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Eric Dolphy

Index Eric Dolphy

Eric Allan Dolphy, Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. [1]

195 relations: Abbey Lincoln, Africa/Brass, Aki Takase, Alan Douglas (record producer), Albert Ayler, Alto saxophone, Andrew Hill, Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Arthur Blythe, At the Five Spot, Avant-garde jazz, Bandleader, Baritone saxophone, Bass clarinet, Béla Bartók, Bebop, Benny Golson, Berlin, Billy Higgins, Blue Note Records, Bobby Hutcherson, Booker Ervin, Booker Little, Box set, Bud Powell, California, Candid Records, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus, Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Cornell 1964, Chico Hamilton, Clarinet, Clifford Brown, Clifford Jordan, Coleman Hawkins, Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard, Composer, Conversations (Eric Dolphy album), Cornell University, Dedicated to Dolphy, Density 21.5, Diabetes mellitus, Diabetic coma, Don Byron, Donald Byrd, DownBeat, Duke Ellington, Ed Blackwell, ..., Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Edgard Varèse, Essence (John Lewis album), Extended technique, Ezz-thetics, Fantasy Records, Far Cry (album), Fats Waller, Five Spot Café, Flute, Frank Kofsky, Frank Zappa, Freak Out!, Freddie Hubbard, Free jazz, Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation, George Russell (composer), Gerald Wilson, Gil Evans, God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song), Gongs East!, Gunther Schuller, Hale Smith, Han Bennink, Hard bop, Herbie Hancock, Here and There (Eric Dolphy album), Hot & Cool Latin, Hypoglycemia, I Gotta Right to Swing, I'll Remember April (song), Igor Stravinsky, Impressions (John Coltrane album), Impulse! Records, Insulin, Interval (music), Iron Man (Eric Dolphy album), Jaki Byard, James Newton, Jazz, Jazz Abstractions, Jazz fusion, Jazz on a Summer's Day, Jerome Harris, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, John Lewis (pianist), John McLaughlin (musician), Johnny Coles, Julius Hemphill, Last Date (Eric Dolphy album), Library of Congress, Limelight Records, Looking Ahead (Makanda Ken McIntyre album), Los Angeles, Los Angeles City College, Makanda Ken McIntyre, Mal Waldron, Max Roach, Mercury Records, Miles Davis, Mingus (Charles Mingus album), Mingus at Antibes, Mingus in Europe Volume I, Mingus in Europe Volume II, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, Mingus Revisited, Misha Mengelberg, My Favorite Things (song), Naima, Nathan Davis (saxophonist), Oboe, Ojai Music Festival, Olé Coltrane, Oliver Lake, Oliver Nelson, Orchestra U.S.A., Ornette Coleman, Oslo, Other Aspects, Otomo Yoshihide, Out Front (Booker Little album), Out There (Eric Dolphy album), Out to Lunch!, Outside (jazz), Outward Bound (album), Pablo Records, Panama, Percussion Bitter Sweet, Piccolo, Plenty of Horn (Ted Curson album), Point of Departure (Andrew Hill album), Pony Poindexter, Pony's Express, Pop + Jazz = Swing, Post-bop, Prestige Records, Prophet (Oliver Lake album), Ree Dragonette, Revenge! (Charles Mingus album), Richard Davis (bassist), Rock music, Ron Carter, Roy Porter (drummer), Rudi Mahall, Rudy Van Gelder, Sammy Davis Jr., Saxophone, Screamin' the Blues, Session musician, Sonny Rollins, Soprano clarinet, Stop Smiling, Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album), Straight Ahead (Oliver Nelson album), String quartet, Substance abuse, Ted Curson, Tenderly, That Hamilton Man, The Blues and the Abstract Truth, The Body & the Soul, The Chico Hamilton Quintet with Strings Attached, The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings, The Complete Town Hall Concert, The Great Concert of Charles Mingus, The Illinois Concert, The Individualism of Gil Evans, The Original Ellington Suite, The Quest (album), The Three Faces of Chico, The Town Hall (New York City), The Wonderful World of Jazz, Third stream, Tony Williams (drummer), Town Hall Concert, Trane Whistle, Transatlantic Records, Twins (Ornette Coleman album), Vienna Art Orchestra, Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Where? (album), Woody Shaw, 20th-century classical music. Expand index (145 more) »

Abbey Lincoln

Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010), known by her stage name Abbey Lincoln, was an African-American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress, who wrote and performed her own compositions.

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Africa/Brass

Africa/Brass is the eighth studio album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Impulse! Records, catalogue A-6.

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Aki Takase

(born January 26, 1948) is a Japanese jazz pianist and composer.

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Alan Douglas (record producer)

Alan Douglas RubensteinRichard Williams, The Guardian, 18 June 2014 (July 20, 1931 – June 7, 2014) was an American record producer from Boston, who worked with Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, John McLaughlin, Lenny Bruce and the Last Poets.

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Albert Ayler

Albert Ayler (July 13, 1936 – November 25, 1970) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist, singer and composer.

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Alto saxophone

The alto saxophone, also referred to as the alto sax, is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s, and patented in 1846.

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Andrew Hill

Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931Mandel, Howard (April 20, 2007) "Andrew Hill: 1931–2007" Retrieved April 20, 2007. During his lifetime, Hill's year of birth was always given as 1937. – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist who is known in the genre of free jazz.

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Art Ensemble of Chicago

The Art Ensemble of Chicago is an avant-garde jazz group that grew out of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) in the late 1960s.

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Arthur Blythe

Arthur Murray Blythe (July 5, 1940 – March 27, 2017) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer.

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At the Five Spot

At the Five Spot volumes one and two is a pair of jazz albums documenting one night (16 July 1961) from the end of Eric Dolphy and Booker Little's two-week residency at the Five Spot in New York.

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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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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.

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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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Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and an ethnomusicologist.

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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 Golson

Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.

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Billy Higgins

Billy Higgins (October 11, 1936 – May 3, 2001) was an American jazz drummer.

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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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Bobby Hutcherson

Robert Hutcherson (January 27, 1941 – August 15, 2016) was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player.

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Booker Ervin

Booker Telleferro Ervin II (October 31, 1930 – August 31, 1970) was an American tenor saxophone player.

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Booker Little

Booker Little, Jr. (April 2, 1938 – October 5, 1961 - accessed June 2010) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer.

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Box set

A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit.

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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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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Candid Records

Candid Records is a record label specialising in jazz, now based in the United Kingdom.

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Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 15, 1929 - April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

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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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Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus

Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, recorded in 1960 and released in 1961.

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Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy Cornell 1964

Cornell 1964 is a live concert recording of the Charles Mingus Sextet featuring Eric Dolphy recorded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York on March 18, 1964.

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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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Clifford Brown

Clifford Benjamin Brown (October 30, 1930 – June 26, 1956), also known as "Brownie", was an American jazz trumpeter.

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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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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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Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard

Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard is the tenth album by jazz musician John Coltrane and his first live album, released in 1962 on Impulse Records, catalogue A-10.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Conversations (Eric Dolphy album)

Conversations is a 1963 album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist, Eric Dolphy, later reissued on VJ Records as "The Eric Dolphy Memorial Album.".

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Dedicated to Dolphy

Dedicated to Dolphy is an album by American jazz saxophonist Oliver Lake recorded in 1994 for the Italian Black Saint label.

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Density 21.5

Density 21.5 is a piece of music for solo flute written by Edgard Varèse in 1936 and revised in 1946.

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

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Diabetic coma

Diabetic coma is a reversible form of coma found in people with diabetes mellitus.

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Don Byron

Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Donald Byrd

Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II (December 9, 1932 – February 4, 2013) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues trumpeter.

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DownBeat

DownBeat (stylized DOWNBEAT) is an American magazine devoted to "jazz, blues and beyond", the last word indicating its expansion beyond the jazz realm which it covered exclusively in previous years.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American composer, pianist, and bandleader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death in a career spanning over fifty years.

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Ed Blackwell

Edward Joseph Blackwell (October 10, 1929 – October 7, 1992) was an American jazz drummer born in New Orleans, Louisiana, known for his extensive, influential work with Ornette Coleman.

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Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Edward F. Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Edgard Varèse

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse;Malcolm MacDonald, Varèse, Astronomer in Sound (London, 2003), p. xi. December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.

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Essence (John Lewis album)

Essence (subtitled John Lewis Plays the Compositions & Arrangements of Gary McFarland) is an album by pianist and conductor John Lewis recorded for the Atlantic label in 1960 and 1962.

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Extended technique

In music, extended technique is unconventional, unorthodox, or non-traditional methods of singing or of playing musical instruments employed to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.

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Ezz-thetics

Ezz-thetics is an album by a sextet led by the jazz composer and music theorist George Russell.

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Fantasy Records

Fantasy Records is an American record company and label founded by brothers Max and Sol Weiss in 1949.

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Far Cry (album)

Far Cry is a jazz album by musician Eric Dolphy with trumpeter Booker Little, originally released in 1962 on New Jazz, a subsidiary of the Prestige label.

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Fats Waller

Thomas Wright "Fats" Waller (May 21, 1904 – December 15, 1943) was an American jazz pianist, organist, composer, singer, and comedic entertainer.

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Five Spot Café

The Five Spot Café was a jazz club located at 5 Cooper Square in the Bowery neighbourhood of New York City.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Frank Kofsky

Frank Kofsky (1935–1997) was an American Marxist historian, author, and Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento, from 1969 until his death.

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Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.

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Freak Out!

Freak Out! is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966, on Verve Records.

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Freddie Hubbard

Frederick Dewayne Hubbard (April 7, 1938 – December 29, 2008) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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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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Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation

Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation is the sixth album by jazz saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman, released on Atlantic Records in 1961, his fourth for the label.

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George Russell (composer)

George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist.

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Gerald Wilson

Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918 – September 8, 2014)Don Heckman,, Los Angeles Times, September 8, 2014.

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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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God Bless the Child (Billie Holiday song)

"God Bless the Child" is a song written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. in 1939.

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Gongs East!

Gongs East! is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton's Quintet recorded in 1958 and released on the Warner Bros. label.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.

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Hale Smith

Hale Smith (June 29, 1925 – November 24, 2009) was an American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor.

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Han Bennink

Han Bennink (born 17 April 1942) is a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist.

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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 Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey "Herbie" Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer and actor.

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Here and There (Eric Dolphy album)

Here and There is a jazz album by multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy.

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Hot & Cool Latin

Hot & Cool Latin is a compilation album credited to Eric Dolphy, released by Blue Moon Records in 1996.

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Hypoglycemia

Hypoglycemia, also known as low blood sugar, is when blood sugar decreases to below normal levels.

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I Gotta Right to Swing

I Gotta Right to Swing is a 1960 studio album by Sammy Davis Jr., accompanied by an uncredited Count Basie Orchestra, minus Count Basie himself.

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I'll Remember April (song)

"I'll Remember April" is a popular song and jazz standard with music written by Gene de Paul, and lyrics by Patricia Johnston and Don Raye.

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Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.

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Impressions (John Coltrane album)

Impressions is a 1963 album of live and studio recordings by jazz musician John Coltrane.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records is an American jazz record company and label established by Creed Taylor in 1960.

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Insulin

Insulin (from Latin insula, island) is a peptide hormone produced by beta cells of the pancreatic islets; it is considered to be the main anabolic hormone of the body.

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Interval (music)

In music theory, an interval is the difference between two pitches.

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Iron Man (Eric Dolphy album)

Iron Man is a 1963 album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist, Eric Dolphy, and is the recorded debut of trumpeter Woody Shaw.

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Jaki Byard

John Arthur "Jaki" Byard (June 15, 1922 – February 11, 1999) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and arranger.

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James Newton

James W. Newton (born May 1, 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American jazz and classical flautist.

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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 Abstractions

Jazz Abstractions (subtitled John Lewis Presents Contemporary Music: Compositions by Gunther Schuller and Jim Hall) is a third stream album of combining elements of jazz and classical music recorded in late 1960 for the Atlantic label.

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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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Jazz on a Summer's Day

Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960) is a concert film set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island, directed by commercial and fashion photographer Bert Stern.

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Jerome Harris

Jerome Harris (born April 5, 1953) is an American jazz musician specializing in electric and acoustic bass guitar, electric guitar, voice, and occasionally lap steel and small percussion.

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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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Joe Henderson

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

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John Coltrane

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

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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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John McLaughlin (musician)

John McLaughlin (born 4 January 1942), also known as Mahavishnu John McLaughlin, is an English guitarist, bandleader and composer.

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Johnny Coles

Johnny Coles (July 3, 1926 in Trenton, New Jersey – December 21, 1997 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Julius Hemphill

Julius Arthur Hemphill (January 24, 1938 – April 2, 1995) was a jazz composer and saxophone player.

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Last Date (Eric Dolphy album)

Last Date is a live recording by jazz musician Eric Dolphy.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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Limelight Records

Limelight Records was a jazz record label and subsidiary of Mercury Records started in 1962.

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Looking Ahead (Makanda Ken McIntyre album)

Looking Ahead is the debut album recorded by American saxophonist Ken McIntyre with Eric Dolphy in 1960 for the New Jazz label although recorded after Stone Blues.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Los Angeles City College

Los Angeles City College (LACC) is a public community college in East Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.

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Makanda Ken McIntyre

Makanda Ken McIntyre (born Kenneth Arthur McIntyre; also known as Ken McIntyre) (September 7, 1931 – June 13, 2001) was an American jazz musician and composer.

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Mal Waldron

Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger.

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Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel Roach (January 10, 1924 – August 16, 2007) was an American jazz drummer and composer.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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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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Mingus (Charles Mingus album)

Mingus is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus.

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Mingus at Antibes

Mingus at Antibes was originally issued by BYG Records under the title Charles Mingus Live With Eric Dolphy in Japan in 1974.

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Mingus in Europe Volume I

Mingus in Europe Volume I is a live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded in 1964 in Germany and first released on the Enja label in 1980.

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Mingus in Europe Volume II

Mingus in Europe Volume II is a live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded in 1964 in Germany and first released on the Enja label in 1980.

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Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus is a 1963 album by American jazz composer and bassist Charles Mingus.

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Mingus Revisited

Mingus Revisited (originally released as Pre-Bird in 1961) is an album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus consisting of music that was composed before Mingus first heard Charlie Parker, hence the Pre-Bird title.

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Misha Mengelberg

Misha Mengelberg (5 June 1935 – 3 March 2017) was a Dutch jazz pianist and composer.

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My Favorite Things (song)

"My Favorite Things" is a show tune from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The Sound of Music. In the original Broadway production, this song was introduced by Mary Martin playing Maria and Patricia Neway playing Mother Abbess.

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Naima

"Naima" is a ballad composed by John Coltrane in 1959 that he named after his wife, Juanita Naima Grubbs.

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Nathan Davis (saxophonist)

Nathan Tate Davis (February 15, 1937 – April 8, 2018) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist who played the tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, and flute.

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Oboe

Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.

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Ojai Music Festival

The Ojai Music Festival is an annual classical music festival in the United States.

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Olé Coltrane

Olé Coltrane is the ninth album by jazz musician John Coltrane, released in 1961 on Atlantic Records, catalogue SD 1373.

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Oliver Lake

Oliver Lake (born September 14, 1942) is an American jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer and poet.

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Oliver Nelson

Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader.

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Orchestra U.S.A.

The Orchestra U.S.A. was an American jazz musical ensemble, active from 1962 to 1965.

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Ornette Coleman

Randolph Denard Ornette Coleman (March 9, 1930 – June 11, 2015) was an American jazz saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter, and composer.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Other Aspects

Other Aspects is a collection of previously unreleased jazz recordings by Eric Dolphy made between 1960 and 1962 and released first in 1987 by Blue Note Records.

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Otomo Yoshihide

is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Out Front (Booker Little album)

Out Front is a 1961 album by American jazz trumpeter Booker Little featuring performances recorded and released by the Candid label.

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Out There (Eric Dolphy album)

Out There is a 1960 jazz album by Eric Dolphy.

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Out to Lunch!

Out to Lunch! is a 1964 album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy.

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Outside (jazz)

In jazz improvisation, outside playing describes an approach where one plays over a scale, mode or chord that is harmonically distant from the given chord.

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Outward Bound (album)

Outward Bound is a jazz album by Eric Dolphy, released in 1960.

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Pablo Records

Pablo Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Norman Granz in 1973, more than a decade after he had sold his labels (including Verve Records) to MGM Records.

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Panama

Panama (Panamá), officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá), is a country in Central America, bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south.

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Percussion Bitter Sweet

Percussion Bitter Sweet is an album by jazz drummer Max Roach recorded in 1961, released on Impulse! Records.

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Piccolo

The piccolo (Italian for "small", but named ottavino in Italy) is a half-size flute, and a member of the woodwind family of musical instruments.

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Plenty of Horn (Ted Curson album)

Plenty of Horn is the debut album by American trumpeter Ted Curson which was first released on the Old Town label in 1961.

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Point of Departure (Andrew Hill album)

Point of Departure is a studio album by American jazz pianist and composer Andrew Hill, recorded and released in 1964 on the Blue Note label.

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Pony Poindexter

Norwood "Pony" Poindexter (February 8, 1926, New Orleans, Louisiana – April 14, 1988, Oakland, California) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Pony's Express

Pony's Express is the debut album by saxophonist Pony Poindexter which was released on the Epic label in 1962.

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Pop + Jazz = Swing

Pop + Jazz.

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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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Prestige Records

Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City.

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Prophet (Oliver Lake album)

Prophet is an album by American jazz saxophonist Oliver Lake recorded in 1980 for the Italian Black Saint label.

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Ree Dragonette

Ree Dragonette (1918–1979) was an American poet active on the New York poetry scene in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Revenge! (Charles Mingus album)

Revenge! is a live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus recorded in 1964 in Paris and issued on many bootleg releases before being legitimately released on the Revenge label in 1996.

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Richard Davis (bassist)

Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) is an American jazz bassist.

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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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Ron Carter

Ronald Levin "Ron" Carter (born May 4, 1937) is an American jazz double bassist.

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Roy Porter (drummer)

Roy Lee Porter (July 30, 1923, Walsenburg, Colorado – January 24, retrieved 2011-11-15. or 25, 1998, Los Angeles) was an American jazz drummer.

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Rudi Mahall

Rudi Mahall (born December 23, 1966 in Nürnberg, Germany) is a contemporary jazz bass clarinetist.

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Rudy Van Gelder

Rudolph Van Gelder (November 2, 1924 – August 25, 2016) was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz.

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Sammy Davis Jr.

Samuel George Davis Jr. (December 8, 1925 – May 16, 1990) was an American singer, musician, dancer, actor and comedian.

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Saxophone

The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.

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Screamin' the Blues

Screamin' the Blues is an album by American saxophonist Oliver Nelson, originally released in 1961 on New Jazz Records.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Sonny Rollins

Walter Theodore "Sonny" Rollins (born September 7, 1930) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians.

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Soprano clarinet

The term soprano clarinet is used occasionally to refer to those instruments from the clarinet family that occupy a higher position, both in pitch and in popularity than subsequent additions to the family such as the basset horns and bass clarinets.

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Stop Smiling

Stop Smiling was an arts and culture magazine founded by J.C. Gabel in the Chicago suburb of Darien, Illinois.

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Straight Ahead (Abbey Lincoln album)

Straight Ahead is an album by American jazz vocalist Abbey Lincoln featuring performances recorded in 1961 for the Candid label.

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Straight Ahead (Oliver Nelson album)

Straight Ahead is a jazz studio album by saxophonist Oliver Nelson.

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String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

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Substance abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.

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Ted Curson

Theodore Curson (June 3, 1935 – November 4, 2012) was an American jazz trumpeter.

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Tenderly

"Tenderly" is a popular song published in 1946 with music by Walter Gross and lyrics by Jack Lawrence.

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That Hamilton Man

That Hamilton Man is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton recorded in 1959 and released on the SESAC label.

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The Blues and the Abstract Truth

The Blues and the Abstract Truth is an album by American composer and jazz saxophonist Oliver Nelson recorded in February 1961.

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The Body & the Soul

The Body & the Soul is an album by trumpeter Freddie Hubbard recorded in 1963 as his second and last release on the Impulse! label.

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The Chico Hamilton Quintet with Strings Attached

The Chico Hamilton Quintet with Strings Attached is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton's Quintet recorded in 1958 and released on the Warner Bros. label.

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The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings

The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings is a box set credited to jazz musician John Coltrane, issued posthumously in 1997 by Impulse Records, catalogue IMPD4-232.

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The Complete Town Hall Concert

The Complete Town Hall Concert is a live album by American bassist, composer and bandleader Charles Mingus recorded at The Town Hall in New York City and first released on the United Artists label in 1962 as Town Hall Concert.

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The Great Concert of Charles Mingus

The Great Concert of Charles Mingus is a 1964 live album three record set by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus, recorded at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France on April 19, 1964.

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The Illinois Concert

The Illinois Concert is a live jazz recording of a 1963 concert by Eric Dolphy, released first in 1999 by Blue Note Records.

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The Individualism of Gil Evans

The Individualism of Gil Evans is an album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans originally released on the Verve label in 1964.

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The Original Ellington Suite

The Original Ellington Suite is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton's Quintet recorded in 1958 but not released on the Pacific Jazz label until 2000.

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The Quest (album)

The Quest is an album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron recorded in 1961 and released on the New Jazz label.

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The Three Faces of Chico

The Three Faces of Chico is an album by drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton recorded in 1959 and released on the Warner Bros. label.

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The Town Hall (New York City)

The Town Hall is a performance space, located at 123 West 43rd Street, between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, in midtown Manhattan New York City.

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The Wonderful World of Jazz

The Wonderful World of Jazz is an album by pianist and composer John Lewis recorded for the Atlantic label in 1960.

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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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Tony Williams (drummer)

Anthony Tillmon "Tony" Williams (December 12, 1945 – February 23, 1997) was an American jazz drummer.

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Town Hall Concert

Town Hall Concert is a 1964 live album by jazz bassist and composer Charles Mingus.

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Trane Whistle

Trane Whistle is an album by saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis' Big Band with arrangements by Oliver Nelson and Ernie Wilkins recorded in 1960 and released on the Prestige label.

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Transatlantic Records

Transatlantic Records was a British independent record label.

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Twins (Ornette Coleman album)

Twins is a compilation album credited to jazz composer and saxophonist Ornette Coleman, released by Atlantic Records in 1971.

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Vienna Art Orchestra

The Vienna Art Orchestra was a European jazz group based in Vienna, Austria.

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Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Weasels Ripped My Flesh is the seventh studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, and the tenth overall by Frank Zappa, released in 1970.

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Where? (album)

Where? is the debut album by bassist Ron Carter recorded in 1961 and released on the New Jazz label.

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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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20th-century classical music

20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000.

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References

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

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