Category: Jazz
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Bobby McFerrin
About Robert Keith McFerrin Jr. is an American jazz singer, songwriter, and conductor. He is known for his vocal techniques, such as singing fluidly but with quick and considerable jumps in pitch—for example, sustaining a melody while also rapidly alternating with arpeggios and harmonies—as well as scat singing, polyphonic overtone singing, and improvisational vocal percussion.…
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Raul Midón
About Raul Midón is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Mexico. Albums/Songs: Invisible Chains: Live From NYC State of Mind A World Within a World Eclectic Adventurist If You Really Want The Mirror Synthesis Gracias a la vida Don’t Hesitate A Night in Monte-Carlo Blind to Reality Bad Ass and Blind Call to Action:…
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Richard Bona
About Richard Bona is a Cameroon-born American multi-instrumentalist and singer. Albums/Songs: Bonafied Richard Bona With DR Big Band – Te Mesia Bondeko Live – The Paris Concert Tiki This is Richard Bona: Anthology Bona Makes You Sweat – Live Reverence The Ten Shades of Blues Heritage Live in Paris Munia: The Tale Scenes From My…
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Diana Krall
About Diana Jean Krall is a Canadian jazz pianist and singer known for her contralto vocals. She has sold more than 15 million albums worldwide, including over six million in the US. On December 11, 2009, Billboard magazine named her the second greatest jazz artist of the decade (2000–2009), establishing her as one of the…
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Sonny Rollins
About Walter Theodore “Sonny” Rollins is an American former jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. In a seven-decade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. A number of his compositions, including “St. Thomas”, “Oleo”, “Doxy”, and “Airegin”, have become jazz standards.…
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Benny Carter
About Bennett Lester Carter was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. With Johnny Hodges, he was a pioneer on the alto saxophone. From the beginning of his career in the 1920s, he worked as an arranger including written charts for Fletcher Henderson’s big band that shaped the swing style. He had…
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Lena Horne
About Lena Mary Calhoun Horne was an American singer, actress, dancer, and civil rights activist. Horne’s career spanned more than seventy years, appearing in film, television, and theatre. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of sixteen and became a nightclub performer before moving on to Hollywood and Broadway. Albums/Songs: Lena,…
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Coleman Hawkins
About Coleman Randolph Hawkins, nicknamed “Hawk” and sometimes “Bean”, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. One of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was not an acknowledged jazz horn”. Hawkins biographer John Chilton described the prevalent styles of…
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Charlie Parker
About Charles Parker Jr., nicknamed “Bird” or “Yardbird”, was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader, and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. He was a virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas…
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Jimmie Lunceford
About James Melvin Lunceford was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era. Albums/Songs: Jimmie Lunceford: Volume 4 1936 – 1937 Complete Edition For Dancers Only Harlem Shout The Classic Tracks Classic Jazz Archive: Jimmie Lunceford Strictly Lunceford Big Bands: Jimmie Lunceford Jimmie Lunceford – New York – Los Angeles – 1934…
