1956 in jazz information

This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1956. 5 – The 5th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 5 – 7). 7 – Duke...

Ellington at Newport is a 1956 live jazz album by Duke Ellington and his band of their 1956 concert at the Newport Jazz Festival, a concert which revitalized...

Congo established in 1956 and fronted by Franco. The group disbanded in 1993, but reformed in 1996. The OK Jazz band was formed in 1956 in Léopoldville (now...

The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time leader...

in Blue" and "Crescendo in Blue," were recorded on opposite sides of a 78 rpm record. The 1956 performance at the Newport Jazz Festival revitalized Ellington's...

Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956) was an American jazz trumpeter, pianist and composer. He died at the age of 25 in a car crash, leaving behind four...

1956 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1956. 1956 (MCMLVI) was...

recorded in 1956 and released on the Dawn label. The album was released on CD with additional tracks from Jazzville Vol. 1 (Dawn, 1956) and Modern Jazz Festival...

Clifford Brown in the Max Roach Quintet after Brown's death in 1956. In addition to sideman work, Dorham led his own groups, including the Jazz Prophets (formed...

Dianne Elizabeth Reeves (born October 23, 1956) is an American jazz singer. Dianne Reeves was born in Detroit, Michigan, into a musical family. Her father...

was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He was also known as Abdullah Ibn Buhaina after he converted to Islam for a short time in the late 1940s....

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...

Mainstream of Jazz is an album led by American jazz baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan with tracks recorded in 1956 which were released by EmArcy. Allmusic...

Jazz Advance is the debut album by pianist Cecil Taylor, recorded for the Transition label in September 1956. The album features performances by Taylor...

following is a listing of the jazz pianist Bill Evans's original albums. He recorded over 50 albums as a leader between 1956 and 1980 and also played as...

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 Age was a period in the 1920s and 1930s in which jazz music and dance styles gained worldwide popularity. The Jazz Age's cultural repercussions...

promote American values globally. Starting in 1956, the State Department began hiring leading American jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie...

songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as...

Stars of Jazz was an American television program that ran between 1956 and 1958 and featured performances and interviews with many leading jazz performers...

notable events in music that took place in the year 1956. 1956 in British music 1956 in Norwegian music 1956 in country music 1956 in jazz January 3 – Bach:...

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...