Jazz composers biography

Telegram one famous Russian jazz musician once said that a genius is visible at once.

But is it possible not to be born a genius, but to become as a result of painstaking work? Our article is about who the best jazz composers are, why they deserve recognition and how they became the great maestro jazz of their era and all time. The best jazz composers Duke Ellington - Blue Blood Jazz Duke Ellington prophesied to become a musician since childhood. Even when he first sat with his mother for the piano.

But fate ordered otherwise, and until the moment of the star becomes a jazz, the young man wanted to become a master of artistic brush. Ellington in his dressing room at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, a year this fatal decision could turn the whole world of jazz if it had come true. And the music would have lost in his face not only the beautiful composer and improviser, the master of “keyboards”, but also the brilliant leader.

Many of us are familiar with him precisely on his orchestra, whose music tickled the heels to everyone and penetrated so deeply in the heart that it was already impossible to remain indifferent. Bright melodies, protracted, but so wildly attracting solo improvisations. Ellington was nicknamed Duke trans. Oscar Peterson - born to become the best about this pianist spoke with great love and honor Duke Ellington himself.

And he did this not because of the good and friendly disposition Oscar Peterson, but for how he knew how to play. Juicy passages of solo edged with a thin and elegant line of accompaniment. Deep music, flexible and harmonious - everything was in Peterson's notes in its place. And precisely for what skill and ease he gave out the paths of notes, his compositions became the Bible and the textbook for many subsequent generations of musicians.

Everywhere his music found a response, and no one could forget his talent. His music inspired the young man on the way to jazz and gave a second wind in writing compositions. No, we are not talking about the pianist, as you might think, but about the great smuggler, jazzmen and the best composer of jazz. The live concert of Charles Mingus in Montre, despite the lack of proper education and the inability to read notes, Charles was in love with classical music, which later reflected in his masterpieces.

His music distinguishable from the rest made it filling it with meaning and the presence of a directional plot. In it, he talked about life, about the difficulties and injustices, about racism, about stupidity. She was a book of life, a large story of one person. This music wanted to “read” and turn to it again and again. Indeed, each time, listening to it, you become even older and find new features that you have not noticed before.

Even born on the eve of the war, there are 13 children in a large family, where the head of the family is a simple shoemaker. Chiku Koria river. Chick Koria was born in a large family and managed to become the famous Chica’s passion for jazz traced from childhood and over the years only grew deeper into his heart. The inexorable desire to create something special, only his own, drove him to musical groups and cities.

But he achieved what he wanted. His music goes beyond the scope of simple jazz. She is dynamic, modern, living in her life. Chick was never afraid to try and did not avoid experiments. Yes, easy! Come on, let's try! This is what created his unique game, and some of his ideas became the rules for other musicians. So much passion, talents and relics are contained in it, which seems unrealistic.

Way Wayne Schorter r. Wayne Shorter can also be recorded in the best jazz composers - 11 Grammy awards in nominations for outstanding albums. Wayne, although old, is young and ready to create with the same energy as years ago. In his attention, there are constantly hard-bop, fusion, modern. He became the "father" of the new direction of Soul-music, Funk. Passionate, unbridled.

And he received not one son, but hundreds-all the users who owe him to the new technique of execution, who owe him their musical life. Benny Goodman's music is a swing king more than a musician and composer. Benny Gudman was a wonderful singer, conductor and even an actor - how deep the work lived in his body. It is with his arrival that they speak about the Era of the swing.

And he can be considered both the parent and one of his bright representatives. The orchestra Benny Gudman was one of the most famous in the swing era unshakable - whatever it costs him and that it would not stand in his way: whether war and devastation, personal failures or failure of the orchestra - he believed in himself and believed in his hands in his hands.

Being still a naive summer boy, he decided to throw everything at the feet of the Muse and never retreated from her. Dave Brubek is a leader and an esthete if you have not heard the famous Take Five composition, then what do you know about the quartet of Dave Brubek? Being not only a great pianist, but also one of the outstanding composers of Jazz, Dave and his team achieved a hard place at the top of the jazz industry.Their music was inimitable, and it was unrealistic to allocate someone from a single monolith-everyone brought something to the music, which made it special.

But still I would like to tell about the person who collected them. About the musician, teacher and mentor. The Deave Brubek style quartet was always distinguished by sophistication and wealth, but this did not prevent the music from being alive and clumsy. Experiments with the rhythm, the contrast of tonalities and much more formed from his music - standards for musicians of future generations.

By uniting both the great musician and the great leader, Dave Brubek can rightfully be considered one of the most successful jazz performers. Jazzpeople editors.