1981 in jazz information

documenting events of Jazz in the year 1981. 10 – The 8th Vossajazz started in Voss, Norway (April 10 – 12). 20 – 9th Nattjazz started in Bergen, Norway (May...

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...

1981) is an American jazz saxophonist. He is a founding member of the jazz collective West Coast Get Down. Washington was born in 1981 and raised in Los...

1981 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1981. 1981 (MCMLXXXI)...

1981 in country music 1981 in heavy metal music 1981 in hip hop music 1981 in jazz January – Nearly a year after the suicide of Ian Curtis, the surviving...

performances were recorded and released as albums. In 1972, the Newport Jazz Festival was moved to New York City. In 1981, it became a two-site festival when it was...

The Utah Jazz are an American professional basketball team based in Salt Lake City. The Jazz compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a...

The following is an overview of events in 1981 in film, including the highest-grossing films, award ceremonies and festivals, a list of films released...

In the 1980s in jazz, the jazz community shrank dramatically and split. A mainly older audience retained an interest in traditional and straight-ahead...

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...

album was released the same year, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra's instrumental "Morning Dance", released in 1979 and in 1981, a collaboration between Grover...

Jazz Festival (formerly Festival de Jazz Montreux and Festival International de Jazz Montreux) is a music festival in Switzerland, held annually in early...

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...

Bird on Money is a 1981 painting created by American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat in 1981. It is a tribute to jazz musician Charlie Parker, who was nicknamed...

Three Quartets is a studio album released in 1981 by jazz pianist Chick Corea, in collaboration with tenor saxophonist Michael Brecker, bassist Eddie...

In the early 1940s in jazz, bebop emerged, led by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and others. It helped to shift jazz from danceable popular...

This is a summary of 1981 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. 9 February – Phil Collins releases his first solo...

A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones...

Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. She wrote hundreds of compositions...

Confusingly, in Europe this Jazz is typically referred to as Mark II Jazz, especially by automotive part suppliers, the Mark I Jazz being the 1981-86 Honda...

of Jazz calls the Jazz Messengers "the archetypal hard bop group of the late 50s." Blakey was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame (in 1981)....

A jazz band (jazz ensemble or jazz combo) is a musical ensemble that plays jazz music. Jazz bands vary in the quantity of its members and the style of...