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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959.
documenting events of Jazzin the year 1959. March 2–April 22 – The recording sessions for the extremely influential Miles Davis jazz album Kind of Blue...
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...
The Shape of Jazz to Come is the third album by jazz musician Ornette Coleman. Released on Atlantic Records in1959, it was his debut on the label and...
other jazz styles. However, "Lonely Woman" (1959) a blues by saxophonist Ornette Coleman, is perhaps the closest thing to a standard in free jazz, having...
for Best Jazz Instrumental Album is an award that was first presented in1959. From 1959 to 2011, the Award was called Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual...
several minor name changes: In1959 the award was known as Best Jazz Performance, Individual In 1960 it was awarded as Best Jazz Performance - Soloist From...
17 – In the United States: The 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake in southwest Montana kills 28. Miles Davis' influential jazz album Kind of Blue is released...
British jazz tenor saxophonist and jazz club owner. He co-founded Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London's Soho district, one of the world's most popular jazz clubs...
Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed...
Jazzin Silhouette is the third studio album by pianist-composer Sun Ra and His Arkestra. It was recorded on March 6, 1959, and released in May of the...
present, modal jazz was most popular in the 1950s and 1960s, as evidenced by the success of Miles Davis's 1958 composition "Milestones" and 1959 album Kind...
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...
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...
"Take Five" is a jazz standard composed by Paul Desmond. It was first recorded in1959 and is the third track on Time Out by the Dave Brubeck Quartet...
1959) – recorded in 1957 Gone with Golson (New Jazz, 1959) Groovin' with Golson (New Jazz, 1959) Winchester Special with Lem Winchester (New Jazz, 1959)...
jazzin Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The phrase and all that jazz means "and other such things", "and all that sort of thing". It is recorded in print...
1959) is an American jazz fusion and funk drummer. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2001. Chambers was born on May 9, 1959, in...
Jazz Track is a compilation album by Miles Davis, released in November 1959 by Columbia Records, catalogue CL 1268. It compiles sessions by the most recent...
Blue is a studio album by the American jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was released on August 17, 1959 through Columbia Records. For the recording...
notable events in music that took place in the year 1959. 1959in British music 1959in Norwegian music 1959in country music 1959injazz January 5 – The...
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150) is an album by Miles Davis, released on Prestige Records in1959. Most of the material comes from a...
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...
Coltrane Jazz is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in early 1961 on Atlantic Records. Most of the album features Coltrane...
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