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2020 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2020. Events January February March April May *May 6 – Gregory Porter's brother Lloyd dies of COVID-19, two months after the singer is forced to interrupt his world tour by the pandemic. June *June 26 - Immanuel Wilkins signs with Blue Note Records July August *August 6- 8 – The Newport Jazz Festival is replaced by a programme of virtual events created by founder George Wein. September October November December Albums Deaths *January 10 – Wolfgang Dauner, 84, German jazz pianist *February 10 – Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz fusion keyboardist (Pat Metheny Group) *February 16 – Graeme Allwright, 93, New Zealand-French folk and jazz singer-songwriter *February 18 – Jon Christensen, 76m Norwegian jazz drummer *March 2 – Susan Weinert, 54, German jazz fusion guitarist (cancer) *March 6 – McCoy Tyner, 81, American jazz pianist *March 10 – Marcelo Peralta, 59, Argentine jazz saxophonist (COVID- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. However, jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Sheppard
Andy Sheppard (born 20 January 1957) is a British jazz saxophonist and composer. He has been awarded several prizes at the British Jazz Awards, and has worked with some notable figures in contemporary jazz, including Gil Evans, Carla Bley, George Russell and Steve Swallow. In 2019 he was presented the degree of Doctor of Music ''honoris causa'' by the University of Bristol. Biography Sheppard was born in Warminster, Wiltshire, England, in 1957. At the age of 19 he emerged as a musician in the Salisbury-based contemporary quartet Sphere in the late 1970s, gigging only three weeks after picking up the saxophone. He honed his skills in the wine bars and jazz clubs of the UK and Europe in the early 1980s. He also played with world music groups and with more established improvisers such as Keith Tippett. While still with Sphere, Sheppard moved to Paris, working with French bands Lumière and Urban Sax. In the mid-1980s Sheppard returned to the UK, playing often on Ki Longfell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avishai Cohen (trumpeter)
Avishai Cohen (; born May 23, 1978) is a New York City-based jazz musician and composer from Tel Aviv, Israel. Biography Cohen was born in Tel Aviv, Israel. He grew up in a musical family: his sister, Anat Cohen, Anat, played clarinet and his brother, Yuval Cohen, Yuval, soprano saxophone. At the age of eight, Avishai asked his mother if he could begin taking trumpet lessons. At age ten, Avishai began playing with the Rimon School of Jazz and Contemporary Music, Rimon School Big Band. He recalls, "I had a box I stood on." As a teenager Avishai toured with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra. Avishai Cohen attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Berklee, Cohen went on to win third place in the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Trumpet Competition in 1997. Cohen then moved to New York City, where he began developing his music alongside pianist Jason Lindner and bassist Omer Avital at Smalls Jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Circuit (record Label)
World Circuit is a British world-music record label, established in London in the mid-1980s, that specializes in Cuban and West African recording artists, among other international music stars. The label's founding principle was to be an artist-led company with all aspects of each release tailored to the artist. This continues to be the label's way of working. World Circuit celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006 by releasing ''World Circuit Presents...'', a 2-disc retrospective compilation album. In 2018, World Circuit was acquired by BMG Rights Management. History 1986 to 1999 In 1986, the label released its first albums, María Rodríguez's ''La Tremenda'' and Abd El Gadir Salim's ''Sounds of Sudan Volume One''. World Circuit's first taste of major success came in 1993 with the teaming of Ali Farka Touré and American guitarist Ry Cooder on the Grammy award-winning album, '' Talking Timbuktu''. The album went on to sell over a million copies worldwide; a remarkable tota ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Allen (musician)
Tony Oladipo Allen (20 July 1940 – 30 April 2020) was a Nigerian/Ghanaian drummer, composer, and songwriter who lived and worked in Paris, France. Allen was the drummer and musical director of Fela Kuti's band Africa '70 from 1968 to 1979, and was one of the founders of the Afrobeat genre. Fela once stated that "without Tony Allen, there would be no Afrobeat". He was described by Brian Eno as "perhaps the greatest drummer who has ever lived". Later in life, Allen collaborated with Damon Albarn on several projects, including Gorillaz, the The Good, the Bad & the Queen, Good, the Bad & the Queen and Rocket Juice & the Moon. Early career Allen was born in Lagos, Nigeria to James Alabi Allen, a motor mechanic from Colonial Nigeria, British Nigeria (now present day Nigeria) and Prudentia Mettle, from the Gold Coast (British colony), Gold Coast (now present day Ghana). He began playing drums at the age of 18, while working as an engineer for a radio station. Allen was influenced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Masekela
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as "the father of South African jazz". Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as " Soweto Blues" and " Bring Him Back Home". He also had a number-one US pop hit in 1968 with his version of " Grazing in the Grass". Early life Hugh Ramapolo Masekela was born in the township of KwaGuqa in Witbank (now called Emalahleni), South Africa, to Thomas Selena Masekela, who was a health inspector and sculptor and his wife, Pauline Bowers Masekela, a social worker. His younger sister Barbara Masekela is a poet, educator and ANC activist. As a child, he began singing and playing piano and was largely raised by his grandmother, who ran an illegal bar for miners. At the age of 14, after seeing the 1950 film '' Young Man with a Horn'' (in which Kirk Douglas plays a character mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rejoice (Tony Allen And Hugh Masekela Album)
''Rejoice'' is a collaborative jazz/afrobeat album by Nigerian drummer Tony Allen and South African trumpeter Hugh Masekela. World Circuit released the album on . Background The original sessions were recorded in London in 2010 by World Circuit's Nick Gold, who was eager to document the first recorded meeting of the two African music legends when their touring schedules coincided. After Masekela's death in 2018, additional tracks were recorded, again in London's Livingston Studios, in summer 2019. The album was released on 20 March 2020. In addition to serving as the final studio album for Masekela, it also became Tony Allen's final studio album before his death on 30 April 2020. The album contains eight tracks written by Allen and Masekela. The track "Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same)" is a tribute to Fela Kuti, through whom Allen and Masekela first met in the 1970s. Critical reception ''Rejoice'' was met with widespread critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jocelyn Gould
Jocelyn Gould is a Canadian jazz guitarist. Her album, ''Elegant Traveler'' was awarded the 2021 Juno Award for Jazz Album of the Year - Solo. She is also the 1st place winner of the 2018 Wilson Centre International Jazz Guitar competition. She is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, and later received her Master's of Music at Michigan State University where she studied with Randy Napoleon. Gould has performed alongside many notable musicians including Freddy Cole, Jodi Proznick, Laila Biali, Allison Au, and Will Bonness. Gould was a faculty member and Head of the Guitar Department at Humber Polytechnic in Toronto. Her debut album ''Elegant Traveler'' was released in 2020, and her second album ''Golden Hour'' was released in 2022. Discography As leader * ''Elegant Traveler'' (Posi-Tone, 2020) * ''Golden Hour'' (Jocelyn Gould Music, 2022) * ''Sonic Bouquet'' (Jocelyn Gould Music, 2023) * ''Portrait of Right Now'' (Jocelyn Gould Music, 2024) As side person * ''Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PopMatters
''PopMatters'' is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers aspects of popular culture. ''PopMatters'' publishes reviews, interviews, and essays on cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, comics, sports Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in ..., theater, visual arts, travel, and the Internet. History ''PopMatters'' was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had previously established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. ''PopMatters'' launched in late 1999 as a sister site providing original essays, reviews and criticism of various media products. Over time, the site went from a weekly publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular review ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nonesuch Records
Nonesuch Records is an American record company and label owned by Warner Music Group, distributed by Warner Records (formerly Warner Bros. Records), and based in New York City. Founded by Jac Holzman in 1964 as a budget classical label, Nonesuch has developed into a label that records a wide range of music genres. Robert Hurwitz was president of the company from 1984 to 2017. History Founding Nonesuch was founded in early 1964 by Jac Holzman to produce "fine records at the same price as a trade paperback", which would be half the price of a normal LP. To achieve this, he licensed European recordings of classical music as it would be too expensive to record new material. Originally the label concentrated heavily on chamber and baroque music, often with (then) unique repertory, and typically sold at less-than-premium prices. Upon its formation, Nonesuch operated as a subsidiary label of Elektra Records, which Holzman had launched in 1950. In 1970, Holzman sold Elektra and Nonesuc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Metheny
Patrick Bruce Metheny ( ; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer. He was the leader of the Pat Metheny Group (1977–2010) and continues to work in various small-combo, duet, and solo settings, as well as other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, latin jazz, and jazz fusion. He has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards, and is the only person to have won Grammys in 10 categories. Biography Early years and education Metheny was born in Lee's Summit, Missouri, Lee's Summit, Missouri. His father Dave played trumpet, his mother Lois sang, and his maternal grandfather Delmar was a professional trumpeter. Metheny's first instrument was the trumpet, which he was taught by his brother, Mike Metheny, Mike. Pat's brother, father, and grandfather played trios together at home. His parents were fans of Glenn Miller and swing music. They took Pat to concerts to hear Clark Terry and Doc Severinsen, but they had little ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From This Place
''From This Place'' is a studio album by American jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, released in February 2020 on the Nonesuch label. Track listing All tracks are written by Pat Metheny. Personnel The individuals involved in the making of the album include Metheny and his traveling ensemble, plus a number of studio musicians, listed below. * Pat Metheny – guitars, keyboards, arranger, composer, producer * Gwilym Simcock – piano, arranger * Linda May Han Oh – bass, vocals, arranger * Antonio Sánchez – drums ;Guest artists * Meshell Ndegeocello – lyricist, vocals * Grégoire Maret – harmonica * Luis Conte – percussion * Alison Riley – lyricist * Hollywood Studio Symphony with Joel McNeely Joel McNeely (born March 28, 1959) is an American composer, conductor, arranger, musician, lyricist, and record producer. A protégé of composer Jerry Goldsmith, he is best known for his film and television scores. He won the Primetime Emmy Aw ... conductor Refere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
