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Elvin Jones

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Elvin Ray Jones (September 9, 1927 – May 18, 2004) was an American jazz drummer of the post-bop era. [1]

75 relations: A Love Supreme, Avant-garde jazz, Benny Goodman, Berklee College of Music, Billy Mitchell (jazz musician), Blue Note Records, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Christian Vander (musician), Compilation album, Dave Liebman, Detroit, Drum kit, Drum rudiment, Duet, Dynamics (music), Englewood, New Jersey, Enja Records, Frank Foster (musician), Gene Perla, George Coleman, Ginger Baker, Guitar, Hank Jones, Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, Hard bop, Jan Hammer, Janet Weiss, Jazz, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Garrison, Joe Farrell, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Legato, Life (magazine), Live at the Lighthouse (Elvin Jones album), Louis Armstrong, Mainstream jazz, McCoy Tyner, Miles Davis, Mitch Mitchell, Modal jazz, Modern Drummer, New York City, Oregon (band), Our Lady Peace, Pepper Adams, Percussion instrument, ..., Playlist: The Very Best of Our Lady Peace, Polyrhythm, Pontiac, Michigan, Post-bop, Prison, Puttin' It Together, Rashied Ali, Ravi Coltrane, Rhythm, Sonny Fortune, Speak No Evil, Steve Grossman (saxophonist), Swing music, Teddy Charles, Thad Jones, The New York Times, The Real McCoy (album), Timbre, United States Army, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Wardell Gray, Wayne Shorter, Western (genre), World music, Zachariah (film). Expand index (25 more) »

A Love Supreme

A Love Supreme is a 1965 studio album by American jazz saxophonist and bandleader John Coltrane.

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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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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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Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.

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Billy Mitchell (jazz musician)

William Melvin Mitchell (November 3, 1926 – April 18, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records.

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Bud Powell

Earl Rudolph "Bud" Powell (September 27, 1924 – July 31, 1966) was an American jazz pianist.

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Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz double bassist, pianist, composer and bandleader.

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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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Christian Vander (musician)

Christian Vander (born 21 February 1948 in Nogent-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne) is a French drummer, musician, and founder of the band Magma.

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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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Dave Liebman

David Liebman (born September 4, 1946) is an American saxophonist and flautist.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

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Drum kit

A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.

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Drum rudiment

In percussion music, a rudiment is one of a number of relatively small patterns which form the foundation for more extended and complex drum patterns.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Dynamics (music)

In music, the dynamics of a piece is the variation in loudness between notes or phrases.

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Englewood, New Jersey

Englewood is a city located in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.

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Enja Records

Enja Records is a German jazz record company and label based in Munich which was founded by jazz enthusiasts Matthias Winckelmann and Horst Weber in 1971.

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Frank Foster (musician)

Frank Benjamin Foster III (September 23, 1928 – July 26, 2011) was an American tenor and soprano saxophonist, flautist, arranger, and composer.

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Gene Perla

Gene Perla (born March 1, 1940, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey) is an American jazz bassist.

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George Coleman

George Edward Coleman (born March 8, 1935) is an American jazz saxophonist known for his work with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock in the 1960s.

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Ginger Baker

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August 1939) is an English drummer and the founder of the rock band Cream.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hank Jones

Henry "Hank" Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer.

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Happiness... Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch

Happiness...

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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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Jan Hammer

Jan Hammer (born 17 April 1948) is a Czech-born American musician, composer and record producer.

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Janet Weiss

Janet Lee Weiss (born September 24, 1965) is a rock drummer, best known as a member of Sleater-Kinney and currently also a member of Quasi.

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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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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Jimmy Garrison

James Emory Garrison (March 3, 1934 – April 7, 1976) was an American jazz double bassist born in Miami, Florida.

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Joe Farrell

Joseph Carl Firrantello (December 16, 1937 – January 10, 1986), known as Joe Farrell, was an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.

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John Coltrane

John William Coltrane, also known as "Trane" (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967),.

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Lee Morgan

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

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Legato

In music performance and notation, legato (Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.

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Life (magazine)

Life was an American magazine that ran regularly from 1883 to 1972 and again from 1978 to 2000.

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Live at the Lighthouse (Elvin Jones album)

Live at the Lighthouse is a live album by jazz drummer Elvin Jones featuring performances recorded in 1972 at the Lighthouse Café in California, and released on the Blue Note label.

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Louis Armstrong

Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed Satchmo, Satch, and Pops, was an American trumpeter, composer, singer and occasional actor who was one of the most influential figures in jazz.

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Mainstream jazz

Mainstream jazz is a term that was first established in the 1950s by music journalist Stanley Dance.

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McCoy Tyner

Alfred McCoy Tyner (born December 11, 1938) is a jazz pianist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known for his work with the John Coltrane Quartet and a long solo career.

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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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Mitch Mitchell

John Graham "Mitch" Mitchell (9 July 194612 November 2008)In his book about the Experience, Mitchell claimed he celebrated his 21st.

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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 Drummer

Modern Drummer is a monthly publication targeting the interests of drummers and percussionists.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Oregon (band)

Oregon is an American jazz and world music group formed in 1970 by Ralph Towner, Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott.

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Our Lady Peace

Our Lady Peace (sometimes shortened to OLP) is a Canadian rock band formed in Toronto, Ontario in 1992.

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Pepper Adams

Park Frederick "Pepper" Adams III (October 8, 1930 – September 10, 1986) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist and composer.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Playlist: The Very Best of Our Lady Peace

Playlist: The Very Best of Our Lady Peace is a compilation album consisting of select remastered recordings by alternative rock band Our Lady Peace.

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Polyrhythm

Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms, that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another, or as simple manifestations of the same meter.

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Pontiac, Michigan

Pontiac is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan, located in Metro Detroit.

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Post-bop

Post-bop is a genre of small-combo jazz that evolved in the early to mid-1960s.

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Prison

A prison, also known as a correctional facility, jail, gaol (dated, British English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (American English), or remand center is a facility in which inmates are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state.

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Puttin' It Together

Puttin' It Together is an album by American jazz drummer Elvin Jones, his first effort for Blue Note as a leader.

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Rashied Ali

Rashied Ali, born Robert Patterson (July 1, 1933 – August 12, 2009) was an American free jazz and avant-garde drummer best known for playing with John Coltrane in the last years of Coltrane's life.

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Ravi Coltrane

Ravi Coltrane (born August 6, 1965 in Long Island, New York) is an American post-bop jazz saxophonist.

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Rhythm

Rhythm (from Greek ῥυθμός, rhythmos, "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a "movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions".

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Sonny Fortune

Sonny Fortune (born) is an American jazz saxphonist.

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Speak No Evil

Speak No Evil is the sixth album by Wayne Shorter.

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Steve Grossman (saxophonist)

Steve Grossman (born January 18, 1951 in New York City) is an American jazz fusion and hard bop saxophonist.

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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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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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Thad Jones

Thaddeus Joseph Jones (March 28, 1923 – August 20, 1986) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who has been called "one of the all-time greatest jazz trumpet soloists.".

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Real McCoy (album)

The Real McCoy is the seventh album by jazz pianist McCoy Tyner and his first released on the Blue Note label.

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Timbre

In music, timbre (also known as tone color or tone quality from psychoacoustics) is the perceived sound quality of a musical note, sound or tone.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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Vicksburg, Mississippi

Vicksburg is the only city in, and county seat of Warren County, Mississippi, United States.

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Wardell Gray

Wardell Gray (February 13, 1921 – May 25, 1955) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who straddled the swing and bebop periods.

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Wayne Shorter

Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer.

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Western (genre)

The Western is a genre of various arts which tell stories set primarily in the later half of the 19th century in the American Old West, often centering on the life of a nomadic cowboy or gunfighter armed with a revolver and a rifle who rides a horse.

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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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Zachariah (film)

Zachariah is a 1971 American Western film directed by George Englund and written by Joe Massot and the four members of the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre (Phil Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman and Philip Proctor).

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References

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

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