Jazz

El jazz ye'l productu del meciu de dos cultures musicales mui estremaes, la europea y l'africana. La musica africana entro n'America colos esclavos obligaos a abandonar les costes occidentales d'Africa p'afincase nes Antilles y el sur de los Estaos Xunios nel sieglu XVII.

El jazz basase na improvisacion y non na partitura; el musicu de Jazz crea nel intre qu'actua, la improvisacion ye la base del so arte, de manera tala que dos versiones del mesmu tema son dos obres estremaes. El jazz ye tamien una musica que gueta y necesita la participacion activa del publicu, y non solu la so atencion pasiva.

Ordenaos per orde cronoloxicu de los estilos:

• New Orleans (Dixieland), Chicago (hot jazz): King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Kid Ory, Sidney Bechet, Jelly Roll Morton, Johnny Dodds, Jimmie Noone Earl Hines, Fats Waller, Valaida Snow.
• Swing i anys 30: Fletcher Henderson, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Fields, Bubber Miley, Johnny Hodges, Lawrence Brown, Ben Webster, Ray Nance, Count Basie, Lester Young, Jo Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Harry James, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman, Art Tatum, Glenn Miller, Django Reinhardt, Nat King Cole, Charlie Christian, Erroll Garner, Dolly Jones, Ann Ronell, Lil Hardin Armstrong, "Sweet Emma" Barrett, Mary Lou Williams.
• Be-bop, cool, jazz dels anys 50: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, J.J. Johnson, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Sarah Vaughan, Dexter Gordon, Clark Terry, Paul Gonsalves, Wes Montgomery, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Bill Evans, Tete Montoliu, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, Sonny Clark.
• Free jazz, fusion i latin jazz, darreres tendencies : Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorious, Keith Jarret, Ron Carter, Jack deJohnette, Pat Metheny, Lester Bowie, Jan Garbarek, Wynton Marsalis, Jean-Christian Michel, Terence Blanchard, David Murray, John Zorn, Don Byron, Theo Jorgensmann, Steve Coleman, Joshua Redman, James Carter, Diana Krall, Cassandra Wilson, Jordi Rossy, Poncho Sanchez, Chucho Valdes, Tito Puente, Carla Cook, Regina Carter, Nona Hendrix, Alice Coltrane, Abbey Lincoln, Eva Cassidy, Shirley Horn.

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