documenting events of Jazz in the year 1962. 29 – The 4th Annual Grammy Awards were held at Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Best Jazz Performance – Soloist...

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...

Jazz Jamboree 1962 [No. 1] is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Don Ellis recorded in 1962 and released on the Polskie Nagrania Muza label. The...

the Lighthouse (Pacific Jazz, 1962) Tough Talk (Pacific Jazz, 1963) Heat Wave (Pacific Jazz, 1963) Jazz Waltz (Pacific Jazz, 1963) with Les McCann Stretchin'...

by jazz pianist and composer Bill Evans and his trio consisting of Evans, bassist Scott LaFaro, and drummer Paul Motian. It was released in 1962. The...

Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed...

1962 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1962. 1962 (MCMLXII)...

Jazz Samba is a bossa nova album by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd released by Verve Records in 1962. Jazz Samba signaled the beginning of the bossa nova craze...

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...

The Grammy Award for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album has been presented since 1961. From 1962 to 1971 and 1979 to 1991 the award title specified instrumental...

Mulligan Presents a Concert in Jazz (Verve, 1961) 1962: The Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Verve, 1962) 1962: Jeru (Columbia, 1962) 1962: Two of a Mind with Paul...

studio album by the jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer John Coltrane. It was recorded in April and June 1962, and released in July of that year...

The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie is the debut studio album by Little Stevie Wonder, released in September 1962 on the Tamla Motown label. The album showcases...

the Jazz Messengers (stylized as Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! and titled Alamode in Japan) is a studio album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers...

classical and jazz pianist and composer. He recorded many albums for Cadence Records during the 1950s and 1960s, experimenting with jazz with a classical...

name changes. 1959–1960: Best Jazz Performance, Group 1961: Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group 1962–1963: Best Jazz Performance Solo or Small Group...

Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus is the third album by American jazz pianist Vince Guaraldi (credited to the Vince Guaraldi Trio), released in 1962 on...

notable events in music that took place in the year 1962. 1962 in British music 1962 in Norwegian music 1962 in country music 1962 in jazz January 1 – The...

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music inspired by bebop and big band that arose in the United States after World War II. It is characterized by relaxed...

1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with...

Simaro Masiya Lutumba joined OK Jazz in 1961. Essous was replaced by saxophonist Verckys Kiamuangana Mateta. In 1962 OK Jazz visited Nigeria on their first...

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is an album by the jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman. It was released through Atlantic Records in September...

Macintosh Jazz (magazine) or Jazz & Pop, a 1962–1972 magazine Jazz (manga), a Japanese comic book Jazz (novel), a 1992 novel by Toni Morrison Jazz (Henri...

nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt...

"Desafinado" (1959), "The Girl from Ipanema" (1962) and "Corcovado" (1962). The jazz fusion movement fused jazz with other musical styles, most famously funk...

Jingle Bell Jazz (re-issued as Christmas Jazz) is a collection of jazz versions of Christmas songs recorded between 1959 and 1962 by some of the most...

Free jazz, or free form in the early to mid-1970s, is a style of avant-garde jazz or an experimental approach to jazz improvisation that developed in the...

The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. AllMusic rated the...

Undercurrent is a 1962 jazz album by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall. The two artists collaborated again in 1966 on the album Intermodulation...

recorded at the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco on September 22 & 23, 1962 In his review in the May 9, 1963, issue of DownBeat magazine, the jazz critic Pete...