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DISCOVER…DON CHERRY Don Cherry was a pioneer of...

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DISCOVER…DON CHERRY Don Cherry was a pioneer of both the free jazz revolution of the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the so-called ‘world-jazz’ movement of the 1970s.

This American trumpeter was born in 1936 in Oklahoma City, to a mother of Choctaw descent and an African-American father. His love of music was fostered by observing the talent and dedication of his father, a trumpeter, and his mother and granmother, who both played piano.

Cherry became well known in 1958 when he performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, first in a quintet with pianist Paul Bley and later in what became the predominantly piano-less quartet which recorded for Atlantic Records.

Cherry co-led The Avant-Garde session which saw John Coltrane replacing Coleman in the Quartet, recorded and toured with Sonny Rollins, was a member of the New York Contemporary Five with Archie Shepp and John Tchicai, and recorded and toured with both Albert Ayler and George Russell.

In the 1970s he ventured into the developing genre of world fusion music, incorporating influences of Middle Eastern, traditional African, and Indian music into his playing.

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DISCOVER...JULIA KEEFE Julia is an award winning ...

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DISCOVER...JULIA KEEFE Julia is an award winning jazz vocalist and actor, a member of the Nez Perce Tribe, who has been turning heads and dazzling audiences at jazz clubs from New York to Paris, from Washington D.C. to Los Angeles.

She began singing jazz while in junior high school in Spokane and went on to participant at the annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival in Moscow, where in 2007, she won an outstanding vocal soloist award. Julia continued her jazz training at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music, graduating with honors and earning her Bachelors in jazz vocal performance.

In 2009, Julia performed a tribute concert "Thoroughly Modern: Mildred Bailey Songs," in Washington D.C. at the National Museum of the American Indian in a featured event of the Smithsonian Institution's National Jazz Appreciation Month. Julia's efforts to have Mildred Bailey inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame at Lincoln Center has drawn national attention of media and congress, a well-deserved yet belated acolade for Mildred Bailey's contributions to jazz.

Julia continues to perform and record and is currently teaching jazz voice at Gonzaga University.

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#tbt #jazzhistory OSCAR PETTIFORD was an American...

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#tbt #jazzhistory OSCAR PETTIFORD was an American jazz double bassist, cellist and composer. He was one of the earliest musicians to work in the bebop idiom and was considered the pioneer of the cello as a solo instrument in jazz music.

Pettiford was born at Okmulgee, Oklahoma. His mother was Choctaw, and his father was half Cherokee half African-American. He grew up playing in the family band. First singing, then playing piano, eventually moving to the double bass.

In 1942 he joined the Charlie Barnet band and in 1943 gained wider public attention after recording with Coleman Hawkins on his ""The Man I Love".

He later moved to New York where he was one of the musicians (together with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Clarke) who in the early 1940s jammed at Minton's Playhouse, where the music style developed that later was called bebop.

In 1945 Pettiford went with Hawkins to California, where he appeared in The Crimson Canary, a mystery movie known for its jazz soundtrack. He then worked with Duke Ellington from 1945 to 1948 and for Woody Herman in 1949 before working mainly as a leader in the 1950s. During the mid-1950s he played on the first three albums Thelonious Monk's recorded for the Riverside label.

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DISCOVER...SHAREL CASSITY Saxophonist, ...

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DISCOVER...SHAREL CASSITY Saxophonist, Multi-Reedist, Composer, Recording Artist, Bandleader, and Educator Sharel Cassity (pronounced “Sha-Relle”) is a musician well established on the New York and Chicago jazz, performing as a bandleader, sideman, and all-around musical powerhouse.

Since graduating from Julliard, Cassity has gone on to enjoy an enviable career in jazz, releasing 3 albums as a leader and having performed along side many of the genre’s established and rebound artists. She also holds a regular sideman position as a regular member of the Dizzy Gillespie Latin Experience, Nicholas Payton TSO, Cyrus Chestnut Brubeck Quartet, and the Jimmy Heath Big Band.

Cassity has established herself as a pillar of the alto sax and contemporary straight-ahead jazz—a strong, quick, multi-hued player, with an unwavering desire to innovate.

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Did you know?! Jazz pianist ...

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Did you know?! Jazz pianist @marylouwilliams.foundation wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements - some for Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman - and she was a friend, mentor and teacher to the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie… talk about an influencer and inspiration to women in jazz throughout history.

Take a moment to read all about her life and career in this 2020 article from our friends at Jazz.FM91. Link in Bio!

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