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Elvin Jones. Considered the most influential jazz drummer of the 1960s by virtue of his work with John Coltrane, Jones expanded the bebop drumming vocabulary through an aggressive approach that featured multiple levels of rhythm based on a rolling-triplet pulse.
The saxophonist
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.... After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way."
Nina Simone – © Jazzinphoto
“... An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.” ~ Nina Simone
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"Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live." - Ray Brown
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Henry David Thoreau
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Ladies of Jazz: Ella Fitzgerald (April 17th, 1917 - June 15th, 1996) Billie Holiday (April 7th, 1915 - June 17th, 1959) Thelma Carpenter (January 15th, 1922 - May 14th, 1997) Lena Horne (June 30th, 1917 - May 9th, 2010) Sarah Vaughan (March 27th, 1954 - April 3rd, 1990) Pearl Bailey (March 29th, 1918 - August 17th, 1990)
Chet Baker (trumpet towards floor) Los Angeles record session, 1953
Chet Baker (trumpet towards floor) Los Angeles record session, 1953 • Photographed by Bob Willoughby
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Newport Jazz Festival (1955) Percy Heath, Gerry Mulligan, and Miles Davis making musical history.