Jazz Music – Jazz Artists – Jazz News. Bud Powell. Bobo Stenson. Bobo Stenson (born Bo Gustav Stenson, 1944) is a Swedish jazz pianist.
The Bobo Stenson Trio, formed in collaboration with Anders Jormin (bass) and Jon Fält (drums), has been in existence for four decades. Career[edit] Discography[edit] As leader[edit] As sideman[edit] Dona Nostra (ECM, 1993) With Jan Garbarek Listen to the Silence (Soul Note, 1971) With Terje Rypdal With Tomasz Stanko With Others Agram (Moller/Willemark)Xieyi (Jormin)Change of Heart (Speake)Parish (Stronen)La Nuit de Wounded Knee (Doudou Gouirand)
Bill Evans. William John Evans, known as Bill Evans (pronunciation: /ˈɛvəns/, August 16, 1929 – September 15, 1980), was an American jazz pianist and composer who mostly worked in a trio setting.
He is widely considered to be one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time,[2] and is considered by some to have been the most influential post-World War II jazz pianist.[3] Evans's use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, block chords, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines continue to influence jazz pianists today. Unlike many other jazz musicians of his time, Evans never embraced new movements like jazz fusion or free jazz. Despite his success as a jazz artist, Evans suffered personal loss and struggled with drug abuse. Both his girlfriend Elaine and his brother Harry committed suicide, and he was a long time user of heroin, and later of cocaine. Scott LaFaro. Rocco Scott LaFaro (April 3, 1936 – July 6, 1961) was an influential American jazz double bassist, perhaps best known for his seminal work with the Bill Evans Trio.
Biography[edit] Born in Irvington, New Jersey, LaFaro grew up in a musical family (his father played in many big bands). His family moved to his parents' hometown of Geneva, New York when Scott was five years old. He started on piano while in elementary school, began on the bass clarinet in junior high school, changing to tenor saxophone when he entered high school.[1][dead link] He took up the double bass at 18,[2][dead link] in the summer before he entered college, when he learned a string instrument was required for music education majors.
About three months into his studies at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, LaFaro decided to concentrate on bass. LaFaro played a double bass made in 1825 in Concord, New Hampshire by Abraham Prescott. Jan Garbarek. Jan Garbarek (born 4 March 1947)[1] is a Norwegian tenor and soprano saxophonist, active in the jazz, classical, and world music genres.
Garbarek was born in Mysen, Norway, the only child of a former Polish prisoner of war Czesław Garbarek and a Norwegian farmer's daughter. Effectively stateless until the age of seven (there was no automatic grant of citizenship in Norway at that time) Garbarek grew up in Oslo. At 21, he married Vigdis. He is the father of musician, (vocals) and composer Anja Garbarek.[2] Biography[edit] Awards & honors[edit] In 1999, Garbarek was appointed a Knight 1st Class of the Order of St.
Marilyn Crispell. Marilyn Crispell (born March 30, 1947 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz pianist and composer.
Biography[edit] For ten years she was a member of Anthony Braxton's Quartet[1] and the Reggie Workman Ensemble. She has been a member of the Barry Guy New Orchestra as well as a member of the Henry Grimes Trio, the Europea Quartet Noir (with Urs Leimgruber, Fritz Hauser and Joëlle Léandre), and Anders Jormin's Bortom Quintet. In 1981 she performed at the Woodstock Jazz Festival, held in celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Creative Music Studio. In 2005 she performed and recorded with the NOW Orchestra in Vancouver, Canada and in 2006 she was co-director of the Vancouver Creative Music Institute and a faculty member at the Banff Centre International Workshop in Jazz. Discography[edit] As leader/co-leader[edit]