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Cool jazz

Index Cool jazz

Cool jazz is a style of modern jazz music that arose in the United States after World War II. [1]

106 relations: 'Round Midnight (song), All Music Guide to Jazz, Atonality, Baritone saxophone, Baroque music, Bebop, Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Billboard (magazine), Birth of the Cool, Bix Beiderbecke, Bob Brookmeyer, Bossa nova, Capitol Records, Chamber jazz, Chamber music, Charlie Parker, Chasin' the Bird (song), Chet Baker, Chico Hamilton, Clarinet, Classical music, Claude Thornhill, Coleman Hawkins, Compilation album, Cool (aesthetic), Cornet, Count Basie, Counterpoint, Dave Brubeck, Dave Pell, David H. Rosenthal, Decet (music), Dizzy Gillespie, Double bass, Early Autumn (song), ECM Records, Exposition (music), Folk music, Four Brothers (jazz standard), Frankie Trumbauer, Fred Katz (cellist), Free jazz, French horn, Fugue, George Shearing, Gerry Mulligan, Gil Evans, Hard bop, Herbie Steward, ..., Hermosa Beach, California, House band, Howard Rumsey, Jazz, JazzTimes, Jimmie Noone, Jimmy Giuffre, John LaPorta, John Lewis (pianist), Kind of Blue, Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Leonard Feather, Lester Young, Lewis MacAdams, Lighthouse Café, List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians, Miles Ahead (album), Miles Davis, Minimal music, Modal jazz, Modern Jazz Quartet, New-age music, Nonet (music), Pastel (color), Paul Desmond, Paul Tanner, Pete Rugolo, Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album), Post-rock, Ron Wynn, Royal Roost, Serge Chaloff, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Sketches of Spain, Stan Getz, Stan Kenton, Swing music, Ted Gioia, Teddy Charles, Teddy Wilson, Tempo, Tenor saxophone, The Wall Street Journal, Thelonious Monk, Third stream, Time Out (album), Tuba, Vibrato, Warne Marsh, West Coast jazz, Whole tone scale, Woody Herman, World music, Zoot Sims. Expand index (56 more) »

'Round Midnight (song)

"Round Midnight" (sometimes "Round About Midnight") is a 1944 jazz standard by pianist Thelonious Monk.

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All Music Guide to Jazz

All Music Guide to Jazz is a non-fiction book that is an encyclopedic referencing of jazz music compiled under the direction of All Media Guide.

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Atonality

Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key.

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Baritone saxophone

The baritone saxophone or "bari sax" is one of the largest members of the saxophone family, only being smaller than the bass, contrabass and subcontrabass saxophones.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Bebop

Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States, which features songs characterized by a fast tempo, complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerous changes of key, instrumental virtuosity, and improvisation based on a combination of harmonic structure, the use of scales and occasional references to the melody.

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Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader.

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Benny Goodman

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Birth of the Cool

Birth of the Cool is a compilation album by American jazz musician Miles Davis, released in 1957 on Capitol Records.

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Bix Beiderbecke

Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer.

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Bob Brookmeyer

Robert Edward "Bob" Brookmeyer (December 19, 1929 – December 15, 2011) was an American jazz valve trombonist, pianist, arranger, and composer.

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Bossa nova

Bossa nova is a genre of Brazilian music, which was developed and popularized in the 1950s and 1960s and is today one of the best-known Brazilian music genres abroad.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, Inc. is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Chamber jazz

Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz involving small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important.

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Chamber music

Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room.

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Charlie Parker

Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), also known as Yardbird and Bird, was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Chasin' the Bird (song)

"Chasin' the Bird" is a composition by Charlie Parker.

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Chet Baker

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

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Chico Hamilton

Foreststorn "Chico" Hamilton, (September 20, 1921 – November 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.

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Clarinet

The clarinet is a musical-instrument family belonging to the group known as the woodwind instruments.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Claude Thornhill

Claude Thornhill (August 10, 1908 – July 1, 1965) was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Coleman Hawkins

Coleman Randolph Hawkins (November 21, 1904 – May 19, 1969), nicknamed "Hawk" and sometimes "Bean", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Compilation album

A compilation album comprises tracks, either previously released or unreleased, usually from several separate recordings by either one or several performers.

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Cool (aesthetic)

Coolness is an aesthetic of attitude, behavior, comportment, appearance and style which is generally admired.

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Cornet

The cornet is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality.

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Count Basie

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984) was an American jazz pianist, organist, bandleader, and composer.

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Counterpoint

In music, counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony) yet independent in rhythm and contour.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Dave Pell

David Pell (February 26, 1925 – May 7, 2017) was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader and record producer.

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David H. Rosenthal

David H. Rosenthal (1945–1992) was an American author, poet, editor, and translator.

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Decet (music)

In music, a decet—sometimes dectet, decimette, or even tentet —is a composition which requires ten musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of ten people.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Double bass

The double bass, or simply the bass (and numerous other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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Early Autumn (song)

"Early Autumn" (1949) is a song composed by Ralph Burns and Woody Herman with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.

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ECM Records

ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is an independent record label founded by Manfred Eicher in Munich in 1969.

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Exposition (music)

In musical form and analysis, exposition is the initial presentation of the thematic material of a musical composition, movement, or section.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Four Brothers (jazz standard)

"Four Brothers" (1947) is a jazz standard composed by Jimmy Giuffre and performed by the Woody Herman Orchestra.

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Frankie Trumbauer

Orie Frank Trumbauer (May 30, 1901 – June 11, 1956) was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Fred Katz (cellist)

Frederick Katz (February 25, 1919 – September 7, 2013) was an American cellist and composer.

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Free jazz

Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 60s as musicians attempted to alter, extend, or break down jazz convention, often by discarding fixed chord changes or tempos.

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French horn

The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the "horn" in some professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell.

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Fugue

In music, a fugue is a contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more voices, built on a subject (a musical theme) that is introduced at the beginning in imitation (repetition at different pitches) and which recurs frequently in the course of the composition.

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George Shearing

Sir George Shearing, OBE (13 August 1919 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records.

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Gerry Mulligan

Gerald Joseph Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger.

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Gil Evans

Ian Ernest Gilmore "Gil" Evans (born Green; May 13, 1912 – March 20, 1988) was a Canadian jazz pianist, arranger, composer and bandleader.

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Hard bop

Hard bop is a subgenre of jazz that is an extension of bebop (or "bop") music.

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Herbie Steward

Herbert Bickford "Herbie" Steward (May 7, 1926 Los Angeles – August 9, 2003 Clearlake, California) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Hermosa Beach, California

Hermosa Beach is a beachfront city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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House band

A house band is a group of musicians, often centrally organized by a band leader, who regularly play at an establishment.

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Howard Rumsey

Howard Rumsey (November 7, 1917 – July 15, 2015) was an American jazz double-bassist known for his leadership of the Lighthouse All-Stars in the 1950s.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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JazzTimes

JazzTimes is an American magazine devoted to jazz.

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Jimmie Noone

Jimmie Noone (April 23, 1895 – April 19, 1944) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader.

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Jimmy Giuffre

James Peter Giuffre (April 26, 1921 – April 24, 2008) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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John LaPorta

John LaPorta (13 April 1920 – 12 May 2004) was a Philadelphia-born jazz clarinetist and saxophonist.

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John Lewis (pianist)

John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

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Kind of Blue

Kind of Blue is a studio album by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis.

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Lee Konitz

Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American composer and alto saxophonist.

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Lennie Tristano

Leonard Joseph "Lennie" Tristano (March 19, 1919 – November 18, 1978) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher of jazz improvisation.

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Leonard Feather

Leonard Geoffrey Feather (13 September 1914 – 22 September 1994) was a British-born jazz pianist, composer, and producer who was best known for his music journalism and other writing.

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Lester Young

Lester Willis Young (August 27, 1909 – March 15, 1959), nicknamed "Pres" or "Prez", was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and occasional clarinetist.

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Lewis MacAdams

Lewis MacAdams (born October 12, 1944) is an American poet, journalist, political activist, and filmmaker who lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Lighthouse Café

The Lighthouse Café is a nightclub located at 30 Pier Avenue in Hermosa Beach, California.

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List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians

List of cool jazz and West Coast jazz musicians and vocalists.

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Miles Ahead (album)

Miles Ahead is an album by Miles Davis that was released in 1957 by Columbia Records.

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Miles Davis

Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.

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Minimal music

Minimal music is a form of art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials.

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Modal jazz

Modal jazz is jazz that uses musical modes rather than chord progressions as a harmonic framework.

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Modern Jazz Quartet

The Modern Jazz Quartet (MJQ) was a jazz combo established in 1952 that played music influenced by classical, cool jazz, blues and bebop.

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New-age music

New-age music is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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Nonet (music)

In music, a nonet is a composition which requires nine musicians for a performance, or a musical group that consists of nine people.

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Pastel (color)

Pastels or pastel colors belong to a pale family of colors, which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low to intermediate saturation.

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Paul Desmond

Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group's biggest hit, "Take Five".

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Paul Tanner

Paul Tanner (October 15, 1917 – February 5, 2013) was an American musician and a member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

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Pete Rugolo

Pietro "Pete" Rugolo (December 25, 1915 – October 16, 2011) was an American jazz composer, arranger and record producer.

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Porgy and Bess (Miles Davis album)

Porgy and Bess (CL 1274) is a studio album by jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records.

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Post-rock

Post-rock is a form of experimental rock characterized by use of rock instruments primarily to explore textures and timbre rather than traditional song structure, chords or riffs.

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Ron Wynn

Ron Wynn is a music critic, author, former ferryman and AllMusic editor.

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Royal Roost

The Royal Roost was a jazz club located at 1580 Broadway in New York City.

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Serge Chaloff

Serge Chaloff (November 24, 1923 – July 16, 1957) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist.

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Shelly Manne

Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984), was an American jazz drummer.

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Shorty Rogers

Milton "Shorty" Rogers (April 14, 1924 – November 7, 1994) was one of the principal creators of West Coast jazz.

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Sketches of Spain

Sketches of Spain is an album by Miles Davis, recorded between November 1959 and March 1960 at the Columbia 30th Street Studio in New York City.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Stan Kenton

Stanley Newcomb Kenton (December 15, 1911 – August 25, 1979) was an American popular music and jazz artist.

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Swing music

Swing music, or simply swing, is a form of popular music developed in the United States that dominated in the 1930s and 1940s.

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Ted Gioia

Ted Gioia (born 21 October 1957) is an American jazz critic and music historian who wrote The History of Jazz and Delta Blues, both selected as notable books of the year by The New York Times.

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Teddy Charles

Teddy Charles (April 13, 1928 – April 16, 2012) was an American jazz musician and composer whose instruments were the vibraphone, piano, and drums.

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Teddy Wilson

Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist.

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Tempo

In musical terminology, tempo ("time" in Italian; plural: tempi) is the speed or pace of a given piece.

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Tenor saxophone

The Tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Thelonious Monk

Thelonious Sphere Monk (October 10, 1917 – February 17, 1982) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Third stream

Third Stream is a term coined in 1957 by composer Gunther Schuller, in a lecture at Brandeis University, to describe a musical synthesis of jazz and classical music.

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Time Out (album)

Time Out is a studio album by the American jazz group the Dave Brubeck Quartet, released in 1959 on Columbia Records.

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Tuba

The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass family.

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Vibrato

Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.

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Warne Marsh

Warne Marion Marsh (October 26, 1927 – December 18, 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist.

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West Coast jazz

West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s.

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Whole tone scale

In music, a whole tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbours by the interval of a whole tone.

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Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Zoot Sims

John Haley "Zoot" Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985) was an American jazz saxophonist, playing mainly tenor but also alto (and, later, soprano) saxophone.

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