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—Blue Note Records (US)

Alan Stanbridge

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume I : Media, Industry and Society

Continuum, 2003

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...The Blue Note jazz record label was established in New York in 1939 by German émigré Alfred Lion, who was joined in partnership in 1941 by his fellow countryman Francis Wolff. Initially, the label focused on boogiewoogie and traditional...

Wayne Shorter

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...With eleven Grammy Awards for his jazz contributions, composer and saxophonist Wayne Shorter is one of the greatest living jazz artists. Born on August 25, 1933, in New Jersey, USA, Shorter started his musical pursuits at the age of sixteen...

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Megan Jerome

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David Gibson

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Ian Babb

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Petr Cancura

Petr Cancura

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...General Description The saxophone (Ger. saxophon, Fr. saxophone, It. sassofone) is a thin-walled brass instrument with a conical bore that widens to a slightly flared bell. Along its body is a series of holes, sized...

Modal Jazz

Samuel Barrett

Samuel Barrett

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Modal jazz is a form of jazz that flourished in the late 1950s and 1960s, mainly among an elite group of players based in New York, before achieving wider diffusion from circa 1970 onwards as a central technique in jazz-rock and other...