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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)"...

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...

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

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...

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...

signatures that were unusual for jazz such as 9 8, 6 4 and 5 4. The album is a subtle blend of cool and West Coast jazz. The album peaked at No. 2 on the...

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...

West Coast Swing is a partner dance with roots in Lindy Hop, characterized by an elastic look that results from its extension-compression technique of...

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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...

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...

elements of atonality and fugue. Brubeck, with Desmond, used elements of West Coast jazz near the height of its popularity, combining them with the unorthodox...

arrangements throughout his career. He was a central figure in West Coast jazz and cool jazz. He became a member of Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars...

Retrieved 4 December 2019. Scott Yanow, West Coast Blues! review, AllMusic. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling...

limited to that club. The "West Coast revival" is a movement that was begun in the late 1930s by Lu Watters and his Yerba Buena Jazz Band in San Francisco...

(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...

title" West Coast Jazz in Hifi. AllMusic critic Ken Dryden commented that one should expect to pay "a premium price" for it. Tim Neely's Goldmine Jazz Album...

recorded music that could be classified as West Coast jazz. In 1964, he released The Most Important Jazz Album of 1964/65 on Colpix Records, and in 1965...

Katz as "the first jazz cello player". The group gained national prominence and became one of the most influential West Coast jazz bands, synonymous with...

and it was featured as the first track on his seminal double album West Coast Jazz. Oscar Peterson released a version on his 1956 album, Pastel Moods...

5, 1993) was a West Coast jazz musician known primarily for playing tenor saxophone, but also for being one of the first to play jazz solos on oboe. Cooper...