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Jazz Styles & History
Guitarist Django Reinhardt and violinist Stéphane Grapelli created the first major European jazz group when they established the Quintette du Hot Club de France in the late 1930s.
With an instrumentation that only featured string instruments, without drums (Reinhardt, Grapelli, two rhythm guitarists and…
The swing era largely focused upon music for dancing and entertainment. As a reaction against this came bebop, a style that was fiercely intellectual and very much meant for serious listening. From the mid-1940s alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and pianist…
From the early 1930s until the late 1940s big band swing was the most popular style of music in the USA, and many of the most important bandleaders were huge mainstream stars. Bands usually containing between 11 and 20 musicians would play music…
In the late 1960s jazz musicians began to use electric instruments and take on the influence of the rock music and funk that were popular at the time.
Larry Coryell’s Free Spirits was an important band early in the new music’s development, as was…