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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1953.
events of Jazzin the year 1953. The musical Porgy and Bess was revived, playing in many European cities. Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie: Jazz at Massey...
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its...
1953 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1953. 1953 (MCMLIII)...
Jazz at Massey Hall is a live jazz album recorded on 15 May 1953 at Massey Hall in Toronto, Canada. Credited to "the Quintet", the group was composed of...
2, 1953) is a Japanese jazz pianist, keyboardist, composer and arranger. Kikuchi was born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on March 2, 1953. Raised in Shiogama...
January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his Romani nickname Django (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]), was a Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer...
the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt (1910–1953), in conjunction with the French jazz violinist Stéphane Grappelli (1908–1997), as expressed...
Jimmy Bruno (born July 22, 1953) is an American jazz guitarist from Philadelphia. Born in Philadelphia, Bruno started playing guitar at the age of 7. He...
The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop. The Quartet consisted...
participated in the legendary Jazz at Massey Hall concert of 1953, the drummer had relocated to the Los Angeles area and had replaced Shelly Manne in the popular...
to 1953, Granz leased the Jazz at the Philharmonic recordings to Mercury Records, and later issued/reissued them on Norgran (founded 1953), from 1953 on...
saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill...
of jazz bassists includes performers of the double bass and since the 1950s, and particularly in the jazz subgenre of jazz fusion which developed in the...
The Jazz Experiments of Charlie Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus released on the Bethlehem label. The album contains tracks...
Free jazz or Free Form in the early to mid-1970s is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the...
Jeffrey Arthur Berlin (born January 17, 1953) is an American jazz fusion bassist. He first came to prominence in the 1970s as a member of the band Bruford...
(Spotlight) Allen Eager - In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee 1947-1953 (Uptown) Charlie Parker on Dial, Vol. 6 (Spotlight) Various Artists - The Jazz Scene (Clef) 1948...
popular injazz. Saxophonist Wayne Shorter has noted that the 1953 composition "Glass Enclosure" by pianist Bud Powell was one of the earliest jazz compositions...
1954: Chet Baker Sextet (1954) 1953-54: The Trumpet Artistry of Chet Baker (1955) 1954: Jazz at Ann Arbor (1954) 1953-55: Grey December (1992) 1955: Chet...
November 21, 1953) was an early American dixieland jazz clarinetist. He was a member of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, the first jazz band to record...
The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization is a 1953jazz music theory book written by George Russell. The book is the founding text of the Lydian...
New Jazz imprint With Thelonious Monk Monk (Prestige, 1954) Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins (Prestige, 1956) – 10-inch issue released in1953 Brilliant...
in a 1953 session released on The Art Farmer Septet. He was the brother of jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery and vibraphonist Buddy Montgomery. Born in Indianapolis...
Jazz saxophonists are musicians who play various types of saxophones (alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone etc.) injazz and its associated...
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