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46 relations: Benny Golson, Berklee College of Music, Betty Wright, Big band, Billy Cobham, Billy Taylor, Bobby Watson, Calypso music, Caterina Valente, Clark Terry, Contemporary Records, Count Basie Orchestra, Diane Schuur, Duke Ellington, Florida A&M University, Florida Memorial University, Flugelhorn, Frank Foster (musician), George Cables, Grover Washington Jr., Gunther Schuller, Herbie Mann, Ira Sullivan, Jaco Pastorius, Jazz, Joe Simon (musician), John Hicks, Jon Faddis, Latimore (musician), Miami, Miami Gardens, Florida, Mingus Dynasty, Mississippi Valley State University, Music education, New York City, Patrice Rushen, Prostate cancer, Randy Bernsen, Randy Brecker, Rhythm and blues, Sam & Dave, Soul music, The Marvelettes, Trumpet, Wallace Roney, Woody Herman.
Benny Golson
Benny Golson (born January 25, 1929) is an American bebop/hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, composer, and arranger.
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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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Betty Wright
Bessie Regina Norris, better known by her stage name, Betty Wright (born December 21, 1953), is an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter, who rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight is the Night".
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Big band
A big band is a type of musical ensemble that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section.
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Billy Cobham
William Emanuel "Billy" Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian-American jazz drummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with trumpeter Miles Davis and then with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
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Billy Taylor
William Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator.
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Bobby Watson
Bobby Watson (born August 23, 1953 in Lawrence, Kansas) is an American saxophonist, composer, and educator.
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Calypso music
Calypso is a style of Afro-Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to mid-19th century and eventually spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles and Venezuela by the mid-20th century.
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Caterina Valente
Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931 in Paris, France) is a French-born Italian multilingual singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress.
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Clark Terry
Clark Virgil Terry Jr. (December 14, 1920 – February 21, 2015) was an American swing and bebop trumpeter, a pioneer of the flugelhorn in jazz, composer, educator, and NEA Jazz Masters inductee.
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Contemporary Records
Contemporary Records was a jazz record company and label founded by Lester Koenig in Los Angeles in 1951.
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Count Basie Orchestra
The Count Basie Orchestra is a 16 to 18 piece big band, one of the most prominent jazz performing groups of the swing era, founded by Count Basie in 1935 and recording regularly from 1936.
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Diane Schuur
Diane Joan Schuur (born December 10, 1953), nicknamed "Deedles", is an American jazz singer and pianist.
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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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Florida A&M University
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) is a public, historically black university in Tallahassee, Florida.
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Florida Memorial University
Florida Memorial University is a private coeducational university in Miami Gardens, Florida.
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Flugelhorn
The flugelhorn (—also spelled fluegelhorn, flugel horn, or Flügelhorn—from German, wing horn, or flank horn) is a brass instrument pitched in B which resembles a trumpet, but has a wider, conical bore.
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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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George Cables
George Andrew Cables (born November 14, 1944) is an American jazz pianist and composer.
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Grover Washington Jr.
Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist.
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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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Herbie Mann
Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), known by his stage name Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music.
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Ira Sullivan
Ira Sullivan (born May 1, 1931) is a jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, flautist, saxophonist, and composer born in Washington, D.C..
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Jaco Pastorius
John Francis Anthony "Jaco" Pastorius III (December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987) was an American jazz bassist who was a member of Weather Report from 1976 to 1981.
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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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Joe Simon (musician)
Joe Simon (born September 2, 1943) is an American chart-topping, Grammy Award winning, soul and R&B musician.
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John Hicks
Sir John Richard Hicks (8 April 1904 – 20 May 1989) was a British economist.
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Jon Faddis
Jon Faddis (born July 24, 1953) is an American jazz trumpet player, conductor, composer, and educator, renowned for both his playing and for his expertise in the field of music education.
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Latimore (musician)
Benjamin Latimore (born September 7, 1939) known professionally as Latimore, is an American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and pianist.
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Miami
Miami is a major port city on the Atlantic coast of south Florida in the southeastern United States.
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Miami Gardens, Florida
Miami Gardens is a suburban city located in north-central Miami-Dade County, Florida.
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Mingus Dynasty
Mingus Dynasty is a jazz album by Charles Mingus, recorded in 1959 for Columbia Records.
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Mississippi Valley State University
Mississippi Valley State University (commonly referred to as MVSU, The Valley or Valley) is a public, historically black university located in Mississippi Valley State, Leflore County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, near Itta Bena.
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Music education
Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music.
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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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Patrice Rushen
Patrice Louise Rushen (born September 30, 1954) is an American jazz pianist and R&B singer.
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Prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the development of cancer in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system.
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Randy Bernsen
Randy Bernsen (born July 15, 1954) is an American guitarist and composer of jazz and jazz fusion music.
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Randy Brecker
Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter and flugelhornist.
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Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.
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Sam & Dave
Sam & Dave were an American soul and R&B duo who performed together from 1961 until 1981.
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Soul music
Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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The Marvelettes
The Marvelettes was an American girl group that achieved popularity in the early- to mid-1960s.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Wallace Roney
Wallace Roney (born May 25, 1960, Philadelphia) is an American jazz (hard bop and post-bop) trumpeter.
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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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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melton_Mustafa
