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    documenting events of Jazz in the year 1966. 14 – The Jazz Crusaders record Live at the Lighthouse '66 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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  • Jazz fusion (also known as jazz rock, jazz-rock fusion, or simply fusion) is a popular music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined...
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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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    (Pacific Jazz, 1966) The Festival Album (Pacific Jazz, 1966) Uh Huh (Pacific Jazz, 1967) Lighthouse '68 (Pacific Jazz, 1968) Powerhouse (Pacific Jazz, 1969)...
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  • Speak No Evil (Wayne Shorter album) (category 1966 albums)
    Wayne Shorter. It was released in June 1966 by Blue Note Records. The music combines elements of hard bop and modal jazz, and features Shorter on tenor...
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  • 1966 January February March April May June July August September October November December Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1966. 1966 (MCMLXVI)...
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  • notable events in music that took place in the year 1966. 1966 in British music 1966 in Norwegian music 1966 in country music 1966 in jazz January 8 – Shindig...
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    was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and multi-instrumentalist. Beginning in the late 1950s, he had a long tenure performing in the bands of saxophonist...
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    the oldest and best known jazz festivals in Europe, having been arranged every year since 1966. The first, 2-day-long Pori Jazz Festival was held at the...
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  • Jazz Raga is an album by Hungarian guitarist Gábor Szabó featuring performances recorded in 1966 for the Impulse! label. The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek...
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  • 1966, the Jazz Composers Orchestra Association Inc. (JCOA). The Orchestra's first release was Communication in 1965. Their 1968 double-album The Jazz...
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  • Jazz Orchestra was a jazz big band formed by trumpeter Thad Jones and drummer Mel Lewis in New York in 1965. The band performed for twelve years in its...
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  • That Jazz" (Mel Tormé song), recorded for the 1966 film A Man Called Adam, and subsequently released on the 1997 reissue of Right Now! All That Jazz (Breathe...
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    Cannonball Adderley (category African-American jazz musicians)
    an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Adderley is perhaps best remembered for the 1966 soul jazz single "Mercy...
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    which it was hit by defections by its members in 1963. It was briefly revived after 1966. African Jazz emerged from the vibrant urban culture of Léopoldville...
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  • Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed...
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  • Folk jazz is a musical style that combines traditional folk music with elements of jazz, usually featuring richly texturized songs. Its origins can be...
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  • Freedom Jazz Dance: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 is a 3-CD box set by the Miles Davis Quintet compiling studio recordings by jazz trumpeter Miles Davis...
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  • 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...
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  • Mark Levinson (audio equipment designer) (category American jazz bass guitarists)
    worked as the bassist for jazz pianist Paul Bley (in 1966 through 1971 by his own account), and mentions other renowned jazz musicians with whom he played...
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    saxophonists—playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz—Mulligan was also a significant arranger working with Claude Thornhill...
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    McClure). The Quartet's 1966 live album, Forest Flower, recorded at the Monterey Jazz Festival, was one of the most successful jazz recordings of the mid-1960s...
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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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    Nathalie Loriers (category Belgian jazz pianists)
    Nathalie Loriers (born 27 October 1966, Namur) is a Belgian jazz pianist and composer. In 1991 Loriers formed her own quartet with Kurt Van Herck (saxophone)...
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    Doreen Ketchens (category Jazz musicians from New Orleans)
    Doreen J. Ketchens (born October 3, 1966) is a virtuoso American jazz clarinetist who performs Dixieland and trad jazz. She has performed at concert halls...
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  • A Man Called Adam (film) (category Jazz films)
    Adam is a 1966 American drama musical film directed by Leo Penn and starring Sammy Davis Jr. It tells the story of a self-destructive jazz musician, played...
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  • Intermodulation (album) (category 1966 collaborative albums)
    Intermodulation is a 1966 jazz album by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall. The recording is a follow-up to their highly acclaimed 1962 collaboration...
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    John Coltrane (category 20th-century jazz composers)
    was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century...
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    Bud Powell (category American jazz pianists)
    – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist and composer. A pioneer in the development of bebop and its associated contributions to jazz theory, Powell's...
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