When talking about jazz greats the best players from 50 or 60 years ago always seem to come up in conversation. Legends of that era such as Miles Davis and Charlie Parker actually still sell more records than many of the great contemporary jazz musicians of today. This doesn’t mean that there aren’t some forward [...]
Because it is the only true American art form and is still young enough that the heyday of the style was popular fairly recently, jazz is a very well documented genre of music. Another reason that people in the United States find it interesting is that most of the legends of the genre are American. [...]
The tenor saxophone is widely considered one of the most important voices in the idiom of jazz. It’s breathy, warm tone has been the instrument of choice for some of the most influential musicians in the genre of jazz. John Coltrane basically changed the way people view harmony in the early 1960s on the tenor [...]
All music sees changes as time goes by. This is true with orchestral works, rock n’ roll, and yes even jazz. Many jazz puristsĀ wish that jazz as a genre of music would have stopped progressing in the 1960s. They long for the hard swingin’, blues based feel of hard bop. But, you can’t stop [...]
