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  • Chet Baker

    Chet Baker Jazz Trumpeter was born on December 23, 1929 in Yale Oklahoma, USA.

    Chesney Henry Baker, Jr. of his real name is an American jazz trumpeter, buglist, pianist and singer-crooner and one of the founders of cool jazz and West Coast jazz.

    Chet Baker died on May 13, 1988 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, at the age of 58, after falling from the window of his second-floor room at the Prins Hendrik Hotel.

    His fall occurred after taking large amounts of cocaine and heroin. A commemorative plaque pays homage to him on the facade.

  • John Coltrane

    John Coltrane is an African-American conductor, composer, and jazz saxophonist born in Hamlet, North Carolina on September 23, 1926.

    Coltrane has always tried to outdo himself on every level: technically, exploring new ways of expressing himself, looking for new sounds, new timbres, and new ways to enhance the range and dynamics of the saxophone.

    John Coltrane moved to Huntington, New York on July 17, 1967. He ended up at Pinelon Memorial Park in East Farmingdale, Suffolk, next to the Alice Coltrane show.

  • Miles Davis

    Miles Davis began playing the trumpet at the age of thirteen. He was at the forefront of many developments in jazz and was particularly distinguished by his ability to discover and surround himself with new talent.

    Miles Davis' different formations are like laboratories in which the talents of new generations and the new horizons of modern music have been revealed.

    Miles Davis is one of the few jazzmen and one of the first black musicians to be known and accepted by middle America, even winning the monthly GQ's "Best Dressed Man of the Year" trophy during the 1960s. .

    His last album, Doo-bop, published in 1992 after his death, bursts with rap influences.

  • Charles Mingus

    harlie Mingus was born on April 22, 1922 in Nogales, Arizona, and died on January 5, 1979 in Cuernavaca, Mexico, is a multi-instrumentalist (mainly double bass player, but also pianist, trombonist and cellist) and composer of American jazz.

    He made a major contribution to jazz, both as a composer and conductor, but also as an instrumentalist.

  • Big Band

    A “big band” is an orchestral formation, of professionals or amateurs, which performs works from the jazz repertoire, particularly in the swing style until the 1960s...
    From these years, the avant-garde and free jazz began to take an interest in this type of training. Its name comes from English and literally means “large group”. Other terms such as "jazz band", "jazz ensemble", "jazz orchestra", "stage band", "society band" and "dance band" may be used in particular contexts.

  • Cool Jazz

    Cool jazz covers different trends: West Coast Jazz, Smooth Jazz, very different music has been labeled as “cool jazz” by journalists and critics.

    The common point between these different musics is an immediately recognizable style, a style stripped of all expressionism, lyricism, rubato, staccato, groove, therefore described as cool in opposition to the hot style, and also in break with complex virtuosity, the polytonality, and polyrhythm of bebop.

  • Dixieland

    Dixieland, also called "Early Jazz", is a style of jazz music developed in the city of New Orleans in the early 20th century, and spread to Chicago and New York by New Orleans groups in the 1910s .

    Dixieland is one of the very first styles of jazz, it was invented by the musicians of Storyville, in New Orleans. The name is a reference to the southern region of the United States called Dixie. It is a combination of brass bands, French quadrilles, ragtime, blues and collective and polyphonic improvisation.

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