Improvising Artists Inc. known as IAI is a production company created by jazz pianist, Paul Bley, and video artist, Carol Goss, in 1974 for the purpose...
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Jaco (album) (category Improvising Artists Records live albums)
is the unofficial later title of a 1974 LP album on Paul Bley's Improvising Artists Label. It is notable for being the first professional recording showcasing...
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Pat Metheny (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
bassist Jaco Pastorius, and drummer Bruce Ditmas on Carol Goss's Improvising Artists label—but he was unaware that he was being recorded. The next year...
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Bennie Maupin (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Almanac (Maupin, Mike Nock, Cecil McBee, Eddie Marshall) Almanac (Improvising Artists, 1977) – recorded in 1967 With John Beasley Positootly! (Resonance...
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Parker Wells and the improvising groups Spontaneous Music Ensemble and AMM. In the context of music theory, free improvisation denotes the shift from...
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Paul Bley (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Revolution" of 1964. The influential album, Turning Point, released by Improvising Artists in 1975, was recorded in 1964 when Bley brought John Gilmore, Gary...
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Ornette Coleman discography (category Discographies of American artists)
Hilcrest Club 1958 (Inner City, 1976) 1958: Coleman Classics Volume 1 (Improvising Artists, 1977) With Charlie Haden 1976: Closeness (Horizon, 1976) 1976: The...
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Jaco Pastorius (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
solo artist, band leader, and as a member of the jazz fusion group Weather Report from 1976 to 1981. He also collaborated with numerous artists, including...
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Jimmy Giuffre (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Dance (DJM) and The Train and the River (Candid) 1978: IAI Festival (Improvising Artists), with Lee Konitz, Bill Connors and Paul Bley 1983: Dragonfly (Soul...
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Sam Rivers (jazz musician) (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Dave Holland / Sam Rivers (Improvising Artists) 1976: with Dave Holland - Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol. 2 (Improvising Artists) 1977: with Mario Schiano...
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develop their skill in improvising for films. When talkies–motion pictures with sound–were introduced, these talented improvising musicians had to find...
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Eddie Marshall (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
(Mike Nock, Bennie Maupin, Cecil McBee, Marshall) 1977: Almanac (Improvising Artists) – recorded in 1967 With Toshiko Akiyoshi Long Yellow Road (Asahi...
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Gary Peacock (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
(ECM, 1970) Ballads (ECM, 1971) Turning Point (Improvising Artists, 1975) Japan Suite (Improvising Artists, 1977) Partners (Owl, 1989) In the Evenings out...
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John Gilmore (musician) (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Sun Ra see the Sun Ra discography With Paul Bley Turning Point (Improvising Artists, 1975 rec. 1964) With Freddie Hubbard The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard...
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Almanac (Almanac album) (category Improvising Artists Records live albums)
University in New York City, and was issued in 1977 by Paul Bley's Improvising Artists label. In a review for AllMusic, Scott Yanow noted that "there is...
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Barry Altschul (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Two) 2021: Long Tall Sunshine (Not Two) Source: 1967: Virtuosi (Improvising Artists, 1976) with Paul Bley and Gary Peacock 1978: Stop Time (NoBusiness...
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Bill Connors (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Stanley Clarke, Stanley Clarke (Nemperor, 1974) Paul Bley, Quiet Song (Improvising Artists, 1974) Jan Garbarek, Places (ECM, 1977) Jan Garbarek, Photo with...
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Paul Motian (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Frozen Reeds released "Duo in Concert," recordings of Motian freely improvising with Derek Bailey, from their two known live performances. Motian Sickness...
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Cecil McBee (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Almanac (Mike Nock, Bennie Maupin, McBee, Eddie Marshall) Almanac (Improvising Artists, 1967 [1977]) With George Adams America (Blue Note, 1990) With Ray...
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Mike Nock (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Don Banks Music Award was established in 1984 to publicly honour a senior artist of high distinction who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution...
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between partners improvising together. This stance has been argued to reflect the counter-cultural context in which contact improvisation was developed (aftermath...
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Pyramid (Lee Konitz album) (category Improvising Artists Records albums)
and guitarist Bill Connors recorded in 1977 and released on Bley's Improvising Artists label. Scott Yanow on Allmusic said "due to the free nature of the...
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Dave Holland (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Attar. Holland worked as a leader and as a sideman with many other jazz artists in the 1970s. On 15 June 1972 he played with Thelonious Monk at the Village...
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Jaco Pastorius discography (category Discographies of American artists)
Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987), excluding bootlegs and compilations. Various artists, including Jaco Pastorius, Jaco (Original Soundtrack) (Columbia, 2015)...
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Sun Ra (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
his death, Ra led the musical collective The Arkestra, which featured artists such as Marshall Allen, John Gilmore and June Tyson throughout its various...
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Steve Lacy (saxophonist) (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
worked extensively in experimental jazz and to a lesser extent in free improvisation, but Lacy's music was typically melodic and tightly-structured. Lacy...
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Michael Gregory (jazz guitarist) (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Leo Smith, and Will Calhoun. Clarity (Bija, 1977) Karmonic Suite (Improvising Artists, 1978) Gifts (Arista Novus, 1979) Heart & Center (Arista Novus, 1979)...
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Marion Brown (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
Saxophone (Sweet Earth) 1978: Reeds 'n Vibes with Gunter Hampel (Improvising Artists) 1978: Passion Flower (Baystate) 1979: Soul Eyes (Baystate) 1979:...
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Perry Robinson (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
at the age of 80. 1962: Funk Dumpling (Savoy) 1978: Kundalini (Improvising Artists) 1978: The Traveler (Chiaroscuro) 1989: Nightmare Island: Live at...
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Lee Konitz (category Improvising Artists Records artists)
at Cafe Stritch in San Jose, California, with the Jeff Denson Trio, improvising on his favoured old standards. In 2018, his duo album Decade (Verve Records)...
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