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Jazz Masters
of the Twentieth Century
Essay 3 . The Great Improvisers
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image you see is that of jazz master, saxophonist Stan Getz. |
What is this essay about?
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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?
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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 |