalis serves as artistic director). Since its formation in 1988, the LCJO has taken on the task of presenting the works of jazz masters such as Duke Ellington, Sidney ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

bebop with the earthy urgency of blues, gospel and R&B. Blakey’s propulsive drumming drove a band whose changing personnel – including trumpeters Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and Wynton Marsalis, saxophonist Wayne Shorter, trombonist Curtis Fuller and pianist Bobby Timmons – was remarkable. Styles & Forms | Fifties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland | ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

(Vocals, composer, b. 1955) Raised in Mississippi, smoky contralto Wilson sang R&B and folk music, but emerged in New York in the early 1980s as a member of the M-Base Collective and with Henry Threadgill’s band. Her breakout album Blue Skies (1988) reprised jazz standards and she starred in Wynton Marsalis’ oratorio Blood on the Fields, ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

(Banjo, guitar, educator, 1909–94) Daniel Moses Barker carried forth the musical traditions of New Orleans, playing with a number of traditional bands in the 1920s and 1930s before marrying Louise Dupont (a.k.a. Blue Lu Barker) in 1930. They recorded several sides together in 1938, including Barker’s own song ‘Don’t You Make Me High’, revived ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

(Various saxophones, b. 1969) A musical prodigy from Detroit’s Creative Arts Collective, saxophonist James Carter toured Europe at the age of 16, worked with Wynton Marsalis and starred in Julius Hemphill’s saxophone opera Long Tongues. Since 1990, his New York ensemble has recorded a variety of ‘quiet storm’ romantic jazz, Django Reinhardt-style gypsy jazz, hard-core ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

(Drums, b. 1960) Watts played timpani in the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra during his teens and vibraphone at Berklee School of Music, where he met the Marsalis brothers. He recorded with Wynton Marsalis from 1981 and then with Branford, following him into the house band of the televised Tonight Show. An explosive polyrhythmist who can also provide restrained ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

, Slim recorded for the Alligator and Rooster Blues labels, highlighting his stinging licks and gruff vocals. Styles & Forms | Eighties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | Wynton Marsalis | Eighties | Jazz & Blues ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

Year Awards. Since 1990 he has concentrated on his solo recordings, branching out from new-grass to explore classical music (with Yo-Yo Ma among others) and swing jazz (with Wynton Marsalis among others). Styles & Forms | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival Personalities | Old ’97s | Alt. Country & The Bluegrass Revival ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Music, consultant editor Bob Allen

(Violin, b. 1966) Violinist Regina Carter has stabilized her instrument’s precarious role in jazz after advanced work in classical, jazz-pop and experimental formats. From childhood Suzuki lessons (a method of teaching music that stresses listening over reading skills), she joined the Detroit-based band Straight Ahead, then the String Trio of New York. She was a featured soloist in ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

(Trumpet, b. 1969) Encouraged by Wynton Marsalis while in high school in Dallas, Texas, Hargrove has a jauntier approach to trumpet than his mentor. He principally employs hard-bop vocabulary, but has also led the Latin jazz band Crîsol with Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés, recorded with hip hop/soul singer D’Angelo, and co-starred in Herbie Hancock’s New ...

Source: The Definitive Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues, founding editor Howard Mandel

Grammy awards, and he has performed on soundtracks such as Tan Dun’s Oscar-winning score for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000). Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Wynton Marsalis | Contemporary | Classical ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

Orleans-based singer-bandleader Banu Gibson, soprano saxophonist Bob Wilber (whose Bechet Legacy group was active in the early 1980s), cornetists Jim Cullum Jr. and Warren Vaché, New Orleans trumpeter Wynton Marsalis and the current edition of The Preservation Hall Jazz Band. ‘By the mid-1930s the word “Dixieland” was being applied freely to certain circles of white musicians, first by the ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer

A forerunner of jazz, ragtime was derived from brass-band music and European folk melodies, African-American banjo music and spirituals, minstrel songs, military marches and European light classics. The ‘raggy’ style, or ragged-time feeling, of this jaunty, propulsive, toe-tapping piano music refers to its inherent syncopation, where loud right-hand accents fall between the ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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