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Jazz Masters of the Twentieth Century
Essay 3 . The Great Improvisers

 

 

 

 

 

The image you see is that of jazz master, saxophonist Stan Getz.
This image was found at www.allaboutjazz.com

The music you hear is "Desafinado" performed by Stan Getz (tenor saxophone) with Charlie Byrd (guitar). From the album "Jazz Samba
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What is this essay about?

Tenor Madness and Brass Mania ... Jazz Band Roles
Coleman Hawkins
To Europe
Back In the States
Coleman Hawkins and Bebop
Bean In the 1950s
Bean In Decline
Lester Young
Lester and Fletcher Henderson
More Spin-off Recordings
Lester Young and Billie Holiday
The Father of Cool
Lester Young and His Disciples
Lester's Last Years
Stan Getz and Bebop
Focus
The Bossa Nova
Getz and Chick Corea
Stan Getz and Rock
Stan Goes Acoustic
Codetta
John Coltrane
Coltrane and Miles
Coltrane and Monk
Sheets of Sound
Giant Steps
Multiphonics
Modal Jazz
The John Coltrane Quartet
Late Coltrane
Damage Control
A Love Supreme
Coltrane's Final Years
Some Loose Ends
Roy "Little Jazz" Eldridge
Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard
Miles Davis
The Birth Of the Cool
The New Miles Davis Quintet
Collaborations With Gil Evans
Modal Jazz (again)
A Time of Transition
The Road To the New Style
Abstract Jazz
Rock, Avant Garde, and Black Music
Bitches Brew
The Silent Years (1976-1980) ... and A New Beginning
His Last Creative Period
Life's End
Summary
More Loose Ends

 

 

 

What music is in this essay?

Shake Your Feet
All The Things You Are
The Stampede
It's The Talk Of The Town
Honeysuckle Rose
Body And Soul
Woody 'n You
I Mean You
Ruby My Dear
April In Paris
There Will Never Be Another You
Rifftide
When The Saints Go Marching In
Oh, Lady Be Good
One O'Clock Jump
Shoe Shine Boy
I Can't Get Started
Shorty George
You Can Depend On Me
Lester Leaps In
Ad Lib Blues
Broadway
Four Brothers
Keen and Peachy
Early Autumn
There's A Small Hotel
Opus De Bop
Moonlight In Vermont
S-H-I-N-E
I'm Late, I'm Late
Night Rider
A Summer Afternoon
Desafinado
La Fiesta
Five Hundred Miles High
Day Waves
Lush Life
Crystal Silence
On The Up And Up
Very Early
Sipping At Bell's
I Wish I Knew
Tempus Fugit
Night And Day
S'posin
Budo
Ah-Leu-Cha
Tune Up
Trinkle, Tinkle
Giant Steps
Countdown
Harmonique
Milestones
So What
My Favorite Things
Greensleeves
Impressions
Take the Coltrane
My One And Only Love
A Love Supreme
Chim Chim Cheree
Offering
India
Rockin' Chair
After You've Gone
Let Me Off Uptown
Joy Spring
Cherokee
G.W.
245
Billie's Bounce
Donna Lee
Boplicity
Summertime
Bag's Groove
Concierto de Aranjuez
Walkin'
Someday My Prince Will Come
Teo
E.S.P.
Eighty One
Stuff
In A Silent Way
Pharaoh's Dance
Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
Right Off
On The Corner
Intro
White
Orange
Tutu
Catembe
Bijou
Frank Speaking

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