Category: Jazz
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Herb Alpert
About Herb Alpert is an American trumpeter who led the band Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade, he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. Alpert has recorded 28 albums that have landed on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, five of which became No. 1 albums; he has scored…
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Weather Report
About Weather Report was an American jazz fusion band active from 1970 to 1986. The band was founded in 1970 by Austrian keyboardist Joe Zawinul, American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, Czech bassist Miroslav Vitouš, American drummer Alphonse Mouzon as well as American percussionists Don Alias and Barbara Burton. The band was initially co-led by Zawinul and…
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Chris Barber
About Donald Christopher Barber was an English jazz musician, best known as a bandleader and trombonist. He helped many musicians with their careers and had a UK top twenty trad jazz hit with “Petite Fleur” in 1959. These musicians included the blues singer Ottilie Patterson, who was at one time his wife, and Lonnie Donegan,…
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The Manhattan Transfer
About The Manhattan Transfer was an American vocal group founded in 1969 in New York City, performing music genres like A cappella, Brazilian jazz, swing, vocalese, rhythm and blues, pop, and standards. They have won eleven Grammy Awards. Albums/Songs: Four Brothers Pastiche The Best of The Manhattan Transfer The Spirit of St. Louis Coming Out…
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Paolo Conte
About Paolo Conte is an Italian singer, pianist, songwriter and lawyer, known for his distinctly grainy, resonant voice. His compositions fuse Italian and Mediterranean sounds with jazz, boogie and elements of the French chanson and Latin-American rhythms. Albums/Songs: Aguaplano Paolo Conte Back to Jazz Paris milonga Impressioni di jazz Elegia Suonare, danzare… amare Snob Paolo…
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Randy Crawford
About Veronica “Randy” Crawford is a retired American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist. However, she has appeared on the Hot 100 singles chart twice. The first time was in 1979 as…
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Matt Bianco
About Matt Bianco are a British band formed in 1983, performing sophisti-pop, jazz-funk and Latin-flavoured music. From around mid- to late-80s, the group scored a number of internationally charting singles, including “Get Out of Your Lazy Bed”, “Whose Side Are You On?”, “Half a Minute”, “Yeh Yeh” and “Don’t Blame It on That Girl”. Albums/Songs:…
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Gabor Szabo
About Gábor István Szabó was a Hungarian-American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music. Albums/Songs: Live in Cleveland 1976 Gypsy ’66 Belsta River Magical Connection Dreams Mizrab Light My Fire The Sorcerer Femme Fatale Small World Lena & Gabor Blowin’ Some Old Smoke More Sorcery Jazz Raga Simpático Nightflight His Great Hits…
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Asha Puthli
About Asha Puthli is an Indian-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress, born and raised in Mumbai. She has recorded solo albums for EMI, CBS/Sony, and RCA. Her recordings cover blues, pop, rock, soul, funk, disco, and techno and have been produced by Del Newman and Teo Macero. Albums/Songs: Disco Mystic: Select Remixes, Volume 1 Asha Puthli…
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Nina Simone
About Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, composer, arranger, and civil rights activist. Her music spanned styles including classical, folk, gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, and pop. Her piano playing was strongly influenced by baroque and classical music, especially Johann Sebastian Bach, and accompanied expressive, jazz-like singing in her contralto voice. Albums/Songs: To Love…
