West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre...

List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians and vocalists. Curtis Amy : 97, 105  - Saxophone Earl Anderza - alto saxophone David Axelrod - composer...

inspired avant-garde jazz and, later, free jazz. Jazz portal Chamber jazz List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians List of jazz genres Calkins, Caroll...

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West Coast Jazz is a 1955 album by Stan Getz accompanied by a quartet including trumpeter Conte Candoli. Getz recorded the album in California, where...

which also included jazz versions of pop songs and nursery rhymes. A Dixieland revival began in the United States on the West Coast in the late 1930s as...

"Jazz" originated in slang around 1912 on the West Coast. The meaning varied, but the word did not initially refer to music. "Jazz" came to mean jazz music...

tempos and harmonic abstraction of bebop. Cool jazz later became strongly identified with the West Coast jazz scene, but also had a particular resonance in...

Ensemble; Downey High School Jazz Band I; MJF Monterey County High School All-Star Band; Amina Claudine Myers; Doug Carn West Coast Organ Group; Mike LeDonne's...

devices in European contemporary music. West Coast jazz would run into such debts as would several forms of cool jazz, but bebop has hardly any such debts...

The West Coast Get Down is an American jazz collective formed in Los Angeles in 2006. Its members include saxophonist Kamasi Washington, bassists Miles...

tempos and harmonic abstraction of bebop. Cool jazz later became strongly identified with the West Coast jazz scene, but also had a particular resonance in...

subgenres of jazz music. Jazz portal Cook, Richard (2005). Richard Cook's Jazz Encyclopedia. London: Penguin. p. 2. ISBN 0-141-00646-3. "Acid jazz (genre)"...

European free jazz is a part of the global free jazz scene with its own development and characteristics. It is hard to establish who are the founders of...

1920 – September 26, 1984) was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played...

clarinet (his first instrument) and bass clarinet. Active primarily in West Coast jazz, Pepper first came to prominence in Stan Kenton's big band. He was...

jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. The techniques and instrumentation of this type...

Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles–based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded in 1952 by producer...

This is a list of jazz musicians by instrument based on existing articles on Wikipedia. Do not enter names that lack articles. Do not enter names that...

is a list of notable jazz guitar players, including guitarists from related jazz genres such as Western swing, Latin jazz, and jazz fusion. For an article...

Jazz is a 2001 television documentary miniseries directed by Ken Burns. It was broadcast on PBS in 2001 and was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding...

It has been active as a jazz showcase since 1949 and, under the name "The Lighthouse", was one of the best known West Coast jazz clubs from the 1950s through...

The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199937394. Gioia, Ted (1998). West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in...

Davis, Evans, Tristano, and Brubeck formed the core of the cool jazz and "west coast jazz" movements of the early 1950s. By the mid-1950s musicians began...

(born February 18, 1981) is an American jazz saxophonist. He is a founding member of the jazz collective West Coast Get Down. Washington was born in 1981...

bands. The early 1950s in the United States was the period of cool (or west coast) jazz, more peaceful than bebop, and with a more outspoken interest in composition...

Florida. He originally became known through his participation in the West Coast jazz movement of the 1950s, performing and recording with such figures as...

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Michigan Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-472-02881-8. Gioia, Ted (1998). West Coast jazz: modern jazz in California, 1945-1960. Berkeley Los Angeles, California: University...

West Coast blues is a type of blues music influenced by jazz and jump blues, with strong piano-dominated sounds and jazzy guitar solos, which originated...