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ABC Paramount
Adderley, Julian “Cannonball”
career
and Ornette Coleman
and Miles Davis
musical education
musical style and deficiencies
recordings
recordings (Kind of Blue)
Adderley, Nat
African Americans
and jazz
“jive” lingo
racism
“African Game, The”
African Rhythm and African Sensibility (Chernoff)
Alabama State Collegians
“All About Rosie”
“All Blues”
Armstrong, Louis
Ascension (album)
Ascension: John Coltrane and His Quest (Nisenson)
Atlantic Records
“Autumn Leaves”
Avakian, George
Ayler, Albert
Babbitt, Milton
“Back to the Chicken Shack”
“Bags’ Groove”
Bailey, Pearl
Baker, Chet
Ballads (album)
Balliet, Whitney
Bartók, Béla
Basement Tapes (album)
Basie, Count
Beauvior, Simone de
“Bess, You Is My Woman Now”
bebop
See also hard-bop
Beneath the Underdog (Mingus)
Bernstein, Leonard
Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (Pettinger)
“Bird in Igor’s Yard, A”
Birth of the Cool (album)
Birth of the Third Stream, The (album)
Bishop, Walter
Bitches Brew (album)
Black Power movement
Blackhawk jazz club (San Francisco)
Blakey, Art
Bley, Paul
“Bloomdido”
“Blue Haze”
“Blue in Green”
Blue Note (NYC)
“Blue Seven”
blues
and jazz
Blues and the Abstract, The (album)
“Blues for Pablo”
Bolden, Buddy
bop. See bebop
Bostic, Earl
Brooks, John Benson
Brown, Clifford
Brown, Marion
Brown, Ray
Brubeck, Dave
Bryd, Donald
Buchanan, Elwood
Burrell, Kenny
Byas, Don
“Bye Bye Blackbird”
Cafe Bohemia (NYC)
Cage, John
Capital Records
Carmichael, Hoagy
Carter, Benny
Carter, Ron
Catalano, Nick
Chambers, Paul
and Kind of Blue
Charles, Ezzard
Chernoff, John Miller
Cherry, Don
Christian, Charlie
“Circle”
civil rights
Black Power movement
jazz and
Clark, Sonny
Clarke, Kenny
Claude Thornhill Orchestra
Cobb, James
and Kind of Blue
Cole, Bill
Cole, Nat “King”
Coleman, Ornette
and harmolodics (musical system)
Coltrane, Alice McLean
Coltrane, John
career
and Miles Davis
drug use
health
musical education
musical style
recordings
recordings (Kind of Blue)
spiritual epiphany
Coltrane, Naima
Columbia Records
“Concerto for Billy the Kid”
Concierto de Aranjuez (Rodrigos)
Cook, Willy
cool-jazz (West Coast jazz movement)
Corea, Chick
Crawford, Jimmy
Crosscurrents (album)
“Cubana Be, Cubano Bop”
Dameron, Tadd
Davis, Eddie “Lockjaw”
Davis, Miles
career
critical response to
drug use
influence of
and the media
“Miles List” Web site
“Miles myth”
musical education and development
musicians, dealings with
personality and temperament
and racism
recordings
recordings (Kind of Blue)
and religion
success of
Davis, Miles (professional relationships)
Julian “Cannonball” Adderley
John Coltrane
Bill Evans
Gil Evans
Charlie Parker
George Russell
Davis, Steve
Dearie, Blossom
Decca
DeFranco, Buddy
DeJohnette, Jack
Dennis, Kenny
Dial label
“Diane”
Dolphy, Eric
“Donna Lee”
Dorsey brothers
Douglas, Dave
Douglass, Bill
Down Beat
drug and alcohol abuse
Dukes of Swing
Dylan, Bob
East Coasting (album)
Eckstine, Billy
ECM label
Eldridge, Roy
Elevator to the Gallows (film)
Ellington, Duke
“Equinox”
Evans, Bill
career
and Miles Davis
drug use
influence of
musical education
musical techniques and style
personality
racial opposition to
recordings
recordings (Kind of Blue)
Zen Buddhism as an influence
Evans, Gil
as arranger
and Mile Davis
and Kind of Blue
recordings
Evans, Lil
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (album)
Explorations (album)
“Ezz-thetic”
Ezz-thetic (album)
Farmer, Art
Feldman, Victor
Fifty-second Street (“Swing Street”) (NYC)
Fitzgerald, Ella
Five Spot Cafe (NYC)
“Flamenco Sketches”
Flanagan, Tommy
“Four”
“Fran Dance”
“Freddie Freeloader”
Free Jazz (album)
“free jazz” (“new thing”) movement
See also Kind of Blue
Freeloader, Freddie
Friday and Saturday Night at the Blackhawk (album)
Frisell, Bill
Galbraith, Barry
Garbarek, Jan
Garland, Red
Garrison, Jimmy
Gaston, Harold
Getz, Stan
Giant Steps (album)
Gillespie, Dizzy
Gitler, Ira
Giuffre, Jimmy
+Goldberg, Joe
Golson, Benny
Goodman, Benny
Gordon, Dexter
Granz, Curly
Green, Bennie
“Green Haze”
Greer, Sonny
Guiffre, Jimmy
Haig, Al
Haley, Alex
Half Note (NYC)
Hall, Jim
Hamilton, Chico
Hancock, Herbie
hard-bop
harmolodics (Ornette Coleman’s musical system)
Harris, Barry
Hawkins, Coleman
Hayes, Roy
Heath, Percy
Henderson, Fletcher
Henderson, Horace
Hendricks, Jon
Hentoff, Nat
Hibbler, Al
Higgins, Billy
Hines, Earl
Hinton, Milt
Hodges, Johnny
Holiday, Billie
horizontal or vertical musicians
Home, Lena
Hot Five (album)
“How High the Moon”
Hubbard, Freddie
“I Ain’t Gonna Give Nobody None of this Jelly Roll”
“I’ll Remember April”
“I’ve Got Rhythm”
“Impressions”
improvisation
strategy and
“Improvisation in Jazz” (Evans)
In a Silent Way (album)
“India”
Invisible Republic (Marcus)
Israels, Chuck
Ives, Charles
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson, Milt
“Jade Visions”
Jamal, Ahmad
jazz (history)
African American origins
blues and
civil rights and
as closed-off community
drug and alcohol abuse
golden age
racially mixed
sexism and
as small club phenomenon
technical virtuosity and
white musicians and
Zen Buddhism and
See also racism
jazz (techniques and styles)
Afro-Cuban
Asian influence
bebop
cool-jazz (West Coast jazz movement)
European (Western) influence on
“free jazz” (“new thing”) movement
fusion (jazz/rock/funk)
hard-bop
harmolodics (Ornette Coleman’s musical system)
improvisation
innovation
“lite jazz”
modal jazz. See also Kind of Blue
Swing Era
“third stream” (jazz/classical fusion)
See also Lydian Chromatic Concept for Tonal Organization, The
jazz combo as microcosm of democracy
Jazz Messengers
Jazz Workshop, The (album)
Jim and Andy’s bar (NYC)
“jive” lingo
Johnson, J. J.
Johnson, Osie
Jones, Elvin
Jones, Hank
Jones, Philly Joe
Jones, Sam
“Just You”
Kay, Connie
Keepnews, Orrin
Kelly, Wynton
and Kind of Blue
Kenny G
Khan, Hazrat Inayat
Khatchaturian, Armenian
Kind of Blue (album)
anniversary concert
classification of
criticism of
jacket art and liner notes
legacy and influence of
rhythm section
sessions
spirituality of
theory behind
See also Adderley, Cannonball; Chambers, Paul; Cobb, Jimmy; Coltrane, John; Davis, Miles; Evans, Bill; Kelly, Wynton; Lydian Chromatic Concept for Tonal Organization, The; Russell, George
Kind of Blues (tunes)
“All Blues”
“Blue in Green”
“Flamenco Sketches”
“Freddie Freeloader”
“So What”
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kirk, Roland
Know What I Mean? (album)
“Ko Ko”
Konitz, Lee
Kuhn, Steve
Lafaro, Scott
Lambert, Dave
Lambert, Hendricks and Ross
LaPorta, John
Levey, Stan
Lewis, Jack
Lewis, John
“lite jazz”
Little, Booker
Lomax, Alan
Love Supreme, A (album)
Lydian Chromatic Concept for Tonal Organization, The (Russell)
Macero, Teo
McKusick, Hal
McLean, Jackie
Malcolm X
Malle, Louis
“Manhattan”
Mann, Herbie
Marcus, Greil
Marsh, Warne
Mathis, Johnny
Matthews, Ronnie
Meditations (album)
“Members Don’t Get Weary”
Merlin, Enrich
Mezzrow, Mezz
“Miles” (“Milestones”)
Miles Ahead (album)
Miles Davis (Cole)
Miles Davis and the Jazz Giants (album)
Miles Smiles (album)
Milestones (album)
Miller, Glenn
Mills Brothers
Mingus, Charles
Mingus Dynasty (album)
Minto’s (Harlem club)
Mobley, Hank
modal jazz. See also Kind of Blue
Modern Jazz Giants
Modern Jazz Quartet
Mongomery, Wes
Monk, Thelonious
Monroe’s (Harlem club)
Morgan, Lee
Motian, Paul
“Mr. Day”
“Muggles”
Mulligan, Gerry
Mundy, Jimmy
Music for Zen Meditation (album)
“My Favorite Things”
“My Funny Valentine”
Mysticism of Sound and Music, The (Khan)
Nance, Ray
Navarro, Fats
Nelson, Oliver
New Jazz Conceptions (album)
“new thing” (“free jazz”) movement
See also Kind of Blue
New York, New York (album)
“New World”
Newport Jazz Festival
“Ole”
“On Green Dolphin Street”
Paris Festival de International Jazz
Parker, Charlie “Bird”
and bebop
career
and Mile Davis
drug and alcohol use
groups
recordings
“Parker’s Mood”
Parks, Rosa
Partch, Harry
“Peace Piece”
Peacock, Gary
Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD
Peterson, Oscar
Pettiford, Oscar
Pettinger, Peter
Playboy magazine
“Poem for Brass”
Porgy and Bess (album)
Powell, Bud
Prestige label
Previn, André
Prince, Bob
Quinichette, Paul
racism
anti-white
Miles Davis and
“jive” lingo and
Rainey, Ma
“Re: Someone I Know”
Really the Blues (Mezzrow)
Reig, Teddy
“Revelations”
Rich, Buddy
Richardson, Jerome
Rivers, Sam
Riverside records
Roach, Betty
Roach, Max
Roberts, Marcus
Rodrigos, Joaquin
Rolling Stone
Rollins, Sonny
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
’Round About Midnight: A Portrait of Miles Davis (Nisenson)
“’Round Midnight”
’Round Midnight (album)
Royal Roost (jazz club)
Russell, Curly
Russell, George
career as composer/arranger
career as performer
and Miles Davis
health
and Kind of Blue
The Lydian Chromatic Concept for Tonal Organization
musical education
recordings
as a teacher
“vertical structure” pieces
Rypdal, Terje
“Saeta”
Sanders, Pharaoh
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Savoy Records
Schell, Alice
Schuller, Gunther
Scott, Tony
“See See Rider Blues”
Shapiro, Harold
Shaw, Artie
“Shaw ’Nuff”
Shearing, George
Shepp, Archie
Shorter, Wayne
“Sid’s Ahead”
Silver, Horace
Sims, Zoot
Sinatra, Frank
Skelton, Red
Sketches of Spain (album)
Smith, Jimmy
Smith, Louis
Smith, Mamie
“So What”
Soho News
“Solea”
“Some Other Time”
“Someday My Prince Will Come”
Someday My Prince Will Come (album)
“Somethin’ Else”
Something Else! (album)
Smokin’ at the Half Note (album)
“Speedball”
Spencer, John Michael
“Stella by Starlight”
Stitt, Sonny
“Straight, No Chaser”
Stravinsky, Igor
“Summertime”
Sunday at the Village Vanguard (album)
Swing Era
“Swing Street” (Fifty-second Street) (NYC)
Tatum, Art
Taylor, Cecil
Terry, Clark
“Theo”
Theology Today
“This Is Jazz”
Thompson, Lucky
Thornhill, Claude
Till, Emmett
Time magazine
Townsend, Irving
Tristano, Lennie
“Tune Up”
“Twelve-Tone Piece”
Tynan, John
Tyner, McCoy
Varèse, Tamás
vertical or horizontal musicians
“vertical structure” pieces
Verve
Village Vanguard (NYC)
Vinson, Eddie “Cleanhead”
Wallington, George
Walton, Cedar
Waltz for Debby (album)
Washington, Dinah
“Weather Bird”
Webster, Ben
West Coast jazz. See cool-jazz
“When I Fall in Love”
White, Jack
Wilberforce Collegians
Wilkins, Ernie
Williams, Cootie
Williams, Martin
Williams, Skippy
Williams, Tony
Willis, Larry
Winding, Kai
Winston, George
Woods, Phil
Wright, Eugene
Young, Lester
Zawinul, Joe
Zen Buddhism and Jazz