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Larry Willis

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Lawrence Elliott "Larry" Willis (born December 20, 1940) is an American jazz pianist and composer. [1]

80 relations: Aaron Copland, African Americans, Al Foster, Almost Like Being in Jazz, Alphonse Mouzon, American Pie (Groove Holmes album), Arcane (album), Avant-garde jazz, Bebop, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Blue Autumn, Buddy Terry, Buster Williams, Carla (album), Carla Bley, Carmen McRae, Carmen Sings Monk, Charles Williams (musician), Child of the Sun, Cindy Blackman Santana, Clifford Jordan, ECM Records, For Sure! (Woody Shaw album), Friends (Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis album), Gary Bartz, Groove Merchant, Grrr (Hugh Masekela album), Gypsy Man, Hamiet Bluiett, Head of state, Home Is Where the Music Is, Hugh Masekela, Infinity (Lee Morgan album), Inner Crisis, Jack Walrath, Jackie McLean, Jacknife (album), Jazz, Jazz fusion, Jimmy Cobb, Jimmy Heath, Joe Ford (musician), Joe Henderson, Landmark Records, Lean on Him, Lee Morgan, Leonard Bernstein, Louis Hayes, Main Event Live, Mainstream Records, ..., Manhattan School of Music, Mapleshade Records, Milestone Records, Multiple (album), Nat Adderley, New Blood (Blood, Sweat & Tears album), Night-Glo, Nightfall (Louis Hayes album), Norris Turney, On the Move (Nat Adderley album), Peer Pleasure, Portraits in Ivory and Brass, Reconstruction (Hugh Masekela album), Richard Holmes (organist), Right Now! (Jackie McLean album), Robin Kenyatta, Rock music, Roy Hargrove, Sextet (Carla Bley album), Sledgehammer Blues, SteepleChase Records, Steve Berrios, Steve Novosel, Steve Swallow, The Essence of Mystery, The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan, Theresa Records, Walter Booker, When Alto Was King, Woody Shaw. Expand index (30 more) »

Aaron Copland

Aaron Copland (November 14, 1900December 2, 1990) was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later a conductor of his own and other American music.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Al Foster

Al Foster (born January 18, 1944) is an American jazz drummer.

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Almost Like Being in Jazz

Almost Like Being in Jazz is a studio album by South-African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela.

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Alphonse Mouzon

Alphonse Lee Mouzon (21 November 1948 – 25 December 2016, aged 68) was an American jazz fusion drummer and the owner of Tenacious Records, a label that primarily released Mouzon's recordings.

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American Pie (Groove Holmes album)

American Pie is an album by American jazz organist Groove Holmes recorded in 1972 and released on the Groove Merchant label.

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Arcane (album)

Arcane is the debut studio album led by drummer Cindy Blackman which was recorded in 1987 and released on the Muse label.

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Avant-garde jazz

Avant-garde jazz (also known as avant-jazz) is a style of music and improvisation that combines avant-garde art music and composition with jazz.

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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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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") was a jazz-rock American music group.

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Blue Autumn

Blue Autumn is a jazz album by the Nat Adderley quartet.

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Buddy Terry

Edlin "Buddy" Terry (born January 30, 1941) is an American jazz musician and alto/tenor sax player.

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Buster Williams

Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams (born April 17, 1942 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American jazz bassist.

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Carla (album)

Carla is an album by bassist Steve Swallow released on the Xtra Watt label in 1987.

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Carla Bley

Carla Bley (née Lovella May Borg; born May 11, 1936) is an American jazz composer, pianist, organist and bandleader.

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Carmen McRae

Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1922 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer.

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Carmen Sings Monk

Carmen Sings Monk is a 1988 studio album by the American jazz singer Carmen McRae, focusing on the songs composed by Thelonious Monk.

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Charles Williams (musician)

Charles Isaac Williams (born July 18, 1932) is an alto saxophonist based in New York City.

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Child of the Sun

Child of the Sun, also known as the Florida Southern College Architectural District is a group of buildings designed for the campus of the Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida, United States, by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright from 1941 through 1958.

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Cindy Blackman Santana

Cindy Blackman Santana (born November 18, 1959), sometimes known as Cindy Blackman, is an American jazz and rock drummer.

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Clifford Jordan

Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931 – March 27, 1993) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player.

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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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For Sure! (Woody Shaw album)

For Sure is an album led by trumpeter Woody Shaw which was recorded in 1979 and released on the Columbia label.

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Friends (Hugh Masekela and Larry Willis album)

Friends is a collaborative album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela and American jazz pianist Larry Willis.

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Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Groove Merchant

Groove Merchant was an American jazz and R&B record label during the 1970s.

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Grrr (Hugh Masekela album)

Grrr is the second studio album by South African musician Hugh Masekela.

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Gypsy Man

Gypsy Man is an album by saxophonist Robin Kenyatta released on the Atlantic label in 1973.

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Hamiet Bluiett

Hamiet Bluiett (born September 16, 1940, Brooklyn, or Lovejoy, Illinois; surname pronounced BLUE-ett) is an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer.

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Head of state

A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona that officially represents the national unity and legitimacy of a sovereign state.

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Home Is Where the Music Is

Home Is Where the Music Is is a 1972 jazz and Afrobeat double LP by Hugh Masekela issued by the joint American label Chisa/Blue Thumb Records.

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Hugh Masekela

Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and singer.

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Infinity (Lee Morgan album)

Infinity is an album by jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan released on the Blue Note label.

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Inner Crisis

Inner Crisis is an album by American jazz pianist Larry Willis recorded in 1973 and released on the Groove Merchant label.

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Jack Walrath

Jack Walrath (born May 5, 1946) is an American post-bop jazz trumpeter and musical arranger known for his work with Ray Charles, Gary Peacock, Charles Mingus, and Glenn Ferris, among others.

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Jackie McLean

John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''Down Beat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death.

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Jacknife (album)

Jacknife is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean.

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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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Jazz fusion

Jazz fusion (also known as fusion) is a musical genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined aspects of jazz harmony and improvisation with styles such as funk, rock, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz.

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Jimmy Cobb

Wilbur James Cobb (born January 20, 1929, in Washington, D.C.) is an American jazz drummer.

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Jimmy Heath

James Edward Heath (born October 25, 1926), nicknamed Little Bird, is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger and big band leader.

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Joe Ford (musician)

Joe Ford (born May 7, 1947, Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz saxophonist.

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Joe Henderson

Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Landmark Records

Landmark Records was an American jazz record company and label founded in 1985 by Orrin Keepnews.

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Lean on Him

Lean on Him is an album by American saxophonist Buddy Terry released on the Mainstream label in 1973.

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Lee Morgan

Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist.

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Louis Hayes

Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer.

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Main Event Live

Main Event Live is collaborative live album by Herb Alpert and Hugh Masekela.

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Mainstream Records

Mainstream Records was an American record company and independent record label founded by music producer Bob Shad in 1964.

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Manhattan School of Music

The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a music conservatory located on the Upper West Side of New York City.

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Mapleshade Records

Mapleshade Records is an American jazz record company and independent record label founded by Pierre Sprey in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, United States, in 1990.

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Milestone Records

Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City.

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Multiple (album)

Multiple is an album by American saxophonist Joe Henderson, released in 1973 on Milestone.

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Nat Adderley

Nat Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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New Blood (Blood, Sweat & Tears album)

New Blood is the fifth album by the band Blood, Sweat & Tears, released in 1972.

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Night-Glo

Night-Glo is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with bassist Steve Swallow recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1985.

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Nightfall (Louis Hayes album)

Nightfall is an album led by drummer Louis Hayes which was recorded in 1991 and released on the Danish SteepleChase label.

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Norris Turney

Norris Turney (September 8, 1921, Wilmington, Ohio – January 17, 2001, Kettering, Ohio) was an American jazz flautist and saxophonist.

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On the Move (Nat Adderley album)

On the Move is a live album by Nat Adderley's Quintet recorded in 1982 and released on the Theresa label.

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Peer Pleasure

Peer Pleasure is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1987 and released on the Landmark label.

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Portraits in Ivory and Brass

Portraits in Ivory and Brass is an album by trumpeter Jack Walrath with pianist Larry Willis and bassist Steve Novosel which was recorded in 1992 and released on the Mapleshade label in 1994.

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Reconstruction (Hugh Masekela album)

Reconstruction is the twelfth studio album by South African jazz trumpeter Hugh Masekela released via Chisa Records label in July 1970.

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Richard Holmes (organist)

Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (May 2, 1931 – June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre.

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Right Now! (Jackie McLean album)

Right Now! is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean recorded in 1965 and released on the Blue Note label.

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Robin Kenyatta

Robin Kenyatta (March 6, 1942 – October 28, 2004) was an American jazz alto saxophonist.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Roy Hargrove

Roy Anthony Hargrove (born October 16, 1969) is an American jazz trumpeter.

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Sextet (Carla Bley album)

Sextet is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley released on the Watt/ECM label in 1987.

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Sledgehammer Blues

Sledgehammer Blues is an audiophile record label owned by Valley Entertainment.

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SteepleChase Records

SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Steve Berrios

Steve Berrios (February 24, 1945 – July 25, 2013) was an American jazz drummer and percussionist born in New York, New York, United States.

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Steve Novosel

Steven (Steve) Novosel (born 1940) is an American professional jazz bassist and educator whose 40-plus year career has spanned numerous genre, from traditional jazz to swing, bebop, mainstream and avant garde.

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Steve Swallow

Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is a jazz bassist and composer noted for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley.

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The Essence of Mystery

The Essence of Mystery is the debut album by American jazz drummer Alphonse Mouzon recorded in 1972 and released in 1973 on the Blue Note label.

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The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan

The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan is an album by saxophonist Clifford Jordan which was recordedbetween 1989 and 1991 and released on the Mapleshade label in 1997.

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Theresa Records

Theresa Records was a jazz record company and label established in 1975 by Allen Pittman and B. Kazuko Ishida in El Cerrito, California.

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Walter Booker

Walter Booker (December 17, 1933 – November 24, 2006) was an American jazz musician.

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When Alto Was King

When Alto Was King is the final album recorded by American saxophonist C. I. Williams released in 1997 on the Mapleshade label a quarter century after his previous album.

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Woody Shaw

Woody Herman Shaw, Jr. (December 24, 1944 – May 10, 1989) was an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer and band leader.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Willis

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