21st Century Jazz Composers

Hairy Larry I am a composition major at Arkansas State University and I have an interest in jazz composers who are writing and playing today. Please contact me if you are a jazz composer or if you would like to recommend a composer to me. Email [email protected] Delta Boogie Tumblr Delta Boogie Something Blue on KASU HairyLarryLand Jazz Thursday Jazz Resources Downbeat a blog supreme Jazz Corner jazzwise

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Chet Baker with Jimmy Rowles, Carson Smith and Charlie Parker Los Angeles 1953 Photo William Claxton

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Annie Ross with Chet Baker and Gerry Mulligan, Los Angeles 1957 

Photo Lee Friedlander

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Chet Baker (1929 – 1988) has just served a prison sentence near Rome, accused of charges under the illegal drugs act.

(Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln, Boston, circa 1966

Photo Lee Tanner

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God Bless the Child · Sonny Rollins

Tenor Saxophone: Sonny Rollins Guitar: Jim Hall Bass: Bob Cranshaw Drums: Ben Riley Lyricist, Composer: Arthur Herzog Lyricist, Composer: Billie Holiday

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Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95

One of the last stars of the bebop generation, Rollins was an genius of melodic invention and improvisation, working with Davis, Monk, Coltr

Sonny Rollins St. Thomas

Saxophone Colossus

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Ella Fitzgerald / performing at Mister Kelly’s nightclub, Chicago, 1958.

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(Very popular in crossword puzzles, along with Etta James and Issa Rae.)

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GREAT POSTER!

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Count Basie and Orchestra

Li'l Darlin'

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Mal Waldron / Charlie Haden Keystone Korner, San Francisco, 13 December 1978

December, 1978 was a busy month for Charlie.

Mal Waldron / Charlie Haden Keystone Korner, San Francisco, 13 December 1978

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Charles Mingus, April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979.

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ART BLAKEY, JAZZ

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Pete LaRoca et Sonny Rollins

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Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945), Jazz Festival, Teatro Comunale, Bologna, 1969

photo: Roberto Masotti