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    documenting events of Jazz in the year 1960. 16 – The Cannonball Adderley Quintet records At the Lighthouse at the Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach, California...
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  • 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...
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    their formation in 1960 until shortening their name in 1971. The Crusaders played a wide assortment of genres, including straight ahead jazz, urban R&B, R&B-based...
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    documenting events of Jazz in the year 1959. March 2–April 22 – The recording sessions for the extremely influential Miles Davis jazz album Kind of Blue...
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    The Newport Jazz Festival is an annual American multi-day jazz music festival held every summer in Newport, Rhode Island. Elaine Lorillard established...
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  • with creating something new. The term "free jazz" was drawn from the 1960 Ornette Coleman recording Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. Europeans tend...
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  • Portrait in Jazz is the fifth studio album by American jazz pianist Bill Evans as a leader, released in 1960. It is the first of only two studio albums...
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  • 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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  • 1960 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1960. 1960 (MCMLX) was...
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  • notable events in music that took place in the year 1960. 1960 in British music 1960 in Norwegian music 1960 in country music 1960 in jazz January – Art...
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  • several minor name changes: In 1959 the award was known as Best Jazz Performance, Individual In 1960 it was awarded as Best Jazz Performance - Soloist From...
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    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...
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    (New Jazz, 1960) 1960: The Arrival of Kenny Dorham (Jaro International, 1960) – reissued as The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album (Xanadu, 1976) 1960: Jazz Contemporary...
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    Hodges (Verve, 1960) 1959: Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster with Ben Webster (Verve, 1960) 1960: The Concert Jazz Band (Verve, 1960) 1960: Gerry Mulligan...
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  • Jazz Contemporary is an album by American jazz trumpeter Kenny Dorham featuring performances recorded in 1960 and released on the Time label. The album...
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    Giant Steps (category 1960 albums)
    Giant Steps is a studio album by the jazz musician John Coltrane. It was released in February 1960 through Atlantic Records. This was Coltrane's first...
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  • Blakey's Jazz Messengers. Riverside Records. "Art Blakey, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – Swiss Radio Days Jazz Series, Vol. 6: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set"...
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  • several name changes. 1959–1960: Best Jazz Performance, Group 1961: Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group 1962–1963: Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small...
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  • album Kind of Blue, and John Coltrane's quartet from 1960 to 1965. Other performers of modal jazz include Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Joe...
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  • About Jazz. Retrieved October 28, 2016. "Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet". AllMusic. Retrieved October 28, 2016. Gleason, Ralph J. (March 17, 1960)....
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    Henderson. In 1987 she participated in a PBS show entitled Newport Jazz '87 as the singer of a jazz trio with John Williams and Roy McCurdy. In 1982, she...
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    while the Jazz Bass has an offset lower bout, mimicking the design aesthetic of the Jaguar and Jazzmaster guitars. First introduced in 1960 as the Deluxe...
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    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...
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    Chuck Mangione (category American jazz flugelhornists)
    Blakey's band in the 1960s, and later co-led the Jazz Brothers with his brother, Gap. He achieved international success in 1978 with his jazz-pop single...
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  • Don't Go to Strangers (category 1960 albums)
    recorded in 1960 by jazz vocalist Etta Jones. It was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008. This was Etta Jones' first album for the independent jazz label...
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    McCoy Tyner (category African-American jazz musicians)
    March 6, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet (from 1960 to 1965) and his long solo career...
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    Freddie Hubbard (category African-American jazz musicians)
    best jazz players of the era, including Philly Joe Jones, Sonny Rollins, Slide Hampton, Eric Dolphy, J. J. Johnson, and Quincy Jones. On June 19, 1960, Hubbard...
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  • 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...
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  • Sketches of Spain (category Orchestral jazz albums)
    Sketches of Spain is a studio album by the jazz trumpeter and composer Miles Davis. It was released on 18 July 1960 through Columbia Records. The recording...
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    Schneider (born November 27, 1960) is an American composer and jazz orchestra leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards. Born in Windom, Minnesota, Schneider...
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